Candidates


McCain/Palin Play With Fire as They Work to Divide the Country

Dirty politics and nasty ads are nothing new to the presidential campaign season. However, the McCain-Palin ticket has lowered it to an art form. Seriously, when was the last time you heard either of them say something about a substantive issue?
Perhaps, I am more dismayed by McCain’s campaign than I thought [...]

What Do McCain and the Dow Have in Common? Crash?

John McCain’s campaign has celebrated more resurrections than Jesus Christ. But, it seems the days of rising from the dead are over, at least for the McCain/Palin ticket.
If John McCain’s presidential campaign has succeeded in doing anything it has become abundantly successful in exemplifying his personal history of bad judgment, negligence, and [...]

Bill Ayers is More Important than the Economy?

The stock market was down more than 500 points before 9:30 a.m. One ABC reporter announced that the 20% loss this week was the definition of a stock market crash. The President is to make another short speech shortly in an effort to alleviate the panic selling that has consumed the stock market [...]

The Elephant in Tennessee Stumbled Tonight!

Okay, so it’s late and I am in Tennessee, probably one of the only states in the nation that would vote for a Republican presidential candidate if it was an elephant. I dare not suggest that Tennessee will do anything other than that in the election that is only 28 days away.
However, a poll [...]

John McCain’s Keating 5 Role and the Ties that Bind

For those too young to remember the Keating 5 scandal that occurred during the Savings and Loan meltdown in the 1980’s, please visit Keating Economics.
There are many of us who remember the Keating 5, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and another interesting player in that scandal… Neil Bush, son of Bush 41 and brother of Bush [...]