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22:00:00 06/09/08
What's up with John Mccain's economic advisers?
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For all his fiery calls last week for a Wall Street crackdown, McCain opposed the very regulations that might have helped avert the current catastrophe. In 1999, he supported a law co-authored by Gramm (and ultimately signed by Bill Clinton) that revoked the New Deal reforms intended to prevent commercial banks, insurance companies and investment banks from mingling their businesses. Equally laughable is the McCain-Palin tickets born-again outrage over the greed of Wall Street C.E.O.s. When McCains chief financial surrogate, Fiorina, was fired as Hewlett-Packards chief executive after a 50 percent drop in shareholders value and 20,000 pink slips, she took home a package worth $42 million. The McCain campaign canceled Fiorinas television appearances last week after she inadvertently admitted that Palin was unqualified to run a corporation. But that doesnt mean Fiorina is gone. Gramm, too, was ostentatiously exiled after he blamed the economic meltdown on our nation of whiners and mental recession, but he remains in the McCain loop. The corporate jets, lobbyists and sleazes that gravitated around McCain in the Keating era have also reappeared in new incarnations. The Nations Web site recently unearthed a photo of the resolutely anticelebrity McCain being greeted by the con man Raffaello Follieri and his then girlfriend, the Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway, as McCain celebrated his 70th birthday on Follieris rented yacht in Montenegro in August 2006. Its the perfect bookend to the old pictures of McCain in a funny hat partying with Keating in the Bahamas. Whatever blanks are yet to be filled in on Obama, we at least know his economic plans and the known quantities who are shaping them (Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, Paul Volcker). McCain has reversed himself on every single economic issue this year, often within a 24-hour period, whether hes judging the strength of the economys fundamentals or the wisdom of the government bailout of A.I.G. He once promised that hed run every decision past Alan Greenspan and even have him write a new tax code but Greenspan has jumped ship rather than support McCains biggest flip-flop, his expansion of the Bush tax cuts. McCains official chief economic adviser is now Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who last week declared that McCain had helped create the BlackBerry. But Holtz-Eakins most telling statement was about McCains economic plans namely, that the details are irrelevant. I dont think its imperative at this moment to write down what the plan should be, he said. The real issue here is a leadership issue. This, too, is a Rove-Bush replay. We want a tough guy who will fix things with his own two hands lets take out the S.E.C. chairman! instead of wimpy Frenchified Democrats who just talk. The fine print of policy is superfluous if theres a quick-draw decider in the White House. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opi... McCain is not the bewildered father who suddenly learned his teenager was nipping in the liquor cabinet or, like Sarah Palin, the mother who discovered her teenage daughter was pregnant. He is running as the scourge of special interests. For all his talk about the evils of lobbying, lobbyists are key members of his team. In August, Candidate We Are All Georgians McCain took up the cause of the republic when Russia invaded while knowing full well that sooner or later we would all learn Randy Scheunemann advised McCain on the region while earning hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for Georgia as well. In between McCains two presidential runs, Davis represented clients who needed McCains help in the Senate and made millions doing it. But he also had a hand in expensive contracts that helped McCains 2007 presidential campaign go broke, including a Web services company Davis had a stake in that was paid $1 million over a period of months. And therefore, while the McCain team sells a candidate of reform, a crusade against corruption, a cause greater than self-interest, the group is held to a separate standard by its leader. McCain clearly looks the other way while saving his ire for the Me first, country second crowd. Last week McCain said if he were president he would fire Chris Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, for having betrayed the public trust. Perhaps then McCain would fire Davis, unless of course Davis didnt betray his trust. http://thehill.com/a.b.-stoddard/mcca...
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22:00:00 05/10/08
Congratulations to the 44th President of the United States, our new Commander in Chief, Barack Obama
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DOWNLOAD FREE MP3! (full song with Sam Harris vocal) #9658; http://samharris.com/change ... until election day! VOTE for Barack Obama and Joe Biden on November 4th! http://barackobama.com Barack Obama was raised by a single mother and his grandparents. They didn't have much money, but they taught him values from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. He took out loans to put himself through school. After college, he worked for Christian churches in Chicago, helping communities devastated when steel plants closed. Obama turned down lucrative job o#64256;ers after law school to return to Chicago, leading a successful voter registration drive. He joined a small law #64257;rm, taught constitutional law and, guided by his Christian faith, stayed active in his community. Obama and his wife Michelle are proud parents of two daughters, Sasha and Malia. He was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America. Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain. In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars. Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, live on Chicago's South Side. #9658; http://samharris.com/change LEGAL BUSINESS CONTACT: http://SamHarris.com
