knows the capital of Belarus. If he wants to distinguish himself from Bush, he should really concentrate on the knowledge-of-foreign-geography thing.

what's with this "dr. no" nonsense?

his campaign is so uncool.

It made my blood boil when that "elitist" Phil Gramm was exposed for what he is. Here we have a man who never has to worry about health care, the price of gas, food and other day to day neccessities telling us we are imagining this recession. That is essentially the problem.. the average American experience (to these people)is just an abstract of numbers printed on a page . They have no concept of what it is like to survive in America day to day when you do not have the wealth to insulate you from economic downturns.The only thing they are interested in is preserving their status quo. In a perfect world this architect of the Enron Loophole would be sentenced to live on a $1200 a month social security check. Perhaps that would give him and first hand look at this imaginary recession. I am thankful that the MSM at leat picked this up and did not fail to point out that Mr. Gramm is Mclame's economic advisor and kept it going for a couple of news cycles. BTW anyone see Mclame cornered when asked about Viagra/birth control. The fumbling 'deer in the headlights' was priceless.

Is anyone else troubled by the fact that, within hours of this becoming a controversy, McCain turned on his long-time friend and colleague and took a piss on him in public?

Not saying it was not appropriate to distance himself from the comments and the person, but did he have to publically stone him? Even if he deserved it?

He seems off-kilter and irrational when roused.

may be coming to an end. Gramm's ("senior McCain adviser")remarks are front and center on CNN this morning. "Are YOU one of those whiners?"

Then, in a real departure, they showed a clip of McCain taking an long "akward" pause when answering a question and called it "another akward pause brought to you by Viagra."

Personally, I attribute it to the msm sharks smelling more blood in the water on the Republican side these days.

We can only hope. I get a good perspective at the gym I go to every day around evening news time. There is a bank of plasma tvs that have the all the flavors ABC NBC CDS CNN and Faux. I can compare and see what they are leading with. All the majors covered it except for Faux which was still recycling Jessie. All pointed out that the illustrious Mr. Gramm was an ol' buddy and McLames chief economic advisor. It was the lead on the NBC Today show. I just hope Obama's campaign capitalizes on it ...this is what Republicans really think about you.

Massive job losses, a housing bubble burst, financial institutions failing while others raise huge amounts of capital from foreign sovereign wealth funds – there’s only one possible conclusion to draw from all this: America is a “nation of whiners.” ‘Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.’

This from former Senator Phil Gramm, whose claim to fame (aside from the time he, as a Democratic congressman, attended Democratic Caucus budget meetings and then secretly shared their strategy with Republicans to help pass newly inaugurated President Ronald Reagan's budget, before changing parties and becoming a Republican himself) was the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, which repealed the Glass-Steagal Act and allowed consolidation among banks, investment banks and insurance companies, which had previously been illegal since the Great Depression in an attempt to reduce speculation in the financial markets. Many economists now credit the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act with allowing the conditions which led to the subprime mortgage crisis we are currently suffering from. The repeal of Glass Steagal also led directly to the creation of financial behemoths, most notably Citigroup, which promptly found itself at the center of the biggest corporate scandals of the late 1990s and early part of this century.

Of course he doesn’t think things are as bad as you read in the paper. If that were the case, his legacy would be called into question, and he wouldn’t want that to happen, so if he says it, then it must be true. Oh, and he still has a job, at UBS, one of the financial behemoth his "landmark" legislation helped create.

He only got one delegate right? Well, at elast he won something for that campaign.