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[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] It’s the Economy, John: Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday a firmer government hand is needed on Wall Street and a $30 billion stimulus is needed to rescue homeowners and the jobless. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a new job retraining program to remedy what both candidates derided as Republican indifference to a sputtering economy.
[The Political Inquirer] John McCain doesn’t know much about the economy and doesn’t really ...: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday sharply criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s views on the housing crisis, illustrating a wide gap between the two parties on how to fix the ailing economy .
[Accomack County Democrats] POLITICAL WIRE’S HEADLINES - 3/28: Key finding: “The new polling suggests that the Wright affair has not hurt Obama’s standing, in part because his response to the controversy has been viewed positively by voters who favor him over Clinton. Obama’s handling of the Wright controversy also won a favorable response from a substantial proportion of Clinton supporters and even from a third of Republican voters.”
[WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com] Political Perceptions: Obama and”¦.Bloomberg?: “But four months later, as Bloomberg’s decision to introduce Obama today revives the ‘dream-ticket ruckus,’ I have to admit: maybe there’s something to Obama-Bloomberg ‘08,”
[Kevin Tracy] John McCain’s Poll Numbers May Be Unrealistically Inflated: The mathematical process here was a bit on the long and drawn out side, but assuming that that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are splitting Democrats 45/45 (according to the most recent NBC/WSJ poll), and then assuming a majority (but not all) of Hillary and Obama supporters will unite behind the eventual candidate, and assuming the RCP average reflects the 19% and 28% of Obama and Hillary supporters telling the pollsters they’d vote for McCain, I came up with some revised numbers.
[Liberty Street] It’s the Economy, Not Wright: And the senator’s language obscures the reality that most troubled homeowners did not get into trouble by themselves. Lenders, aided and abetted by bankers and do-nothing regulators, lured many borrowers into overly complex, ultimately unaffordable loans.
[EVERYTHING YOU NEED] Obama, Clinton offer economic plans: ’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, without naming him explicitly. Obama said outdated bank regulation needed to be reformed in the 1990s, but “by the time the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework.”
[FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog] Barack Obama Chides John McCain on “Sit Back and Watch” Economic ...: Obama told an auditorium of supporters.Obama pointed out that McCain “said the best way for us to address the fact that millions of Americans are losing their homes is to just sit back and watch it happen. In his entire speech yesterday, he offered not one policy, not one idea, not one bit of relief to the nearly 35,000 North Carolinians who are forced to foreclose on their dreams in the last three months.”
[Brendan Calling] Bob Casey Endorses Barack Obama: By coming out for Obama, Casey puts himself at odds with many top state Democrats - including Gov. Rendell, Rep.
[Informed Voters] YouTube Video Roundup of Clinton, Obama, and McCain on the Economy: A Video Roundup of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain on the Economy ”” by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at the Care2 Election Blog). The economy continues to be the most important issue to voters.
[Soonerblue's Weblog] Late-night jokes recap 3/28: “Of course, this has hurt Hillary’s claim that she’s the candidate with the most experience. Like, when Hillary said she went to 80 countries, turns out she only wanted to go to one country, but she had booked it through Priceline.com.”
[Buckeye State Blog - Pamphleteers of the Revolution] What the Hell's Going On Here?: He has no plan to fix the economy (how about somebody blog about that?), no plan to fix the Medicare trust fund which will be broke in 10 short years, no plan to fix Social Security, no plan to repair our nation's infrastructure, no plan to balance the budget and begin to repay our massive national debt, no plans to do much of anything except maintain the status quo for four more years. And that status quo is one that 70% of Americans don't approve of, and they'll realize that as soon as we stop cluttering up the airwaves beating the snot out of one another.
[Fred Malek Blog] The Economy Needs Bold Action, Not Partisan Attacks: Obama:. ”John McCain has said that he doesn’t understand the economy as well as he should, and yesterday he proved it in the speech he gave about the housing crisis.
[Presidential Blog] Obama’s economic fix: Award-winning OCRegister biz blogger Jon Lansner has a great post about Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s economic speech and proposals - and those of fellow candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton ”” on his blog here.
[The New Nixon Blog] Featured Articles ”” March 28, 2008: Barack Obama says: “John McCain is determined to carry out four more years of George Bush’s failed policies.” Obama is a politician, so it’s normal that he’d choose to repeat the lines that some of his followers want to hear. But before people buy that argument, I’d ask them to read three speeches.
[taxvox: the Tax Policy Center blog] A Choice, Not an Echo: If we can get past all the noise about Barack Obama’s minister, Hillary Clinton’s 11-year-old recollection of an airport tarmac, and John McCain’s stumble over which Iraqi gunmen are backed by the Iranians, voters will actually have real choices this November. If you don’t believe it, think about how they’d manage today’s economy.
[David Ortez - A Political/Social Thought Blog] Around the World for 03/27/08: Clinton, Obama offer economic recovery plans - Democrat Barack Obama said today tougher government regulations that reflect the realities of modern finance are needed to get a grip on the economy before it gets even worse.
[The Swamp] After economic speech, Obama busy raising money: "The American people are tired of the sniping from the Clinton campaign, both real and imagined," said Jen Psaki, Obama's traveling press secretary. "Today's event was a general fundraiser in a room paid for by our campaign and attended by people from varied backgrounds who are committed to changing the tone of our politics, and rejecting the kind of tactics that the Clinton campaign is now embracing...Any suggestion that this was a fundraiser hosted by the mortgage industry is as imaginary as the other tall tales that have been coming out of the Clinton campaign lately."
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