He is gone, are U kidding me, Oh no I'm going to go and lay in the bed and just whin my self to sleep, or maybe I need to talk to Dr. Phil because it might be all in my HEAD!!!!!

Thats proubly a good thing I was just wondering If we can all call McCaine names like McSenile and the old goat things like that and its ok to bash his age all the time (and sometimes his looks just like the Obama camp did to hillary with the gender thing is it OK to to call him Oblackie, Boy, the ink spot ect I know CNN wont print this but its more of a question. Why can you bash age and Gender but not heritage?

Talking about bad apples. First oabma and his racist minister. Then another racist minister. Sits there 20 years, said he didn't see it. Talk about stupity or just palin liar. I'll bet on stupity. God, think, Pelosi , Dean. Obama…. living proof the world is going to hell one liar at a time.. I knoe CNN won't show this because it;s not Obama loves us all and his BS message of change.

Thats how many people in the McCain that have dropped out for being stupid? If you judge a potential presidential candidate by the campaign that they run, then McCain is a mess.

Proud Papua New Guinean Obama Biggest Fan;
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Who actually cares what you say? Are you registered to vote in the U.S.? Vote in Papua New Guinea for Obama if you want! And then shut up!

Geeze! All these non-U.S. people with their 2 cents thown in!

And now we have Obama going to Europe! Just another Brad/Angelina event to them, believe it! Europeans will take it in, but they've been through some REAL stuff and will give Obama some lip service and nothing else. And, still, they don't vote for our president! So it's all a moot point.

And regardless of how Obamabots try to portray it — America still leads the free world — and the Europeans as a whole understand and suport that. I know! I'm a naturalized American European immigrant.

So Gramm's whining about all the whiners…. By definition, a "whiner" is a person who complains without presenting a solution. So I guess that makes Gramm a whiner also!!!

It doesn't matter if Gramm steps down or not, He called America, us, this country, a nation of whiners and to add insult to injury, pretty much said we're all crazy for thinking we're in a recession. He represents McCrain and has McCain's hear, and the fact of the matter is he speaks for McCain! As far as I'm concerned, because Gramm is lock-step with McCain, the comment about us being a nation of whiners, came out of McCain's mouth. McCain cannot be allowed to get away with a fake apology every time one of his surrogates verbalizes something stupid, that we all lknow McCain embraces and feels the same way about. McCain called us a nation of whiners because Gramm speaks for McCain.

Oh, and by the way, Gramm is stepping down out of public view to work behind the scenes to try to derail Obama's campiagn. Won't happen "Gramps" and Grandpa"!

What's funny is the reaction to Gramm's comments just proved them right

As a lifelong Republican, I am fed up with the comments and the lack of action by the party. It pains me to say this, but I will be voting for the Democratic party in this upcoming general election.

I do not trust that McCain will make the drastic changes that are necessary to keep the U.S. the superpower that it is. We need to change our international image and we need to get our troops out of Iraq, invest in alternative forms of energy, eliminate our dependency on foreign oil, repair the healthcare system, get the lobbyists and special interest groups out of the White House, and repair the housing market by punishing predatory lenders.

I do not think that Obama can fix all of this, but I KNOW that McCain will not.

Obama '08

It's only a "mental recession." You only "think" you have resigned. And quit WHINING about it!

AMERICANS AT LEAST THE ONES WHO SUPPORT OBAMA ARE NOT ANYTHING ELSE BUT WHINERS. I AM SO TIRED OF EVEN HEARING OBAMA'S NAME MUCH LESS THINKING THAT THIS MAN COULD BE VOTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. WHAT IS THIS NATION BECOMING. WE HAVE NO STOMACH FOR WAR. WE HAVE NO STOMACH TO WORK FOR A LIVING. ALL THE OBAMA SUPPORTER CAN DO IS COMPLAIN THAT THEIR MAN IS BEING ABUSED BY THE MEDIA WHEN IT IS THEM THAT ARE THE ABUSERS. OBAMA IS QUITE OBVIOUSLY THE MEDIA'S BOY. BUT EVEN WITH ALL THE PUSHY MEDIA AND THE OBAMA IDIOTS THIS MAN WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT COME NOVEMBER. HILLARY SUPPORTERS BAN TOGEHER ALONG WITH THE REPUBLICANS TO KEEP THIS GANGSTER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

Gramm was a political operative in the pay of a Swiss bank, which is under federal investigation according to the Washington Post. Ethically challanged is an understatement, in my opinion.
McCain, unfortunately, has begun an intensively negative course in his campaign, making it more difficult for me to see him largely as an old war hero. He's now coming across as an embittered old man.

Americans ARE a bunch of whiners! And I'm disgusted at how many people say McCain is "too old." I didn't think we believed in age discrimination here in America. Guess I'll have to tell my 75 year old father to knock it off and stop going to work, and the same for my father and mother in law at ages 76 and 80. Horrors! What are they thinking?

Talk about out of touch. Phil Gramm is obviously out for Phil Gramm, but then aren't most of those Repubs, including John McCain. Liar, liar, liar, and oh yes, liar.

Doug,

No one from our team asked him to step down. Your "friend" McCain asked him to step down because the things he said OFFENDED struggling Americans… whose votes he needs to win the WH.

Honestly, the way he's been messing up over the past few days I rather wish he would've stayed around to further damage JMc's chances.

