Finally: McCain jabs Obama in the Fannie; Palin pokes Biden on patriotism
Took ‘em long enough.
Maybe McCain will rethink his praise of Obama’s community organizer record while he’s at it. Sigh.
Hotline reports:
John McCain today in Cedar Rapids, IA, said Barack Obama has done nothing to help the nation avert fiscal crisis:
“Senator Obama talks a tough game on the financial markets but the facts tell a different story. He took more money from Fannie and Freddie than any Senator but the Democratic chairman of the committee that regulates them. He put Fannie Mae’s CEO who helped create this disaster in charge of finding his Vice President. Fannie’s former General Counsel is a senior advisor to his campaign. Whose side do you think he is on? When I pushed legislation to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Senator Obama was silent. He didn’t lift a hand to avert this crisis.”
More:
While the leaders of Fannie and Freddie were lining the pockets of his campaign, they were sowing the seeds of the financial crisis we see today and enriching themselves with millions of dollars in payments. That’s not change, that’s what’s broken in Washington.
Sarah Palin also took a good poke at Joe Biden’s higher taxes=patriotism remarks:
“To the rest of America that’s not patriotism. Raising taxes is about killing jobs and hurting small businesses and making things worse.”
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Not so good: McCain saying he would fire conservative stalwart Chris Cox, head of the SEC. Quin Hilyer:
Now McCain wants to fire Chris Cox from the SEC specifically because Cox supposedly “allowed naked short-selling.” This is just the latest in a string of utterly panicky statements this week in which McCain has shown that he doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about. The truth is, Cox actually did move to ban naked short-selling, and withstood harsh (but wrongheaded) criticism from almost all quarters when he did so. His staff was working on regs — which takes some time — to make the ban permanent. He has been pushing since the first time I ever met him, in 1993, to curb outlandish short-selling. He was probably the single most avid person in all of Congress AGAINST aggressive short selling, and has tried ever since he got to the SEC to curb it. Blaming him for naked short selling is like blaming McCain for losing Vietnam…..
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FINALLY…
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
I saw this before….
MSM won’t pick up on it or report it though. Anything to elect Obama
Another empty promise…..Taxes will go up regardless of who is elected.
Uh, Joe, you could show your patriotism by eliminating unnecessary federal spending and reducing the tax burden.
The Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac connection is why Obama and the Dems were so quick to ridicule McCain for wanting an investigation. All roads lead back to the Democrats.
I wish I thought this signalled a change in McCain’s strategy, but I don’t. He’ll go back to praising his opponent.
Where are the ads on this? I don’t understand why they aren’t HAMMERING Obama over this, the money he’s taken from Fannie/Freddie, the connections with their former CEOs, etc.
More please!
There will be an ad buy for this….count on it….just bypass the media wing of the Democrat party.
The 19th century Marxists must go down. They must go down hard.
About friggin’ time.
Now make a campaign ad or two out of this message and saturate the airwaves.
changer, exactly.
i’d love to see a few ads from 2005 and prior of McCain (and Bush for that matter) warning about the crisis, and people like Barney Frank and democrats claiming the republicans were trying to ’scare’ people.
if they don’t do that, the speeches are for naught.
Thank goodness, finally. Please keep this up John and Sarah. I really do not think they can over-do this on bho.
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I’ve always heard that the VP nominee is supposed to be the attack dog, while the Pres Candidate tries to take the high road.
Let loose the pitbull with lipstick.
While McCain is reaching across the aisle. . . . sic ‘em Sarah.
McCain is still pushing amnesty. He needs to buy a clue. Sigh. Enough is Enough.
Sometimes it take a bit too long to get the sails up on the SS McCain for my tastes. At least the SS Obama still has her mast down.
Hey! Let’s not be too quick to condemn Barack for using the guy who screwed up Fannie and Freddie to pick his running mate. So far his performance in picking a V-P candidiate is working out as well as his perfomance at Fannie. More of the same please.
Can Sarah make McAmnesty stop this? Please stop this!
