Why is no one talking about Phil Gramm's statement?

[gabosaurus]

He called the U.S. "a nation of whiners" and stated that the country is in an "emotional depression."
I am sure McCain loves having such a loose cannon as one of his primary supporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,370415.story

[Kathianne]

He called the U.S. "a nation of whiners" and stated that the country is in an "emotional depression."
I am sure McCain loves having such a loose cannon as one of his primary supporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,370415.story

Actually many are:

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5954.html

There's video, links, and more at site:

Gramm, McCain and Obama

Posted By Jonathan On July 10, 2008 @ 8:50 pm In Economics & Finance, Politics, USA | 15 Comments

[1] Phil Gramm spoke the truth. The economy is in a slow period, but the recession that many of us (including me) anticipated has not happened. IOW, despite significant structural problems in the economy (housing meltdown, inflation, oil prices, weak dollar and other policy mistakes), the economy is holding up. This is good news.

There is a disconnect between the real economy, which is doing OK, and the media picture of an economy about to fall into steep recession if not depression. It’s obvious what’s going on. First, the media industry is consolidating: old media businesses are failing, their employees either being laid off or worried about their jobs; new media businesses like Google are changing the fundamentals of the media industry. So there is a lot of fear and uncertainty among media people, and that uncertainty gets reflected in news reports and opinion columns.

Second, the big media are, as usual, doing their best to get the Democrat elected. This means that the economy is going to be terrible until the election, after which we will (assuming the Democrats win big) experience a remarkable recovery due to the farsighted policies of President Obama and the Democratic Congress.

Gramm was merely pointing out what was already obvious to serious observers. Maybe, for tactical political reasons, he shouldn’t have been as blunt as he was in the Washington Times interview, but that’s hindsight. The problem is that McCain immediately disassociated himself from Gramm in a way that weakens his campaign. Gramm, a former economics professor, is known for having a clue about economics. Indeed he was brought into McCain’s campaign to compensate for the candidate’s widely acknowledged weakness in this area. McCain’s hasty disavowal of Gramm therefore looked like a political panic. He was behaving like the old McCain, whose primary loyalty often appeared to be to the media and Democratic opinion. The media and Democrats decry what they see as a disastrous economy, therefore McCain could not allow Gramm’s reasonable statements to stand. He didn’t even try to spin them but flatly disavowed them. This was McCain at his worst.

The Gramm incident also showed Obama at his worst.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11658.html

http://lonestartimes.com/2008/07/10/...ramm-is-right/


It's a mixed bag, but there's lots more in msm and alternative.

[stephanie]

I guess he should of said he'd like to cut someones nuts off..

[avatar4321]

Senator Gramm is right.

[5stringJeff]

On economic policy, Phil Gramm is right on. McCain would be wise to listen to him instead of disavowing him.

[mundame]

Senator Gramm is right.

Of course he's right.


I haven't felt like this since Vietnam, and I don't think I felt so bad then!

[Joe Steel]

He called the U.S. "a nation of whiners" and stated that the country is in an "emotional depression."
I am sure McCain loves having such a loose cannon as one of his primary supporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,370415.story

Everyone knows Gramm is an idiot.

[red states rule]

Phil is right, The US is becoming a nation of whiners. It is sad to see so many people expecting the government to take care of their needs, wants, desires, and problems

[avatar4321]

Everyone knows Gramm is an idiot.

He seems quite smart to me. Which means you are either uninformed or just lying because obviously everyone doesn't know that Gramm is an idiot.

[red states rule]

Libs may not like this poll (yes I understand it was a web poll guys)


Time.com Web Poll: Why, Yes, We Are a Nation of Whiners
By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
July 11, 2008 - 12:54 ET

Yes, it's unscientific and it is a Web poll, so it should be taken with a grain of salt, but a Time.com survey today finds 61 percent of respondents think that, yes, America is a nation of whiners.

The screen grab at right was taken shortly before 12:45 p.m. EDT. Around 12:30, when I first saw the poll, the numbers were similar: 60-40.

Here's how the question was worded: "As Phil Gramm suggests, is America a 'nation of whiners'?"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-she...nation-whiners

[actsnoblemartin]

because you're a whiner gabs, and youre suffering a mental thread

He called the U.S. "a nation of whiners" and stated that the country is in an "emotional depression."
I am sure McCain loves having such a loose cannon as one of his primary supporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,370415.story

[Hagbard Celine]

I guess he should of said he'd like to cut someones nuts off..

The point is that everyone's so partisan that nobody ever acknowledges the fact that this stuff is coming from both sides.

[actsnoblemartin]

but the question is, who is more evil

cause were all supposed to vote for the lesser of two evils?



and does the evil of democrats get a pass because republicans arent perfects, and does the evil of republicans get a pass because democrats arent perfect, or is evil just evil

You are completely right about partisanship

The point is that everyone's so partisan that nobody ever acknowledges the fact that this stuff is coming from both sides.

[Little-Acorn]

Here's how the question was worded: "As Phil Gramm suggests, is America a 'nation of whiners'?"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-she...nation-whiners

No, we are not a nation of whiners.

We are a nation where most people work pretty hard, enjoy pretty good success with a few mistakes and bad-luck incidents sprinkled through their lives, and do not do the kind of whining Gramm refers to....

...plus a statistical minority who don't work so hard, and so get whacked a lot harder by the mistakes and bad luck they have, and whine to the high heaven begging for Government to take over and shield them from the problems and trials of life.....

...plus an even smaller number who work hard but have a disproportionate number of mistakes and bad luck, and so wind up having very tough time, often through little fault of their own. Of these, some change their ways, accept the charity of frinds, neighbors, church etc., and eventually work their way back into relative prosperity; while others remain downtrodden, poor, and often overworked.

That's life, and the result of life. And no one has EVER found a way to change these results... except by restricting and taxing the first group more and more so that many of its members wind up in the third group, while paying some of the third group enough to boost a few of them into the first group... and paying large numbers of the second group which has NO effect of getting them out of that group. Net result: First group (the well off) gets smaller, third group has overall increase, second group remains the same, both in size and in news coverage.

No, we are not a nation of whiners. But we are a nation where a few whiners get much more media coverage than the much larger group of non-whiners, and so we LOOK like a nation of whiners to people who look at the headline on the front page rather than looking at the nation itself.

[April15]

He called the U.S. "a nation of whiners" and stated that the country is in an "emotional depression."
I am sure McCain loves having such a loose cannon as one of his primary supporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,370415.story

All you have to do is know who said it and it is self explainetory.