Good evening Anderson,
I’m looking forward to more reporting about keeping wall street accountable. The other day, no one wanted to take responsibility for what happened. I hope you follow up with them on this issue.

Evening everyone…not a good day..to put it mildly.

Good evening Anderson, Erica and all Bloggers. A lot of stuff going on tonight and McCain’s campaign has taken the gloves off of Palin and turned her loose. How will it affect his campaign?

Hellooo Anderson, Erica and Best bloggers!!!!
Not good day for the stock this afternoon!!! Big drop already blew it! *whistle* I don’t like bailout anymore……

Evening Anderson, Erica, fellow bloggers

Evening bloggers - now I am officially worried about the economy.

Another tough day for everyone…when will it end?
Hope everyone had a great day, looking forward to a good blog.

Hello Anderson!

McCain/Palin is the ticket for 2008. any thing else will be a disaster for the country.
USA is in war and in a bad economic situation. the last thing we need is a president who graduated from a madrasa,
hates the USA and has no experience. his circle of friends including rev wright, bill ayres…. prove that Obama is scary.

This Bailout is just a joke , made to keep the upper class in money. While the lower and middle class pick up the tab and loses eveything they worked very hard for. they need to cut the goverment unnessary people that does nothing for the American People.As an American Dreamer in the next 4 yrs, I will run for President, as a American dream holder for the lower and middle class Americans.

I do beleive there will be a depression

Hi Anderson,
I would be curious to know more about the incentives that were promised as part of the bailout package. Could the fact that the price tag went up significantly be having an impact on Wall Street today?

I seriously don’t think there is just ONE person at fault…I think it’s been the administration and the CEOs of the big banks…

Ali is great…he explains so well for us lay people

Good evening Anderson. It appears things will get worse before they get better!

How dishonorable it is for air-head sarah paw-ling and john Mccrazy to gamble on the American stupidity in throwing the economic issues out of the window and start talking about Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers.
I guess Arizona is really not that far from Las Vegas and we are really stupid to go to the casinos.

I can’t believe the stocks rose as much as they did late in the afternoon…Ali does a great job breaking it all down for us.

I heard one economist say the 700 billion wouldn’t even kick in until the end of next year? That’s a long time to be teetering on the brink.

I would like to hear bout the issues only. McCain started the mudslinging this past weekend.Interesting that Sarah Palin should raise a questions about an association that Barack has with a current prominent liberal educator, when she herself is married to a man that for 7 years was a member of the Alaskian Independent party. A group that wishes to secede from the United States, the very country that she wishes to be Vice President of. Seems like Palin and McCain need to look deep in the mirror before pointing any fingers.

Morning, all. I won’t stretch it to call it ‘good’.

What a day yesterday was. London FTSE 100 took a shocking 8+% hit.
The Markets, worldwide, are falling.

I’m beginning to wonder if anyone really knows how the economy works. They pass a bailout and the market tanks. Can anyone explain what’s really going on?

Good evening everyone. Question: why does John McCain have to read a script when talking about what Americans are going through in this economy? We need a president who can think on his feet, like Obama. Haven’t we had enough of a scripted Presidency or a President who can’t think on his feet?

Why do we not hear the details on the credit default swaps backed by motgage securities. Tell us the TRUTH, is it really over $60 trillion dollars? What does this mean for us?

That’s pretty scary stuff coming from Jim Kramer!!

Hi Anderson and all Bloggers

I think its time for the smear campaigns to stop and for them to address the issues NOW!

can’t we just have the elections tomorrow, the candidates talking down the economy is just making things worse. winner will be well taken care of, good luck to the rest of us.

That right guys!!! I agree with all of you…. I am really worried about economy and stock. it will be maybe great depression.

mark, I can’t tell if you’re really a McCain/Palin supporter or mocking them, but the fact is all McCain will do to solve this crisis is the same thing that Bush would.

to hear Andy say that this is NOT the bottom, and that more bad signs are ahead, how are we to keep our jobs to make money to spend to support our own economy! It is a lose lose situation right now!

Hello Bloggers! Let the panic begin! The problem is that people don’t know if they will need the money in 5 years so people want to bail out of the stock market.

my 401k is disappearing. i saved all my life for retirement and it is gone in 1 month. now with obama raising taxes i will not be able to buy food or medicine. Mccain/palin are the best candidates to resolve the economic situation

With the holiday season approaching it will be very interesting to see if the consumer spends the way one spent last year!

I don’t think we’re close to the bottom yet.

I haven’t spent much money in months and plan on only buying what I have to, mostly staples.

Keep those fingers crossed guys.

Anderson, how does the European problems affect us here in the U.S
And why does it seems that China is staying above all this issues?

I like Andy G’s line “It’s never a good time to add $50,000 to your existing credit card debt.”

Thanks for the advice Andy!

Evening Anderson, Erica. Looks like the roller coaster’s still on full throttle.

Hey AC - Ali’s chart on the market was nice, and we’ve been hearing a lot about the fundamentals driving it, however what about all the speculators driving the supply/demand aspect of the market.. It seems some pretty powerful people can shift the market at their own discretion…

In reference to Sarah Palin’s “folksy” speech style - NO WAY!!