This “slow and steady wins the race” stuff is giving me an ulcer. Take the fight to them…. NOW!
Did McCain just wake up from a 10 year nap? Too little too late. AGAIN!
Yes, Yes, Yes! McCain needs to create truthful sound byte adds showing republican efforts to fix the pending crisis and democrat actions blocking those efforts.
I don’t know. Pointing out that Obama took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sounds racist to me….
STAND UP JOHN AND FIGHT WITH US! FIGHT AGAINST THE GREEDY DEMOCRATS! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Now run some ads with the specifics of what you did to fight back and BLAST it from the mountaintops of CO and every other battleground state! UGH! When will you people learn WE MUST GRIND THEM INTO DUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rock on Sarah!
John Ansell, you are a one note wonder! Way to look at that glass as half empty.
It’s about time McCain moved on this issue. I mean, it’s only been staring him in the face screaming “here I am!” since the Fannie-Freddie scandal began. How much deeper in the sh1t can Obama be given all his direct ties to the crooks in charge of Fannie and Freddie??
McCain backed the plan to create a brand new government agency to oversee the housing market. Any conservative worth their salt understand what happens when government creates new agencies, especially ones tasked with oversight.
Here’s the most important point here Michelle – Both candidates have supported the nationalization of the mortgage industry. Both candidates have supported the nationalization of the insurance industry. Both candidates haven’t said word one about the staggering national debt or the ballooning budget deficit.
Do you honestly think that McCain will help the economy in anyway? The only thing I’m voting on this election is which patsy gets the blame for the coming hyperinflation.
FINALLY! Get more aggressive. These liberals are scum.
Jesus, Mav, it’s about freakin time! Sing it loud and sing it proud; Make Obama eat his words.
WaMu is in trouble because of lending to illegals that couldn’t afford the loans. Your point?
The polls drive me crazy!
They need to get even more aggressive. This is a good start, but not good enough.
Maybe I see a half empty glass. What do you see in this TXSkirt? Since when is it against the law to ask for people to sign petitions for something to get on a ballot?
Is McCain going to be with his friends Friday?
You just beat me to it. I was going to observe how “One-Note Johnny” can’t wait for a relevant thread, so he pops in the same comment on all the others.
Single-issue voters are to conservative politics what liberals are to patriotism: It takes 1000 “Attaboys” before they’ll admit to any kind of positive recognition, but one “Awshit” wipes out any accumulated sum of Attaboys and resets the count back to zero.
JDAM time.
Finally is right! Now they need to make this into a commercial ASAP!
I listened to the speech on Fox, the crowd was shouting during both their speeches. We are fired up, I am not going to look at the daily tracking gallup poll, I never agreed with their population gathering anyway, very dubious at best.
Now, if only they would start speaking to Nancy Pelosi, as if they are already in Office: “Nancy you call that a drilling bill? When everyone knows that the oil is within the 50 mile limit not outside that limit?” I call that a ploy to decieve the American Voters. I call that a act against the pocket books of the poor and middle class!”
If I were McCain and Palin, I would be talking to the Congress and Obamitler. A One/Two Punch.
John Ansell, hijacking the topic away from again? You are beginning to get annoying.
Remember how quickly they got that “lipstick” ad out? Its been days since Fannie and Freddie went down…WHERE ARE THE ADS SLAMMING OBAMA FOR HIS TIES TO THAT MESS? I don’t get it, I just don’t. The Left has smeared his VP to a sickening degree, they’ve made fun of his war injuries and pretty much called him a racist, among other things…when is he going to hit back, and hit back HARD?
Hey, One-Note Johnny: Is it possible to wait for a relevant post from Michelle on immigration instead of trying to thread-jack all of the others today? Trust me, she’ll get around to it.
Single-issue conservatives are to politics what liberals are to patriotism: it takes 1,000 “Attaboys” for them to make any kind of positive acknowledgment, but a single “Awshit” wipes out the cumulative total and resets the count back to zero.
Good job Team McCain!!
