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Economics isn't his thing? What economic legislation has Obama sponsored? What legislation that he sponsored worked? Don;t believe the $600 million in ads MEM.

Yes we are certainly in a different world after 8 yrs of Bush Jr. & I heard the same cries of doom when Clinton ran. The second time around it rings a bit hollow.

If Obama was going to just roll back the taxes on the individuals we would survive....it would hurt the economy but we would survive. But Obama is going to go after small businesses and corporations like never beofre and cripple the economy and the world. He is nothing like Clinton.

I think your wrong but reguardless we do know the republican style of economic policies don't work & all the things your scared of happening are already happening.

I don't find anything that is happening funny right now whomod. MEM and I sometimes do try to talk civily about issues and what we think. Please try it sometime. If Obama wins I will wish him all the luck in the world. I love my country and want the best for it.

I think your wrong but reguardless we do know the republican style of economic policies don't work & all the things your scared of happening are already happening.

It's kind of hard to take the high road when most of the time you guys don't.

And you're right. there is nothing funny about the current situation, but that's Ok, hope is just around the corner. And that brings a growing amount of people, comfort and reassurance that things will start to change for the better soon.

...So please remember this.....You may save anywhere from 500 to 1000 dollars with Obama's tax plan every year when his his checks are mailed in January. Just watch what your living expenses are too though if he does what he says he will to the corporation and small business owners like myself. I am a small business owner but he doesn't thinks so. We employ over 40 people full and part time. We will have to cut jobs and raise prices just to survive and I know I am not alone......so think of good old PJP when you are paying more for your groceries, gas, clothes and when you go out to eat.

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Now one of John McCain's actual advisers has switched sides:

Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support in January.

This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

PJP, have you ever heard the phrase "sticky prices"?

It's why your pack of gum is still $1.29 as opposed to the $1.19 it used to cost last year even though the high oil prices that caused it to rise in price to begin with, have already gone down.

And that to me is just plain opportunism and greed. An that is happening NOW, not under Obama, NOW. So i think it's unfair to blame any Obama policies for high prices. Sometimes prices go up because they have to but they never seem to go back down because they can.

huffington post

Oh, i'm sorry you asshole, i forgot. If you don't like the source, it therefore never happened. Here:

Rex

I'm an asshole because I don't believe links from blogs and message boards? You need to learn the difference between opinion and fact.

Funny, bsams posted all sorts of crap from blogs regarding Obama being an evil terrorist and I don't see you rushing in there to say jack.

At least my stuff always has, as you can clearly see, mainstream media concurring.

You act as if I posted Huffington post saying that McCain has devil horns protruding from his head or something.

After months and months of wan enthusiasm among Republicans, these last weeks have at last energized the core of the party. But there's a downside: The very same campaign strategy that has belatedly mobilized the Republican core has alienated and offended the great national middle, which was the only place where the 2008 election could have been won.

I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly . . . it's too depressing. You have to go back to the Watergate era to see numbers quite so horrible for the GOP.

McCain's awful campaign is having awful consequences down the ballot. I spoke a little while ago to a senior Republican House member. "There is not a safe Republican seat in the country," he warned. "I don't mean that we're going to lose all of them. But we could lose any of them."

In the Senate, things look, if possible, even worse.

The themes and messages that are galvanizing the crowds for Palin are bleeding Sens. John Sununu in New Hampshire, Gordon Smith in Oregon, Norm Coleman in Minnesota and Susan Collins in Maine. The Palin approach might have been expected to work better in more traditionally conservative states such as Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, but they have not worked well enough to compensate for the weak Republican economic message at a moment of global financial crisis. Result: the certain loss of John Warner's Senate seat in Virginia, the probable loss of Elizabeth Dole's in North Carolina, an unexpectedly tough fight for Saxby Chambliss's in Georgia -- and an apparent GOP surrender in Colorado, where it looks as if the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already pulled its ads from the air.

Yes, that's another forum here. You should branch out and try some of them. You might learn a thing or two.

*buries head in sand*

Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser.

"Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."

“This morning, the McCain campaign’s top economic policy advisor unleashed an October Surprise of straight talk when he finally admitted that the health insurance people currently get from their employer is ‘way better’ than the health care they would get if John McCain becomes President. Independent studies have shown that under John McCain’s health care plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on and be forced to buy health care coverage on the individual market that costs more than $12,000 with a tax credit of just $5,000. Senator McCain has been trying to cover this up for months, but his advisor’s brutal honesty today is certainly better late than never, and it should give every American pause about electing a candidate who has proposed such radical and dangerous changes to our health care system,” said Obama-Biden Spokesman Bill Burton.

[...It's like when McCain swung from being centric to Rightwing-extreme...