This is a discussion on Obama takes the bait within the Congress forums, part of the US Discussion category; Quote: Originally Posted by Diuretic
McCain is finished.
I believe some announcer said the same thing about Kirk Gibson when he stepped into the batters ...
I believe some announcer said the same thing about Kirk Gibson when he stepped into the batters box in what was it, game one of the 1988 World Series? You remember what happened?:
"I don't believe what I just saw!"
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"Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."
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To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust.""
Well, in all fairness, he has said he doesn't really understand economics.
I believe some announcer said the same thing about Kirk Gibson when he stepped into the batters box in what was it, game one of the 1988 World Series? You remember what happened?:
"I don't believe what I just saw!"
Oh yeah. I didn't think he was going to make it around the bases. Never trust a relief pitcher...ever.
I thought the debate was Friday. How does this rule out the scheduled debate? Oh, right. McCain will be too exhausted from kissing Dubya's ass on Thursday.
There's something I don't understand. If a President has to be able to do more than one thing at a time why didn't Obama simply agree to go to DC with McCain when McCain asked him to?
Politically I think this would have been the smart, bold move on Obama's part. Instead it seems to me Obama played politics and took an obvious cheap shot at McCain on the "doing more than one thing" line.
For a smart guy I just don't understand how Obama could be so dumb.
ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: In each instance, when the Capital Gains rate was dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: In each instance, when the Capital Gains rate was dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
John McCain is a genius and he deserves to win this election. He played you Democrats like a fiddle AGAIN and so far, no one on this board has figured out his strategy. I'll give you a hint...then again perhaps not. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag.
ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: In each instance, when the Capital Gains rate was dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
Thursday September 17th Harry Reid whines: "No one knows what to do" regarding the financial crises.
Tuesday September 23rd Harry Reid goads McCain: "John McCain needs to support this bailout or it won't pass."
Wednesday September 24th John McCain smacks down Reid: "It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administrations proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time. Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington.
ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: In each instance, when the Capital Gains rate was dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
There's something I don't understand. If a President has to be able to do more than one thing at a time why didn't Obama simply agree to go to DC with McCain when McCain asked him to?
Politically I think this would have been the smart, bold move on Obama's part. Instead it seems to me Obama played politics and took an obvious cheap shot at McCain on the "doing more than one thing" line.
For a smart guy I just don't understand how Obama could be so dumb.
ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: In each instance, when the Capital Gains rate was dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
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