I want someone in office that at least sounds intelligent!! If I wanted someone to be voted in that sounds like the everyday person I’d write in someone I know. At least I would like them and know what they are about so I could trust them!!

the fed normally buys assets from banks to inject money into the system (increase the money supply), but they normally buy *good* assets don’t they? why don’t they buy the good assets using existing fed open market procedures before they buy the bad ones with this new bailout thingy? ali?

Okay, how does the Lehman CEO get $140 million dollars when the average individual can’t keep a $200,000.00 home? Please explain!!

Scott, your ‘prominent liberal educator ‘ ADMITTED setting bombs in the Pentagon and other places in the 60’s. He’s a terrorist, not an educator. He now says he didn’t do enough, meaning he didn’t blow up enough.

Martha: the only way your taxes will be raised by Obama is if you make more than 250K….

Is John McCain going to look at Obama tomorrow night? How can he avoid it with this format? Will they be walking around a stage? What will his body language say this time? I think he’s arrogant.

I completed my absentee ballot yesterday in Ohio and I would like to know what type of strategy was used when I saw that Obama and Biden’s names were placed towards the bottom mixed among numerous other names for no apparent rhyme or reason and why McCain’s and Palin’s names were placed second from the top. Am I in a red state perhaps? Unbelievable that an unbiased process can be mysteriously quite calculated. The candidates are not placed in order of party, alphebetical or in any other comprehensible order.

This bailout won’t work because they are just using the money to bailout these big companies. It has nothing to do with halting the ongoing problems. Foreclosures are still happening and credit is getting tighter.

Faud is a fraud.

i was just wondering, does anyone remember a few months ago when there were talks about a 2nd stimulus (sp?) check? i wonder if that’s still going to happen….

Anderson,
I don’t think we can put blame on any one person. Many will blame Bush, others will pull some other stuff out of their back pockets, but I mean, it is a collective effort isn’t it? How would we blame anyone?

Honestly, is it that productive to lay the blame for the economy at this point? The last thing we need is partisan bickering when cooperation between the parties to pull through this.

anderson,

i think a lot of people are to blame: the sub-prime companies, the people who knew they couldn’t afford the loans.

The Stock market is about people who invest in other ideas, hoping to make money for not working. Is it really so bad if that ideal is discouraged a little bit. I Know the stock crash affects a lot of people, but think about the principles. what do you think?

Whew, I despise Sarah Lying Palin with a passion. What an ignorant women, a disgrace to todays intelligent women. She is assisting the old boys club close seal the cracks that women have made.

The economic commentators Anderson spoke with have no idea where the economy is headed. Neither do I. But, the reality is that in 5-10 years, we will look back on this like we have on every other “crisis” and say “I wish I would have bought stocks then.”

Instead of pumping this money into an obviously manipulated market, why not extend unemployment benefits, and send out rebate checks to tax payers again. Wouldn’t that be more logical and more ethical and help “main street” more directly?

Personally, I don’t care WHO is to blame for this crisis! I just want the system to be put back into some symbalence of normalcy

I believe that the current administration is guilty of neglecting the people of the united states. I can only thank god that the bush presidency is nearing its end!!!!!!

anderson, i think that not the time to blame ,but to fix. a lot of people are suffering.this is not the time. that what i think.

I do not agree with Andy that we should just “move on”. Where is the accountability? Just let the CEO go with millions while we spend billions on a bail-out? Give me a break!

I wonder why McCain is trying to gamble his way to the White House. In the real sense, Americans are more worried about their 401K, and other financial problems, we need a president who can talk on the issues and how to fix them. This smear tactics by the McCain campaign may not work, its too late to discuss that..

I’m a college kid struggling to pay my tuition. How come the gov’t doesn’t bail me out? What, do I need to go lead a company into bankruptsy to get some help around here?

hope you all had a good weekend… who do you blame for whats happening?

happy monday, bloggers - hope you all had an enjoyable wkd.

sarah palin lives in a glass house. soooo why is she throwing stones??

Dig Anderson….Dig for the truth; so the blame for this financial fiasco becomes clear to the American Public…so, it never happens again.
in this effort lies your true value…thanks

If the question is who is to blame? It is a complicated matter, but what is clear is that Federal regulators, the SEC, scandalous accounting rules and corporate America have a huge part of the blame to take. A complete failure of the system….

I so agree to limiting CEO pay. CEOs offices are just the smallest part of any company why then do they go home with the most money. Agree that this is the essence of capitalism, but does it really need to be this unbalance and unfair from these CEOs?
The economy will recover but I suspect in the next two years. But are we going to allow the practices of the past continue?

Congress giving someone a grilling, yeah right. At one time the head of the committee asked for suggestions to fix compensation packages. In the last few years the top 5 investment banks have lost 85 billion investor dollars and have handed out 40 Billion n pay and bonuses to the top guy’s. Did they mislead, no they ripped everyone off.

Why are these CEO’s allowed to escape with millions when their investors are left with nothing? What ever happened to pay for performance? What a screwed up mess our government has made!

The jobless father killing his family is shocking news… what can be done to reign in the confidence of people and not to take such extreme steps.

I’ll let 360 give me the facts and then I’ll decide who is to blame for the state of our economy but my guess is no one person is to blame. If it wasn’t that it is an election year bringing this to the media’s attention, these bad practices would not get the focus.

