July 21, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

JUST WHAT ARE MCCAIN'S QUALIFICATIONS AGAIN?

John McCain has been in the Senate a long time. If you used that as a qualification for anything, then certain types of fungi would be qualified to be president. He got shot down in Vietnam and was a POW. How does that remotely qualify him for the presidency? Every time he opens his mouth McCain just proves we shouldn't let him anywhere near the Oval Office. In this column Frank Rich looks at the McCain campaign. The column is at www.nytimes.com:

Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated by whining about "a nation of whiners." The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Mr. McCain has been so dependent on Mr. Gramm for economic policy that he sent him to newspaper editorial board meetings , no doubt to correct the candidate’s numbers much as Joe Lieberman cleans up after his confusions of Sunni and Shia.

Just two weeks before publicly sharing his thoughts about America’s "mental recession," Mr. Gramm laid out equally incendiary views in a Wall Street Journal profile that portrayed him as "almost certainly" the McCain choice for Treasury secretary. Mr. Gramm said that the former chief executive of AT&T, Ed Whitacre, was "probably the most exploited worker in American history" since he received only a $158 million pay package rather than the "billions" he deserved for his success in growing Southwestern Bell.