McCain: "Forcing financial institutions to pay employees at least minimum wage caused this crisis"

[Boojatta]

If McCain is right, then isn't Roosevelt (a member of the Democratic Party) to blame for the financial crisis?

[kwyjibo]

1. When did he say that?

[Boojatta]

7. I'm sure he'll get around to tracing the cause back to before Bill Clinton.

However, if he's blaming Clinton then he should probably specify an actual Clinton policy and not simply assume that the name "Clinton" caused the problem. Even McCain will acknowledge that no name -- not even Obama's middle name -- could itself cause a financial crisis of this size.

[aquart]

2. And not the $40,000,000 dollar annual bonuses?

[gravity]

3. Did he really say that?

It is way too absurd

[Boojatta]

12. No, he probably didn't say it, but here's an interesting link:

http://hnn.us/articles/37874.html

Thomas Jefferson, Still the Democratic Party's Hero?
By Susan Dunn

Jefferson's high-point as Democratic hero came in the 1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt adopted him as the symbol of his administration. FDR might reasonably have celebrated Alexander Hamilton instead, for the New Yorker would surely have approved of strong, expansive government.

"He lived, as we live, in the midst of a struggle," FDR said, between rule by ordinary citizens and "the self-appointed few."

And yet other fervent and insightful admirers of Jefferson had a completely different take on him. During the Depression, Jefferson was also the hero of FDR's most virulent opponents, especially the two conservative Democratic senators from Virginia -- Carter Glass and Harry Byrd -- who loathed the New Deal.

Believers in pay-as-you-go, simple Jefferson-style government, Glass and Byrd voted against farm bills, labor bills, unemployment bills, minimum wage bills, and public works programs -- virtually all the legislation that comprised the New Deal.

Edited to add a bit of underlining.

[TwilightGardener]

4. What? That makes no sense.

[texastoast]

5. Link? n/t

[SmileyRose]

6. link?

thanks

[Webster Green]

8. Link?

Really?

[cui bono]

9. Don't post this if he didn't say it. That's just stupid.

[Boojatta]

10. Did Rove never twist anybody's words or is Rove stupid?

[cui bono]

11. That has nothing to do with anything. You're wasting space with nonsense.

[trotsky]

14. Nothing new there. n/t

[onethatcares]

13. what are you trying to say?

juses, you are being not very smart. What did Rove have to do with your post? Or do you have another agenda you're working on?

[samsingh]

15. mccain is an idiot