Bush & Palin Join McCain In Helping Build Obama's New Deal Mandate

by: David Sirota

Sat Oct 25, 2008 at 16:00


President Bush joins John McCain's efforts to create a New Deal mandate for Barack Obama, if Obama wins:

Bush touts free market as solution to economy's woes

By Jeffrey Young

The solution to repairing the damaged economy and promoting prosperity is to remain true to the principles of the free market, President Bush said Saturday.

There's also this from Palin:

David Sirota :: Bush & Palin Join McCain In Helping Build Obama's New Deal Mandate
Palin warns Obama would create nanny state if elected

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNN) - Campaigning Saturday in Iowa, a state where polls show Barack Obama enjoying a healthy lead just 10 days before the election, Sarah Palin warned that putting Obama in the White House along with Democrats running both chambers of Congress will turn the country into a nanny state. Palin cautioned Iowans that under Obama's "big government agenda," their income, property and investments would be "shared with everybody else." She labeled Obama's plan to provide tax credits to lower and middle-income wage-earners "the philosophy of government taking more, which is a misuse of the power to tax."

With audience members shouting "socialist!" throughout her speech, the Alaska governor said that time is running out for Americans to realize the danger of a having a Democrat in the White House.

We're living through the first election in modern history that is about whether to vote for free market fundamentalism, or vote for a change from that fundamentalism. That choice has not been the creation of Obama, but of the Republicans. And should America vote against free market fundamentalism on election day, the GOP will have helped craft a mandate for a progressive economic era.


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The irony (0.00 / 0)
of course is that it's the Republicans that want the government all up in our private lives. You can't get much more "nanny" than that.

Not Exactly (4.00 / 1)
Nannies take care of you.

But the GOP wants to "take care of you," if catch the diff.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3


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You mean it's the difference between Mary Poppins... (0.00 / 0)
...and Bette Davis as The Nanny?

Not sure where Fran Drescher fits into all of this.  


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Well sure (0.00 / 0)
just like their "Contract on America".  

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Youse mean like these good fellas? (4.00 / 1)
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"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton

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I swear (4.00 / 1)
If McCain or Palin got up there and accused Dems of having sex with gerbils, the crowds would shout out "Gerbil Humpers!", and believe it. We probably have the closest correlation in American history between a party's support base and the national intelligence and sanity distribution curves. That 30-40% core support that the GOP & McPalin still receive is surely, by and large, literally the dumbest and craziest (or most racist and selfish) 30-40% of Americans.

If that makes me an elitist, hell yeah!

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton


You're saying anyone who is actually "sane" (0.00 / 0)
is an elitist?  I'm not sure that kind of logic is going to resonate with the Repigs.  Their theory seems to be the opposite:  that only the elite are sane.  That's why they never question the sanity of anything they do, no matter how self-canceling. The datum that they are the sane ones is another one of those many, many indisputable axioms they use.

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