I'm glad Obama is finally really laying into McCain.

He's still being a bit too nice and respectful, but it should help.

And jeez...where's the ignore button on this stupid message board? Has anyone else bothered writing Joan about this? Come on, folks. It's getting difficult to avoid the vomit from all the rabid reich-wingers.

If fixing the message board is a major undertaking, can you at least put the poster's name at the TOP of the message?

The meltdown on Wall Street is going to have very real and painful consequences for main street. The collapse of Lehman Brothers and the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America will cost tens of thousands of high-paying jobs.

I agree that this "party" started back in the 1980s. The Clinton years were defined by a tech boom, but the dismantling of Depression era financial regulations just before the century closed helped sow the seeds for today's disaster. It is therefore necessary to focus on solutions as opposed to assigning blame.

This is where Obama does have a great opportunity. McCain admits that he is basically clueless as to economic affairs. (Pity for the former member of the Keating Five.) The real threat to American security is financial and lies within our borders. It is clear to everyone but the most dogmatic of conservatives that McCain is poorly suited to the task at hand. Obama should swing with all he's got on this one.

LOL, yeah baby, you go boy!

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"The theory that markets are perfectly self-correcting, that the best government is the government that lets the rich do as they please, and prosperity will trickle down to everyone else, has taken an enormous body blow."

No, it has been thoroughly and completely discredited -- yet again.

It seems once every generation the majority falls for the simplistic pie-in-the-sky fiction from the wealthy that if only they weren't taxed, if only the economy were unregulated -- lawless -- then everything would be a perfect paradise for everyone.

The reality: a paradise for criminal predatorss.

And every time that known fiction is given its opportunity to prove itself, it is a disaster. And every time the gap between rich and poor widens.

And teh Ron Pauls who push that lie inexplicably get vociferous supporters of that view.

The theory hasn't merely received an "enormous body blow": it has yet again been shown to be essentially a knowing lie told by the wealthy minority to the rest of us in order to separate us from our remaining wealth, and any and all protections against those predators.

* Hey, the Bush-McCain economy just lost $700 billion in retirement plans. It's another reason why we need active and competent regulations for Wall Street.

* None of this matters for people like McCain who own 12 houses, but normal Americans are trying to rely on retirement plans when they grow old.

* With McCain's proposed cutbacks to Social Security, our retirement programs are even more important. It also brings us back to McCain's radical plan to send our Social Security money to Wall Street. Yes, the same Wall Street who just lost $700 billion yesterday. Imagine the consequences of an unchecked market controlling our Social Security money, because McCain has been against regulations for 26 years in Washington.

*Twenty six years of protecting Wall Street. That's the real McCain.

Too bad for McCain. This is his party's problem. Bush has been in office going on eight years and he has made his priorities clear. One of them is not ensuring the stability and reliability of our markets. The entire world, not just America, is suffering from his aversion to anything like restraint and John McCain has been an avid supporter of these policies for many years. He'll try to run away and cry, "change!" but it's all on him too. Own it, McCain. You, as most GOP hacks, don't understand how the world around you has changed and you hang on for dear life to antiquated perspectives of how an economy operates. This is your doing.

CELEBRATE'S OFFERING TO THE TOPIC:

"WHY I LOVE OBAMA

I like Obama. I know he has no experience. I know he was mentored by a terrorist who regrets not killing more cops. I know he is tied to ACORN and other terrorist groups. I know he cut illegal deals with Tony Rezko for financial gain. I know he will pull our troops out of Iraq, causing our nation a humiliating defeat.

But he talks about Hope and Change and other platitudes.

And he is a good speaker.

And the movie stars like him"

MY OFFERING TO THE TOPIC:

WHY I LOVE McCAIN

I like McCain. I know he has no integrity, flip-flopping through his senatorial and campaign experience. I know he loves his wife because he believes she could compete in a HOG-rally bare-breasted beauty contest. I know he likes Bush now, having voted on his side so often since the last election, even though the Bush machine took the machetes to him. I know his major involvement in the Keating Five and active involvement to this date with those horrible Washington lobbyists and special interest groups. I know he will fight more wars, wherever necessary, and stay in Iraq until the VietNam…uhm….Iraqi war is won.

He doesn’t like to talk about it (at least, not every other word out of his mouth), but he suffered for our nation, sort of like Christ.

He has no oratory skills, but he can speak.

Movie stars may not like him, but he does have an obsession with celebrities.

(p.s. no offense toward Harley ralliers intended)

Thanks for the upbeat reminders. Hey, even whats-her-name dropped wildly in the polls over just three days!

Pessimistic? After a week like this? Puh-leaze.

Obama's moving up in every poll known to humankind. As he has been since last week.

Only the GOP trolls, who come on here and pose as Democrats, have the nerve to be pessimistic.

Keep it up. Good luck with that "we hate Obama train." P.S. Some of you really need to get a life outside of this.