John McCain: What a Croc!
By Nicole Belle Monday Jul 07, 2008 8:30pm
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John McCain spoke in Colorado trying to sell his economic plan on Monday, and further proof that he truly is McSame, he used the same cite as Bush did eighteen months ago.
In addition to small business, the other bright spot in our economy are our exports, which are estimated to be growing at over 7%. I'll expand markets for our goods and services. 25% of all the jobs in this country are linked to world trade. In five states alone-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and believe it or not, Colorado - over 5 million jobs depend on open markets. My opponent believes America would be better off by refusing opportunities to sell in growing foreign markets. But protectionism not only puts a hidden tax on almost everything you buy, but it undermines American competitiveness and cost jobs. 95% of the world's consumers live outside of the United States. Our future prosperity depends on opening more of these markets, not closing them. Five years ago, the outdoor footware company Crocs was started by a couple of entrepreneurs with a great idea, ingenuity and drive. This former small business now employs 600 people in Colorado alone and sells over 50% of its products in 90 countries around the world. Building barriers to Crocs or any American company's access to foreign markets will have a devastating effect on our economy and jobs and the prosperity of American families.
Crocs (which are probably what your children are wearing right this moment) seem to be a perennial favorite when GOP presidential candidates come to Colorado and need to call out a Great American Company[..]
Once again, they either have incompetent fact-checkers, or they're lazy, or they're just plain lying.
Truth be told: Crocs weren't invented by "a couple of entreprenuers" in Colorado, let alone by Duke Hansen.They weren't even invented in America. They were invented in that Great Frozen Socialist Paradise to the north. You read that right: ugly neon-hued foam shoes are another diabolical innovation for which we can Blame Canada.
The company that invented them was subsequently bought by Hansen and two other aforementioned Colorado entrepreneurs, who added the cute name and the marketing gloss. But the shoes are still made abroad -- in Quebec, where the employees come pre-equipped with their own health insurance. Or at least, they were until recently: in April, the company announced that 270 jobs at the Quebec City plant would be moved to a new plant in Mexico. Rumors abound that the entire Canadian operation may soon close, and all manufacturing will move south.
In other words: it's another Great American Business that does most of its business elsewhere. Six hundred US jobs is a fine thing -- but it would be many, many more if they were actually made here, too. [..]
In other words: it's a Great American Business that's run by Republicans, who are evidently getting everything their generous donations to the GOP paid for: presidential puffery, low taxes -- and a tanking economy that's left fewer and fewer families in a position to pay $35 for a pair of kids' shoes.
Yup, those facts sure do have a liberal bias.
yup blame canada,
my favorite is this morning in cnn when grandpa simpson was telling john roberts how he was going to balance the budget, in his first term
hahahahahahahhaha
The whole issue is so simplified by McCain and backers of "free trade" that it's honestly hard to even choose where to start the debate. It isn't that "free trade" isn't FREE TRADE really, or that economic elites can undermine democracy, destroy the environment, constantly lower wages and increase wealth inequality, that it splits those who produce into one category and those who own what is produced and profit off of it into another, or any other concern. It's just about exports and "open markets", no more complexity needed I guess...and the crowd cheers "yaaay!"
I still cannot believe there are ppl foolish enough to listen to this moron speak and go yep and uh huh and will vote for a version of mini me bush!
Mike the Canuck @ 1:
Yeah, he'll lower taxes, maybe get rid of the estate tax, he won't increase spending outside of the military (because a TRILLION a year just isn't enough) and STILL balance the budget. He'll do that by privatizing what's left of the government I guess, cause that's worked so well whenever it's been implemented elsewhere, sure sounds like an election winner in these times to me...
Small business are a bright spot on our economy? This guy is taking LSD. On the other hand, I will only believe that Obama cares about small businesses when I see him campaign and go against immunity to telecoms.
Yes, there are people who will listen and go "yep". They just don't want a Democrat, regardless of how incredibly bad that Republican may be.
But our exports are skyrocketing..... to IRAN!!!!
What is not to believe?
For those of that that are not American it has been an ongoing joke that America created democracy....apple pie and motherhood!
What part of "America is Gods gift to the world" memo did you not get?
Just kidding...I love you guys.
yep, we export democracy and 'aerial death from above' to one and all, just ring 800-555-USAF for the daily special offers.
