Kudos to Team-McCain for straightening that marketing-ship around. They still won’t get my vote, but it’s nice to see that they’re not flailing about wildly anymore.

It is something my Momma told me never to do.
Can you guess what it is…?

wise_man on September 15, 2008 at 2:27 PM

Your reading comprehension is beyond atrocious. You are definitely in a mental recession depression. Now stop annoying me with your drivel. Go bother someone else flea_man.

Are you aware of what inflation deflater they used to calculate that 3.3% annual growth rate for the last quarter? What I have heard is 1.2%.

MB4 on September 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM

Do you have a point? That deflator would reduce the growth rate to 2.1%. While not gangbusters, it is growth, not recession.

MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM

Wrong. If the inflation deflater that they used was indeed 1.2%, then that is what they subtracted to get the 3.3%

And not a single one of those signs was present. Which is something that a person who knows something about economics would know.

MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM

All sorts of signs of economic trouble have been present for a long time now. Only a economically blind man would not have seen them.

Mr. Wednesday Night on September 15, 2008 at 2:03 PM

That’s the Palin speech in Colorado; that bundled up the Round Mound of Sound’s underwear earlier today..!

He went on ranting about McCain and Palin emphasizing the need for more reform and regulation of the Wall Street bankers.

Not very pretty; I might say.

The fundamentals are strong. That you want to believe that it’s all going to end, doesn’t change anything.

MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM

The fundamentals of the economy are not strong. If they were what is happening now, which may well be the tip of the iceberg (think AIG), would not be happening. Don’t be surprised if even McCain tries to “rework” what he said.

Where in the hell did you get that i believe “that it’s all going to end”? Answer – nowhere, you just made it up.

MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM

Senator Obama comments on Senator McCain’s [then] chief economic adviser Phil Gramm’s “mental recession”…!

Hello. Knock, knock, is anybody home, Mr. John McClueless?

If the fundamentals of our economy were strong what is now happening would not be happening. And we are probably only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

MB4 on September 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM

You should be the last one to go around calling others clueless.

The fundamentals are strong. That you want to believe that it’s all going to end, doesn’t change anything.

If McCain-Palin had led off the week with another “lipstick response,” you’d be shouting at them to get back on message!

Don’t be so humble, my Captain. And keep giving good advice, because this ad is a great one.

Are you aware of what inflation deflater they used to calculate that 3.3% annual growth rate for the last quarter? What I have heard is 1.2%.

MB4 on September 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM

Do you have a point? That deflator would reduce the growth rate to 2.1%. While not gangbusters, it is growth, not recession.

Loxodonta on September 15, 2008 at 1:10 PM

Loxo_ there’s only one thing more fun than partisan politics and that’s sex…!

I actually enjoy both at my advanced age; and I’m even thinkin’ sex more than politics…!

Gramm has studied economics enough to know that you are usually in a recession months before the economists make the official call. Also, if Gramm studied how the NBER defines recessions he should have been more careful with his words.

dedalus on September 15, 2008 at 11:14 AM

While it is true that we are in a recession for months (6 to be precise) before a recession can be called, there are definite signs before the 6 month window has passed.

And not a single one of those signs was present. Which is something that a person who knows something about economics would know.

You’re a liberal? Wow. I didn’t know that MB4.

wise_man on September 15, 2008 at 1:35 PM

You really must do something to improve your reading comprehension as it is atrocious. Now don’t waste any more of my time.

MB4 on September 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM

Yeah, I know, you like to ingest other fluids from the Obama camp.

wise_man on September 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM

I think that you have just outed yourself.

wise_man on September 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM

You know; the two best buds for life…?

BBFL

Saint John McCain and Holy Joe Libermann.