Why Democrats Lose Elctions... Reason #5178

[silverscreenselect]

Congress seems ready to adjourn and go home without trying to address the financial crisis. Harry Reid says: "No one knows what to do at the moment."

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While that may be true, it's not what the party seeking to gain control of the White House should be saying. In fact, today the Democrats seem to have dropped the economy as their major issue and seem intent on sticking it to McCain about whether he's going to meet with the Prime Minister of Spain. No one know who the Prime Minister of Spain is and no one cares whether McCain or Obama is going to meet with him or not.

The Republicans have been very good in this campaign about getting Obama and company off message, but this time it seems they haven't had to do much about it because the Democrats are willing to get off message themselves. Instead, it's McCain and Palin emphasizing what they plan to do about the regulatory crisis while Obama seems content to drift. If the public senses that Obama is all talk about the crisis, then his bump will disappear very soon.

Part of the problem is that Obama has no set of core convictions or strong ideas about the economy that he can return to. Neither does McCain but it's not his bread and butter issue. Clinton was always able to steer the conversation back to the economy; Obama can't or won't. When the oil crisis was foremost in everyone's minds, every day the Republicans were saying "drill here, drill now." Now that the economic winds have shifted, potentially to the Democrats' advantage, they seem completely unable to take advantage of it other than to say "McCain = Bush 3."

This is beginning to smell like yet another advantage that the Democrats are intent or content to fritter away.

[silverscreenselect]

I apologize here; my computer went goofy on me and I thought it hadn't posted so I retyped the title from memory and repasted and tried again.

I'm not trying to bomb the Bored with the same post over and over again.

[dimmzy]

Didn't James McCarville say to Clinton over and over,

"It's the economy, stupid!!"

Bill Gates is free. He should run. He helped eradicate dengue fever (sp?), and a host of other problems by applying money to problems that could be solved with money.

And this is from an Apple core.

[earendel]

No one know who the Prime Minister of Spain is and no one cares whether McCain or Obama is going to meet with him or not.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, took office in 2004.

[NellyLunatic1980]

In fact, today the Democrats seem to have dropped the economy as their major issue and seem intent on sticking it to McCain about whether he's going to meet with the Prime Minister of Spain. No one know who the Prime Minister of Spain is and no one cares whether McCain or Obama is going to meet with him or not.

This would seem pretty important when you're dealing with... oh, foreign policy.

BTW, since when did an earthquake move the entire country of Spain off the European continent and over to Latin America?

[Jeemie]

In fact, today the Democrats seem to have dropped the economy as their major issue and seem intent on sticking it to McCain about whether he's going to meet with the Prime Minister of Spain. No one know who the Prime Minister of Spain is and no one cares whether McCain or Obama is going to meet with him or not.

This would seem pretty important when you're dealing with... oh, foreign policy.

BTW, since when did an earthquake move the entire country of Spain off the European continent and over to Latin America?

About the same time Rotshcild became a racist because she wouldn't follow in lockstep with Hillary and vote for Obama.