Theres plenty of 3rd world villages glad to see US warplanes fly over, drop their bombs and then fly away,
brings tears to many eyes.
yeah john (the maverick) did you mention the weak dollar as being a strong driving force for exports....that can't go on forever remember you recently said we have to "talk up the dollar".....we have to bring a better balance between exports and imports....make healthcare affordable .......balancing the budget in one term i think might be a pipe dream
LibertyLover @ 7:
While politicians get their macho thing on, and scream and rant.
sane business people trade everyday worldwide, its the nature of humans to do so.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 11:
remember warfare is abnormal and a sign of weak politicans, its not sane behavior of normal human to human dealings.
here's some of that republican neocon humor....will kill
iran with cigarettes we export to them...this is the guy that wants to fix the healthcare system i don't see it
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0832180920080709
Damn it man! Why do try to confuse Mr McGoo with FACTS?
McCroc'o'shit
The 'fearful child'
That's it McCain! Insult a veteran! Christ! Why would a verteran vote for McCain now?
"In addition to small business, the other bright spot in our economy are our exports, which are estimated to be growing at over 7%."
---McCrazy
Yeah, our exports are up because when the dollar's value goes to shit we suddenly are a source of cheap goods and the dollar has lost 40% of its value under Bush.
Of course as the dollar drops it also raise the price of oil and gas here and...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/business/07econ.html?hp
Rasputin @ 18:
wealthy stockholders pay much less for capital gains it's all a racket at our expense
It was a lie. They knew the truth yet decided to hedge it. Sorry, sir, you told a big fat lie. Not only are the jobs in another country, that factory is closing and the jobs will be going - to another country! Nothing at all benefitting the US. how does your economic plan work again, sir? oh, and thank you for your service.
Let's see...balance the budget in his first term...from the savings we garner from winning the wars in the middle east and cutting all the taxes corporations pay on anything especially beer distributors!!
I wish I had his drug supplier...I could make a fortune just from the one that induces self-delusion on demand!!
AND, then I would get the Gestapo to work for me arresting old ladies outside the venue where I was trying to delude everyone already on KoolAide on the inside!
How much better can this get??
90.2154% of statistics can be manipulated 76.8875% of the time. The statistical probability that McInsane is lying every time he speaks....100%.
Funny, most of the crocs that my family have had (8 pairs collectively) were made in China. Some were made in other countries. NONE bore the mark made in the U.S.A. Yeah, I like 'em...but they're still cheap crap made in exploited foreign markets, and I'd gladly pay a little extra (or alot if needs be) to have one of my countrymen (or women... equally paid, of course) get the paycheck for their creation and assembly.
Crocs? Never heard of them. But if they're "ugly neon-hued foam shoes" it's probably just as well.
And yeah mcsame is an idiot, I think that's pretty well established.
mccain is right, wisconson's exports are up. the exports are jobs though.
I could've sworn they were invented in the northeast US but I guess I was wrong. I still have a pair before Crocs sold out to major investors and came up with all kinds of styles. Back then, they were just supposedly something to wear while boating IIRC, or similar activities - back before everything was manufactured in China. Now they chew up kids feet when they're riding the elevator and spit their toes out.
Maybe I missed it .. which "opponent believes America would be better off by refusing opportunities to sell in growing foreign markets" ?
Is he referring to Obama?
Obama said, "America would be better off by refusing opportunities to sell in growing foreign markets"?
That's a direct quote?
anyone?
After returning to London in high spirits from an excursion to see the great Neil Young play a barnstorming gig at the Hop Farm festival in Kent, I was standing at the bus stop in Trafalgar Square with my girlfriend only to suddenly have the following order barked at me by a goon in a bright yellow jacket:
"YOU. STAND OVER THERE."
"Excuse me? Are you addressing me?" I replied.
"STAND OVER THERE." the man repeated while pointing about 1 metre to his left as his female colleague stood silently staring.
"No thanks, I think I'll stay here." I replied.
"WE CAN DO THIS THE EASY WAY OR THE HARD WAY." He continued, attempting to assert some form of power over me in his own mind by forcing me to pointlessly move one step away from my current position, while speaking to me in a manner you or I would a dog.
After five long minutes of refusing to move until he told me why it was necessary, the PCSO told me he was stopping me because he saw me adjust my shirt and put my hand in my pocket.
That's right, the new terror threat is people with their hands in their pockets.
Welcome to your New World Order.
Krackonis.... Police Community Support Officer is another name for fascist Nazi Gestapo pig fucker... or in this country....Homeland Security Officer.
I suspect there is a better 2nd and 3rd web-wave format for your site. Posting rejoinders to the days news places you in a hopelessly unproductive, ambulance-chasing, reactive position over and over; and the news just devolves into a cast of villains and saints, becoming a tiresome harangue/echo chamber (even if you hate McCain and Bush, as I do) which is quickly forgotten as it's passed over for tomorrows more current whining. Doesn't that frustrate the fuck out of you? You're barely finished with the previous days smackdown and it's already been passed into the inactive news portion of the liberal mind. After everyone discharges their daily snark, they feel like they've done something but here we are.
