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Politics : The American Spirit Vs. The Rightwing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (1895)	9/17/2008 10:17:29 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1904

Ben Stein on Larry King tonite ripped into McCain...."no teeth" remarks on cleaning up fraud on Wall Street....he said Warrren Buffet needs to counsel both her and McBush in ECONOMICS! Palin response to a townhall question tonite concerning whether she had foreign policy experience.....prattle with no specifics...she said go ahead and ask me specific questions-it will be like "stump the candidate". ..she's unqualified to be a brownie mom. Then McCain gets on and sells her as an energy expert.....fricking unreal!!!!!!!!!!!

To: American Spirit who wrote (1895)	9/17/2008 11:09:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1904

For Hoover as for McCain, the insistence on "sound fundamentals" means that if necessary, the government will throw a life preserver to business leaders; the rest of us are on our own. Franklin Roosevelt knew how to answer: "The present administration has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for ... plans ... that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the pyramid." He echoed his cousin/uncle Theodore, who declared, "We must protect the crushable elements at the base of our present industrial structure." In an economic crisis, these ideas are the true, and sound, American fundamentals.

To: American Spirit who wrote (1895)	9/19/2008 9:27:33 AM
From: puborectalis	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1904

"How many small businessmen are making $1,400,000 a year average in the top 1 percent?" Biden responded. "Give me a break. I remind my friend John McCain what he said when Bush called for war and tax cuts he said, 'it is immoral, immoral to take a nation to war and not have anybody pay for it.'" "I am so sick and tired of this phoniness," Biden continued. "The truth of the matter is that we are in trouble, and the people who do not need a new tax cut should be willing as patriotic Americans to understand the way to get this economy back up on their feet is to give middle class taxpayers a break. We take the tax cut they're getting and we give it to the middle class."