Comments on: Perhaps John McCain is Living in a Parallel Universe

By: Charles Sutherland

Charles Sutherland — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:53:00 +0000

John McCain has already said that he will support Israel in an attack on Iran, and Sarah Palin (an Evangelical Christian)says she will support it for religious reasons. The new book on amazon.com “Clash of the Gods” discusses the frighening future of a religious war. Anyone who reads it will be educated in Middle Eastern politics and Israel’s ambitions…and not vote for McCain.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:36:00 +0000

Oh, yeah. Our economy sure is a fundamentally sound place. That’s why the government (the government? that same entity that’s supposed to keep out of the free market?) is bailing out all these institutions? If the economy were fundamentally sound, they would NOT be throwing money at these giant corporations. They’d just let the free market do its thing, and it all would come out just fine, right? Because the economy is fundamentally sound.

How stupid does he think we are?

By: PunditMom

PunditMom — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:43:00 +0000

WMW — without the regulators, banks and financial institutions who “trade” in mortgages and securities can do what they please with no accountability of consequences. Remember Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street saying, “Greed is good.” That’s what happens — no accountability and little investors lose out.

By: PunditMom

PunditMom — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Who knew we would all be nodding our heads in agreement with Alan Greenspan?

By: fudgelady

fudgelady — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:40:00 +0000

Great minds think alike! I just blogged about McCain living in economic “fantasyland,” then surfed on over to you referring to his “delusional parallel universe.”

At this point I’d take the gecko for President over McCain!

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:33:00 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to tighten our spending in Washington. Oddly, this often gets me labelled as a conservative.

I’d argue with, however, the assertion that McCain’s statement that the economy is “fundamentally sound” means the same thing as the economy is “good.”

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0000

www, If you go online and type in bank regulation and read the reference information under Wikipedia it gives you a pretty good outline for what financial regulations mean. Unfortunately, the last 6 – 8 years the regulations have loosened in the banking industry and mortgage industry and the whole Jenga structure is collapsing while we watch. People got greedy and wanted to make money in the housing boom, and there were plenty of unsavory mortgage lenders who were more than happy to peddle subprime loans to a lot of people who shouldn’t have qualified and probably didn’t understand 1/2 of the information in their documents.

Clearly there has been fault on all sides, but for McCain to stand on a stage today, and talk about how fundamentally sound our economic system in the United States is right now is really laughable. Obviously, he has nothing to worry about in his old age….. he’s already there, has great health care and has Cindy’s money to ensure that he never worries about being on a fixed income.

By: judy in ky

judy in ky — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:18:00 +0000

Oh dear, I meant PLANET Remulon!

By: judy in ky

judy in ky — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Is that the same Phil Gramm who said he came from the Plant Remulon?

I put more faith in Dennis Kucinich, who admits he has seen UFOs.

By: WMW

WMW — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:43:00 +0000

Can you give or point us to a “for dummies” explanation of what regulation does and why it helps? I would like to better understand and be able to explain this.