Former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, a co-chair of the McCain Campaign and a top economic advisor to that campaign, created a stir yesterday by saying that the United States was a “nation of whiners” that were in a “mental recession”, McCain could not distance himself quickly enough from the Gramm remarks. From MSNBC:
“I strongly disagree” with Phil Gramm’s remarks, McCain told reporters in what amounted to nothing short of a smackdown against one of his top surrogates and longtime friends. “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.”
McCain also held out a future role for Gramm in a McCain Administration as ambassador to Belarus.
Obama did not waste much time going on the offensive:
“It’s not just a figment of your imagination,” Obama said at a town-hall event focused on helping women advance economically. “Let’s be clear. This economic downturn is not in your head.” “It isn’t whining to ask government to step in and give families some relief,” he said, drawing a standing ovation from the nearly 3,000 people in a high school gymnasium. “And I think it’s time we had a president who doesn’t deny our problems or blame the American people for them but takes responsibility and provides the leadership to solve them.”
And so in one day we have both candidates having supporters trip up in outside remarks, but the day, in my opinion, goes strongly towards Obama. And Phil Gramm gets a one way ticket to Minsk.
Bill Manzi.com 
Your Honor,
Graham is right, we are not only a nation of whiners, but we are a lazy bunch as well, counting on Government to fix everything in their lives.
We have become the “Ask what your country can do for you” nation.
These are tough times for sure. But, after being hammered all day from the print and electronic media, who have their own agendas, “the sky is falling”, we are going to crash, we are heading to a melt down, it’s going to be 1929 again, only worse; I wonder how many buying decisions have been put on hold magnifying the situation.
Yup, Phil Graham is right.
Jules
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