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The Bush-McCain Social Security Privatization Plan

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:50:32 AM EST
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    Campaign slogan. (5.00 / 2) (#6)
    by LarryInNYC on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:00:41 AM EST
    Don't let the Republicans do to Social Security what they did to the Mortgage system.  Vote Democratic.

    Putting this up again for effect? (none / 0) (#1)
    by andgarden on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:53:15 AM EST


    J posted it? (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:54:19 AM EST
    I did not see it.

    What the hell, let's make it a theme.

    Sledgehammer.

    Over and over again.

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    Yup, just down the page (none / 0) (#3)
    by andgarden on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:55:54 AM EST
    And yeah, this ad is a winning--just like it is every year.

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    *winner (none / 0) (#4)
    by andgarden on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:56:03 AM EST


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    Plus (none / 0) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:56:13 AM EST
    I like my post title better.

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    McCain's latest ... (none / 0) (#7)
    by Robot Porter on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:05:44 AM EST
    ad.

    Clever visual, uses "your family" frame.

    But does the big government attack work anymore?

    It has a big government attack? (none / 0) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:06:51 AM EST
    Wow! Okaaay.

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    They're gonna party like it's 1989 (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by andgarden on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:22:58 AM EST


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    When you've been singing the same song (none / 0) (#10)
    by LarryInNYC on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:19:13 AM EST
    for 72 years, it takes a few days to change your tune.

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    It's a grave mistake (none / 0) (#13)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:26:24 AM EST


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    Ugh (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:07:20 AM EST
    McCain has done some good ads but that one is pathetic. I think the whole "tax and spend" thing is beyond it's shelf life.

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    Politico sez it isn't even going to really air (none / 0) (#11)
    by andgarden on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:22:22 AM EST
    I think it's a poor effort, and out of touch.

    A miss by the McCain media shop.

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    The filmmaking ... (none / 0) (#14)
    by Robot Porter on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:28:17 AM EST
    in the ad is still superior.

    But the message is out of step.

    I don't even think this one will appeal to libertarian indies.  And that seems to be a shrinking group anyway.  

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    I'm home today (none / 0) (#15)
    by litigatormom on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 12:23:30 PM EST
    and watched a McCain-Palin rally, where both of them talked about how the recent problems in the economy were caused by "greed" and "corruption."

    Actually, the credit crunch and the current volatility in the markets were caused by transactions that were and are perfectly legal. There were no regulations that limited the structure of mortgage-backed securities, or the making of subprime loans.  Incompetent CEOs -- like McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina --have been rewarded with big severance packages for eons. If only the rest of us could fail upward like her. .

    McCain and Palin keep yelling about "corruption" because they want the voters to think that the problem was caused by a few bad eggs, not the whole regulatory -- or rather, non-regulatory -- system designed by the Phil Gramms of the world.

    The only "corruption" involved here is the revelation of corruption of the Republican view of the proper function of regulation in the financial markets.

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    Well (none / 0) (#16)
    by Steve M on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 06:19:40 PM EST
    There is corruption in the sense that these corporations hire lobbyists and cut big checks in order to make sure their highly profitable activities don't get regulated.

    Democrats aren't innocent, of course.  But we know who the party of deregulation truly is.

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    About Time (none / 0) (#17)
    by john horse on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 10:08:37 PM EST
    Obama needs to run this ad in Florida again and again.  

    As Fla Politics has pointed out, one of the major reasons that Obama is losing Florida is that McCain is leading in the over 55 yr old demographic by a 55-39 margin.  Social security privatization is anathema to elderly Floridians.  McCain favors it.  If Obama can reduce McCain's margin with retirees, Obama can win Florida.

    Why Republicans no longer care about Wall Street (none / 0) (#18)
    by voxpopuli on Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 11:17:24 PM EST
    Hasn't anybody noticed?  Wall Street financial failure, yet the Republicans are in charge?  Does that strike anybody as odd?  Not me!  The majority of stock is now held by middle class people, mostly Democrats, simply because of humongous 401(k) portfolios of retirement plans which are mainly middle-class folk.  The rich abandoned Wall Street starting in 2001.  They put their money in non-US markets, for example China.  The turd Republican who ran for Governor of Michigan two years ago spent $17 million of his own cash pretending to want to help bring jobs back to Michigan.  He lost big time, when the media revealed how significantly his family had abandoned US investment in favor of Chinese investment.  That's where the rich make their money today.  Duh!

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