Jackson County Democratic Committee

The old trickle down theory has failed us. Barack Obama has a different approach.

“Figured,” a recent Obama ad, ends with the line “it takes trust in each other to get the job done.”  Over the coming days we are all going to realize the truth of those words.

Barack Obama has a new ad out called “Parachute” which talks about the travesty of failed CEOs taking millions from their companies.

Here is Barack’s speech in Detroit Michigan.  These are difficult days, days of great uncertainty.  Never forget America has faced difficult times before.

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That is the number of times John McCain mentioned the middle class in last night’s debate.   The next time you think he cares about you remember that simple zero.  Here is Barack’s ad simply called “zero.”

Here is Barack Obama hammering McCain on McCain’s long series of mistakes of judgment about the Iraq war.

Barack Obama has just released a reassuring 1:00 ad. In “A Stronger Economy” Obama points to the failed Republican philosophy that brought us to the current crisis, and the way forward back to prosperity.  Give the ad a look.  It is probably Obama’s best ad of the campaign.

This morning pundits are speculating that John McCain dumped Letterman for Couric in order to deflect attention away from a disastrous interview of Sarah Palin.   It worked.  Only parts of the Palin interview were shown last evening.  Here is part of the interview.   Realizing that Palin could be President as early as next year makes me afraid for the future of our country.

Yesterday afternoon John McCain suspended his campaign. He had been scheduled to appear on David Letterman’s show last night.  He called Dave and told him that he was rushing back to Washington to save the American economy.   A funny thing happened on the way to Washington, John went on Katie Couric’s show instead.  Letterman found out that McCain lied to him.  Letterman was really, really  angry.  If you didn’t see Letterman’s comments. Here are highlights.

What is really stupid about McCain’s move is that Letterman and Couric are on the same network.  Lousy staff work, really lousy staff work.

Bill Burton, Obama campaign spokesman, just issued the following statement:

“A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, which he agreed to do. Senator Obama has been working all week with leaders in Congress, Secretary Paulsen, and Chairman Bernanke to improve this proposal, and he has said that he will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution. He strongly believes the debate should go forward on Friday so that the American people can hear from their next President about how he will lead America forward at this defining moment for our country.”

I understand Senator McCain will also attend the meeting.

I received an email from the “Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America.”  Do you think I ought to send all of my money?

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Do you remember the last major scandal involving lending institutions? That’s right. The Keating Five scandal during the  savings and loan debacle.  Well, the senator at the center of the Keating Five was John McCain. There was a world of evidence of corruption and unethical behavior by five prominent US Senators  and  John McCain’s political god-father Charles Keating.  Keating was convicted. McCain and the other senators barely survived.  After that scandal John McCain was born again as a campaign finance reformer.  His views on the role of government in the underlying savings and loan mess weren’t changed a bit.  He was for deregulation of the savings and loan industry before he was caught and he was for deregulation after he escaped with a slap on the wrist. Jonathan Alter has more.

Don’t you think somebody ought to question John McCain about the similarities between the savings and loan mess and our current financial crisis?

Thanks to  wecast094231 for the video of last night’s Countdown.

Recently John McCain reinvented himself for the third time during this election. He is now calling himself a populist change candidate.  His speeches sound like the second coming of William Jennings Bryan.  Unfortunately beyond yelling he is for change the new, new John McCain hasn’t said much. So far he wants to fire a stray official or too,  and he wants to stop golden parachutes and earmarks for everybody but his friends.   John and his lobbyist OBN staff need listen to Barack Obama’s speech entitled “Reforming Washington” to find out what needs to be done. Video on the blog.

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