One has to wonder if the McCain campaign really believes what it is saying.
This morning on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe', McCain campaign advisor and spokeswoman Nicole Wallace was grilled by Joe Scarborough regarding her campaign's grand blunders and flip-flops during the past week.
Wallace responded in true McCain campaign fashion - by immediately disparaging Barack Obama's preference to read the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve's plan in detail before proposing his own comprehensive plan to deal with the floundering economy. She also took that opportunity to deliver the McCain campaign's golden nugget regarding how it planned to solve the economic crisis: Their "instincts"
I am NOT making this up. The McCain campaign and its advisors want you, the American public, to trust their "instincts" to solve what aims the U.S economy in lieu of an intelligent, comprehensive plan.
This plea for blind trust from the same Nicole Wallace who peddled George W. Bush's economic 'fixes' as the Bush White House Communications Director. As a refresher, let's take a stroll down memory lane and remind ourselves what the Bush-McCain economic policies have provided the American public thus far:
- Gas prices are 250% higher than when Bush took office
- Unemployment is at a five-year high, 6.1%
- The cost of goods has skyrocketed since Bush took office
- The housing market has collapsed
- The banking market has collapsed
- The dollar is weak, and foreign ownership of our debt continues to increase
- Bush has turned a record surplus into record deficits
- Wage disparity continues to increase
Now, rewind for a moment to last week. On the same day that Lehman Brothers investment bank stated that it plans to file for bankruptcy while Merrill Lynch was being acquired by Bank of America to offset its bad real estate debts, John McCain proclaimed:
"I still think the fundamentals of our economy are strong"
-John McCain, Orlando, FL stump speech 9/15/08
John McCain is saying that all of the above consequences of the failed Bush economy point to a "fundamentally strong economy". I don't know about you, but if that is the measure of his judgment regarding the American economy, then his so-called "instincts" are worth about as much as the lint in my pocket.
Day-after-day, hour-after-hour the McCain campaign keeps reminding us why they are unfit for command of this nation and its economy. McCain has offered no comprehensive plan to solve the economic crisis in this country. He wants more of the same Bush economic policies that have strangled the working class, padded the pockets of the affluent, and given us record deficits to pass on to our children.
Thanks, but no thanks, John McCain. You can keep your "instincts" to yourself. As for me and my country, we will choose Barack Obama's fresh, reasoned, intelligent economic plan to undo the damage you and George W. Bush have done to this great nation.
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