phthalatemagic said:
Had to dig this beast up from page 6.Barry said yesterday "America is no longer what it could be"What does that mean?
My guess is that he meant that America is facing rough times due to the policies of the last 8 years, 90% of which McCain agreed with and voted for.The deregulation, the lack of oversight, the turning a blind eye to the problems on wall street, and main street, have put our economy in a position where it needs to be bailed out. Where billions of dollars are needed to prevent our economy from completely tanking. This America, on the brink of economic disaster, is not the america we all believe it. But it is the America that Bush, with help from McCain, helped deliver. With their failed policies, with their approaches that leave you, the taxpayers, footing the bill for coorporate greed on wall street, you are all going to pay for it, while the CEO's of these companies walk away will multi-million dollar compensations.President Bush was OK with this. John McCain spent his life fighting against regulation, and he is OK with this. I, Barack Obama, am not. With your help, we can get America back on track to fulfilling its potential. We can sidestep the misguided policies Bush has introduced, that McCain seeks to continue. We can push our country to alternative energies, to smarter regulations, to improved education, and we will overcome this challenge, just like we've overcome challenges in the past. But we do not overcome challenges by voting for the same policies that got us into this trouble in the first place. Those are the policies John McCain represents, who has spent his entire political career nearly campaigning against regulation, who has voted with Bush 90% of the time, and who only two weeks ago said that the economy is fundamentally sound, while just yesterday he said the economy was in such dire need of saving that he was rushing immediately to Washington and suspending his campaign, and delaying the debates, until the problem was solved.It's clear that McCain does not have solutions, as apparently he only found out there was a problem yesterday that was big enough to deserve his attention. Can we afford to wait until he figures out that the policies he's supporting are the same type of failed policies that got us into this situation to begin with? How many more epiphanies on the economy must we wait for John McCain to have before we conclude that he just doesn't get it? That he, as he's said, doesn't really understand the economy? Look, if John McCain had been talking to middle class and working class and small business owners over the course of his campaign, this would not have come as a surprise to him. He would've know people were struggling, that times were rough, that people were being foreclosed on, that jobs were being lost. He would've known that incomes were shrinking, that jobs are drying up, and that all of these things spelled trouble for the economy. If John McCain was listening to the people, he would've spoken out against one of his advisors when he said that the troubles americans were facing were just psychological, and that we were all just a nation of whiners. All of this would not have come as a surprise, if John McCain were listening to the american public.But instead, apparently john was listening to his advisors after all. The american people should put their trust in leaders who listen to the people, who understand the problems they are facing, and do not want to continue more of the same misguided policies that got us to where we are today. I (Obama) am running to restore responsibility to washington, to change these misguided policies so they'll work for the people, to move our country towards renewable energy, to improve education, and to bring structure and reason back to wall street.
Glad I didn't send it to one of my co-workers as Obama's latest remarks!
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sara silverman 