Know what a REAL whiner is?
1) Someone who buys a house he/she can't afford because he/she is too lazy to read the "fine print"
2) Someone who has never put their life on the line for anything and then ridicules someone who has
3) Someone who had never lived under a totalitarian regime and pretends to understand what that would be like
4) Someone who never reads an article describing pros and cons and then pretends to be an expert on the subject
5) Someone who thinks terrorists shoud be invited over for "tea" after watching the horrors of 9-11
6) Someone who just doesn't get it when they actually watch Daniel Perl and others beheaded in front of their very eyes
7) Someone who is OK with having his/her parents pay for his/her upbringig and tuition and then defame them as useless "old people"

THESE are the whiners!

aargh . . . should've been employees, not employers

Phil Gramm said Friday he is stepping down as co-chairman of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign after comments in which he called Americans "a nation of whiners."
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Lisa—— He was talking about Obama……..LIsa do you pay attention
asto what the Article is abouit………are you so bitter toward Senator Obama you automatically point your finger at HIM no matter what
NOw Phil GRAMM exact QUATE—( Americans "a nation of whiners.")
Which includes YOU.again Phil Gramm -Americans "a nation of whiners.") you owe Senator Obama an apology

and remember this is the same Phil Gramm whose wife was on Enron's Board of Trustees keeping a watchful eye on the well-being of the company and its loyal employers

Ok, now it's Charlie Black's turn to get fired, and the swiftboat veteran buddy of his.

I can't believe it!!! McCain called the US a bunch of Whiners????

Old turtle-head label fits perfectly.

You tend to whine when you're choosing between gas and food on the table. I don't know, maybe its just me, but does it seem that the Repubs are a little out of touch with what it feels like to not have a ton of disposable income? Or at least the Repub candidates and their minions.

mccshame mcbush mcwar go home with your lobbyist buddies. people listen this guy is a joke and war addict. BUSHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha 10 percent taxes try living in Canada just recently our taxes has gone down from 15 percent to 13 percent and we are all quite happy. I wish I was paying 10 percent LOL

and if you belive that im not buying it he just wants to make us think that!!!

The only thing more disasterous than a McCain presidency would be a McCain presidency with Phil Gramm as treasury secretary.

Do your research, think about it. Scary, very very scary.

Those idiots from Obamavile hope and pray that this gets them "Somewhere" Wishful thinking

I think it's interesting that so much focus is put on this situation, for just a simple, but still insulting, comment. And yet Jesse Jackson says the n-word and makes threats about Obama, saying he wants to "cut his n*ts out", and nobody says anything. But you don't Jesse Jackson stepping down, or doing anything except apologizing. Also, you don't hear Al Sharpton saying anything about it, either.

Poor little WHINERS. Your man Obama is being exposed for what he is, and you just can't take it. WHINE, WHINE, WHINE!

To those of you who lack any respect for your elders—-we hope you will be older some day and finally realize that 72 is NOT OLD!
If you should be so fortunate to live that long, you will realize just how little you knew when you were 20, 30, 40, 50, etc. Obama is still so green behind the ears. Shangrila is not a reality! GROW UP!

What is with all these old men. Shouldnt they be retired?

It took this long? Why? McCain is going to lose!

TT'S ONLY IN THE LOOSING TEAM THAT PEOPLE ALWAYS STEP DOWN. DO YOU REMEMBER THE SAME SCENARIO WITH HILLARY? HOW MANY PEOPLE STEPED DOWN?
ONLY ONE PERSONE STEPED DOWN IN OUR CAMPAIGN AS FAR AS I KNOW.
GO OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE IS YOURS FOR 8 YEARS.

McEnd flying in his wife airplane to New Mexico ask the pilot :"tell me if I start throwing by the window some $100.00 bills until I spend 10 millions of my wife's money, how many people would I make happy? the pilot answer "maybe 1.. 2 millions persons.
What should I do to have a lot more people happy, the pilot answered :"you know if you want you can make 200 millions people happy" Really? what should I do to make these 200 people happy? the pilot answer "Just open the door and jump"

Gramm was absolutely right in his statement—this has become a nation of WHINERS. "Oh, my goodness, the government won't do enough for ME, ME, ME. I'm on the dole now, and me and my family always want to be on the dole." Yes, there really are a bunch of WHINERS. And when Obama gets to the White House—IF HE GETS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, we will hear more of the WHINING! That's what his friends do. "GOD D___ AMERICA", THEY SAY. What a bunch of WHINERS!!!

McCain can run all the negative ads he wants …however his policies are horrible. The Phil Gramm thing was just one example of a whole long list.

Mcdumberer is responding late. Same old mcstupid taking action for political gains, hey johny boy it's too mclate

What a shame that political correctness has forced a man to quit for having told the truth. Gramm is right, we have become a nation of whiners. Boo, hoo, you paid $400,000 for a house that was worth only $350,000 because you thought you'd be able to sell it to some other sucker a year later for $400,000. Too bad you happened to be the last sucker on the chain when it broke, but shut up and don't ask the rest of us to bail you out. Boo, hoo, you were too stupid to leave New Orleans when you were told a cartegory 5 hurricane was on the way and then you trashed the trailer that was loaned to you by the taxpayers. Boo, hoo, you're 22 years old and have five kids from five different fathers and can't afford groceries to feed them but you have an iPod and a tattoo. Boo, hoo, you didn't win American Idol even though you have a terrible voice and your friends and family were stupid enough to humor you and tell you that you actually had talent. Boo, hoo, you weigh 450 pounds and when your doctor told you that you need to lose weight if you want to live a few more years, instead of taking his advice you sued him for "damaging your self-esteem." Boo, hoo, you just figured out it's stupid for you to be spending $600 per month on a new hybrid car payment in order to save $150 per month on gas.

Obama, of course, needs those whiners to get elected. "We want free stuff!" they demand, and he promises to provide it.

All of you can eagerly vote for Saint Obama (not that McCain, a.k.a. "democrat-lite," is much of an alternative), but in a year or two America will consider wonder-boy the worst President in U.S. history. Why? Because you can't make things better by raising taxes, preventing oil exploration, standing in the way of needed power plants, buying into Al Gore's CO2 scare-mongering-for-socialism, and giving people free benefits which allow them to stay home and suck the rest of the nation dry.