Hope you did too, Erica

Anderson, this is my first post on your blog but I watch your show often. Tonight, the guy from Fortune just made fun of the hearings being aired on tcspan. I want to say that this is how voters stay informed. It’s much better for us to get the information directly than wait for the media to tell us what they want about the hearings.

Secondly, he said we should focus on the economy… move on…. but how can we learn what to do differently if we don’t examine the history of this mess?

These are my two cents tonight.

Do you really think anyone big is going to go to jail or suffer any major repercussions from this huge financial probelm? They could not even get the people responsible for the Enron collapse. Please!

Dirty nasty campaign not worthy of the American people. McCain is so dishonorable.

the blame game starts with alan greenspan who did not let the dot com bubble burs the way it should have, but instead pumped billions of dollars into the economic system and thus started the housing bubble.

add to that the bush administrations fault to regulate highl speculative instruments and here we are..

Democrats and Republicans, wall street, banks and yes even mainstreet probably had a hand in the meltdown.

From an air head like Sarah Palin who deesn’t read even the local newspaper, cannot construct a sentence, talks like the “that’s hot”. I would rather see bozo the clown in white house. She has no clue what goes on in the lower 48. They are desperate and it shows.

I think Palin/McCain’s attacks on Obama are disgusting! All they’re doing is sowing hatred. Why do Conservatives like to do that? e.g. Rush Limbaugh…how do these people get away with it?

It is sad that McCain has allowed himself to sink so low in this campaign. I guess it is the election process that really strips the layers of a person and their true self emerges.

The Federal Reserve is to blame for meddling in the housing market and attempting keep the housing bubble inflated. Quit blaming the lack of regulation and start blaming the government for overstepping its bounds and thinking it can control the market place. It’s ridiculous how off the mark most of the media is on this. Luckily there are guys like Peter Schiff who predicted this long ago and are speaking out, blaming the right people.

Sara: I think it is importatn to assign blame for the simple reason that we not make the same mistake. i listen to and see McCain and no matter what he says, he is an extension of Bush AA and Erica keep up the good work.

Delighted to hear you say that AC will investigate who is responsible for wall street train wreck. You might want to begin with Chris Dowd, Barney Frank, and Chris Schumer. As high ranking officials of the Banking and Finance Committee it is evident that they were not doing their job.

Will be waiting to hear results of keeping them honest!!!!!

Hi Anderson, Erica, everyone blogging. It’s overwhelming, the stock market today, if this is the first step, the bailout, good question Anderson, what are the next steps that Andy Surwer is talking about?

Sarah should be careful where she slings mud, It likely to go full circle to her and her hubby in face. Wasn’t he affiliated with a group that wanted no part of the USA. So she doing more than paling around with an anti-USA person.

It’s about time we take a deeper look into Obama’s connections to Ayers, Wright, Rezcko, Rev Flagger.

Eric-
good point. Theres no answer for that kind of stuff. It all gets swept under the rug and supposedly out of our minds…

what happens if the PALIN/MCCain remarks causes someone to do somthing radical…should they be held accountable? With members of the crowd shouting “kill him” and “terrorist”, who are the real terror speadin’ folks.

Hello, I guess well all know what to do now when a campaign needs attention, Bash your opponent… it works for McCain and Palin

Good evening Anderson, Erica. Americans should be concerned with the degree of deception the Republican party employed during this campaign. Should they win the general election, will they continue to deceive the American public?

Its not surprising to see the Republicans unleashing low ball smears instead of highlighting matters of substance against the Dem’s when they realize they are losing the polls.

I thought we already litigated Jeremiah Wright for months during the primaries. I guess that she missed out on this lengthy and drawn out public discussion.

What a mess! The country is in shambles because of Bush. When he was elected into office, it was downhill from there. I hope America wakes up and smells the coffee. We need a change not the same.

Based on the clips, it seems that Palin and McCain are desperate to change the subject from the economic issues that people care about. They said Palin is only being sent to talk in front of conservative, right wing groups - no surprise there. She seems like a fraud.

As a canadian I am shocked and sorrowed by the problems of our friends to the south . But i wonder why all the big payout to CEO and severence . Is this the proper way to spend your tax dollers??

Interesting, first Obama says he had no ties to Ayers, now he says he didn’t know his background. Yet Ayers hosted a campaign meeting for Obama and Mayor Daly of Chicago said they were friends. Looks like we are getting closer to the truth.

These guys will say anything to avoid saying something. I still dont know what obama or mcain are all about and probably know more about palin and biden

I honestly don’t know who to believe any more! Mcain today did not get my vote, with the way the economy is headed all he cared about as well as palin was to make sure negative attacks about obama were played on natonal tv. Obama also has to show me what it is that he will do to get this right. I get up every day to earn a living for my family and yet my future is controlled by people who have more because of who they are or who they know. I made a couple of mistakes when i was younger yet i am still paying for it.

I have seen tons of commercials for the debate tomorrow…it will be very interesting to see how the two will act when in the same room…it is sure to be different than over commercials.

It’s sickening to see how low the McCain/Palin campaign will go! Instead of throwing punches below the belt, McCain /Palin should focus on the issues at hand. They claim to be such “maverick” but this is typical political low jabs we’ve been seeing for years now.

