Who Said It: John McCain or Herbert Hoover?
1930s fever is sweeping the McCain campaign!
The ‘30s were a simpler time, when men named "Fats" ruled the pop charts, Iraq was still the Brits' problem, and those pesky computers didn’t exist yet.
Well yesterday McCain took '30s nostalgia to a whole new level by paraphrasing Herbert Hoover, who lavished praise on the economy in the middle of the Great Depression.
See if you can match these quotes with each one's proper author…
* "The economy is fundamentally sound."
* "Our economy, I think still—the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
Answer: The first quote is Hoover in 1931 and the second is McCain from yesterday. (It seems Hoover was better at reading his teleprompter.)
To keep that '30s vibe alive, look for McCain to follow this quote up with a version of the Hoover chestnut: "Many people have left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples."
Now unfortunately for the Senator, today's money isn't in apples. While fruit had a good run in the 20th century, these days it's all about OxyContin.
Which, come to think of it, is probably not a good topic to raise in the company of swing voters.
Or Sarah Palin for that matter.
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What McCain said in Jacksonville on Sept. 15 was, "There's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and . . . people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult times. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government."
If one must pick some words out of context, why not "these are very, very difficult times"??
If McBush gave a speech and during that speech, urine flowed down his leg, FoxNews would say,
"it can happen to anyone". Would anyone want to be in a long car trip from Florida to Calif. with John McBush at the wheel?
Not even Cindy McBush is that stupid.
OOH, OOH, I KNOW, I KNOW, ….BOTH
I personally believe Hoover would have been a better president if he had been on OxyContin instead of apples.
On 09/15/08, McCain said, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong”. On 09/16/08 in Tampa he said, “It is a bad economy.” Well, at least he’s starting to figure out what’s really happening out here in the real world. If you were undecided before, now you know how clueless McCain really is!
It is very alarming how our economy mirrors that of 1929. Look at our huge national debt, failure of our investment firms, and the falling market. The quote you have provided further demonstrates that McCain just doesn't get it.
I can't believe McCain's advisors and writers let him say that yesterday, of all days. Bad strategy.
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/25923/John-McCain/John-McCain-On-Economy/McCain-Say-Economy-Is-All-Good/Fundamentals-are-still-strong