Sammy, regarding your post…."Maybe the next will say something stupid like "the only good Iranian is a dead Iranian" or "Saddam was merely misunderstood".

Sorry to say, McBush has already said that the increased US export of cigarettes to Iran must be our way of killing them. But, he has yet to 'step down'….there goes your theory.

Obama 08

Mr. Gramm, I dont understand why you'd step down for simply telling the truth, we are whiners we complain about almost anything, not realizing just how lucky we are and lucky that we are from a country where you can whin about what you dont like. You left out the fact that some people are just plain lazy too and expect someone else to Give it to them and would not dream of helping someone else out. Sir, you should have stayed and not backed off this statement.

Phil Gramm has resigned but his ideas and ways of looking at things still remain. It is very easy for rich people to not understand the trails of the poor and when they stick to ridiculous right wing economic theories that tout naked capitalism, they become completely tone deaf.

There are hundreds, no thousands of other republicans who think like him who are behind McCain. Gramm merely gave voice to what is in these people's hearts. Their only hope now is to scare the American people and play upon their less noble qualities with code phrases like "who do you trust?" and paltitudes like "country first".

Let's get read for it, it will only get worse from now on.

The rabid dogs supporting Obama are getting worse. A story comes on the ticker and they start howling in unison: McSame, McBush, age jokes, now the vomit statements. I can only ask:

WHO ARE YOU IDIOTS?

You are a bunch of morons. Curiously, you resemble the cast of fools who show up day in and day out to support Oprah Winfrey's show. I am a socialist fan of the Democrats, but cannot stand Obama. For the sake of these frothing dogs who blog in his support, I hope he gets trounced in November and you all go to hell!

Fine by me!

Lisa in VA,

I couldn't agree with you more!

I see McCain stepping out of the race soon for unknown reasons.Just who would take his place is the question?

It pains me as a former Republican to witness the pitifull fall of Phil Gramm but he is a good representation of the Republican Party. He is a man without morals or scruples who would sell his soul for a dollar. His lot of Republican criminals have cast a great stain on the soul of my (boomer) generation.

mccain for president of panama!

McCain is just tightening the strings on his bag of tricks he's saving for January 08.

Is there any group of whiners that these s c u m b a g s hasn't intentionally insulted??? these cold war over the hill a holes don't even know when they have insulted people from hispanics to muslims to all of us whiners who just need to buck up!!!!!

if somebody is ignorant enough to still vote for these neocon j e r k s, you get what you deserve……

I realize we have fallen a long way in our collective intelligence quotient, but really….are these total slanders just the daily vernacular of this d o u c h e b a g??? is this still the price for freedom????? who is left to defend that he hasn't already insulted????? when mcbush attacks iran, who will be left to serve this i d i o t????

even the troops and 81% of americans know we are going the wrong direction and fighting the wrong war….duh, people….you think?????

He should take McCain with him…

Time for direct debates between the candidates instead of these surrogates. Obama can use the line "This is the best country in the world. Vote for me so I can change that."

PUMA - Vote McCain

Uh….we ARE a nation of whiners. Look at the way we live. We're in a state of national panic because houses are expensive and gas is expensive. Now look at some of the other parts of the world. You think we're going to get any respect from any other country on the planet, when a lot of other countries don't even have food on a daily basis? We sit and moan about Bush, about how Obama said something in a speech and how we're not voting for him anymore, about how McCain is a bad guy because of this and that…LOOK AT ZIMBABWE. LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER THERE. LOOK AT DARFUR.

"Ohh but I can't drive my Honda Civic as much as I like to. I can only drive my car when I need to go places! Oh life is so much harder now!"

I was born and raised in America, and I can say firsthand that we are nothing but spoiled brats. We have no concern with any other country but our own, and then we expect other countries to be sympathetic to us. The oil companies, in large part, are foreign powers who despise us, absolutely positively. And while we tend to destroy anyone who does something we dislike as a nation (like Iraq), our country shuts down if you raise prices by $2.00.

Hummm…

That Straight Talk Bus/Plane keeps losing parts!!!

Come on Gramm… man up! No whining!

California Independent July 18th, 2008 7:57 pm ET

It is disappointing to hear a surrogate make such negative, ignorant stereotypes of the American people. I'm glad he's gone. At least candidate McCain didn't do like Obama himself did and call the American people bitter, clingy and having antipathy towards those that don't look like them (racist.) At least candidate McCain's wife didn't do like Obama's wife and call the American people sloths, cynics and mean.

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Well I am bitter. In fact, nearly every normal person I know is bitter. Bitter that Bush / Cheney / McCain do the work for big oil, insurance companies and giant corporations. I am bitter that billions of dollars are being wasted everyday in a senseless war of occupation initiated by an idiot president. Bitter that thousands of young people have been killed or severely injured because of this insane war. Bitter because people like you would rather lie about Barack and Michelle than exercise your mind just a little to learn the truth. Bitter that in 2008 we still have more than a few racist dumb dumbs who would rather vote for a senile, psychotic warmonger than for an intelligent, thinking man simply because of the color of his skin. Yep. Darn right I'm bitter.

But I won't be on November 5, 2008.

I honestly thought John McCain was gonna be the dude.
GOP Games are just too obvious. "CLEARLY FALSE"
Obama has been too genuiune. Voting McCain would be a lie.

OBAMA 08

Sorry for being blind!

Shows how naive this whole thing turns out! Comeone USA choose the right president. Time for Change. I'm tired of reading and hearing what's coming out from McCains mouth and his so called delegates!