How fair is this to the former CEOs of tyco,MCI, Enron etc. if none of these banks CEO go to jail?

William Ayers and Rev. Wright are much more sane than McCain and Palin. The McCain campaign is trying to get Obama by guilt by association. How about McCain’s guilt by actually committing an act with the Cheating Five?

It’s a sad statement that in the midst of a financial melt-down, both campaigns have ignored the issue affecting, and angering, most of the constituancy, and start attacking each other on a personal basis. I’m about to loose my business, my home…everything I”ve worked 30 years for…and all they can do is snipe at each other.

america is not listening to plain’s whine anymore. she is loosing this election for mcCaine. goo palin keep talking. better yet try talking to the press. give anderson an intervew.

Good Evening Anderson and all,

I think we are in at the bottom of the bad economy, may be a little more worst but the economy will start coming back in few month no matter who is the president.
That person only will get the credit for fixing the economy.

I didn’t know Palin was a mind reader. The Republican ticket seems to only be very specific when attacking Obama. More than half of the VP debate consisted of Palin sidestepping questions and giving vague answers to her audience.

To Mark: Re:McCain/Palin is the ticket for 2008. any thing else will be a disaster for the country.
USA is in war and in a bad economic situation. the last thing we need is a president who graduated from a madrasa,
hates the USA and has no experience. his circle of friends including rev wright, bill ayres…. prove that Obama is scary.

It would be nice if you would educate yourself and get the facts correct. Of course, it’s a snowball chance in hell that you would even try, Ignorance surely seems to be bliss!!!! The education in the US needs an overhaul and you are prove of it.

Sure looked like the ‘top’ guys knew something wasn’t right and decided to take what they can before their companies nosedived and now, let the ‘little people’ do the bailing out.

The invisible hand of the free market relies on the fact that opportunity is balanced with risk. If CEO’s do not go bankrupt with their companies, then what do they risk? This is why their compensation should be in line with their decisions. If not, then the entire system collapses. This is exactly what happened.

Hi everyone. I have one question for tonight and it stems from the ugliness of this weekend. This weekend, Sarah Palin misrepresented the relationship between Obama and Ayers. Repeatedly the McCain campaign has been accused of false ads or misleading ads. What this means if McCain is either lying to the American public in order to win, or he is deliberately misleading the public in order to win.

Is this the type integrity we can expect from John McCain as president?

Obama being “friendly” with someone does not mean he would know what they were doing back in the 60s. I don’t think it’s fair to say that means Obama’s spokesman was changing the story, it sounds more like adding some further detail.

We are in the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. We are in the middle of two wars (one going very badly). We have so many problems to deal with going forward. And….the only things you want to talk about are Ayers, Wright, and the latest Mccain attacks. This is exactly why campaigns take this line of attack, because you guys can’t resist running with it. Was the economic news too big for you guys to cover? It seems to me that that is far more important to the American people. Very dissappointing.

Good evening Anderson and ALL! You know guys, if we don’t wake up and really pay attention to what’s going on, we’re all going to be in this hay basket that’s quickly approaching (you know where)! Bush does not want to take credit for this complete economic screw up! It is his fault that the stock maket is where it is..It’s his fault that our nation’s deficit is in the TRILLIONS! He has still NOT admitted that the war was as stupid as he is! We can NOT have another person (who ever it is!) in office with the idea that the war is a good idea! It needs to stop….and Sarah Palin is an AIRHEAD!

Happy evening all, do not over think of economy, Oil prices is going down, a massive global correction in real state is in the way, the economy crisis may hit each single corner in the globe, no one immune, in the near future we will see birth of new global economy era. so do not worry, everything will be alright.

i guess mr mccain is willing to lose his integrity and soul rather than lose an election, the repubicans and espically sarah palin should be ashamed of themselves

I feel that although your programs is focusing on wall sreet and bailout. Your missing the entire picture. What happened to the real issue.
personal responsibility. people are chasing the jones and trying to buying the next updated iphone or the bmw. People want to be bailed out for there own lack of control. People bought homes they coudnt afford and now the tax payer has bailout selfish people.

I am sick of hearing it was subprime. People were selfish and thought buying a home was a right. Its not.

America grow up

Warren Buffet said the other day:

The saint has a past; the sinner has a future.

Palin should take notice

The Republicans are the ones to blame. We had a surplus but now we have a deficit. We spent too much money on a war that doesn’t makes sense. The money we spent on a war, we could have used it to help our economy. Katrina should have been a wake up call. You be the judge!!! Republicans should help others besides themselves!!!

This problem originated with lenders extending loans (particularly IO and no-documentation loans) irresponsibly and greedily, and it was exacerbated by Wall Street antics that failed to recognize the extent of the risk of the time bomb it was packaging up ever-so-neatly. Consumers, while they were misled, also (unsurprisingly) reached beyond their means. All of this under the supervision of an administration that watched and did nothing. And now the market is being crushed by regulation after regulation. So if I were to point fingers, I would need more arms than I’ve got.

You asked tyhe question “WHO”S TO BLAM FOR OUR ECOC?”
it is plain as you you….
the bush admin tried to fire up the machine after 911, and failed to replace the safty nets when we recovered.
I have watched all the news since and made step to protect my familes eco status since, just as all free thinkers have done during the cold war.
The next pres. will be oboma…though I am a rep. I will always vote to the person(s) who make the best arg.
The mccain party (my PARTY) are the loosers this elections the best thing is to except our defeat commit sucide and wait unti l 2011/12

Hi all, i wanna see of Economy & Not gabage attacks!!! from Mc cain.

