McCain tries to spin his idiotic assessment of the economy

[ProSense]

This morning, campaigning in Florida, in the midst of a crisis on Wall Street, McCain repeated his argument that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." Not surprisingly, the Obama campaign wasted no time in bringing attention to McCain's odd remarks.

This afternoon, carefully reading from a prepared text, McCain insisted that the fundamentals of the economy really are strong, just so long as he gets to redefine the word "fundamentals."

"My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong," McCain said this afternoon in Orlando. "No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today."

Fascinating. Most policy makers would look at "fundamentals" like economic growth, wages, unemployment, inflation, trade imbalance, value of the dollar, budget deficit, interest rates, etc. But not McCain, who believes the "fundamentals" of the economy are the American people. I see.

So, by McCain's reasoning, the only time the "fundamentals" of the economy are weak is when Americans are awful. Or, as Atrios put it, "McCain has now defined the fundamentals of the economy as 'workers and small businesses,' so if you suggest something is wrong with the economy you're insulting workers. This follows the Bush strategy of saying that criticizing his Iraq policies is insulting the troops."

I realize there are some sycophantic supporters of the McCain/Palin ticket, but I have a hard time imagining how any reasonable person could actually believe McCain's nonsensical spin. He got caught saying something foolish -- it would have been much smarter of him to walk it back, rather than double down on it.

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[flakey_foont]

1. bovine excrement

to the Nth degree.................; this McCain feller slides deeper and deeper into the slime every day

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Maybe he means the fundie mentals are strong

Sarah Palin certainly is mental, as in mentally deranged.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Hey, that makes me a fundamental

:silly:

[SuperTrouper]

4. And Dow Jones collapsing >450...McCain says: Economy strong! What a loser!

[yellowcanine]

5. Hey McPalin, if the American worker is laid off, how can he contribute?

Pathetic.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. This calls for another tax cut

In fact, since tax cuts are the solution to everything, why doesn't McCain propose setting taxes lower and lower until we reach the point of a negative tax, which would involve printing money and giving it away to the super rich? If tax cuts are so great, why not try it?

[treestar]

7. Pandering to the workers but with no substance

Shut up, McWar.

[ProSense]

8. McCain's statement is imbecilic.

Anyone defending it is an apologist willing to stomp on the reality of every American who is working harder to make ends meet and those losing their jobs and health care.