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September 17th, 2008
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I think that if Sarah want to be in the big league she needs to start being question by the press just like the other ones. She also needs to quit answering for McCain all the time.You would think that she was running for Pres. not McCain.
We the people are charging AIG 11% interest on the money we loaned them, does that really sound like a bail out?
Does McCain really expect us to believe that he will go against his own party after he said that he will follow through with Bush's policies into his own presidency?
I just saw a speech from Mccain, I believe it was from April of this year, where he states that he is not for regulation, he is more of a 'deregulator'. I think that this tells me all I need to know about where he stands, eventhough he is trying to "change" his position on this.
You're asking the wrong question in your viewers' vote, "who would make a better VP...?" You should be asking, "who would make a better President, Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?" That's the core issue here.
Congress needs to take some responsibility. This didn't just happen over night, where were they?
It is very obvious that the town hall questions were pre planned.
It is about time that North Carolina is in play for both candidates. North Carolina usually votes Republican, and as an Independant I feel my vote and other Independant voters wil be heard for the first time in a long while.
In your program tonight, the McCain/Palin campaign show home-school students on the phone banks in Florida calling people. Are these students need to be in classes? Additionally, some of these students looked under the voting age and some looked even younger. Has McCain/Palin stooped to child labor? The caption should have read "McCain/Palin Sweat Shop"!
McCain is a Washington insider! And McCain has been one of the main ones supported no regulation on wall street!
After watching AC360 tonight, the first thing that came to my mind is this; if the questions asked by the town hall meeting to McCain and Palin today then why are they all written on paper. As an example, the older lady who asked about the ecomony and women could not even read the question. So how in the world are we the public who were not there to believe that these questions are real? to me it sounded like the Senetor and the Governor wrote the questions that they wanted to ask and then just handed them out to different people. Does this really happen?
McCain can't focus on the economy he's too busy training Palin on how to side step questions.
Seems like it will be a good time soon enough to dump as much money as you can into the market. Good thing Im in my early 20s instead of being scheduled for retirement at the end of the year.
After 8 years of failed policies of the Republican that left most of us bankrupt, I am praying that American will not let race stop them from embracing the future..
I admire Candy Crowley's political reporting and always look forward to her reports from the field. Keep up the good work, CNN. We need information in these turbulent times.
Anderson:
President can do a lot to affect legislation. The power of veto is strong.
The more that I watch Palin, the more that I think she is the expert politician on the McCain/Palin ticket.
it is a tight rope that the Obama camp has to walk in order to not appear to be taking advantage of the pit falls of the economy, and the personal repercussions that has for the average voter.
John McCain goes to Grand Rapids to talk about job losses in michigan. What a joke why not come to Flint or Detroit where the only jobs here involve running from the cops. That doesnt Pay minimum wage.
Why didn't Sarah Palin answer the questions when she was asked what foreign policies has she put into place and of course as a typical Republican she danced around the question and didn't answer.
Gergen – McCain got a boost from the georgia skirmish – now repubs are claiming Obama is bad because it's turned back to Obama? What gives?
Nice report by John King, a little calmer than other reports of voters that I've heard this year
You heard it right here just a few segments ago.
There are countries with money, they are: China, Russian & the Middle East. All countries that have loaned the USA money to fight the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Fight Wars on credit & you eventually have to pay the piper!
Stock market is at times manipulated and these recent events prove that. I tried investing in stock I warned people stay away from AOL....lol....I was right! Luckily they never got to start the investment club when I was employed there! They would have lost all their money. I was the only one to read the thrown out wall street journals :0
Who within the govt. (department and person) decides which companies will be bailed out /taken over/invested in and which will be allowed to fail?
I thought S. Palin was speaking in tounges answering questions today. Perhaps with forked tounges.
at 50 should I be scared to death, with this big fall in the stock market, my dreams of retiring in 12 years seems unreal or gone down the drain.
