Phil Gramm is Back! Attendees of the RNC are neither "whiners" nor "economically illiterate"

[jefferson_dem]

Phil Gramm Says McCain Supporters Aren't `Whiners' (Update1)

By Matthew Benjamin and Laura Litvan

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Phil Gramm excluded John McCain supporters from his description of Americans as ``a nation of whiners,'' the characterization that forced his exit from the Republican presidential candidate's campaign in July.

``If you're sitting here today, you're not economically illiterate and you're not a whiner, so I'm not worried about who you're going to vote for,'' the former Texas senator told attendees at a Financial Services Roundtable event in Minneapolis on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Gramm, 66, a vice chairman of UBS Securities LLC, stepped down as a co-chairman of the McCain campaign in July after telling the Washington Times that the U.S. is a ``nation of whiners'' facing a ``mental recession.''

In reaction to today's comments, Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said, ``The man who wrote John McCain's economic plan further insulted struggling Americans by suggesting that if they are not attending the Republican Convention, they are not only whiners, but economically illiterate.''

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[jezebel]

1. Unfuckingbelievable. They make me sick. nt

[katandmoon]

2. Get it in your next ad, Candidate Obama!