Senator McCain, didn’t you say that you “don’t know as much about the economy as you should” and that “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should” and that you depend on Phil Gramm to help you out in this respect, making him your “chief economic advisor” as well as your campaign co-chairman?
Follow-up, if I may…. then why are you disagreeing with your chief economic advisor on a subject he knows more about than you, and how is it possible that your campaign co-chairman doesn’t speak for you?
15 comments
July 10, 2008 at 4:29 pm
jay boilswater
Do I see a “Get disappointed by somebody OLD” possibility here?
July 10, 2008 at 4:34 pm
urbino
Also, since you hate lobbyists so much, and they hate you so much, why do so many of them work for your campaign?
Or, in the alternative to all these questions, Senator, do you have any fucking idea who the people you hire are, or what they do for a living when they aren’t working for you, or in some cases, even when they are working for you, or do you just draw names out of a hat at the gentlemen’s club of your choice?
July 10, 2008 at 4:34 pm
eric
No, jay. We expect Obama to disappoint us because we have hopes and expectations that he will be a good president. It’s much harder to be disappointed by someone whom you think unfit for the office.
July 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm
eric
the gentlemen’s club
Nice.
July 10, 2008 at 4:38 pm
urbino
I try to please.
July 10, 2008 at 4:58 pm
jay boilswater
Re eric:
Heh! I have some “expectations” regarding the senator from Az. too!
I would say that at least SOME might find a bit of disappointment in the lack of true Maverickness displayed.
My point was – the whole thing is somewhat broken.
July 10, 2008 at 5:14 pm
eric
Those who have expectations can go ahead and make bumper stickers that reflect them.
July 10, 2008 at 5:40 pm
drip
You people are such whiners. Toughen up and get a real job at a Swiss bank. Actually, the clarification is funnier still — its the nation’s leaders who are whiners, not just bloggers.
July 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm
eric
Yes, because “We have sort of become a nation of whiners”—that very clearly refers only to our leaders. I think that “clarification” is more properly called “baloney.”
July 10, 2008 at 6:05 pm
drip
A half wit could have followed the clarification with a follow up: Besides Cheney, McConnell, McCain and Bush, who are the whiners? Unfortunately, nary a wit to be found.
July 10, 2008 at 6:19 pm
urbino
Maybe this means we’ll be hearing more from the Jack Kemp part of McCain’s dynamic economics team, in the future.
Which reminds me to point out that my alternate question, above, was quite serious. I think the man honestly doesn’t know what these people do or what they think. They’re just people he’s gotten what he considers good advice from at some point over the years, or people whose jibs he likes the cut of, so he puts them all on his campaign staff, even though some of them (Gramm and Kemp) have contradictory stances on the issues they’re supposed to be setting policy for, and many of them are the very species of Beltway creature his whole not-influenced-by-lobbyists persona depends upon his not knowing. Of. Or something.
July 10, 2008 at 6:29 pm
drip
I think that the republicans are going to be surprised at how stupid McCain actually is. Bush is lazy and spoiled and uneducated, but he has some smarts. McCain doesn’t know what a lobbyist is. Gramm has to register as one to talk to government officials, being in the employ of a foreign bank, but I’d bet real canadian dollars that McCain doesn’t know that.
July 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The Commander Guy
Now it has been said that John McCain does not know much about the economy. In fact it was said by John McCain.
Of course this is, in fact, not true. If there is one thing John McCain knows, said John McCain the other day, it is Economics, unless it is not, and then it is National Security. But in that case it would still be Economics, too. So in that event there would be actually two things that John McCain would know: National Security and Economics.
Economics has to do with Supply and Demand. Everyone knows this, including and especially John McCain. He said so much recently. However, in the past, as noted above, John McCain has said he did not know much about Economics. Now you would think that one statement is probably untrue. Either John McCain knows about Economics as he said recently, or he does not know about Economics as he has said in the past. But this conundrum can be cleared up quite easily, actually. Both statements are true!
You see, John McCain simply just forgot he knew about Economics at the time he previously said that he did not know about Economics. But now, he remembers that he knows about Economics and stated so.
The inconsistency, with John McCain’s denial that he had said that he did not know about Economics when in fact he did, can be simply explained that John McCain has forgotten that he once forgot the fact that he knew about Economics, when he mistakenly said he did not know about Economics, when in fact, as we have just established, he did know then and does now know Economics…..unless he forgets again, forgets that he had forgotten or vice versa.
Pretty simple actually. Economics has lots of graphs by the way.
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