It looks as if we are all in for a ride. Am I wrong, or has the economy in the past taken a nose dive before each election in the past and then improve after ? It is, however,much worse this time around than in the past. and yes.. alot of it is due to the greed in corporate America.
When Sarah Palin was asked about the equality for women economically. She stated once again title 9, She didn't go to college on a scholarship so what in the world is she talking about? Next, that doesn't have anything to do with equal pay for equal work.
Obama is the only one who is giving us politices about what he will do. I have not seen anything come from the McCain camp at all. Anderson have you seen anything from the McCain camp about what they would do?
because of wall street , more people ,will be working on street, on corners
I can't believe the race is so close! McCain and Palin are so sleazy its hard to watch them on your show.
Something I think about when I watch the market ticker as giants in the financial sector crumble. What about accountability? It angers me that "we" get to foot the bill while CEOs, officers, directors and the likes from these companies walk away with multi-million dollar compensation packages at our expense.
Everybody is talking about money! Money, Money, Money! Ok – how can Obama support all his programs plus tax cuts when America is in debt...4 trillion??? He is giving people false hope and the America people is falling for them. Everybody is scare of him or her but they should be scare of the fact - America is BROKE!
89 billion! Why doesn't Congress just give us "regular, hard working Americans" the money, have us promise (like politicians always promise to us) to pay off all of our debt. Doesn't that solve all the problems with one stone? Oops, I forgot, that doesn't help the powers that be to "promise" jobs and trickle down economics for us hard working folks.
The government had to print the money to lend to AIG because other countries are not lending America money...they have lost confidence
David Wiggins – the problem is that history has shown no matter how 'fired up' the youth vote has been, they typically fall short of the expectations for turn out.
To dispute David's point, I've got to tell you i think he is wrong, I go to the University of Albany in the HUGE liberal state of New York and most people I know my age will be voting McCain come November 4th. So if the polls are close in November I think the Democrats will be in for a long night
Why do people say "the country's economy is falling" last I check we make up the country....and we need to adjust our individual market strategies and how we manage our individual business of money management....this is what happens when greed is the motivator and not enterprise
In our economic times, It is an insult to the American people that John McCain would pick such an unqualified vice presidential candidate. As a republican or a democrate peope should look at what kind of judgement the man has, it's reckless and dangerous. I'm also embarressed for any republican that defends this type of action and this ignorant republican ticket..
I don't know about anyone else but I did not hear a single straight answer from either McCain or Palin on any issue during the town hall meeting. They side-stepped the question about what McCain and Palin would do to improving the status of women, economically, etc... by mentioning how Palin was a point guard. What? They also spun the question about her military experience. I can honestly say I am sick of getting the run around. Just answer the question.
You know folks its very scary this economy and we really need a change. I was a Hillary supporter and I was enticed by Palin. But, after looking at the issues I'm now thinking this over very closely
Polls are adjusted for cell phone demographics. That's a bogus factor. More relevant will be the Bradley Effect.
It's only gonna get worse on Wall Street. I say let 'em all fall. All these banks and firms stole most of their money, anyway.
On Palin's fiirst unrehearsed question/answer session, she responded to a question directed to McCain. She is beginning to seem like Dick Cheney. Her true colors are showing. Scary!
I am a bit worried about the market but I am focusing on paying off my credit card bills first and then zeroing in on my student loans - I don't want to be owing the federal goverment anything in the upcoming years!
John Mccain and Sarah Palin will work together to help the economy? Ridiculous. Mccain STILL does not know how many houses he owns.
I want to save my money in the bank without bailout, I want change to vote Obama's plan stick.
Watching Sarah Palin, I am scared. Should McCain die in office, this woman would be the leader of the most powerful country in the world...God help us!
It's painful as a Republican to watch McCain try to back pedal on his quotes and record on the economy. I have no choice but to cast a vote against giving four more years to the GOP. This Florida Republican is voting for Obama.