Has been "hear"? Heard what?

 Where's your proof?  Please supply a link.

 I heard the Clinton's are starting the rumor that Obama is responsible for bad grammar in bloggers.

Not sure, just a rumor...................

(As a side note, I'm quite sure it is conceivable that the Clinton's made Pastor Wright utter that nonsense and for Obama and his bride to listen to it every Sunday over the last 20 years)

 No Chico. I'm sure Randumb will say that Bush did it.

Should-a-left, it's totally lame to attempt to insult someone by changing their name around like that. It's soooooo 8th grade. If you have input on this topic, fine. Let's hear it.

Personally I think this actually helps Obama. He had the correct response to the situation and the people that actually thought he was muslim (not quite as bizarre as thinking he's from outer space) will be able to see him connected to a christian church which he's belonged to for a long time. I only wish Mrs Clinton would have had a similar response when Ferraro made her outlandish and offensive statements about how lucky he is to be black and named Barack Hussein Obama. All she said was that she didn't agree. Very weak and dishonest in my opinion. Most of this cheap stuff that is going on in the race now only helps old man Mc Cain. I'm really wondering why Hillary seems like she's running as the republican candidate now.

 Pete. Just giving Randomfactor a taste of his own medicine. He is famous for messing up names to insult. As for your question, I really don't care what Obama's religion is.  It's his ideas and policies that scare the hell out of me.  He would be a disaster.

 Hillary is a monster. She'll do anything to get elected.

 RE names.  Politicians are fair game...bloggers are off limits.  There's equality for you.

The conspiricy theorists are alive and well it seems.  However sneaky and underhanded the Clintons may be, I doubt they were responsible for this one.  A little logical thinking is in order here folks.

 I heard the Clinton's are starting the rumor that Obama is responsible for bad grammar in bloggers.

Not sure, just a rumor...................

(As a side note, I'm quite sure it is concievable that the Clinton's made Pastor Wright utter that nonsense and for Obama and his bride to listen to it every Sunday over the last 20 years)

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Um . . . uh . . . Chico?   That's "i" before "e," except after "c," and when sounding like "ay" as in "neighbor" and "weigh."

;-)

 gracias nueve colores   ;=)

McCain Says America Is Both ‘In A Recession’ And Has A ‘Strong’ Economy On The Same Day

On Friday, new Labor Department numbers showing that employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February offered “ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.” So stark was the grim economic data that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was forced to reverse his happy talk and admit that “it’s very likely” that America is “in a recession.”

But in an interview recorded the same day with CBS’s 60 Minutes, McCain returned to his old rhetorical ways, optimistically declaring that “the fundamentals of our economy are still strong“:

Asked how he would characterize the mortgage mess, McCain said, “I think it’s a disaster, but let me hasten to add, Scott, I think the fundamentals of our economy are still strong.”

Watch it:

Despite increasing indications that the economy is getting weaker, McCain has spent months echoing President Bush and insisting that “the fundamentals of this economy are strong”:

– “I don’t know technically whether we’re going into a recession or not, but I believe in the long term, our fundamentals are strong.” [3/3/08]

– “I think if we’re going to be in some shaky times - and by the way, I believe the fundamentals of America’s economy [are] still strong.” [2/3/08]

– “And by the way, I don’t believe we’re headed into a recession. I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong, and I believe they will remain strong.” [Fox News Debate, 1/10/08]

McCain has a self-proclaimed lack of economic knowledge, but he is insistent on claiming the “fundamentals are strong.” Yet actual economists say there is real cause for concern.

At an economic conference on Friday, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that “we are facing the most serious combination of macroeconomic and financial stresses that the United States has faced in at least a generation.” “We are in nearly unprecedented territory with respect to financial strain,” added Summers.

 McCain `Earmarks' Ban Blocked; Congress Backs Budgets (Update1)
 

By Brian Faler

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate rejected a proposal by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to place new restrictions on the congressional pet projects known as earmarks.

The vote came as the House and Senate passed separate $3 trillion budget blueprints for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 that clash on whether to raise taxes to pay for giving millions of families a one-year reprieve from the alternative minimum tax. The Senate version, approved 51 to 44 early today, includes a nonbinding amendment calling for the extension of some of President George W. Bush's tax cuts that are slated to expire in coming years. The House plan doesn't.

The Senate's 71 to 29 vote to reject the earmark proposal was a setback for McCain, an Arizona senator who has made the fight against such spending an issue in his presidential bid. McCain, campaigning in Pennsylvania today after casting votes on the budget yesterday in Washington, criticized the Senate's action on earmarks.

Anyone who watched the Senate ``will know how hard it is trying to do the Lord's work in the city of Satan,'' McCain told a townhall meeting in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

Obama, Clinton Back McCain

Six Democrats, including Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, and fewer than half of Senate Republicans backed McCain's plan. Obama said earlier this week that he wouldn't request any earmarks this year regardless of whether McCain's amendment passed.

 Excuse me for sounding naive. I thought "fundamentals" of any economy was take a raw product or resource; make something; sell it. I don't want to argue how strong America's economic fundamentals are, but I'd venture to say they are not as strong as they used to be.