The Greg Knapp Experience

It’s about time.

“Whatever the question, whatever the issues, there’s always a back story with Senator Obama . . . Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. The crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who could not afford them.

“Bad mortgages were being backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was only a matter of time before a contagion of unsustainable debt began to spread,” McCain said during an event in Albuquerque, NM.

“This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.”

McCain said he raised the alarm and called for tighter borrowing rules on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, which could have helped stem the crisis.

By comparison, he said, Obama was “silent” while congressional Democrats fought efforts to rein in the mortgage giants.

“As recently as September of last year, [Obama] said that subprime loans had been, quote, ‘a good idea.’ Well, Senator Obama, that ‘good idea’ has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” McCain said.

McCain needs to hit this hard at the debate tonight. This is more important to the American people than Obama’s connections to a domestic terrorist or a racist, anti-American preacher. All of those things are important, but the economy dominates everything right now. In addition to those attacks, McCain must give a bold agenda tonight. By bold, I don’t mean spending a lot of money. I mean big changes that can get people excited. Things like totally reforming the tax code, giving a payroll tax cut to the middle class, suspending capital gains taxes for two years to bring new capital into America. Be bold, John.

Hey, Jesus only WALKED on water.

If you are like me you’re not a big fan of McCain, here is one reason to vote for him: Judges.

“A President Obama or a President McCain will likely be handed an opportunity to affect the makeup of the Supreme Court that is unprecedented in our history,” said Wendy Long, chief counsel for the Judicial Confirmation Network, which was active in generating public support for the confirmations of Roberts and Alito.

Obama, supported by a strongly Democratic Senate, could be presented with three openings during his first term, said Walter Dellinger, a prolific Supreme Court practitioner who was acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration.

He said it likely that Justices John Paul Stevens, 88, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, and David H. Souter, 69, would step down in the next four years if Obama were elected.

McCain says he will appoint more judges like Roberts, Alito, and Scalia. Obama most assuredly would not. It’s not just Supreme Court justices. The next president will appoint hundreds of US federal judges. Can you afford to sit this election out?

I loved the part where Biden says “it’s almost unbelievable.” That’s because it is. If you don’t believe me, check out the fact check by the Washington Post

By most independent calculations, the McCain plan will leave most taxpayers better off in strictly financial terms, at least until 2013. After 2013, the benefits will begin to diminish. By 2018, taxpayers in the top quintile will be slightly worse off, but middle-income taxpayers will either break even or be slightly ahead. According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the McCain proposals will result in a net benefit of $1,241 to the average tax payer in 2009, $895 in 2013, and $386 in 2018.

“It is not fair to pull out just one part of the McCain proposal,” said Eric Toder, a TPC analyst. “It is a package. They are giving back more than they are taking away.”

Biden either has no clue about McCain’s plan, or he’s just lying.

This is complete nonsense

Former Gov. Michael Dukakis said Monday that John McCain’s presidential campaign is using the same race-based tactics that were used against him in his 1988 presidential run.

First of all, I don’t agree that the Willie Horton ad was racist. The ad was truthful. It explained that Michael Dukakis gave out weekend passes to murderers. One of these murderers received 10 weekend passes. On one weekend, Willie Horton fled. He then kidnapped a couple, stabbed the man, and repeatedly raped the man’s girlfriend. How is it racist to tell the truth in an ad?

The Brookline Democrat was referring to a recent McCain ad that claimed Democratic nominee Barack Obama received economic advice from Franklin Raines, the former CEO of the recently bailed out mortgage lender Fannie Mae. The ad features images of Raines and Obama, two African Americans, and then an image of an elderly white woman.

Do you want to know why McCain used two black men in this ad? Because the two men he is talking about are black! Obama is black. Franklin Raines is black. How is that McCain’s fault? How is that racist? The woman in the ad appears to be of an undefinable race. Take a look and judge for yourself.

Here’s the skit crafted by Democrat Al Franken for SNL.

Franken, who hasn’t been a staff writer on the show for 13 years, “phoned in” a spoof of McCain recording campaign ads in an edit booth, said an NBC source. Seth Meyers, the show’s current head writer, wrote it, but the sketch was hatched by Franken, a longtime liberal satirist and comedian.

