McCain tried to get a trophy VP candidate and was clueless on her abilities. He is clueless on the economy. If it wasn't for Cindy, he'd be living in a mobile home in Arizona with the other geezers.

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this entire "crisis" is simply a manufactured one???

This entire debacle STINKS! They're up to something, and it smells like a set-up of some kind.

My "bullshit meter" has gone off the charts!

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Oh yeah, he's the smart one: don't comment on something you have no clue about or control over.

Keeping quiet may make you look like a fool, but opening your mouth most certainly would confirm the notion.

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We need to be forever reminded that McCain has been down a similar road before. His role in trying to fend off investigations by federal regulators in the late 1980s who were trying to get to the bottom of shady dealings in the savings and loan industry are eerily similar to his proclamations of being a deregulator earlier this year. McCain's willingness to help his friend, mentor, and financial benefactor Charles Keating to delay oversight until the S&Ls collapsed in the early 90s -- and Keating was convicted and spent 5 years in prison for his role -- was the precursor to the latest round of de-regulation in 1999 which has brought us full circle in less than a decade to another collapse. You'd think the man would have learned a thing or two from the previous experience. Apparently that old dog doesn't learn new tricks. Instead, McCain and fellow Republicans (and doubtless, a fair share of Dems) have busily been re-creating the economic conditions circa 1929 by repealing Glass-Steagall in 1999 and fueling a speculative market in which common sense played no role. Any dummy who can balance a checkbook could have told you that the practices now being exposed were insane. Only, it wasn't the job of the man on the street to monitor these sorts of things. It used to be government's job until these crooks got Congress to call off the regulators. One small piece of info I heard on National Public Radio: Investment banks were actually operating with a 30:1 loan to asset ratio. Based on that alone, I would say that they don't deserve to be bailed out. They deserve to collapse.

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Obviously clueless about the proposed bailout, and obviously clueless about how the bring relative calm to the Middle East without bankrupting the US. I am referring of course to John McCain. It takes a McCain to verbally attack Iran and Russia in the same breath, when Iran also strongly objected to Russia's actions in Georgia last month. Would it not occur to McCain to think there is room here for discussion? Noooooo....

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