While campaigning in Orlando, McCain told the crowd: “I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong but these are very, very difficult times and I promise you we will never put America in this position again.”
McCain pledged to “never put America in this position again.” Did he intend to admit to being part of the problem, saying “we will never” do this to you good people “again”? He often seems to speak without thinking, but as my mother always says: “People say what they mean.” John McCain said what he meant: he is part of the problem.
Record unemployment, catastrophe in the financial markets, unprecedented numbers losing their homes—laying the blame at the feet of his compatriots, the Republicans, McCain was talking straight for the first time in a long time.
He also offered up this nugget in Orlando: “This economic crisis is not the fault of the American people.” Again McCain tells us what he thinks. Through no fault of our own, Americans are being put through punishing economic times thanks to the ineptitude of the current Republican regime.
He may claim not to know enough about economics (and plainly he doesn’t) but John McCain sure knows that the buck stops at the Republican-controlled White House. The more McCain talks change, the more he stays the same.
