Sep 19 2008

Obama: “Fire the whole trickle-down, on-your-own, look-the-other-way crowd”

(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

 

Barack Obama campaigned Thursday in Española, New Mexico.

At a rally there, he responded to McCain’s weak call to fire Christopher Cox, SEC chairman, and former Republican congressman from California.

Reuters reports, Obama implies McCain is ranting:

“You can’t erase 26 years of support for the very policies and people who helped bring on this disaster with one week of rants,” Obama said.

Why just stop at firing Cox as one symbolic scapegoat?

In response to McCain’s call for getting rid of the SEC chairman, Obama said: “Here’s what I say — in 47 days you can fire the whole trickle-down, on-your-own, look-the-other-way crowd in Washington who have led us down this disastrous path. Don’t just get rid of one guy.”

Yeah! Obama is spot on here. It is the conservatives’ failed ideas and failed policies that have gotten our economy in this mess.

The AP has more:

“Don’t just get rid of one guy. Get rid of this administration. Get rid of this philosophy. Get rid of the do-nothing approach to our economic problem and put somebody in there who’s going to fight for you.”

John McCain has been puffing his chest saying if he were president, he’d fire Cox. Of course, what McCain doesn’t seem to get is the president cannot fire the SEC chair.

From ABC News, McCain Flub? Republican Says He’d Fire SEC Chair as President.

while the president nominates and the Senate confirms the SEC chair, a commissioner of an independent regulatory commission cannot be removed by the president.

From time to time, presidents have attempted to remove commissioners who have proven “uncooperative.”  However, the courts have general upheld the independence of commissioners.

“The president does not have the formal power to fire the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission”.

So, two-for-one. Hard hitting words from Obama while McCain continues to rant and make gaffes.

From the Boston Globe, Obama continues Hispanics push:

The crowd of 9,500 people was greeted warmly by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who assured the audience “that Obama believed in family and in religion.”

Obama drifted from his prepared remarks to appeal directly to the Hispanic community:

“To The Hispanic community, I want you to start actually voting your numbers,” he said. “Right here in New Mexico, you’ll be the difference-maker. Don’t stay home. Just remind yourself: Si se puede! Si se puede!“

After his speech, Obama greeted his supporters gathered in the Plaza de Española.

 

Cross-posted at Daily Kos.

 

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    • Edger on September 19, 2008 at 01:04
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    knows about as much about the job of president as Palin knows about the job of vice president.

    Responsibility #1: Find out what the hell you’re talking about before you shoot off your mouth.

  2. …on to possible swing votes & old high school friends (central California Republicans) who may be disillusioned and questioning.  

    Thanks, Mag!

    • RiaD on September 19, 2008 at 01:40
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    OMG thank you!

    • Edger on September 19, 2008 at 01:53
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    McCain team includes 83 Wall Street lobbyists


    As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rails against Wall Street while concurrently benefiting from its largesse, some journalists are getting tired.

    David Corn — an investigative reporter formerly with The Nation and currently reporting for Mother Jones — has printed a list of 83 Wall Street lobbyists he says are working for or have bundled contributions for McCain. The Democratic National Committee has previously accused McCain of using 177 lobbyists either as campaign aides, advisers or fundraisers.

    Corn notes that former Sen. Phil Gramm, the Arizona senator’s onetime campaign chairman and economic adviser, slipped into law a provision that kept credit default swaps unregulated, dramatically kindling to the current financial fires.

    “Of those 177 lobbyists, according to a Mother Jones review of Senate and House records, at least 83 have in recent years lobbied for the financial industry McCain now attacks,” Corn writes. “These are high-paid influence-peddlers who have been working the corridors of the nation’s capital to win favors and special treatment for investment banks, securities firms, hedge funds, accounting outfits, and insurance companies. Their clients have included AIG, the newest symbol of corporate excess; Lehman Brothers, which filed for bankruptcy on Monday sending the stock market into a tailspin; Merrill Lynch, which was bought out by Bank of America this week; and Washington Mutual, the banking giant that could be the next to fall.

    “Among these 83 lobbyists are McCain’s chief political adviser, Charlie Black (JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers Association of America); McCain’s national finance co-chairman, Wayne Berman (AIG, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac); the campaign’s congressional liaison, John Green (Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Icahn Associates, Fannie Mae); McCain’s veep vetter, Arthur Culvahouse (Fannie Mae); and McCain’s transition planning chief, William Timmons Sr. (Citigroup, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group).”

  5. might want to look into hiring Obama’s writers.

    On Monday it was

    if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.

    Then yesterday it was

    Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president that he’ll take on, and I quote, ‘the old boys network in Washington.’

    Now I’m not making this up. This is somebody who’s been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign.

    And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna’ to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting. Come, on!

    And finally, another line from today

    John McCain can’t decide whether he’s Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich.

    Good stuff!!!!!!

    • RiaD on September 19, 2008 at 02:49
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    at what ‘prosperity’ that trickle-down, look-the-other-way crowd has brought…..

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26…

    • Edger on September 19, 2008 at 03:09
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    for losing his mind. It was just a little thing anyway. So small he’ll act the same without it.

    And besides, he’s got bigger things to worry about than the US economy falling off the edge. His hockey mama honey has lost her sparkle.

    From Wonkette this afternoon…

    HA HA MILLIONS OF NEW PEOPLE START HATING YOU DAILY

    Shoulda Picked Mittens, Shoulda Picked Mittens. Just Saying!

    Here’s a chart from FiveThirtyEight, the damnable, smartypants, know-it-all site that… oh hell, we read the motherfucker compulsively. This chart shows the net favorability scores of the four candidates based on some recent polls, and as you can see, people are rapidly realizing that Sarah Palin is a rather unsavory character – her numbers last week were about 10-15 points higher. So much for the happy times, Sarah; it is the happy times we will miss. So is it too late for Walnuts to shake this gal and throw Mitt “Willard” Romney in there?

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