Imagine the results you could have if you devised a systematized, running agenda that was as smart and activated as the best political thought instead of this run-of-the-mill prolonged adolescent approach of reacting to todays news with carping and whining ad nauseum? Compare the result that might have, to how little you're going to acheive after barking at McCains heels for the next 4 months?
I used to read these pages and believe they had power, but after 8 years of Raw Story, C & L, Huff Post, Pelosi, Reid, Dems and Libs acheiving dick, and succesfully halting ZERO of Bush's machinations, sites like this are clearly of little value. Don't you want to acheive something with your efforts? ...or is whining the point?
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constituent @ 19:
As a poster so aptly summed it up on Paul Krugman's blog yesterday:
The small investor is cannon fodder for the big financial investors who are well connected and know when the bubbles are about to pop!
It gives the small guys a sense of security... for a while.
I wouldn't see why anyone would want to vote for McVoodooVoodooEconomics since he is so inconsistent, flip flops, and has even admitted that he is not an expert on the economy.
Friar Tuck @ 3:
Get used to it, he's going to be the next "leader" of your country, the one that will try and dig the hole deeper than Bush did.
** John McBush won't surrender South Iraqi-Nam to North Iran's Sunni gooks **
John, the Navy declared you mentally fit in 1999, but PTSD wasn't a big deal to them then, or now.
Twenty percent of service members returning from Iraq suffer PTSD. None has endured what you endured. Five years in a North Vietnamese prison cell subjected to disabling tortures, it also must have created still festering psychological wounds.
Little yellow men in black pajamas. Those "gooks" haunt you don't they John? An interview with Tim Russert becomes a Hanoi Hilton interrogation. Beach Boys' tunes pop up in your head singing 'Barbara Ann' as 'Bomb Iran.' No one can presume to question your authority on military issues. Can they John? You know-it-all. Your hair-trigger smart ass replies, your well-documented temper tantrums, your mood swings.
Perpetual war. Viet Nam never ends does it, John? Kill the gooks! Bomb Hanoi! Never surrender! There's light at the end of the tunnel. America love it, or leave it. Cambodia's next. Forty years drop away like napalm, don't they John? For you, it's still 1968.
But it's 2008 in Iraq. And, blind militarism is all you know. Iran's next, right Sideshow John? We're forced to share your disgusting atavistic delusions for 5 more months. John, on the tube you exhibit that befogged glaze of incomprehension, just like Ronnie when robotic charm failed him.
Your clouded memory, your non-rational irritability, and unwavering bellicosity amount to a mental health disqualification for high executive office.
bipolar2
© 2008
He truly is trying to recreate Bush's second Presidential campaign...even down to the spots now. Next stop, aircraft carrier?
MC Stupid ain't fit to be shit. Id like to believe there isnt enough fuckheads on the whole planet to put Mc Grandpa over the electoral top.
MountainMan23 @ 27:
So far as I know, it's not in LexisNexis and not anywhere in Google land. It only appears in documents and transcripts that contain the "My opponent said..." when it is not clear that Obama ever said that.
he's a dumb asshole. end of discussion.
what is this the town hall of the white beards, white heads and bald heads?
obama? a protectionist?
oy!
I believe you mean "crock", as in "crock of sh-t". Unless you mean Crocs foam footwear. A crock is a big pot you throw stuff in and make stew for good eatin. If one's opinion's are a "crock of shit" it means they are ill-informed. Dismissed.
Nate @ 41:
Nate--
Did you read the article? I thought Croc was a misspelling as well and then I read the article and discovered it was about Crocs and then understood the play on words.
Please read before commenting.
if small biz is a bright spot, then why is mcoldfool still pushing for more corporate tax cuts?
why cant i as a small biz get the same breaks?
he doesnt give a shit about me
and exports are going up? only because the dollar is falling
hey john, we dont make anything anymore you stupid pos
look, the guy admitted that he knows nothing about the economy, and he continues to prove it
here's a 1-year stock chart for Crocs:
CROX: Basic Stock Chart for CROCS, INC.
What a crocodile? Is he shedding crocodile tears? I know he's full of shit, so that would make sense.
One thing that is a crock is McDishonest's his citing of exports. It's only happening because the dollar is becoming worthless on the global exchanges. More, exports provide nowhere near the benefits they did before we exported our manufacturing base out of the country. It's hard to imagine anything that could be exported nowadays in which all the raw materials or components (metals, chips, clothe, you name it) weren't made overseas. All that exports are doing are offsetting a small portion of the trade deficit that was created in making the imported components of those exports. But, a very small something is better than absolutely nothing, I suppose.
