http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/30/mccain-war-economy/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/30/mccain-war-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-1206 Mugsy Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:52:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/30/mccain-war-economy/#comment-1206 Iraq was always viewed as a giant "economic Petri dish" by this Administration, believing that turning over to unbridled Capitalism would turn Iraq into a "Democratic utopia in the heart of the Middle East". Instead, we got a dysfunctional economic basket case that dissolved into civil war (and nearly doing the same here at home). Iraq was always viewed as a giant “economic Petri dish” by this Administration, believing that turning over to unbridled Capitalism would turn Iraq into a “Democratic utopia in the heart of the Middle East”. Instead, we got a dysfunctional economic basket case that dissolved into civil war (and nearly doing the same here at home).

]]> http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/30/mccain-war-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 osage Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:58:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/30/mccain-war-economy/#comment-1204 McCain has no idea what a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs or a cup of coffee costs today. He travels in his wife's corporate jet, lives in eight or nine houses, he doesn't remember how many houses they have for sure, and he believes that an "argument can be made that Americans are better off today" than they were before Bush came into office. The only reason John McCain is the "default" presidential Republican candidate is that the men he ran against divided the right wing conservatives and neo-cons and allowed him to sneak by because he was less extreme than they were. In effect, the Republican Party divided and conquered itself. McCain will get no more than 200 Electoral votes and will lose the popular vote to Obama by double digits. The fact that he is an arrogant, rich, clueless opportunist who wants to make decisions, but doesn't want to take the time to do the homework himself and actually learn how policies effect people, is irrelevant because he hasn't got a shot in hell of winning th presidency anyway. The Republcans are going to stay home rather than vote for John McCain, and Barack Obama is going to smarten up America again after eight years of Bush Republicans dumbing them down. McCain has no idea what a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs or a cup of coffee costs today. He travels in his wife’s corporate jet, lives in eight or nine houses, he doesn’t remember how many houses they have for sure, and he believes that an “argument can be made that Americans are better off today” than they were before Bush came into office. The only reason John McCain is the “default” presidential Republican candidate is that the men he ran against divided the right wing conservatives and neo-cons and allowed him to sneak by because he was less extreme than they were. In effect, the Republican Party divided and conquered itself. McCain will get no more than 200 Electoral votes and will lose the popular vote to Obama by double digits. The fact that he is an arrogant, rich, clueless opportunist who wants to make decisions, but doesn’t want to take the time to do the homework himself and actually learn how policies effect people, is irrelevant because he hasn’t got a shot in hell of winning th presidency anyway. The Republcans are going to stay home rather than vote for John McCain, and Barack Obama is going to smarten up America again after eight years of Bush Republicans dumbing them down.

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