Obama would drag US into depression: McCain camp

[sabra]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hD0zJf7Raz2QJhFJhAI-kkEFL_Lg

WASHINGTON (AFP) — John McCain's White House campaign Monday dragged rival Barack Obama back to the domestic fray, scorning his economic plan as a recipe to plunge the United States into a 1930s-style depression.

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Carly Fiorina, a key lieutenant to McCain and former boss of computing giant Hewlett-Packard, said a recession triggered by the 1929 Wall Street crash became a depression through the imposition of higher taxes and trade barriers.

"The reality is when an economy is slowing, if you raise taxes and you curtail free trade through isolationist policies, bad economic times become worse," she told reporters.

"We know this from history... and that is precisely the proposal that Barack Obama is making," Fiorina said.

"And that is why I say as a businesswoman, I hope Barack Obama continues to consult with experts because I think his understanding of the economy leaves a great deal to be desired."

[ErinBerin84]

1. lol. Maybe it's time for the Obama camp to address Carla's "businesswoman" record

[stray cat]

2. The republicans already have....

[Bake]

3. Yeah, she's an expert, for sure

On how to trash a perfectly good company.

Way to go, Carly.

Bake

[TwilightGardener]

4. OK, traitor who wants us to lose a war, single-handedly raises gas prices, hates troops, and

is a black Herbert Hoover. Oh, let's not forget the Nazi/Hitler imagery they were floating around to make Obama ashamed of his crowds in Germany. They are drowning in their own absurdity now.

[woodsprite]

5. Is Fiorina Johnny-boy's Condaleeza Rice? n/t

[groovedaddy]

6. War without end, tax cuts, record deficits...who is responsible for the mess we're in?

Bridges falling out from under us / hurricanes devastate areas and no relief comes...the beat goes on.
The economy will be a problem for Obama, because the rebubs have screwed it up so badly. BUT, would you rather have someone who gives a shit about working people and the poor or someone who lives in a bubble with an heiress wife and can't explain how we can have endless war, tax cuts while taking care of our own at home?

[maxsolomon]

7. like blaming roosevelt for the 1929 crash

and ignoring hoover's contributions.

[Fire_brand]

8. yet, McCain is the candidate that admitted he didn't understand the economy

[Generic Other]

9. We are already in the GREATER DEPRESSION for chrissakes!

Those asswipes are criminally insane!!

[Zynx]

18. This is by virtually no measure anywhere approaching the Great Depression.

[Generic Other]

20. We are not through our Depression yet

I am not seeing a light at the end of the hyperbolic tunnel yet, my friend.

[Johonny]

10. Carly Fiorina

clearly not a historian. Wow, just wow.

[Fleshdancer]

11. Obama would allow aliens to invade Earth: McCain camp

In an Obama world, no one will have money even though oil will be 3 million EUROS per barrel! Aliens will invade Earth and destroy social security as we know it! Wounded US troops will be stranded and ignored on the Iraqi/Pakistani border and both Poland AND Czechoslovakia will be forgotten.

Be afraid of Obama. Be very afraid.

:eyes:

[debbierlus]

12. We are already there

[WeDidIt]

13. So Carla (I Nearly Bankrupted Hewlett Packard) Fiorina says it?

Well hell, can't be true. She doesn't have the economic sense of Herbert Hoover.

[VolcanoJen]

23. Cara Carelton Sneed cracks me up

Oooooh I'm the most awesomest businesswoman EVUH!!!!! :rofl:

[ericgtr]

14. Are these attacks really helping him?

On one hand it hurt Kerry in 2004 but on the other this just makes McCain appear desparate and pathetic which could hurt him more than help.

[liberal N proud]

15. Mr McGoo is throwing darts now

He is trying to find any meme he can that can't be refuted to frame Obama in a negative tone.
So far all has failed or backfired. The people are not buying McGoo's bullshit.

This is all a sign of desperation of the McGoo campaign

[book_worm]

16. that's rich! The Dems economic record is so much better than the GOP it's silly.

[Eurobabe]

17. Just looking at John McCane drags me into a depression. n/t

[sourmilk]

19. Fiorina on outsourcing:

"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs."

and

"No employee at HP is owed a job."

It says something extraordinary when the day she was fired from HP (taking a sweet $21 million severance package), the company's stock price rose 7 percent.

[Barack_America]

21. Hmm Carly Fiorina or Warren Buffett....

:think:

[rox63]

22. The McCain campaign is dragging the Republican party into a depression

And I couldn't be happier about it. :D