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Presidential Flip-Flops We all know politicans are bound to flip-flop. But is this maybe going too far? Tags: Diagonal View Obama Barack McCain president elections usa funny quirky flip flops |
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McCain Financial Crisis Flip Flops - ABC News on CHARLIE GIBSON: And with apologies for our technical difficulties, we're going to turn back to the difficult economy, and the way the presidential candidates are dealing with it, particularly John McCain. Here's David Wright. DAVID WRIGHT: John McCain was against the government bailout of AIG, before he was reluctantly for it. Here he was yesterday on "Today." JOHN MCCAIN: We cannot bail AIG or anybody else. We have to work through it. WRIGHT: Asked about the same topic today on "Good Morning America" - MCCAIN: I don't think anybody I know wanted to do that. But there are literally millions of people whose retirement, whose investments, whose insurance were at risk here. And they were going to have their lives destroyed. WRIGHT: Senator McCain appears to have changed his tune on regulation in a fundamental way. Today on the stump, he's a champion of reigning in Wall Street with tough regulations. MCCAIN: We're going to put an end to the reckless conduct, corruption and greed that have caused a crisis on Wall Street. WRIGHT: But for more than 25 years in the Senate, McCain has fashioned himself as a champion of smaller government, less regulation. MCCAIN: I am less government, less regulation, lower taxes, et cetera. Tags: John McCain Lehman Brothers Financial Crisis Flip Flop |
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The Price is Right - Flip Flop Cheater Some idiot cheats while playing Flip Flop, and Bob awards him the prize anyway. Tags: tpir price is right flip flop cheater idiot stupid |
User: TheYoungTurks |
McCain's Latest Flip Flop Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com Tags: the young turks john mccain flip flop republican presidential nominee social security |
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John McCain Flip Flops on Gay Marriage http://TheRealMcCain.com/ Get off the double talk express! Tags: GayMarriage McCain flipflop Hardball ChrisMatthews CivilUnion |
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McCain Flip-Flops on Everything Olberman says there's not enough time on his 4 year contract to cover all of McCain's flip-flops Tags: MSNBC McCain Flip-Flop Olberman |
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Jim Cramer: The Flip-Flop that Ought to be Illegal http://www.donharrold.net How can it be that Bear Stearns Hedge Fund guys are going to JAIL for their misdeeds, but, Jim Cramer gets away with THIS? Tags: jim cramer mad money cnbc don harrold stock market dow nasdaq federal reserve bloomberg bartiromo pisani rick santelli |
User: roxburryguy |
McCain's flip flop express John McCain has flip flopped on just about every major issue, from the war in Iraq to tax cuts to immigration to social values. There are many more issues that he's flip flopped on than I have shown in the video, but these are some really important ones. Its also important to notice that the media largely ignores these flip flops because they like the fact McCain is liberal and want to have 2 liberals running in the general election. He also repeats the same phrases like "straight talk" over and over so eventually people believe it. Tags: McCain flip flop Iraq immigration amnesty taxes romney huckabee republican primary super tuesday media dan abrams |
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McCain Flip-Flops On Tax Cuts McCain Flip-Flops On Tax Cuts Tags: John McCain NBC Meet Press Tax Cuts Flip-Flop |
User: AntiConformist911 |
Mccain flip-flops on bailouts, regulation of the economy Though controversial to acknowledge among progressive circles, McCain has displayed fleeting flashes of populist courage at times during his career...Obama, in a shorter career, has shown more populist strength, and far more consistently than McCain who has subsequently tacked back to the Royalist Right in the 2008 presidential campaign (more on that below). As opposed to McCain, Obama has backed up his populism with Senate votes, racking up a reliably progressive record on economic issues and sponsoring legislation attempting to curb the influence of lobbyists. He also is far more comfortable publicly championing the cause of regulation than McCain, who during one of the first aftershocks of the credit crisis, initially proposed doing nothing at all. Most often, action and votes like those of Obama's are more important than McCain's mere words. But a presidency is nothing if not a bully pulpit, so it is at least good that both McCain and Obama are talking more tough. What should worry us the most is how both candidates have decided not only to build campaign warchests with Wall Street cash, but to personally surround themselves with the very insiders who helped create the current financial crisis in the first place. McCain's campaign, for example, employs an army of lobbyists representing the specific companies now helping pull down the American economy. As the Center for American Progress reports, McCain "has the former lobbyists of AIG, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bank of America on his campaign staff." Obama is far better than McCain in that he doesn't employ lobbyists who helped create the culture of corruption that compelled Washington to sit idly by as the economy tanked. However he does rely on a cadre of people who may be ideologically opposed to the forceful kind of New Deal populism that is going to be necessary to address the crisis. McCain's top economic adviser may be UBS vice-president Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm, but Obama's economic guru is UBS's Robert Wolf - Gramm's boss...Despite the two candidates sharing similar ties to Wall Street, Obama is nonetheless better positioned to confront the crisis ahead, both because of his party structure, and his own personal history. The central organizing force of the Republican Party is fealty to Big Business. While corporate front-groups have certainly impacted the Democratic Party, the party's progressive wing is ascendant. If that wing administers real pressure on Obama, it can successfully provide the political space and capital for Obama to pursue the more aggressive regulatory policies needed to quell this crisis. Likewise, Obama's roots as a community organizer, civil rights lawyer and progressive lawmaker signal that at some deep level, he appreciates the value of confronting corporate power. By contrast, McCain's most famous experience dealing with the financial industry was his involvement in the Keating Five scandal. As the New York Times reports: "Several former company executives, as well as current and former Senate Republican staff members, said Mr. McCain seemed to avoid matters related to the financial industry after the last major financial crisis -- the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. He was one of the 'Keating Five' senators investigated by the Senate, accused of interceding with federal regulators for the operator of a failing thrift." Obama may not yet be as forceful as FDR and may not have yet articulated a New Deal, but McCain and his Keating Five past all but guarantees that the Arizona senator is no Teddy Roosevelt. While both candidates could be better than the current administration (that's not saying much), one is clearly better equipped to tackle this burgeoning emergency. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/mccain-obama-wall-street_b_126613.html Tags: David sirota Rachel Maddow Barack Obama Sarah Palin lie john Mccain Joe Biden economy speech interview debate energy oil |