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A maverick who follows the line
Wright on the Left
Tommy Wright
Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: Opinion
After Democratic opponent Barack Obama used the statement to call McCain out of touch, McCain quickly backtracked and said he was referring to the American workers, according to an AP article from Wednesday.
In McCain's defense, he has claimed to know little about the issue.
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," McCain said in 2007, according to a Sept. 4, 2008 USA Today article. At the Republican debate on Jan. 24, he denied ever making the statement.
McCain lost his economic adviser on July 18. The adviser, Phil Gramm, quit after calling the U.S. a "nation of whiners" and saying the country was in a "mental recession," according to an AP article from July 19.
An AP article from Monday stated that some of the blame for the current economic crisis goes back to the late 1990s when a law was passed to "remove depression-era barriers between commercial banks and financial firms." Gramm authored the law while he was a U.S. Senator.
Despite the baggage of Gramm, who according to a Wednesday CBS article was also a lobbyist for investment bank UBS until April, McCain accepted Gramm's help because he knew he needed help on the economic side to win the election.
McCain is still a maverick, but only toward his own ideals. He now only follows what people tell him he needs to do and say to be victorious in November.
Stephen Colbert said it best during the March 19 edition of "The Colbert Report."
"The man is such a maverick, he is even independent from his own true feelings."
In McCain's defense, he has claimed to know little about the issue.
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," McCain said in 2007, according to a Sept. 4, 2008 USA Today article. At the Republican debate on Jan. 24, he denied ever making the statement.
McCain lost his economic adviser on July 18. The adviser, Phil Gramm, quit after calling the U.S. a "nation of whiners" and saying the country was in a "mental recession," according to an AP article from July 19.
An AP article from Monday stated that some of the blame for the current economic crisis goes back to the late 1990s when a law was passed to "remove depression-era barriers between commercial banks and financial firms." Gramm authored the law while he was a U.S. Senator.
Despite the baggage of Gramm, who according to a Wednesday CBS article was also a lobbyist for investment bank UBS until April, McCain accepted Gramm's help because he knew he needed help on the economic side to win the election.
McCain is still a maverick, but only toward his own ideals. He now only follows what people tell him he needs to do and say to be victorious in November.
Stephen Colbert said it best during the March 19 edition of "The Colbert Report."
"The man is such a maverick, he is even independent from his own true feelings."
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