I think the blame for what’s gone wrong with the economy lies with everyone. The government is partly to blame, the companies are partly to blame, and people for taking on mortgages that were way too exorbitant in the first place. We operate in a credit society. Up until now, things were running smoothly but now we are beginning to see the disadvantages of operating this way. Credit is not bad financial instrument but it can complicate things if it becomes mismanaged.

Sarah Palins out there throwing stones while stone walling an investigation in Alaska and refusing to answer questions about her association with a group that wants to succeed from the USA. We have seen the witch doctor paster video. How is it fair for the press to cover every accusation she throws out there while not having to answer questions from citizens or the free press?

I have been saying since NAFTA that we couldn’t keep giving jobs away, and expect for our economy to grow. Now think about this our own government gave away top paying jobs to France. Anyone here remember that happening this year and the American people throwing a fit nothing has changed though.

I’m afraid we are going to see more and more folks taking desperate and drastic measures, Roweena. Too many are going to find their backs up against the wall and see no options. We need leadership that holds us all accountable, themselves as well. I don’t care if they want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with me. I want someone in charge who is smarter than me and knows how to think through complicated issues effectively and with results.

Ari said something about the middle class “holding onto” their money. A major point is being missed: the middle class has no money to hold onto. If Washington doesn’t pump money into the middle class along with Wall Street, money won’t move. The banks will have money to lend, but the middle class will not have the ability to borrow.

Not only do I feel that these individuals on Wall Street are to blame, but many of these politicians that are pointing fingers are also to blame for the lack of oversight. Many of them are now acting as if they had nothing to do with this crisis. Giving companies the right to give mortgages to individuals that neither could afford or were qualified to pay back was reckless and plain out irresponsible.
As, a man in my young 30’s I will continue to invest responsibly in my Roth IRA’s and small caps. I have time on my side but my fear is for the people that are in the retirement bracket and what they are going to do with their assets, or for a lack of better words, what is left of them..

it is sad that McCain has allowed his advisors and Palin to drag him down the tubes. All respect and honor for him are gone now.He is no more than an angry old man.

When things were going great you did not hear anything from him but now that he is falling in the polls he says, “Life Isn’t Fair”. STRANGE.

CNN is for McCain- we all knw that–but should anything happen to him–we will have an idiot for a President-if he wins.
Palin was building a bridge –to go where? A 5th grader can read her cue cards better.
There are more important things for us to worry about–and not bring up things that happened 40 years ago.
Some one ought to dig into her history or background. Was she a Saint?

Thaze, The CEOs are getting away with this because they have “friends” in the government; it is as simple as that. So who do you think are the “real” crooks?

I do not know who is responsible for all the mess we are in — probably a whole lot of people. But there does seem to be a long and said connection with Bank failures and McCain closeness or involvement — The Lincoln Bank — Charles Keating Bank I think and McCain somehow having a connection. Recently the Silver State Bank in Nevada from which McCain’s’ son, Andrew had audit oversight and resigned only 4 day before he had to sign off on a audit before it collapsed only a month later. His relationship with Phil Gramm — he is the “main man behind deregulation” and in Vice Chairman of the UBS Bank Warburg. The UBS bank has suffered the greatest loss of any foreign bank due to the mortgage meltdown. I believe that bank is also under some investigation by the US for illegal activities. I am not saying McCain had direct contact with these activities but there is a continual closeness to banking events like these. I think you should be looking more into this to see if it is really possible that McCain is involved in a greater way. Thank you.

I don’t think McCain realizes how much he is hurting himself by continuing to talk about every issue except the economy.

By the way, does Palin ever say anything of substance? Everytime I hear her talk, she is cracking jokes, one-lines, and insults. Late night host may be a better career for her.

Like many, I hate the nastiness - for months I have read in comments sections such nasty stuff and language from, I must say, mostly Obama fans in the “better press” NYT &WP comments… now the Rep are doing it too after months of such nasty stuff as was done to Palin (like her or not).

Sad but please stop the “wow the Reps are getting nasty” … fact-check org - proves what Mom used to say - 6 of one 1/2 dozen of the other.

Now I see the “better press” doing little less than the opinion press in favor of Obama.

Maybe with 26-28 % trust, The President has more approval than congress or the press in the end.

Where are we going????

Sarah palin, Sarah Palin…I find it hard to believe that she is the govenor of a state in this country, yet she doesn’t seem to know about very much. Other than looking good she strikess me as being ditsy

Okay, here’s my question. If McCain feels it okay to bring up William Ayers, shouldn’t it be okay for Obama to bring up McCain’s connection with the Bonanno crime family and McCain taking donations from them? What’s up with that Anderson? Could you check that out?

When I watched the politician’s last week I was reminded of a scene from a Mel Brooks’ movie.

“We’ve got to protect our phony baloney jobs gentlemen. We must do something about this immediately! Immediately!! Immediately!!!

Somebody needs to put a muzzle on the pitbull. And she brags she’s a Christian? Give me a break!