Phil Gramm was right to stepdown, There is only room enough for one whiner in McBushs campaign. McCain isn't happy unless he is whining, complaining or attacking Obama about something. He should be concentrating on what he thinks he has done, and will do for the country. Play up your accomplishments, John. There are so few of them.

I forgot to add this…This is off topic, but has anyone heard from Cheney? He's been pretty silent. Wonder what hes up to? Is he perhaps planning that October surprise thing, you know kinda like the 9/11 thing? Just thought I'd ask…

The only thing left for Gramm to do is complain about the "nattering nabobs of negativity."

Thats the way it goes. Clinton had her own surrogates who said silly things that in time left the campaign… and they left. Obama had em… and they left. I am sure there will be more later. Maybe the next will say something stupid like "the only good Iranian is a dead Iranian" or "Saddam was merely misunderstood".

Nah.

That Lisa chick is so nutty she makes me want to change my name.

Gramm and McCain are too old and out of touch with the real world.

California independent, please stop calling yourself an independent. You're clearly partisan. Also, learn to speak and write properly. You seem just as dumb as the idiot you're supporting, and its only making him look worse. Obama is bad but clearly McCain is worse. I am not supporting either because I am a true independent who evaluates candidates on a non partisan basis. I never supported McCain for obvious reasons, and now I'm not supporting Obama because he directly lied and/or drastically changed his positon on NAFTA and FISA. I am reluctantly supporting Bob Barr out of principle even though I know he has no chance of victory with the media bias against candidates who aren't republicans or democrats.

Barr '08

Get out of the trenches Bob and show the media and America what you're all about.

What a shame and this is sad. Time for Change and Yes We Can.
Obama all the way.

This guy resigned not because of his out of touch and outrageous comments, he resigned because his tie to UBS Financial. He is a vice president at UBS and he is their main lobbyist. He helped American fugitives and criminals hide their fortune from IRS. He is the main conspirator of these of shore banking. He help defraud the IRS over 100 billion dollars.

That's too bad…when you hear his explanation of what he said…it makes perfect sense. He seems like a smart guy, too bad.

California Independent,
Obama was absolutely right. The American people are BITTER about the fact that after billions of dollars and countless lives have been lost in this senseless war, that John McCain has the nerve to call it a "victory", yet has no intension of ending it. We're CLINGING onto the hope that our next president will be able to salvage what little respect the world still has left for us and reverse the downward spiral of our economy. And yes, contrary to popular belief (or at least your belief) RACISM is still very much alive in this country.

TO CA INDEPENDENT:

You, Sir/ Madam, are just that independent…independently STUPID, that is, and A PUMA to boot. You know what you are regurgitaitng are patent LIES that a great majority of us are sick to death of hearing.

If you're not happy with Senator Obama, fine!!! But stop the LYING!!!

Why the lies CA Ind?? Are you so pathetic you just make stuff up over message boards for fun?

Just remember this VOTE THESE idiot fat cat CROOKS OUT.

I was searching for a surname in genealogy and came to someone
in another clan same surname that had donated $20,000 to this FATCAT creep Phil Graham .

I have to say….mccain you are an idiot for hiring the idiot who ran giuliani's campagn to the ground. McCain is just stupid, stupid, stupid. It's almost like he wants to lose.

Hello friends, neighbours, cousins to the south. A question for you folks:

Anyone out there who is not a "whiner", but is still "bitter"?

G

AND… you couldn't find a bitter American with the most sophisticated detection devices!? lol

To heck with those old men and their irrelevant and outdated ideas. They're getting desperate on their way out.

What a sad day in America when any official would have to step down for stating his/her belief just because it may hurt someones feelings. GROW UP citizens and stop your whining. Take a little more control of your own life without goverment and you will soon realize this country owes you nothing but security and freedom (to speak).

The McCain campaign is hopeless. They are beginning to look like the Clinton fiasco.

Hey the second Dr. Phil is gone hope he doesn't say anything to hurt Mr McCain . Oh and hope he doesn't whine too much.

STOP YOUR WINNING…

McLame: We are not a nation of whiners.

Phil Gramm…useless as ever ! Say goodbye Phil

Bye Phil….wish it were Dr. Phil

The Dem's having been whining since, and this may bother many of you, so…please read it slowly so you don't hurt yourselves, since E-Gore lost and since Kerry lost. Non-mainstream America, which includes the Media Elite, the Elite (more rich than the Republicans) Rich on the left, the family friendly special interest groups (Killing Millions of Babies for Money aka Planned Parenthood, those Rainbow types teaching our kids about "my 2 dads," those supporting child porn aka ACLU, etc) and the stupid.

The Dem's and many of those who support them are morally and or intellectually bankrupt (or suffering from a severe intellectual drought).

I suppose when the top 1% pays almost 40% of the taxes and the bottom 50% pay a whopping 3%, folks get use to a free ride. Make the "rich" pay for everyting. Government funded everything. YOUR tax dollars at work. Obama and the left will destroy this country with their radical, socialist policies. Get a clue people.

The worst part about this, is McCain wets himself and falls all over the place to apologize and "make nice." He simply makes himself look like a bigger loser. He needs to grow a pair and step up to the stupidity on left. McCain sucks, but NObama and the left will be worse.

Why can't a guy tell the truth anymore? What do you call Lou Dobbs, for example? Is he the only one?
whiner >> Definition: A person who habitually complains or grumbles.
Synonyms: complainer, crab, faultfinder, growler, grumbler, grump, murmurer, mutterer, shouter

Being bitter about politics and what you perceive as your government doing nothing, and holding onto those things one feels they have control over ( religion, guns ) is quite different than being called a nation of whiners because the economy is in the toliet for most americans. Obama/Hillary 08

This resignation is not real, it is only in his head.

The reality is that, he will continue to work for McCain behind the scenes.

