How can anyone believe economic talk from a self-described economic novice? I just don't get it.

http://thepajamapundit.com/

"I reject the doom and gloom that says our nation is in decline. America's best days are ahead."

He went on to add:

"Then again, these days have been that bad for me. So screw ya'll!"

Obama takes the lead in Gallup tracker:

O: 47 M: 45

"Even Senator Obama admits that the agenda he has been pushing for would hurt our economy."

huh?

It's easy to be optimistic about the economy when don't even know how many houses you have.

Economy on Life-Support.

Rule of Law under Attack.

Lady Liberty?

.... well, check out this artwork, copyright 2008 by Zena Saunders:

http://www.zinasaunders.com/pages/illustration/images/palin-hunter.html

(she's given permission for it to be posted... so long as we note the copyright and her website)

Ahh, that's more like it. Just sit back and watch Gramps McCain torpedo himself.

Obama has been given a gift, in the form of an opposing candidate who is now taking positions that are diametrically opposed to the positions he took on the same subjects only months earlier, in an age when everything a public figure says is captured and available on video somewhere.

I really think he should be doing more to impeach McCain's credibility with McCain's own words. It's easy to do, and nothing is more effective.

Obama quotes Eleanor this morning, now McLame is out with FDR. The first made me happy, the later makes me pissed! Quoting FDR while he praises privatizing Social Security, cutting Medicaid, tax cuts for the wealthy. McSame doesn't appreciate the type of leadership and the safety nets FDR provided us with.

Replace Obama's name with his own name and you would think McCain is campaigning for Obama.

This is weird, this guy is willing to say and do anything to be president.

sen. mccain's strategy here isn't all that stupid. if he takes a more optimistic approach, voters might respond positively. in the face of negative economic news nearly every single day, voters might see his stance as a breath of fresh air and see sen. mccain as someone who can see the light at the end of the tunnel and lead the country out of it.

of course he distorts sen. obama's record. of course he doesn't highlight his long-standing record of being a deregulator. of course he doesn't remind the audience of his self-acknowledged lack of understanding on the economy. these statements, would be poisonous.

if he stays positive and says "i've been in the senate long enough to help our government steer us out of economic declines before. as president i would do the same. sen. obama hasn't had the opportunity to understand the cyclical flow of the economy- i have the experience to lead our country to a brighter future" then i think he'll get that bounce he's looking for.

sen. obama, i think, should hit back at sen. mccain's own words and sen. mccain's own record. as long as obama keeps the discussion on the economy, he is at an advantage. he also needs to do a better job of clearly stating (as succinctly as he can) why specifically he would be a better steward of the economy than mccain would be. he has pointed at some of his senate action, but i think it would be helpful to be clear and understandable like: "sen. mccain has said he doesn't understand the economy. it's true. he's been for deregulation of the market which leads to chaos and mayhem on our pocketbook. i understand that for the market to play fair for all americans, sometimes the referees need to keep score and make sure the rules are being followed. this will ensure that the market works for wall street as well as main street and will restore our economy to the days during the last democratic president"

(i borrowed the "referee" concept from a poster quoted on tpm's front page)

FDR on McCain and the economy:

"(McCain) is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still- McCain."

Hoover was also an optimist.

Obama +2 in the gallup today...The McWar ship is finally sinling...

Obama needs to hammer mcWar on the economy every day. Every single day!!! with ads, speeches...

Here is where McCain's commission proposal makes him look like a complete dunce:

He also said yesterday:

"I was chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversights every part of our economy,”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/mccain-commerce-committee/

Since he was, doesn't his call for a special commission, to look into the Wall Street Disaster, and tell him what needs to be done, expose McCain as having not learned a damn thing about the financial markets, during his long stint as "chairman of the Commerce Committee"

Isn't that the most damning revelation of all, that McCain told us about himself!

He just admitted that he has no idea about what went on during the financial markets collapse, and as President he would be completely in the dark about what to do about it.

McCain told us, yesterday, that he did not learn a damn thing about the workings of the nation's commerce, and banking systems, even though he chaired the Senate Committee, for many years.

McCain admitted that he is still just as poor a student as when he ended up in the bottom five of his class at the Navel Academy.

McCain is too stupid to be President. He is actually even dumber that the current Moron in Chief.

Just for fun, let's think about this. Gramm-Leach-Bliley. That would be the "deregulation" bill that passed the Senate 54-44 and the House 343-86. Let's see, who might have been some of the key Democrats for voted for the Conference Report on the final bill? That would be, Reid, Dodd, Biden, Durbin, and Kennedy. And who would have signed the bill, and did, as President. That would be William Jefferson Clinton. Who might have been the co-sponsor in 2005 of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act, which would have established much stricter oversight over Freddie and Fannie? Hmmm. That would be John MCCain. And what happened to that bill in the Semate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs? Dead. And who might have been the chair of that committee? Oh --- I give up. You can guess. And what did Senator Obama do during this time. You can guess that too. But he was taking a couple hundred thousand dollars in lobbying money from FFM, second only to Senator Dodd. And which senator selected to run his VP search committee one of the FFM executives who received multimillions in compensation while running FFM into the ground?? Oh... that would have been Senator Obama too.

How about realism and understanding? They work better than optimism in the face of economic crisis.

McCain's capibilities regarding things economic, plus a buck three-nintyeight, will get you a blue plate special at K-Mart,,,,,,, if you can find a K-Mart still open.

McCain jumped the shark. I think that McCain's attempts to explain away his comments that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong" are now the defining moments of this campaign and the moment that everyone will look back on and realize when McCain "jumped the shark". Trying to twist those words into his new meaning "The American worker and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business, those are the fundamentals of America, and I think they're strong." Wow, what a turd. Only the most rabid GOPer would think "yup, that makes sense to me" even though no economist in his right mind would understand "fundamentals" to mean people.

I'd be optimistic too, if my wife was worth $100 million and owned an alcohol distributor: vice is recession proof.