Banks, big businesses, and most of our government positions are to blame - along with television ads pounding on the middle class to spend, spend, spend, forcing them to live above their means.

All of these CROOKS consider only themselves and how much they can financially rape the people of our country.

I encourage the people to vote to get rid of all of those in government positions now and strongly remind government that we, the people, pay taxes and them!!! It’s time for us to use our strong voices and not be afraid anymore.

How did that 600 DOLLAR TAX REFUND WORK OUT, yeah that really help the ECONOMY,

I want some advice on what to do with your 401K. Should one stop contributing altogether or just contribute only enough to get the match. I’m 60 and was planning to retire at 66. It’s looking more like 70 now.

I find it fascinating Sarah Palin is talking about Obama’s patriotism when her husband is a member of a secessionist group in Alaska.

So everyone, how does it feel to own a piece of Fannie and Freddie’s toxic securities? can’t wait to see tomorrow’s debate.

Evening,

The administration and congress along with Wall Street Executives are all at fault. It appears that this is a massive failure of the govenment. Where were the regulators? Where were all of our Senators and Congressman? What was President Bush doing? Nothing! These folks are all to busy playing politics to be concerned about the hard working folks that have paid their taxes, paid their mortgages and strived to be good citizens.

I find it very telling that the callers Ali Velshi has spoken with have very little - if ANY - faith in these two candidates and their abilities to truly do sthg about this economic crisis. They do not believe either Senator would make a difference if elected, and they feel forgotten. Are the candidates out of touch with Americans?

Please research the creation of the Federal Reserve. You will all be shocked…

Everyone who bought a mortgage on a house they could never afford is to blame for this.

While our economy burns, mccain and palin can do nothing more useful than make up crap about people obama used to know and things they did when obama was 5! It disgusts me. I was undecided but this has made me realize that I could certainly never vote for palin.

Desperation from Governor Palin. She’s very good at reading scripted answers.

Interestingly, “According to a new report by the AP, Sarah Palin is worth more than a million dollars yet Sarah Palin calls herself an average six pack American.”

Quote Palin, “I know what Americans are going through,” she said a day after a record 778-point plunge on Wall Street. “Todd and I, heck, we’re going through that right now even as we speak, which may put me again kind of on the outs of those Washington elite who don’t like the idea of just an everyday, working-class American running for such an office.”

Note, Palin makes $125,000 yearly as governor, and her husband makes about $90,000 a year combined from his commercial fishing business and his part-time job as a production operator on the North Slope.

Anderson,

If Palin won’t actually speak to the media, I think that you should not spend your entire show replaying her whole stump speech.

If she wants to make these outrageous claims, she should be forced to defend them. If she can’t, then it isn’t worth talking about. Let her speak to her base, 2000 people at a time.

Don’t give her the opportunity to speak to millions on your show.

Hey Anderson,

How come the media won’t touch the fact that some guy at Palin’s Florida rally hollered, “Kill Him!”. I don’t think he was talking about McCain, do you? If someone had hollered “Kill Him” at a McCain rally, good grief the press would be all over it. She sounds like the new Grand Dragon to me.

Thanks,
Mark Clark

I truly beleive that this finachial crisis is the fault of politicians execepting big money from big business to help them win elections and perks one hand washes the other hence (deregulations) i think it would be a good idea to make all of this pratice ilegal .

Whose fault is the current financial tragedy? It wasn’t the borrowers. Since when do we trust people to borrow only what they can, safely?
The loan initiators? There was an opportunity to make money. It was assumed that property values would go up as they have historically. They were just making a buck. The mortgage backed security packagers? They too were just making a buck. Who then? The imbalance of trade and investors in retirement funds created too much money looking for something to do. This over supply of money made it so my dog could have bought a house if she could put her paw print on the dotted line. This amount of money made it possible for housing inflation beyond true value. What now worries me is what damage money from the trade imbalance will cause next.

Greenspan and the Federal Reserve are the ones most to blame for our money troubles. They manipulated interest rates for Republican Party Gain.

Thank you.

What was McCain doing in 1960? Surely there is something in his past that the media can dig out? His reputation is not prestine.

I wish these experts could tell us what we can do to swing the market. Personally, I’m trying to keep the Cincinnati area economy going.

Is there a way we can rid of all elected officials and Paulson and Bernake and then re-seat the whole government? OR How about a good old fashioned Boston Tea Party? We all feel so helpless and powerless. What else can we do? We are at their mercy. We have been fiscally responsible, independent, debt free adults and are being penalized finacially.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

Anderson - Why are you guys even covering this stuff. This was covered during the primaries. Unless Obama was directly part of, or supporter any of Bill Ayres, Wright’s or Rezkos activities…than so what!!!!!!!!!!!

Desperation has set in to the GOP. We all knew that the fear and smear was coming. Isn’t it amazing to listen to Palin, who claims she is so religious, lie and tear apart Obama the way she does? That’s from a Christian huh? Nice values lady……….Obama will bring up all the crap Palin is attached to and everyone will be shocked. It’s a shame that when our country is tanking this is the crap we are talking about.