Just like Karl Rove, eventhough he officially resigned, he is still the Bush's brain.

These are called media resignations.
They mean nothing.

Really? It's a "given" that Obama will win? Don't think so! The "silent majority" — those who don't bother to blog — just sit back, smile, and will silently but decidedly vote in droves for McCain in November. And — dang! — they're probably old, too — go figure!

Good idea for him to step down. People in the public eye, like Gramm and the former Obama staffer who called Hillary a "monster," really need to remember that they ARE in the public eye and every word they say is recorded and broadcast to the world. No matter how good they are at what they do, or how well-meaning they may be, they are only a word away from being history. And that goes for Jesse Jackson's mouth too.

Was for Hillary….now for McCain.

Was a lifelong Democrat…..now a brand-new Republican.

Why did he resign for telling the truth?

I don't believe it. He'll be in the background like Karl Rove advising! They're all liars and hypocrites.

Mccain's seven steps of politics.

1.Mccain supported Bush's plan to invide Iraq.
2.Mission Accomplished sign.
3.Iraq is the central front on terror not Afghanistan.
4.We have won the won in Iraq.
5.our economy is very good.
6Americans "A nation of whiners".
7.Mccain predicts Spectacular Terror Attempt In Iraq.

Where are your bearings Johnny?

"At least candidate McCain didn't do like Obama himself did and call the American people bitter, clingy and having antipathy towards those that don't look like them (racist.) At least candidate McCain's wife didn't do like Obama's wife and call the American people sloths, cynics and mean."

At least candidate Obama didn't do like McCain himself did and oppose the GI Bill for the veterans he's building his candidacy on. At least candidate Obama's wife didn't do like McCain's first wife and get dumped by the curb for not being pretty after her accident.

We can play this game all the way to November.

And don't you dare whine Mr. Gramm!

Don't worry boys and girls…After the first debate, John Mcgoo will want to resign too.

Took the elite prick long enough.

usb ,enron, everything that hard earning americans are up against .
thats what the republicans had as their main man to back up their incumbent. you people are sad if you want to vote for McCain and his lobbyist.we all have more to lose. you might as well open your wallets and let him have it.

the tide will Change and loose go home.

Obama 08

How many people have McSane thrown under the bus? Let me guess–too many to count. Charlie Black and Bud Day are surely rotating in the wheel well of the Straight Talk Express.

When Obama returns to the states, both Bud Day and Charlie Black will have been flung to the side of the road like roadkill. Seeya!!

I agree with Mr. Gramm. America has become a nation of spoiled, overweight, Self centered, greedy whinners. The Chinese have said before that Americians and stupid and lazy. Just look around you. Just Washington D.C. proves this.

McCain made a decision and it was swift….not like Obama and it took him months to get rid of Trinity/Uncle Wright - oh that's right, they aren't gone - Uncle Wright is out of retirement. So McCain makes decisions and Obama does not. McCain Presidental…Obama NOT!
McCain sticks to his decisions….Obama NOT!

HOW STUPI , STUPID, Stupid of Phil Gramm to say that just when we need all the support for OUR MCCAIN . That OLD ignorant old fool of Gramm should stay the hell away of MCCAIN .Come on Republicans I am still voting for MCCAIN.

California Independent July 18th, 2008 7:57 pm ET

It is disappointing to hear a surrogate make such negative, ignorant stereotypes of the American people. I'm glad he's gone. At least candidate McCain didn't do like Obama himself did and call the American people bitter, clingy and having antipathy towards those that don't look like them (racist.) At least candidate McCain's wife didn't do like Obama's wife and call the American people sloths, cynics and mean.

You sound bitter and mean. Obama speaks the truth and maybe that hurts but it the truths people are bitter. I'm bitter at 4.55 gas and you are to just admitt it

Its ironic that Phil Gramm stepped down because of whining in the media about his comments that we whine too much.

Gramm was right on!!!

The Dem's having been whining since, and this may bother many of you, so…please read it slowly so you don't hurt yourselves, since E-Gore lost and since Kerry lost. Non-mainstream America, which includes the Media Elite, the Elite (more rich than the Republicans) Rich on the left, the family friendly special interest groups (Killing Millions of Babies for Money aka Planned Parenthood, those Rainbow types teaching our kids about "my 2 dads, those supporting child porn aka ACLU, etc) and the stupid. The Dem's and many of those who support them are morally and or intellectually bankrupt (or suffering from a severe intellectual drought).

Slick Willie has truly ruined your party. You truly believe if you lie enough, if will be truth. Sadly, you are half right. Repeat it enough, no matter how hollow or stupid, and the mentally challenged actually begin to accept it.

I suppose when the top 1% pays almost 40% of the taxes and the bottom 50% pay a whopping 3%, folks get use to a free ride. Make the "rich" pay for everyting. Government funded everything. YOUR tax dollars at work. Obama and the left will destroy this country with their radical, socialist policies. Get a clue people.

The worst part about this, is McCain wets himself and falls all over the place to apologize and "make nice." He simply makes himself look like a bigger loser. He needs to grow a pair and step up to the stupidity on left. McCain sucks, but NObama and the left will be worse.

Ha,ha,haaaaah! Who's whining now?….. Next!!!

Mr. Day is next… this is his year to get Swift Boated!

Gramm is not just stepping down due to the "whiners" remark, but also because he is an officer (vice chairman, I think) to UBS (Swiss) Bank. The same bank that helped funnel Billions of US dollars off-shore to help the rich avoid taxes. That's the bigger scandal, which the media has yet to report.

Pity. Gramm was right on the mark. Americans need to wake up and realize the hole they are digging for themselves. Government is not the problem or the answer for everything. If our politicians had any guts, they'd be speaking the truth as Gramm has done.

