Obama mocks 'whiners' comments by McCain adviser

That's how the Rebublicans think. They think that everyone who is on public assistance or disability or doesn't vote for them or doesn't make as much money as them is flawed. Phil Gramm was just voicing out loud the true sentiment of your average Rebublican. Americans are not a nation of whiners; there isn't any job we won't do. One thing about the Republicans: They don't like Vietnam Vets either. That's why it was Bush and not McCain who got the nomination in 2000 when the Republicans could win. The elections are designed to make sure brave people like John Kerry don't win. The cowards that are in charge hate it when the really courageous people make it to the top.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE RECENT PICTURE OF MCCAIN WITH PHIL GRAMM? MAKES GRAMM LOOK LIKE VP MATERIAL---HE ACTUALLY MAKES JOHN, THE AGED, LOOK ONLY 72 YEARS OLD! AND AS GRAMM WOULD NO DOUBT SAY: "THERE IS NO DEPRESSION, THERE IS NO RECESSION, THERE IS NO PROBLEM ECONOMY, THERE IS NO 100 YEAR WAR (YET), AND THIS euroBUD'S FOR YOU; WITH THIS TYPE OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!" YEAH RIGHT!!!! (AND FOR THE REPUBLICANS--JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, THAT WAS SARCASM.)

Dear Honest: Republicans love Vietnam vets, just not the ones that come home and throw the ones they left there under the bus. Kerry was, is, and will always be a liar, elitist, and far left liberal anti war freak. I am a vietnam combat veteran and I would take Mccain over Kerry anyday in a foxhole.

Phil Gramm is correct. People just don't like hearing the truth. They'd rather drool over Obama's Pie-In-The-Sky phony promises.

Newc: Jim Webb is a Vietnam veteran and he is more of a man than McCain will ever be. Until he became the presumed nominee for the Republican Party, McCain was a credible and unique candidate. Now he is just another empty suit who will say and do anything to win. He represents nothing. How he could possibly even be in the same room with Bush after what Bush did to him in 2000 is proof. And Newc: Next time you are in a "foxhole", let me know. This is not WW II. I doubt that you ever saw Vietnam or left the U.S. Maybe in your dreams. I'm not impressed.

Phil Gramm is spot on. Most people these days whine about almost anything before they blame their problems on somebody else.

Maybe the Mr. Gramm would like to pay my morgtage, car payment, buy my groceries & pay my son's tuition so he can finish his college degree. I've been out of work since March. To date, I have applied for 125 jobs and had only 3 interviews. I have 38 years experience at what I do. The economy sucks! I live in one of the worse states possible to find a job, right smack in the middle of the rust belt. I have gone as far as to apply for jobs in any state I can find one. Then if I do find a job in another state, I will have to try to sell my house & find somewhere for my son to live. Mr. Gramm, you need a dose of some kind of reality drug!

Absolutely true. McCain better get his courage back and stop acting like some pansy. He knows as well as anyone we have become a nation of cry babies. No personal responsibility, do your stupid best and then ask the government to bail you out. Good for Gramm, McCain had better crank-up the "Staight Talk Express," or end-up as another has been. Get with the program, the American people may not like it, but they can take the truth more than some honey coated BS, I hope.

Mr. Gramm is a symbol of what is wrong in America today: a politican who has profitted from the suffering of the very citizens he was supposed to represent. Instead, he found that it was more lucrative to himself if he became a puppet of the banking and oil industy. In his time in the Senate, he constantly supported big business over the common man. Now he is personally profitting from it. There is no way I will support John McCain with people like this on his team. The American people need to realize that Mr. Gramm is a lobbyist for a foreign bank. Do you really think he has America's best interests at heart, or just cares to line his pockets with more money?

Stellaleo: At the rate Kerry was picking up medals (6 mos in country) he would make Audi Murphy look like a slacker. A coward in Senate clothing. Jim Webb, as far as I'm concerned is an Ex-Marine who crossed over to the "Dark Side." Absolutely no respect for him and his treatment of the Commandering Chief. McCain had a son in Iraq and did not act like he was a martyr.

Unfortunately, I must agree with Sen. Gram, in so far as least as the fact a large number of Americans have become endless whiners. Sadly it makes it hard to judge the actual impact of any problems, since at the mere mention of a possible difficulty, the whiners explode in a deafening chorus of intense bawling. A direct result of easy lives for so many, and P.C. conditioning, I imagine. Sort of a twisted "Pavlov's [bleating] dog" kind of thing. Also, I agree with dansan22, McCain needs to cowboy up and at least show he is capable of a firm response. McCain will accomplish nothing but defeat of his bid if he doesn't start showing a little spine concerning some of ridiculous and obscene attacks being launched against him by Obama and his "handlers".

Mr. Gramm is totally out of touch with reality. He has no idea what has been happening to hard working Americans in the midwest. Now the economic pain moves towards the east and west coasts, and the rest of the country is finally waking up. Maybe someday corporations will "outsource" those million dollar executive jobs. Then things might change.

There you go, whining again.

This is very reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's remark before the 1980 elections that the nation's economy was gripped by a "malaise", which many people believe ultimately led to his failure to win a second term as President of the United States. When Carter made this remark, the GOP jumped all over him. Well, the shoe is now on the other foot, and it'll be amusing to watch McSame's attempts to wiggle out of this one. Malaise is defined as: "a general feeling of worry, discontent, or dissatisfaction, often resulting in lethargy." To me, there is no difference between what Carter said and Phil Gramm is now saying as part of McSame's campaign.

I don't disagree with the words Mr. Gramm has spoken, I don't like that it comes comes from a politician of either party who has likely tried selling the "I can fix it for you if you vote for me" elixir and profiting from misfortune of their own constituents. I think we have to remember that it is the "pursuit of happiness", that doesn't guarantee cheap gas, the next job, or an easy life. It should guarantee that we are not held back from the opportunity to achieve them. We have it easy here in the US! Unfortunately we often act as a nation of individuals that are willing to sacrifice our neighbors, communities, and livelihoods for a cheaper pair of sneakers.