Mendacity. It's a GOPer virtue.
Crocs and liars, huh?! :-)
What a load of hooey. It's a good thing that the American people are engaged and ever-skeptical of the nonsense crap spewed by Republicans and their handmaidens in the MSM. Because if they weren't we could end up with another foolish, wrong-headed, lying Republican as president!
It's sad that he couldn't come up with a better example than Crocs. Is that what the once-mighty American economy has been reduced to? Peddling ugly shoes?
"Another stock to follow is Crocs (nasdaq: CROX - news - people ). The shoe maker popped more than 15% Tuesday, with higher-than-usual trading volumes."
---- imagine that. Tuesday.
Crocs are from CANADA.... you idiot...!!!
If McCain's economic policy is built on erroneous facts then this country is really heading down the toliet... This guy can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground and you want him to be your leader....
The rest of the world and particularly the Chinese must be laughing at us all the way to the bank....
This guy's energy policy is a joke, his economic policy is a joke, and frankly his foreign and security policies are a joke...
America can continue to vote for these Republicans, but the fact of the matter is this country will just keep falling behind economically.... the Republican party brings nothing to the table economically or to make our businesses more competitive....
Big business in this country wants a better healthcare system. I would say most businesses would want universal healthcare, as it would make them more competitive with the rest of the world. Corporate tax rates in the U.S. are now amongst the highest. And I am sure that big business would rather take the tax dollars being wasted in Iraq and on the military and put it into healthcare and education.
We can continue on with these Republican policies, but the world will continue to pass us by, as our dollar continues to be devaluated...
Check the link - everything that McSame said about Crocs was a crock.
"If being tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5+ years qualifies McCain to be president, then there are more than 250 current and former Gitmo detainees who are just qualified to be the next Afgan president." MZ
Old man whistle tooth is getting on my nerves
Crocks and Liars!
MountainMan23 @ 27:
Maybe McAlzheimer means the North Vietnamese.
Obama has intelligence, which I think would be nice in a President once again.
When Bush took office the S&P 500 was 1343. It is now well below that level. This is unheard of for a two term president. His tax cuts for the elite wealthy have killed our economy and the proof is in any number you look at. McCain wants more of the same.
Obama's plan actuall lowers taxes on 95% of earners while reshifting more of the tax burden to where it belongs. Again, the proof is in the numbers. Go look at the 90's under Clinton's tax policies and tell me how the economy did there. The S&P 500 went up 3.4 times where it was when Clinotn took office.
If you have a retirement account with a mutual fund in it, vote Obama.
Factual Al @ 55:
Don't be ridiculous, Clinton had absolutely no hand in improving the economy during the 90's. However, MICROSOFT, which is a company that introduced a product which made all businesses more efficient definitely had a hand.
And its not tax cuts for the rich that lead to economic ruin- its tax cuts while SPENDING IS RAISED that causes the problem, since inflation is needed to keep up with the spending. There's nothing wrong with tax cuts ACROSS THE BOARD(rich or poor). Infact, the spending is so bad that you can take all the money that the rich in this country have and we still wouldn't be able to afford it. So no the answer is not MORE taxes for anyone, stop supporting the government stealing people's money.
G String @ 2:
It IS that "free trade" isn't free trade really. All those free-trade agreements we make with various countries shouldn't even be called free-trade(what kind of free-trade needs thousands of pages of documents??), more like "managed trade". Free-trade and the free-markets are nonexistant in this country and its stupid to blame them over and over.
McCain is stupid though, sure exports are going up, but all the raw materials these manufacturers need are IMPORTED- so it is a loss for them. Not only that, but if exports all go up, what happens to the american consumer? Prices skyrocket since there will be practically no more supply here at home after foreigners by everything up.
Mike the Canuck @ 1:
Grandpa Simpson.....that is too funny! I love it! And so appropriate too.....ha ha ha ha!
It reminds me of the rant Bill Maher made about how America used to be great in the days of WWII and the Great Generation, but not anymore.
So the only thing we can do is buy up other foreign businesses. Great!
And we export cigarettes to Iran and the rest of the world. Great!
And I remember seeing that the #1 Export of the U.S.A. is paper to China for recycling! Great!
Every day, I think about the late George Carlin when he talked about America going down as a failed empire.... do I need more proof?
The Rude Bellman @ 42:
You are so helpful! Look at you! All by yourself and everything.