Why McCain can't be president

[DogPoundPup]

It's not so much he's a angry old man who doesn't know a Shia from a Sunni, it's that he has really bad judgement when it comes to staffing.

McCain's economic advisor, Phil Gramm, has his fingerprints all over the subprime meltdown, having slipped a 262 page measure into an omnibus spending bill back in 2000. As Congress and the White House were hurriedly hammering out a $384-billion omnibus spending bill, Gramm slipped in a 262-page measure called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act that laid the framework for abolishing oversight over the financial industry and allowed their 'creative financing instruments' now known as the universally among policy wonks as the Big Sh*tpile, to be created and also allowed smaller frauds like Enron to be perpetrated on the public.

Gramm went on to make, give or take, a cool million from his close ties to Enron and in 2003 left the Senate to take a big money job at a Swiss bank which was allowed to acquire investment house PaineWebber due to his banking deregulation bill. McCain told a Wall Street Journal columnist that Gramm was his economic guru and insiders speculate that Gramm could easily end up as Treasury Secretary if Americans collectively lose their minds and allow him entrance into the office of the president.

McCain may well be a war hero and a good American in his own way, but his choice of big lobbyists and other professional swindlers as his closest advisors clearly render him unfit for the job. We owe him some thanks for fighting for our country but it would be suicidal to express that gratitude by granting him the presidency.

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[globalvillage]

1. Incredible how little coverage this has had.

Not surprising, though, with all the crazy pastors out there to obsess over.
This should be huge news, and I think only KO has covered it.