"Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?"

By: Lowell
Published On: 9/15/2008 4:18:55 PM



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Tom Perriello weighs in (Lowell - 9/15/2008 4:27:54 PM)
The failed economic policies of the Bush-Goode years rear their ugly head yet again. This is another financial crisis that Virginia's middle class families cannot afford. We have rising unemployment rates, an exploding national debt, a housing crisis, and yet, all we see from the gang in Washington is more of the same failed policies, which Congressman Goode has rubber-stamped during his time in Congress. The Good Book says we shall be known by our fruits. Well, Southside has lost over 10,000 jobs on Congressman Goode's watch. It's not surprising that when you take $1.5 million in campaign contributions from the special interests, you protect giant corporations again and again while middle class families pay the price. We need new leaders who will work a double shift for economic revival, which I've pledged will be my number one priority in Congress.


Phone banking today (Teddy - 9/15/2008 5:55:40 PM)
and a couple of contacts begged us to make Obama fight back against the irresponsible attack ads from McCain. They want Obama to sound angry, really angry. They wanted Obama to go for the jugular. I get the idea there is a (large?) group of Americans out there who demand their candidate respond ferociously, defend himself, attack everything about the jerk running against him along with his female sidekick, and the current occupant of the Oval Office, too. It's as if they can't respect a guy who doesn't get furious at unprincipled personal attacks, at what these idiots have done to the country. They want a candidate who is passionate. Enough already with the adult, measured responses.

This from both a man and a woman, one with "an accent."



Biden's speech today . . . (JPTERP - 9/15/2008 6:30:58 PM)
He had a few good zingers as well.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Eight years ago, a man ran for President who claimed he was different, not a typical Republican. He called himself a reformer. He admitted that his Party, the Republican Party, had been wrong about things from time to time. He promised to work with Democrats and said he'd been doing that for a long time.

That candidate was George W. Bush. Remember that? Remember the promise to reach across the aisle? To change the tone? To restore honor and dignity to the White House?

We saw how that story ends. A record number of home foreclosures. Home values, tumbling. And the disturbing news that the crisis you've been facing on Main Street is now hitting Wall Street, taking down Lehman Brothers and threatening other financial institutions.

We've seen eight straight months of job losses. Nearly 46 million Americans without health insurance. Average incomes down, while the price of everything -- from gas to groceries -- has skyrocketed. A military stretched thin from two wars and multiple deployments.

A nation more polarized than I've ever seen in my career. And a culture in Washington where the very few wealthy and powerful have a seat at the table and everybody else is on the menu.

Eight years later, we have another Republican nominee who's telling us the exact same thing:

This time it will be different, it really will. This time he's going to put country before party, to change the tone, reach across the aisle, change the Republican Party, change the way Washington works.

We've seen this movie before, folks. But as everyone knows, the sequel is always worse than the original.

There was also a great anecdote about his father.  Rough paraphrase: "My Dad always used to say: 'Don't tell me what you value son -- show me your budget.  That budget will tell me all I need to know."