Patriotism is a politicians making sure the tax money sent to Washington is spent wisely.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush Inauguration: 10,587.59
Second Bush Inauguration: 10,471.47
Today: 10,609
Net change: +21.41
Clinton Inauguration: 3,241.95
Second Clinton Inauguration: 6,843.87
End of Clinton presidency: 10,587.59
Net change: +7,345.64
I’m glad that someone keeps talking about McCain’s immigration stance since Michelle doesn’t anymore.
Well said.
Better late than never, I guess, but man it is getting really late. Maybe someone tell McCain that Obama is a secret conservative. That might rile him up.
As I’ve already written: McCain’s post convention bounce is gone, his candidacy is spinning its wheels, and Obama’s increasingly negative and deceitful tactics appear to be working quite well. The race campaign remains too close to call.
Why do Republicans always seem so reluctant to win? Talk about fear of success.
You forgot to include that the stock market crashed thats to the bubble created during the clinton years, 9/11 and the enron scandals. It droped to about 7,500 and went up to over 14,000 at its best. Context is key. BTW you never did get back to me on the palin lie you were spreading that I proved to be a lie. What other lies did your masters tell you?
Here in NH we’re getting lots of Obama nasty ads on TV … hey Republicans! Let’s Go!! Let’s get some ads that tell the people the truth.
Yeah, what he said.
Beginning?
If you live in Southern Caliornia it is not a half empty glass, it is a brown over-flowing glass of Spanish and illegal activity. I agree with John. Whenever I see McAmnesty I think of how he wants to destroy this country with his amnesty/open border plan.
sonofdy,
You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite posters.
Someone needs to explain the Greasy Joe why coffee is so popular in America.
“Taxation without representation is tyranny!”
bows….
Ilovemycountry #41,
Did you forget the impact of 9/11 on the market?
Nice try, Mac.
McCain/Palin really need to be specific about their economic plans. It’s time to seize the moment, be a leader, and not a panderer as Obummer is doing.
If Obummer really thinks that he can just tax the wealthy and not think that the middle class will also be affected then he really has no plan except to be an economic demagogue.
emjem24
I agree. Saw her on Hannity last night. Too “broad brush”
Good call Red State, McCain’s not going to pound this issue because he’s just as guilty. He starts coming out with this line of attacks and he’s going to get nailed to the wall.
I’ll keep saying it: There’s no difference between John McCain and Barack Obama. You are voting on who take the blame for the coming sh!tstorm.
The Democrat Party believes it is “patriotic” to raise taxes, trash talk and belittle the sitting President, and demean the United States at every turn. These are not patriotic actions, they are anti-American, and anti-freedom.
Regarding taxation…there is nothing in the U.S. Tax Code that precludes any of the “rich, patriotic” liberals in this country from voluntarily paying more taxes than the tax code says they owe.
All these “fair share” proponents, who are in the “wealthy” class of Americans, go out of their way to shelter income. They create family trusts in offshore banks, and help create loopholes that facilitate the hiding of taxable income. Take a look at the Kennedy and Rockefeller families for example.
It is curious to me that they bend over backwards to accumulate deductions to claim on their returns, but in many cases, few if any of the deductions are to charities outside their political or personal families. A simple contrast of the charities the McCain’s support, and versus the austere giving the Obama and Biden families exhibit speaks volumes.
I wish someone would challenge the Democrats on this issue. If they don’t think the “rich” pay enough, then why are they, themselves, claiming itemized deductions on their tax returns?
I think McCain wants to be the last American – to leave. I admire him for his service but it seems he just wants to keep the prisoner mentality going instead of being a warrior.
I agree! never mind the NRC posters on here.
Good move by McCain /Palin
nyk
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=K02
Opps, Obama takes more lobbyist money than mccain.
More “maverick” tendencies showing through. He’s going to run a different campaign, will win and show the world…blah, blah, blah.
I sure hope October brings out a different side to him.
And, if you recall, the stock market crashed after the Clinton Administration went after the Microsoft Corporation. That, in my opinion, is one of the major reasons the tech stock tumbled during that period. I remember it well. Although widely diversified, our retirement account lost over 40% of it’s value. It’s happening again.