Hey Tony he is a senator at the federal level not the state level. And what does your tax increase have to do with Gramm resigning? Typical Republican distraction attempt. The hilarious part of this story is Gramm acting as if McCain has a leg to stand on in a debate about economics.

I would never vote for McCain BUT why do so many people find themselves swayed by what some one else of no major importance, says? I am not going to vote for McCains wife. I am not going to vote for Obamas wife. I am not going to vote for jessie Jackson. I am not going to vote for anyone but the candidate who I think would make the best president . I think that is Obama. If you think McCain is the best choice, then vote for him. But why place any importance on what a lot of egotististical baboons say???????

IS JOHN MCCAIN AND EVERY CORPORATE CEO IN THIS COUNTRY SOCIALIST SINCE THEY NEVER SAW A SUBSIDY THEY DIDN'T LIKE? IS SENDIND OUT STIMULUS CHECKS SOCIALISM? IS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIALISM? IS MEDICARE SOCIALISM? ARE GOVERNMENT LOANS SOCIALISM? SOCIALISM IS ANTHER MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT THAT THE RIGHT LIKES TO USE ALONG WITH THEIR OTHER FEAR WORDS THAT SEEMTO DRAMATICALLY CONECCT WITH THE IGNORANT.

the BIGGEST WHINNER is the idiot obama…the most bigoted, egotistical person

Lisa…….. He was talking about Obama

LISA if you are an AMERICAN ……He was talking about you

he called Americans "a nation of whiners."

now if we can only get mccain and all the other redumlicans to quit this country will be a better place for the rest of the people who actually want to move foward and prosper!!!!

Now John McCain have to learn ecnomics 101.

Now, if we can get McCain to go next!

Gramm still frames McCain's policy. McCain and Gramm have been friends for decades. Gramm's remarks were simply a glimpse of McCain's mindset.

Is this the way McCain will run the country - the way he has run his campaign. McCain is a WARMONGER and there is no getting around it. The man is desperate - he will do and say anything to win.

I'm a 60 year old Republican w/female voting for Barack Obama. Barack will be one of our greatest President's in history.

Gramm is a relic of the Republican party. The rest of his tired old cronies should just follow him out the door. He was part of the confrontational party politics that has poisoned American politics for too long.

DID JOHN MCCAIN CONSISTENTLY VOTE AGINST RE REGULATION OF LENDERS AS A RESULT OF PHIL GRAHAM'S INFLUANCE? COULD THIS BE A REPEAT OF HIS KEATING SCANDAL? DID MCCAIN'S SUPPORT OF UBS CONTRIDUTE TO THE CREDIT CRISIS?

We are going to keep on whining until McBush steps down.November is just around the corner.

Ha Ha Ha!

America - take a good look at the picture of these two guys.

With all do respect they are too old and if age wasn't a problem their own feeble minded words have come back to haunt them on how out of touch they really are.
They have now got together and plan to release a joint statement that reads as follows…"Women don't need birth control. Pregancy is only a mental state and those that think that birth control pills should be treated the same as viagara are only a nation of whiners "

Here is my question to the blog particiants.

All kidding aside…would anybody really put the republicans back in office for four more years after what they have done to the American people??

No, McCains wife stole perscription drugs. Oh wait, when the rich do it, it's being candid. How the hell would she know if she was proud, she was stoned on pain pills. Let the mole man go. To hell with the bunch of the old coots club.

If we're going to keep talking about obama's wife then how about we talk about Mccains wife. You know the one who was ook on drug, the one who was seeing another womens husban.

He'll work behind the scene.
McCain is all smoke and mirrors.

Stepping down??? I guess that makes it easier to be run over. McSame threw him under the bus. Doesn't matter, the damage is already done!!! We will not forget that comment.

Good! Mccain showing his patriotism and no BS attitude, Give em heck sir.

You've all started to forget. Time heals all? more like time blinds all.
Obama is already a failure
Mccain '08

Seems to me he's whining!

Easy to call others whiners when you get your transportation, food, clothing and housing subsidized by American taxpayers.
At least when he was in Congress.

I guess he is the example of a "True Patriot".
Yea, he was talking about members of Congress……….not!
Just another example of how detached politicians are from the real world.

Too late, damage done.

That fumbducker should be thrown in jail for this mess he has created. The housing market collaspe due to his deregulation and the enron loophole allowing dark markets for the drive up of energy sources.

Talk about overblown reaction. Of course the Leftist press and the lefties on here will throw their little temper tantrums. If every time one of Obama's cronies resigned after saying saying something stupid there would be no one left to advise him. In fact HE would be gone long ago too. The socialist whiners.

Gramm didn't step down… McCain was BUSTED still having meetings with him after he claimed to have distanced himself from Gramm for his comments about our nation of so-called whiners.

LIAR!!!

Goodbye, who cares. Can he please take McCain with him?

California Independent, "sloths, cynics and mean" we should add dumb to that list, we elected georgie boy TWICE!!!!!! and now we're actually giving credence to his sidekick, McCain

I can't believe a republican is even allowed to run after what they've done to this country, it's criminal

bring on the third Bush term, we deserve it…….if we can't see past our own bigotry and actually elect a thinking man with much sounder judgement than those two then we deserve everything we get

Obama '08

Come and think about it, I think I was responsible for it!! Hmmmmm, it seems to me that I should be more critical more often. Plus, this ain't the first time I got someone out the door…….ohhh yeah, with my crazy theories!! LOL!!!

California Independent -whatever! What you just said is so so lame and - he said that PA people were bitter, clinging to guns and religion -he said nothing about "people who don't look like them". Where did you get that from? He said the country was mean - meaning we need to start treating our citizens better than we are doing now.

Unreal how when you really hate someone (like you do) - you will go to any means to twist the words.