Hello everyone!!! The Dow Jones fell bellow 10,000 today, and the pitbull took the muzzle off attacking Obama. Like she hould speak… What about troopergate, her wich hunting pastor or the first dude’s association with that air head that called Alaska a country… And what about what she said yesterday: “I’m sorry I do not walk around with a thesaurus in my back pocket…” Sarah AirHead, you should have that in your brain, maybe that will help. When did being intelligent become such a stigma, and stupidity raised to the VP level?

Good evening to Anderson and our viewers. I think it is important to point out here that Sarah Palin hails from a state which owes much of it’s recent investments to oil revenues and big oil interests. Doesn’t anyone care that she has come up in an era of big oil interests? It seems odd to me that she can shine such a bright light on Obama’s past, when her own history was shaped by Exxon and others?

Another thought: Dow drops well over 300 pts, people’s retirement plans are going down the drain, and the only thing McCain wants to talk about is mud. How is he Maverick again?

The truth no one wants to say or hear; we are in the very beginning of an economic famine —–
If you are still investing in the hope that the stock market will correct itself after this morning revelation of the spread of the economic crisis to the global stage, by the end of the election day you will state that that was the most unwise decision you ever made. Please remember for years upon decades, America’s debt and needs were sold to these over seas economies that are currently faltering. Therefore, because of this, some of these economies have been supported by the U.S. economy. If the foundation of the house (America’s economy) is washed away in a storm what will happen to the rest of the house (the global economy). It can try to stand-alone, however, without a foundation it will soon fall and come crashing down. Anderson, this is what has happened.
As always, may God bless each of us,
Pastor Reginald Levi Walker

Why doesn’t CNN bring up Sarah Palin’s association to Pastor Muthee and the Alaskan Independence Party? These are serious issues.

Don’t be distracted by the current republican rhetoric and character bashing of Obama…..its pure desperation and we intelligent Americans know it.

Will 360 be looking into Palin and her husband’s involvement in that Alaskan separatist movement?

Yes, I can see how working on an education project together would make Obama extremely influenced by Willaim Ayres. This is ridiculous. I have worked with a lot of strange people, I hope I don’t get held accountable for all their deeds.

Anderson,
Hi! Happy Monday.
Palin’s attacks on Obama are sensationalist–like a sequence of bad campaign ads. It’s hard to take her seriously.

Erica,

Isn’t it naive to think that if a government hasn’t been able to control or prevent hits problem that plagues us now, that a new president will just swing in like a knight in shining armor and save us all?

Mc Cain is going to cut Medicade by $1.3 Trillion dollars. That is what the Wall Street Journal read. How you like that MARK!!!!!! hope your loving The BUSH and the MC Bush!!!

Who Is Responsible for the Financial Crisis?

The Bush administration for deregulation of the financial markets and allowing short selling. The Hedge funds and large investment institutions for buying billions and billions of stocks to falsely drive up their price and then short selling them in order to make HUGE profits. What we are seeing now that short selling is not allowed is just how overinflated the stock market was due to these financial Monopolizers now pulling out their money.

Deregulators (McCain and the GOP) are to blame. You can’t leave the candy bowl on your door steps, unattended, on halloween…the first kids will take it all. That’s just the way it is. I wish, as Americans, we could simply trust each other and corporate CEOs to do the right thing, but as has been proven, it just “ain’t” so. Someone has to mind the store or the store disappears. I’m not convinced anyone knows what to do at this point, but I am convinced that neither McCain nor Palin has a clue. He, apparently, is not even sure we have a problem! I do believe our best avenue out of this mess is a return of the Democratic party to power. Help us Obama…you’re our only hope!

Gail in Alabama

Anderson - The cause of the current problem is our political system. We seem to think that if everybody will do what is best for his/her city, state, or district, we all are going to benefits. We have too many layers of government making too many rules and reg’s. Making mortgage deductable in 1950’s started us as a debtor nation and making any other interest non-deductable in the 1980’s made it worst. Wall street just did what it needed to do, make money, but the system finnally caved in.

What is the McCain- Palin plan? Other than informing us of what Obama is or isn’t- I want to hear McCain be MORE specific on HIS PLAN. McCain has a past, Palin has a past, Obama has a past. My question has not been answered by McCain nor Palin. They have yet to define WHAT they plan to do, other than to say what Obama isn’t doing. Let’s get focused and talk about what matters..the FUTURE of AMERICA’s ECONOMY… I’m not interested in hockey moms and Joe six packs- let’s talk about bailouts, taxes, cost of medical needs, energy crisis, deregulation etc…

Thanks Drew Griffen, an interesting piece on Ayers and Obama. Facts are what we need from all the candidates.

If Gov. Plain wants to talk about Jeremiah wright, then she should be prepared to speak about Thomas Muthee the Witch Hunter, and the YouTube Video of him performing some kind of exorcism on her. I think her faith clouds her judgement, and she is just too dangerous to be allowed to have the nuke codes.

I just have to say enough with the smears-grow up and get to the issues. I am a single mom and daily remind my boys to not pick on eachother! Maybe Palin and McCain could use a time out!!!!!! Palin sure isn’t setting a very good example for her kids or others!

The culprit of the present financial crisis is the rating companies who gave AAA rating to those bogus security and secondly the CEO of the financial institutions who did not perform their duties to find out what they were investing for the investors.

I think the only thing Americans can do is what they usually do in times of crises. Eat, drink, and live in denial.