Why is it, when the modern markets fail, there always seems to be Democrats leading one of the houses of congress? The only ones that ever seem to make a profit during these periods, are the same Democrats, their cronies, and their friends.
Regulus, as California goes, so does the nation. Look at the mess we are in here and you should be able to understand why the issue is important. To ignore the enemy is to bring another 9-11. Check the death toll of illegal invaders killing our people to that of 9-11. WHo has killed more. Which group has brought more damage to our economy?
I will not shut up.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush Inauguration: 10,587.59
Republicans took over congress in 1994…in fact the President has little control over the Stock Market. But since Dems took over in 2006 whats the difference????????????????????????????????????????????????
John Ansell, you are one of the good guys here and we really like you. And I believe everyone here agrees with you on the amnesty thing. I think what the folks are saying to you is, try to keep on topic. Don’t hijack every thread and make it about amnesty. It does get old and you are preaching to the choir.
John, are you surprised that Michelle hasn’t posted anything about the two commercials McCain has released saying he’s a bigger supporter of amnesty than Obama? Or his interview with Univision that virtually guarantees amnesty within the first 30 days of his administration?
Those remarks should be the lead commercials in his campaign at the moment…
Ron Rockstar, noted Ron with thanks.
Mookie, I am surprised. I wonder if Hannity will cover it in his interview of Gov. Palin. I still don’t know where she stands on the issue.
I guess you will not be voting. Senate Bill S900 praised and signed by President Clinton on November 13, 1999 got the ball rolling on this mess. Proposed by Republican Phil Graham, It passed 90-8 in the senate and 362-57 in the House.
McCain has it right. Who is to blame? (D) – all of the above.
The issue is fixing it. Obama’s laying the blame at one doorstep is childishly simplistic, political, and self-serving. If you look at any disaster you will find it caused by a series of related events. If any of the events fails to occur the disaster is averted. This looks like one of those.
We can rant politically or fix the problem. I think some adult leadership and participation is required here.
Bingo! The McCain campaign as well as all of the other Congressional seats is where you should be posting. They need to know EXACTLY how you feel. They need to know it in clear terms and they need to know it frequently. Most of the people here agree with except, except Mookie, who’s just trying to stir things up.
Mookie, Don’t you have better things to do, like work on a quilt or something?
It boggles the mind that people do not understand that the chief masterminds behind the entire debacle are the TOP democraps, one of whom CHAIRS the very oversight committe charged with regulating these agencies! Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama ALL have recieved huge sums of money from these agencies, who were then rewarded with fat bonuses. These slimy Neroes all slid out with millions in cash while the citizen’s mortgage store burned down. Moreover, Dubya attempted to pass reform legislation in 2003, which they BLOCKED at every turn, McCain is quoted in the Congressional Record in 2005 prognosticating the very outcome we are all living through presently. The American people need to be informed as to who the REAL perpetrators are – CLINTON DEMOCRATS. Jerks all…
Agreeing with John is trying to stir things up?
The Glass-Steagall Act amendment here was the issue. Giving the Federal Reserve more power is what creates the disaster. Interestedly enough, Phil Gramm is one of McCain’s top economic advisers (remember the ‘mental’ recession?), and McCain himself voted Aye on the roll call for Senate Bill S900, and was not present on the actual Senate vote.
We should be talking about the moral hazard of the Federal Reserve, and how a private group of individuals, accountable to no one, has the power to create money, and set the price of money as they see fit.
I was actually at this rally this morning!!
You should have heard the yelling when he talked about Nobama’s connection to the Freddie/Fannie mess. It is a point he needs to hammer on.
Remember…it was the politically correct Democrats who wanted more low income home ownership that started this whole ball rolling.
Everybody here agrees with John. However, we don’t provide him additional material for his rants. Especially on a thread about Fannie and Freddie.
Mookie, here’s what I don’t understand: I’m a conservative that sticks to my values and refuses to vote for a Liberal even if he picks a conservative as V.P. and the other conservatives look down upon me and my standing by my convictions.
