McCain lashes out at Bush's record

Good lord he's delusional.

(CNN) — John McCain lashed out at President Bush's record on a host of issues Wednesday, perhaps the Arizona senator's harshest criticism to date of his party's standard-bearer for the last eight years.

"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," McCain told the Washington Times when asked to name his criticisms of the current president.

Gramm-pa McCain: Did I say "balance the budget" in 4 years? Psyche!

By GottaLaff

The video is from September 22, 2008:

HARWOOD: Would you concede, then, that you could not achieve your goal of balancing the budget in your first term with this huge bailout added?

MCCAIN: I believe we can still balance the budget.

October 20, 2008, adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin:

“The events of the past few months have completely thrown a wrench into that, there’s no way round it. He would still like to balance it. It’s going to be harder, take longer,” said Holtz-Eakin at a debate with his Democratic counterpart at Columbia University in New York.

But wait! IWRC* Palin didn't get the memo. October 20, 2008:

Gov. Sarah Palin said that McCain would still balance the budget by the end of his first term.

The word "erratic" comes to mind.

New Obama Ad: 'Erratic'

They sure aren't resting on their laurels.

Quote of the Day

Amen.

"A campaign at war with itself cannot fight its opponent effectively."

-- GOP strategist Ed Rollins, writing for CNN, using the presidential campaigns of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain as examples.

John Sidney McCain's impulsiveness: "A cause for concern"

By GottaLaff

Just now on CNN, Rick Sanchez was hearing from a reporter who rounded up several CEOs, executives, and recruiting experts, and asked them about John Sidney McCain, Sarah Louise Palin, and all that "executive experience" they like to bandy about. The results:

"Mixed on McCain."

He went with a gut decision, a whim, in picking Palin, they said. They went on to say that the last thing you want is a surprise.

Rick Sanchez then brought up, on his own, Bristol's out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy, and Sarah Lou's small town mayorship with all of its many of earmarks... and then described her as "someone not trying to stop waste of government money".

It is cause for concern, the reporter says. The chief executive of the U.S., the CEO, shouldn't go about it in this manner, say the CEOs, etc., that he talked to. Again, he said, it's cause for concern.

Rick: And they kept it a secret. He didn't want us at CNN to know about this. History will tell us whether it worked well, especially after the REAL vetting process results come in.

I do believe this is the first time I've ever appreciated Rick Sanchez.