So who is running the Republican campaign? McCain says the Jeremiah Wright issue is over - door is closed. Sarah Palin opens the door again. Is she the real presidential candidate? Does John McCain have any control over his running mate?

Anderson, this silly. When we are in economy down turn, financial contrite, two wars, lack lustre image abroad, yet we manage some air time to talk about Bill Ayers. Who by the way is repentant and was never convicted for his crimes in 1960!!!. 1960 Anderson, 1960. I wish our economy can speak for itself I wonder if it will pick 1960 to talk about. We are not getting nowhere with this Anderson.

McCain needs to read a script about how us normal Americans feel, cause he has all his life collected a Government paycheck, since he was 17 in military navel academy even still now, never a private job or paycheck disconnected from normal folks.

Why do all these political associations from years ago really matter? If that’s the case, we’re all associated with each other to some degree. Actually it’s the 6 degrees of separation rule. Who cares? I’m more interested in the issues of TODAY. My sister-in-law lost her job last week. Here in Atlanta, gas is running out. and I was thinking of buying a home for the first time this year, but now I can’t. When is someone going to address these issues in a realistic way?

Interesting, if Governor Palin wishes to go to the gutter in campaigning, as obviously Governor Palin has nothing to say about the state of the economy, note that at a rally on Saturday in Southern California, Governor Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” she said, claiming she was quoting former President Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The statement came after Governor Palin had recounted a “providential” moment she experienced on Saturday: “I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day… It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. … Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, ‘There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.’”

Actually, Madeline Albright didn’t say that. The accurate quote is, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.”

My husband makes $10.00 an hour and I’m unemployed. Thank god we don’t have any credit cards or any other debt. We also don’t have any savings for retirement(my husband is 60 yrs old), money for our son to go to college or any money left at the end of the month.
Can your experts please tell us what people like us are supposed to do. The job market had dryed up in our area. We are hanging on by our fingernails.

Now we heard today that people are coming to our area (Florida) just in case they end up homeless, they won’t be out in the cold. Now these people will be looking for work, too.

Oh yeah, we might as well forget Christmas.

Not only Gutter but Dangerous politics…The McCain campaign is treading on dangerous ground. Their campaign is inspiring hate evidenced by shouts from the crowds today when McCain and Palin spoke about Obama. One supporter yelled “terrorist” another yelled “kill him”. This is rediculous and disgusting.

The “Seven Deadly Sins” of Wall Street and Capitol Hill are absolutely to blame. I think it is only the tip of the iceberg. The nose diving reign of George Bush & Dick Cheney and the atrocities they continue to commit will come to light one day. In the meantime, I am terrified of how my family of six are going to make ends meet in the next 5 years. I beleive thats how long it will take till things turn around. Republican or Democrat ~ they’re all corrupt. I don’t trust any of them.

Hi Anderson!
I am new to the blog. But I have been watching your show since the beginning and love it! Thanks to everyone for bringing us the best coverage!

I couldn’t find the blog I wanted for Cooper Anderson but I hope this gets to him. You asked our opinion on who was as fault for this finaical crisis we are in now. I would blame our Government as the first subject but we have to add in the lobyist that are bringing money and gifts. I though that when our elected oficials were shworn into office the swore to protect the American People from PREDITORS! Then Congress wonders why the Ameican People have such a low rating of them, is because all we here is the same old BS and they knew about this problem over three years ago. I think our Government is part of our problem because they weren’t doing their sworn oath. If Paulsen really wants to help the American People and get them more behind this BAILOUT then they need to divide the money for the FAILED CEO’S and divided the money to American People. They are killing the BACKBONE of this economy which are all the American small business.

why not also investigate Sarah Palin’s “first dude” association with a separatist Alaska group that he appears to have been an active member as recent as this spring 2008 . . .

The candidates are totally out of touch with voters. First of all, they do not even understand the current economic system and how it works. Secondly, the “mess” did not happen overnite but occurred with the help of Washington almost in a conspiracy. If either candidate was so worried about what was happening then why didn’t either one of them stand before they decided to run for President?

The lobbyist, our representatives and the news media are to blame for this mess. The lobbyist paid our representatives so their clients could make money and they did. The news fails to report how the lobbyist are running this country into the ground.

Palin should be careful in her false attacks and accusations about Barack Obama’s associations. I can’t understand why Palin and McCain can question Obama’s love of country. I believe these false accusations of him being a terrorist is slander and racist. Sarah Palin’s own guest Pastor Mutee who has ‘blessed her’ as his past in Kenya as witch hunter leaves her under great scrutiny. Also, Sarah Palin’s husband’s association with the Alaska Independence Party whose main mission is to secede from the US. Not to mention that she addressed the AIP at their 2008 convention welcoming their mission.
Anderson- why has this not been discussed? Todd Palin was a member as noted on their website. http://www.akip.org

what does cooper anderson think of the article in rolling stone, written by tim dickison, called ” make believe mavorick ” a what palin said about there is a place in hell for women who don’t help other women?

Good evening Anderson,
Could you please ask your commentators if Obama has been questioned for his brief encounter with Bill Ayers, does that mean every student who has ever attended his classes will never run for office without having this professor as a liability?

I made an observation recently about the presidential campaigns…

We all know McCain is losing, but it also seems very obvious to me that McCain is floundering strategically…and you