I’m called a one issue voter, while I’m willing to look over many of McCain’s faults but will not give in on his main and most terrific failure: Amnesty.
And don’t get me started on the other “A” issue (ANWR)
Hands off my naked short-selling. Just disband the SEC already. It’s the regulators who created the insane anti-economical rules that caused the crisis in the first place.
It’s about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You are a conservative and I agree with you 100% on most issues, especially illegal immigration. I’m not going into the whole not voting for McCain is voting for Obama thing again, because I know it’s been said enough and I think that in the end, you’ll do the right thing.
As far as ANWR, did you see the interview last night? She’ll have him headed in the right direction on that issue by 1/21/09.
John Deaux, I saw that and was very happy with her response. Even seeing her take the question in the townhall meeting with McCain.
I will do the right thing come election day and will vote for the local and state elections. I cannot vote for McCain. He’s a liberal. I just hope he doesn’t ruin Palin. She’s got a bright future.
Yeah, failed VP candidates have always gone on to win… nothing.
Firing Chris Cox – that’s an easy call, McCain needs to distance himself from the Administration and the SEC hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory. At this point in time there’s no sacred cows, you take the shots you need to take.
I think the direction McCain is taking is exactly the direction he needs to take. We’ve had a regulatory environment that’s permitted these ‘too big to fail’ entities to be run off the rails, and whether we like it or not it’s now in the government’s lap to unwind it.
I don’t like it either. But the only alternative, going forward, is to impose regulations that limit lines of business in such a manner than no entity can ever get too big to fail.
And who do you trust to do something about Fannie and Freddie furthering Democrats’ political interests? In my opinion the only candidate in this race who might ever amount to a small-government leader is Gov Palin, and we’ve got to do whatever it takes to give her a shot at that.
No way, no how, NØbama!
BTW dow up 350. What was that Obama about one of the worst economic crisis in history? :-p
Just wait…
Fire Cox? I agree – he FAILED to do his job well enough and the nation suffered. But don’t worry, that mush-head Bush will not do so, he values loyalty over competence – look at how long it took him to get rid or Rumsfeld, and his awarding the huge failure CIA Director Tenat a medal instead of canning him for 9/11.
Remember Harriet Myers for SC? Bush is an utter idiot when it comes to personnel.
We need accounatbility form the country club set – when the ruin a business that ruins so many other lives, they should NOT be able to go back to their mansion witha multi-million dollar reward. The shoudl be paying PERSONALLY – and I;d liek to see ones that were criminally negligent to be rendered utterly broke and homeless.
Ordinary Coloradan – that line goes like this, from Sen McCain or Gov Palin – “Mr Obama talks about public service, about volunteering. That’s wonderful. But let’s talk about some of Mr Obama’s volunteers. Franklyn Raines and Jim Johnson have volunteered their time to the Obama campaign. They can afford to, they stole nearly 60 million from Fannie Mae and left the American taxpayer to sweep up after them.”
That’s great, John. But do you have to try to hijack every thread and turn it into a discussion about amnesty? If you don’t like the topics Michelle provides and think you can do better, start your own blog. You can talk amnesty 24/7. Or open your own diner and serve “spam, spam, amnesty, and spam.” (My apologies to Monty Python.)
When you preach to the choir and harp on the same topic over and over, it gets old and turns people off – even those who agree with you!
How come McCain doesn’t know who the Prime Minister of Spain?
How come Palin couldn’t answer a supporters question about her foreign policy experience?
All these things crashed since the Democrats took charge of the House and Senate. The blame falls squarely on their head. They aggressively trash the President on every issue while doing nothing themselves and then point fingers.
Typical liberal politicians that spend their day pointing out others faults instead of spending time on bipartisan solutions.
Throw the bums out! Reform Washington politics. Vote the McCain Palin reform ticket not the Obama Biden partisan political blame machine.
When you live in the Mexcioland that Southern California has turned into, ALL discussions revolve around the destruction that is happening to our country.