An SNL insider said that, as of the Wednesday script read-through, Franken was the “credited writer with Meyers” on the opening sketch. Show veteran Darrell Hammond is to play McCain.

You can tell Al Franken had something to do with the skit, because it’s not that funny. I guess this is what we expect from the mainstream media. Does anyone believe that if a Republican candidate phone in an idea for a skit to skewer Obama that Saturday Night Live would run with it? Right.

As I pointed out in the post below, Democrats put pressure on the Jewish organizations to disinvite Sarah Palin from the anti-Iran rally. It’s the one where Hillary got very upset that Sarah Palin was also invited. It looks like partisan politics won and the Jewish organizations caved.

On Thursday, the organizers withdrew the invitation to Palin, saying in a statement that in order to keep the focus on Iran, there would be no “American political personalities” at the rally.

“Governor Palin was pleased to accept an invitation to address this rally and show her resolve on this grave national security issue,” McCain said in a statement. “Regrettably that invitation has since been withdrawn under pressure from Democratic partisans.”

Is this another example of the “new politics” that Obama keeps talking about? Applying political pressure to an organization that invited people from both parties to attend? Stay classy, Democrats.

Check this out. You need to click on that link to see the great graphic.

Barack Obama’s pledge to limit tax hikes to the richest Americans may resonate with the vast majority who don’t fall into that category. But a new IBD/TIPP Poll finds that the public in general has little appreciation for how much of the federal tax burden is already carried by the top earners. While the top 1% — those making over $364,657 ­­— now pay nearly 40% of income taxes, only 17% of those surveyed realized they pay that much. More than two-thirds think the top 1% pay less than 40%, and more than a third think they pay less than 20.

The richest 1% earn about 19% of the income and pay 40% of the taxes. Aren’t the rich already paying more than their fair share of taxes? The problem is, most of America doesn’t know this. Obama is going to use class warfare to try to win this election. McCain will not win by trying to out class warfare him. McCain needs to explain our current tax system works and more importantly, make sure the middle class get a tax cut in their payroll taxes.

The good stuff starts at about 48 seconds in. McCain gets in a few shots atObama celebrity-fest on Tuesday night as well. What worries me about our economy is that we are going to overregulate now in a knee-jerk reaction. A big part of why we are in this mess is because of what Congress has been doing all the way back to the Clinton administration. Congress passed the community redevelopment act and forced lendersto give loans to people who really could not afford them. Now Congress is all upset that lenders gave loans to people who couldn’t afford them. Stop the bail outs and let the free market work. The institutions that made poor choices need to suffer the consequences of the people think twice about doing this again. All the people who made the right decisionsview me and every other taxpayer should not be on the hook for this.

Wow. This is compelling.  Make sure you watch until the soldier walks away.  It is even more hard hittingon the news that .  Obama tried to undermine our negotiations with the Iraqi governmentduring his last trip. Here is the latest on that story.

This is rich. It’s truly amazing that the media and the Democrats continue to say that Obama is infighting hard enough in this election.The idea that he is not attacking John McCain is pure fiction.And now, he attempts to take the high ground again by insulting McCain personally. How is that taking the high ground?

Sen. Barack Obama’s spokesman on Saturday accused Sen. John McCain of “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.” 

Obama followed up on Saturday, “The McCain-[Sarah] Palin ticket, they don’t want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we’ve just seen. And they know it,” the Democratic presidential nominee said. “As a consequence, what they’re going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.

“They’re going to talk about pigs, and they’re going to talk about lipstick; they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.”

Let’s see, Obama has said McCain is out of touch, and that he just doesn’t get it. His supporters have made fun of the fact that McCain doesn’t send e-mailseven though his war injuries from Vietnam make it impossible for him to use a keyboard. They have said that McCain is too old and might die in office. Obama has made fun of Sarah Palin as a moose hunter. His supporters have told lie after lie about Sarah Palin’s background and beliefs. They said she tried to force creationism into the Oscar classroom, she didn’t. They said she tried to ban books when she wasthe Mayor of Wasilla, she didn’t. They say, she asserted that the Iraq war is a task from God, she didn’t. In fact, she Prayed that we are on a task from God.

Yet, somehow it’s McCain, who is running a sleazy campaign. Right.