Don't get me started on McCain - I am not even going to go there - I can go on and on. And Cindy is no angel - I can recall some dishonest thingS that she has done that the media continues not to report like the addiction to pain killers in which she stole from the group in which she was helping. Please don't get me started.

McCain is looser and can't keep his stuff together. McCain has a WRONG decisions and judgment and EVERYTHING and copying ALL from Barack. Your attacks will NOT work this election.

Phil Graham was right. Just read all the post entries. You guys obviously don't know much about Phil Graham. He makes obama look like a sophmore.

Take McSame with you!

Anyone who reads some of these blogs could not help but sense a lot of whiners out here, Obama being one of the worst.

Tony

Do you think that GRAMM WAS REFERRING TO YOU WHEN HE CALLED AMERICANS WHINERS?

I REALLY THINK THAT GRAMM HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! HE JUST FORGOT THAT ALL NAILS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL!

It's about time that doofus stepped down.

Since he has stuck his foot in his mouth so much i guest it's time to quit.He has help ruin the status of the country by what he put through congress 12yrs ago.Now will sit back and rack in the money.For what he has done he should be in jail.This is sad that this old fart along with his cronys messup this country.

Phil Gramm released a statement blaming the Obama campaign for his ouster. Instead he should take responsibility for comments that actually offended a lot of people who are not millionaires like Gramm. It is frightening to think that McCain would keep him at a top economic advisor as Gramm has a history of pushing for deregulation leading to eventual collapses. Gramm was good friends with Ken Lay from Enron, and his wife even worked for the company!

Gramm is the last person we need developing economic policy in this country and John McCain's apparent admiration of his economic career is frightening.

MCAIN IS ALREADY TOO OLD TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF USA
It’s almost guaranteed that McCain will lose. He won’t be able to run in 2012 as he will be way too old. Right now he is just viewed as too old. Only 2% of people polled think someone in the 70’s is the best age for a President. So he has questionable health, is already viewed bu others as too old, and even states so himself: In the 2000 race he stated that he would be too old in 2008 to run again. So he is not trying to build momentum for a later victory, a-la-Reagan.”

I could only wish he got hit by a real bus.

California Independent - First of all, Michell Obama did not say those words so stop lying.

Secondly, McCain may not have uttered the words himself, but her certainly treats us as if we are all too stupid to notice that he really does not know what he is doing. He has now started to drift towards Obama on Iraq AND Afghanistan even as recently as yesterday. I am sure he will try to make it look like Obama's stances were his all along.

All of the neocons need to step down…

"It is disappointing to hear a surrogate make such negative, ignorant stereotypes of the American people. I'm glad he's gone. At least candidate McCain didn't do like Obama himself did and call the American people bitter, clingy and having antipathy towards those that don't look like them (racist.) At least candidate McCain's wife didn't do like Obama's wife and call the American people sloths, cynics and mean."

Go ahead!! Keep your guns!! But I don't wanna see you "whining" in the end when you're struggling…….and by the way, where the heck did you get that information on Michelle??? Are you sad that she's too much for you??? Are you jealous that she's a happy mom??? Or are you jealous that in fact, you do whine all the time??? It seems to me a win, win situation….

Is what he said not accurate? Candidates are going to continue to baby Americans for their votes. We as Americans are capable of great things, those days aren't over, but nobody is giving the American people the truth because as crazy as it sounds American Don't Want The Truth!

Every American and voter needs to be reading "Just How Stupid Are We?" by Rick Shenkman.

I AM NOT A WHINER.

OBAMA 2008/2012

Sounds like a bunch of whiners in this blog……….

Seems he was right!

Loks like Gramm was correct. He voices a fairly mild observation and half the country proves him correct

good riddance to the porno king

Gramm helped create the mortgage crisis. I dislike that far more than his offhand "whiners" comment. As for California, you aren't so Independent as you swing so far to the right you are lost over the horizon. Gramm now has the time to go back to financing pornography and focus on his lobbying.

Good.

— Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a grade of D for his record of voting against veterans. (By contrast, Obama got a B+.)

– Disabled Veterans of America noted McCain’s dismal 20 percent voting record on veterans’ issues. (Obama had an 80 percent.)

– In a list of “Key Votes,” Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) notes McCain “Voted Against Us” 15 times and “Voted For Us” only 8. (Obama voted for VVA 12 times, and against only once.)

Tony, is a U.S. senator supposed to control taxes in his home state. I believe that's what state elected officials are for. You should be clear about if it was while he was a state senator or a U.S. senator. And about PG, I'm sure he's not bent out of shape about leaving the campaign. He and his (former Enron bigwig) wife are rolling in dough. He literally does not know people struggling day-to-day, month-to-month. I'm sure he's confused about why the rest of us are pissed!

Why step down? We are a nation of "Whiners"…

We complain about everything and now we have a potential Commander and Chief that is one of the biggest of all whiners…

We whine if it's to hot, we whine if it's to cold… We even whine and acuse "the white man" for the "N" word… We all whine, yellow, black, white… We whine…

Why step down? He told the truth…

This is a consequence when you have a gramm of intelligence!

California Independent,
But at least Obama was/are right, we are bitter at our wasteful republican government….
McCain is just not man enough to go out there and say what he wanna say, he uses people to do those kind of attacks, so he gets a feeling ground of what he can say or not say..

California Independent

Please, for the love of any, and everything you hold PRECIOUS, I AM NOT A MEAN SPIRITED PERSON, BUT, BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT GOD SHOULD STRIKE YOU DOWN, (I could have said something even worse) for your statement.

WHERE IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD, DID YOU COME UPON your DISGUSTING INFORMATION ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA? WHICH GARBAGE CAN WERE YOU RAIDING?And GUESS WHAT? Sen. McCain does not have to voice these DISGUSTING DIATRIBES, oh nooooooooooooo, he just gets HIS PRECIOUS SURROGATES TO DO IT!

