McCain says Iraq "surge" is his model for fixing the U.S. economy

[bigtree]

McCain wants Iraq-style 'surge' to right US economy

by Jitendra Joshi 52 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - White House hopeful John McCain called Wednesday for a policy "surge" to right the teetering US economy, but was scorned by his Democratic rival Barack Obama as a creature of Washington.

McCain, despite new polls that showed Obama leading on the economy, insisted that he had the right approach to stem a tidal wave of job losses and home foreclosures.

"Our surge has succeeded in Iraq militarily. Now we need an economic surge to keep jobs here at home and create new ones," the Republican said at a kitchen cabinet factory in the distressed state of Ohio.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24141183-5001028,00.html


. . . 'shock-and-awe' with a 'time-horizon?

[XemaSab]

1. A new New Deal, like when McCain was a young man?

:woohoo:

Obama may have just lost my vote.

/sarcasm

[spanone]

2. surge mccain....he has nothing

[TwilightGardener]

3. McSurgey Maverick. McMavericky Surge. Jesus Christ, I would hand

over my kidneys to stop hearing the word "surge".

[Botany]

4. McCain keeps digging his own grave.

70% + of Americans think the war was a mistake and McCain is pimping it?

McCain has had some really bad days of late.

Paris Video

Sturgis

We need more nukes

And now this?????? :rofl:

[bigtree]

6. I'm counting on at least one idiotic statement a day from the wrinkly old man

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. So far he's covered until at least Christmas Eve.

He never stops saying stupid things, does he?

[Botany]

10. He is so far out to lunch it is not funny

Telling bikers, My wife would like to be your party girl.

We need to keep working but it is gonna be a landslide.

BTW The Surge didn't work .... It is calm in parts of
Baghdad because it has been ethnically cleansed.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/07/surge/

[guitar man]

5. so....

he wants to indiscrimantly throw a crapload of money at something bu$h fucked up miserably for years and hope it all turns out ok? That would be the "economic equivalent" of the surge in my book, no? :shrug:

[cliffordu]

7. So does that mean we'll be ethincally cleansed and have the shit

bombed out of our whole economy??

Oh, wait, they already did that.

[PA Democrat]

9. Apparently war and war-related activities are McCain's answer to everything.

What's he gonna do? Threaten to BOMB Congress if they don't repeal the ban on off-shore drilling? Threaten to INVADE blue states and steal their assets to give to the red states? This guy is seriously crazy.


:crazy:

[mediaman007]

11. Well, I think that things will look up for people who sell concrete!

[Poiuyt]

12. "Surge" is McCain's mantra - like Guiluiani and 9/11

[kenny blankenship]

13. The Surge Will Cure Cancer!!!

Congenitally blind people over 40 years of age have received normal vision after merely touching the Surge! The lame walk again and the bald shall grow new hair, albeit on their backs, not on their scalp.