Someone please wake up Grandpa

[SonOfLe-loLang]

From Steve Benen:

WHAT FLAILING LOOKS LIKE.... Is it me, or has John McCain's message become completely incoherent this week?

Yesterday, he got things started by insisting he would fire SEC Chairman Christopher Cox if president, which was odd since a) Cox isn't really to blame; and b) the president can't fire the SEC chair. From there, McCain told an audience, "Sen. Obama's own advisers are saying that the [economic] crisis will benefit him politically." Pressed for even a shred of evidence to back that up, McCain's campaign couldn't think of anything. It was just another instance of McCain getting caught in another foolish lie.

And then McCain decided to go after Obama's association with Franklin Raines.

Republican McCain released a new spot Thursday that quotes The Washington Post as saying Democrat Obama gets advice on mortgage and housing policy from a former Fannie Mae chief executive, Franklin Raines. [...]

Obama's campaign says Raines is not an Obama adviser and that McCain's campaign knows it because Raines said so in an e-mail earlier this week to Carly Fiorina, a top McCain adviser. Obama's campaign provided The Associated Press with a copy of the e-mail.

"Carly: Is this true?" Raines asks above a forwarded note informing him that Fiorina was on television saying he was an Obama housing adviser. "I am not an adviser to the Obama campaign. Frank." [...]

Obama spokesman Bill Burton ... said Obama only met Raines once briefly at an event, and that Raines sought an introductory meeting with Obama Senate aide Mike Strautmanis. At that meeting, Burton said no advice was sought from or given by Raines, who also had served as President Clinton's budget director.

"This is another flat-out lie from a dishonorable campaign that is increasingly incapable of telling the truth," Burton said. "Frank Raines has never advised Senator Obama about anything -- ever."



I'd just add that while the attack is plainly wrong, it's foolish even if we accept the attack at face value. If getting advice from an official at a troubled financial institution is a sign of bad judgment, then why is that two of McCain's top advisors include John Thain, from Merrill Lynch, and Martin Feldstein, who serves on AIG's board of directors?

The election is just 46 days away. Just as McCain's message should be getting tighter, clearer, and more persuasive, McCain seems to be getting more reckless, more scatterbrained, and less coherent.

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I dont understand how people, regardless of political affiliation, would trust this man with the highest office in the world.

[ak1971]

Isnt Robert Rubin one of Obama's top advisors?

[Rohirrim]

Anybody (like McCain) who's top economic advisor is Phil Gramm should have the brains to just keep their mouths shut. Glass houses, and all that.

[Traveler]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Anybody (like McCain) who's top economic advisor is Phil Gramm should have the brains to just keep their mouths shut. Glass houses, and all that.

9 of them...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

[Drek]

Originally Posted by ak1971

Isnt Robert Rubin one of Obama's top advisors?

You mean Robert Rubin, the former Sec. of the Treasury under Clinton (budget surplus) who less than a year ago stepped into CitiGroup's chairman seat after it was abundantly clear that they were headed for crisis, in an attempt to save it?

Yep. In a slightly more active role than former Reagan ally Paul Volcker.

It should tell people something when Obama is proposing more taxes on the top 2% but financial minds who've already made their millions like Rubin, Volcker, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates (who is a financial mind much more than a computer guy) strongly support him instead of wanting to protect their fortunes.

They don't want to see economic collapse because that doesn't help anyone.

[BroncoBuff]

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[BroncoBuff]

Originally Posted by Drek

It should tell people something when ... financial minds who've already made their millions ... strongly support Obama instead of wanting to protect their fortunes.

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