Three fat capitalists were asked if they wanted any regulations to protect the rest of us. All three said No, No, No….we don't want government interfering in our god-ordained capitalistic venture. We must breathe freely of the air of infallible and unfettered business.

Then, alas, the three fat capitalists found themselves with…empty balance sheets….caused by lack of oversight.

These same three fat capitalists came to all of us with open palms, begging us to rescue their pitifully failed ventures of unbridled greed. The three fat boys screech loudly…."we need government interference, we need government interference….for we have no more money".

Moral of story? Never trust fat capitalists.

On the surge, the article you linked to says "'On the morning of Bush's address, Romney endorsed a troop surge.' — The National Journal, Jan. 13, 2007".

McCain, however, supported the surge far earlier, in 2006. Many came on board later. Supporting the surge was hurting McCain politically, but he still did it.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Novak_McCains_troop_surge_hype_backfiring_1227.html

That doesn't mean I think Bush is wonderful in all fiscal aspects. I think his fiscal policy overall has been terrible, as illustrated by the huge debt he ran up.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30563.html

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30563.html

And now suddenly, King, you are putting up George Bush as compatible with fiscal responsibility? Yikes.

I never called John McCain a liar, but he is.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/mccain-liar-who.html

Read on, the very conservatives now touting him as a savior just a few months ago called him a liar:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30563.html

So you call him whatever you want. I call him out of touch, even moreso than Joe Biden. And certainly you are not citing President Bush, whose very financial policies you yourself have called horrible, as suddenly the all-knowing economic Messiah? Your waffling on your candidate is reminiscent of a certain D Presidential candidate circa 2004……….

She called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?'

'Not I,' said the cow.

'Not I,' said the duck.

'Not I,' said the pig.

'Not I,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck..

'Out of my classification,' said the pig.

'I'd lose my seniority,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.

'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.

'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.

'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.

'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.'

'Excess profits!' cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)

'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)

'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)

The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, 'You must not be so greedy.'

'But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.

'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.'

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, 'I am grateful, for now I truly understand.'

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared…so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT???

I don't care about the bracelet controversy. I didn't say a word about that. I just thought it was funny that Obama couldn't remember the soldier's name. There's your sincerity, or the lack thereof..

And thanks for that opinion piece from the LA Times, I thought it was pretty humorous. John McCain co-sponsored legislation to regulate Fannie-Freddie, as I've already pointed out. The Dems killed it. The LA Times is just making stuff up to run cover.

Here, let's disprove this deregulation nonsense for once and for all. Point me to one act of deregulation of the financial markets by the Bush administration. That will shut me up. Bush only proposed REGulation, in spite of the hysterical lies of the Democrats.

Again
I guarantee the wealthy CEOs of this country are not altering their vacation plans

We owe China $500 Billion

The Republican administration (This includes McCain and his past economic advisor Phil Gramm) had six years of full reign in Washington. The result is obvious. Our country faces a HUGE deficit. We have been spending money in a very expensive store (The Iraq War) and saying that no one had to pay for it. Under the republicans many wealthy American companies and their CEO's have eluded paying their fair share of taxes by an array of loop holes. We have been borrowing money from China to finance a war and buy oil from the Middle East.

Right now we owe China 500 billion.

How did we get into this position?

I guarantee the wealthy CEOs of this country are not altering their vacation plans.

As for your bracelet statement in the other post, the family asked him not to mention their name. He felt, rightfully, that if McCain was going to make it personal, he should too. The soldier's mom said after the debate she had no problems with what Obama did. He was clearly taking a moment to decide if he should mention the name of the kid. Contemplation, rather than shooting first and asking questions later.

And sure, McCain wasn't found "guilty" of anything in Keating like his D colleagues, since being reprimanded by the United States Senate for "poor judgment" doesn't mean anything.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks25-2008sep25,0,5467109.column

(if he can cite the ny post, i can cite the la times!)

"This is enemy action. This is a bullet deliberately fired into the economy by men willing to exercise their ideology regardless of the cost to taxpayers. Men who have every expectation that they can plunder the system again and again, while the public picks up the tab. John McCain may not have had his finger directly on the trigger, but he was there. He assisted. These were his personal friends and philosophical comrades. He may not be the high priest, but he has been a loyal acolyte in the cult of deregulation.

It may come as a surprise to the champions of deregulation, but nobody likes regulation. The restrictions that were placed on banks, S&Ls, and other institutions in the 1930s weren't put there because someone thought it would be fun. They were put in place because they addressed problems that had just been clearly and painfully revealed. They were put in place because they were necessary.

It's bad enough if John McCain didn't know that. It's far worse if he did."

-Devilstower 2008

In fact, BO ran training seminars for ACORN.

King, isn't it amazing how the libs and Dim wallow around in ignorance?

And you still haven't offered a counter argument to anything I've said.

McCain was exonerated in the Keating Five scandal. You're grabbing at some real thin straws there. You also failed to mention that the other four of the Keating Five, the ones who really WERE guilty, were all DEMOCRATS.

If you want to believe that a man who has shortchanged the Treasury by half a trillion in tax giveaways for the rich after blowing through 200 billion a year or more in Iraq and after allowing Haliburton and Blackwater to get piles of cash and lost hundreds of billions in negotiating Medicare gifts to the drug industry and who has handed Wall Street trillions of dollars is going to get out his Veto pen and save the world, you keep believing it. John McCain is a shell of the politician he was in 2000. The beat down George Bush on him turned him into just another R trolling for votes. King, he won't even answer questions on the campaign trail.

You're talking out both sides of your neck on this one. In one breath, you want to say its all the Ds fault and then you turn around and say the government overlords are keeping us down. I certainly know you are smarter than to imply this has all happened since january 2007. And isn't it convenient for you to blame anything bad that happened in the 90s on the D president, but when its an R president it's all Congress' fault? Please. Your credibility is wearing thin.

This whole economic mess can be trace back to the Keating Five. Featuring which Arizona Senator?? Anyone??

Check how how Stanly Kurtz has linked B. Hussein Obama to the mortgage mess via BO's close association with that quasi-criminal group ACORN.

Obama is truly a radical.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_dangerous_pals_131216.htm?page=0

Yes We Can. Hope and Change.

Just like Senator McCain said, you just don't get it, you just don't get it.