AND California Independent, if I were you I would NOT SLANDER MICHELLE OBAMA. PLEASE LOOK IN CINDY'S CLOSET, YOU WILL FIND A DRUGGIE AND A THIEF WHO STOLE DRUGS FROM HER OWN CHARITY . DO YOU THINK THAT THIS WAS THE REASON HER OWN LOVING HUSBAND CALLED HER A C*** IN PUBLIC?

California Independent, I WOULD BE VERY, VERY, VERY, CAREFULL GOING DOWN THAT ROAD!

As a hedge fun manager here in NY, I agree with Phil Gramm, You are all 'whiners' ….

McCain 08

John McCain, is attacking Barack Obama helping your depression? BOOOOOOOOOOO………………

Breaking News!!

Phil Gramm has been kicked off of the "Crooked Talk Express."
Word has it he was clinging to a tire when John McCain shifted
gears. What a loss for our economy!

Gramm who is responsible for the Enron Loophole that has a huge part of our high gas prices. Gramm who wrote McCain's mortage crisis policies while at the same time was lobbying for UBS Bank in Washington on the mortgage crisis. Gramm whose wife was on the board of directors at Enron for less than a year, made a million dollars, and personally helped with the energy crisis and collapse of Enron. McCain actually took this guy as his co-chair and top economic advisor. So where is this great experience we here about? All of the above.

"As a loyal Chicago resident, I can't help but wonder why no one discusses that our fair Senator has let taxes hike to 10.25%. If he lets that happen in his own community, I'm scared of what he will do with an entire country."

Wow a US Senator did that?…… Another Republican Lie…. go join the Swift Truth Squad Liar!

He didn't "step down." McCain threw him under the bus. Just doesn't want to admit it.

We're a nation of whiners because our politicians won't do what we want them to, no matter how much we whine. I say we get rid of the politicians and the nations. That's what the Metagovernment is all about.

I just got my electric bill and i am whining too loud. Maybe i am whining because i don't have a lot of money and can't vote myself a raise when i think i need one. We as american citizens should vote to take our country back.

But the real question is does McCain change the McCain economic policies that Gramm wrote?

LISA……..Obama doesn't care about the American people all he cares about is his ego, his wife and his kids. He threw all of his friends under the bus, Hillary and Bill, African Americans, health care, iraq, all for some votes and power
Lisa………There is no help for you…….SURE he cares about his WIFE and KIDS……you care about your family………Hillary, BILL African American Health Care and Iraq are very important to him and is a par this campaign …..have you had your medication TODAY
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TO LISA —— he called Americans "a nation of whiners."!!!!!!!!!!

And another one bites the dust.

It sure took McCain a long time to get rid of him. Just another example of what kind of administration McCain would run, just like George W. Bush. Bush kept Rumsfeld long after Rumsfeld said our troops go to war with what they have after they had asked for better equipment. Did McCain step in and disagree with Rumsfeld no, he stayed silent. Disgrace, McCain is suppose to be an American War Hero and wouldn't step up to the plate to demand our troops had what they needed. Yes, McCain, the same person that says he is better prepared to be CinC, I don't think so.

bye, mickeyfickey!! don't let the doorknob hit ya!!

i read an article about your POV, sir- and you said that if you're poor, it's your own fault-

really?

let them eat cake, phil?

anyway, see ya!

I'm really curious why it took them so long to get rid of the guy. Frankly, I feel McCain agrees with everything Gramm said. McCain, who lives off of his wifes millions, doesn't have a clue about what the rest of us are going thru. On the other hand, Obama comes from poverty and is a self made man. He just paid off his student loans last year. He knows what affect the economy is having on all of us.

He may resign, but we will not forget. The Gramm voodoo economic policy is the one McBush has to stick to because he is bought and paid for by the big corporations!

This all seems so familiar…. oh yeah, the primary season. McCain just does not seem to have learned the lessons of the mistakes that were made by the Clinton campaign. History repeats itself.

Lisa you low life loser go get a life and leave Obama alone! Obama this Obama that. Now I know why your husband ran away from you.

By the way - I'm bitter about these rethugs and how they have financially raped us. But then, they think if it's inevitable we should just lay back and enjoy it.

Wake up people. The rethugs are for the rethugs !!!!!

Wow…………how many more rats are going to flee the sinking ship?

we are a nation of whiners what is the BIG DEAL…look at what barack has said about the REST of us…remember rev. wright and that whole mess…how nice that that was swept under the carpet……

It's what they are all saying that the it is in our head. It's the republican line. I have heard several of them say it. Bush said the economy is fine just this week.

Why in the name of God would Senator McCain leak Senator Obama's trip to Iraq?.

Too late - you've already told us what the republicans all talk about behind our backs.

You steal our money and call us whiners. We won't forget.

Speaking of forgetting - McWarmonger forgot he is supposed to vote FOR vets and their benefits, not AGAINST them.

You old men need to retire and let the new, innovative, INTELLIGENT young people get on with correcting what you all have done to this country for decades !!

Why is McGoo and the GOP trying to make Obama appear out-of-touch by making this trip overseas? Has everyone forgotten McGoo's oh-so-important trip to Colombia and Canada last month?? At least Obama is going some place relevant.

I guess Phil will be taking his well-deserved trip to Belarus soon after Obama leaves Europe.

And the hits just keep on coming! Now he can whine himself into irrelevancy!!!!

McCain and Bush have left me very bitter over the past 8 years. I'm ready for change as soon as possible.

I am whinning because I WANT TO KNOW where is John M's FLAG PIN…???

Our Nation of Whiners want to know why John M does NOT wear a FLAG PIN…

Patriotic…???