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McBusch on the Economy

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Anonymous

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Top 10 McCain Quotes on the Economy
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
1. I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. (Nov. 26, 2005, Wall Street Journal interview).

2. I’m glad whenever they cut interest rates, I wish interest rates were zero. (Oct. 9, 2007, Republican presidential debate).

3. The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book…. I’ve never been involved in Wall Street, I’ve never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I’d like to have somebody intimately familiar with it. (Dec. 18, 2007, in reference to a possible VP running mate — and then he picked Palin).

4. I love him [Phil Gramm] dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there’s nobody that I know that’s stronger. (Jan 18, 2008, campaigning together in South Carolina)

5. As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it — along the lines that President Bush proposed. (March 3, 2008, in the Wall Street Journal)

6. I’m always for less regulation… I am fundamentally a deregulator. (Mar. 3, 2008, in the Wall Street Journal)

7. But let me just add, Peter, the fundamentals of America’s economy are strong. (Apr. 17, 2008, interview with Peter Cook)

8. I’m very strong on the economy. I understand it. I have a lot more experience than my opponent. (July 2, 2008, on Good Morning America)

9. Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation. (Sept. 2008 in Contingencies)

10. You know, that there’s been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is — people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. (Sept. 15, 2008, from a campaign speech aired on CNN)
 

TexasBred

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Here's Obama's Top Ten on Many of the Issues

1. “I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

2. “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. “

3. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. “

4. “The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.”

5. “Look, when I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”

6. “The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”

7. “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.”

8. “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

9. “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” (Tornado death toll actually 12)

10. “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

BONUS: “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
 
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