McCain: It’s Not A Bailout, It’s A Rescue

• September 30, 2008

There’s a difference?

(CNN) — The $700 billion financial plan for Wall Street failed in the House of Representatives because people are not convinced it is a “rescue effort,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain told CNN’s “American Morning.”
“We haven’t convinced people that this is a rescue effort not just for Wall Street but for Main Street America,” McCain said from the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday. “We didn’t do a good enough job.” Semantics. See, "rescue" sounds better. It's an easier sell. "Rescuing" someone is noble, and has life-saving connotations. As in, if we don't do the rescue, people are gonna die.
But “bailout” has negative connotations in politics. It evokes thoughts of welfare, and that’s not what people want to think of when they think about powerful finance industry companies.
In short, this is a rather ham-handed attempt by McCain to re-brand the crap sandwich Congress is currently trying to make us eat.
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http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

I heard Steve Forbes say this morning that arguing about the bailout is like arguing about what brand of Defibrillator to use to rescuing a dying patient.

Do Something.

OK, I’m not sure do something, even if it’s wrong is good policy. But, we have a pretty grave situation, Rescue is the right word. McCain is right and our saying la la la la with heads firmly embedded in the sand is wrong.

If it all goes down it will be beyond life support. As we fall into the ocean full of sharks and drown or are eaten alive we will know in our hearts we were right.

But Still just as dead. Kind of like the old Goldwater slogan. In your heart you know he is Right.

Wouldn’t it be better to live to fight another day?

I’m not sure that the populace who will suffer the most (that’s you and me folks) really have a clue on how bad this really is.

It’s bad. Really bad. Life support and seizing up from cardiac arrest.

Time to quit being parochial about the defibrillator brand and start applying the paddles.

STAT
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http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

IF we are not careful it will only be a like a band-aid, if we don’t get rid of it! This huge amount of money will seem like a drop in a bucket in another 10 years.
LittleOrby

Rescue? I propose that the government bail out all the gamblers that have lost their fortunes at the gaming tables. Payoff everyone’s mortgages. Take over the oil companies so everyone can have free gas. Bring in all the Peones from Mexico we need to be our servants. Why folk, with the government running everything we’re talking Eden right here on earth . . . Just like Cuba
LittleOrby

Damn right I’m mad. Does McCain, and most of the Senators in Washington think the ‘thinking’ Americans are stupid enough to swallow their crap if they just rename it caviar.
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Why look! blackwaterboob has gifted us with a self portrait…
Eneils Bailey

In short, this is a rather ham-handed attempt by McCain to re-brand the crap sandwich Congress is currently trying to make us eat.

But, you don’t understand…
Eat shit…50 billion flies can’t be wrong.
WOOFX

a rescue effort not just for Wall Street but for Main Street America,”

People remain unconvinced.

McCain said from the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday. “We didn’t do a good enough job.”

Cue the snow job , cue the blow job.

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