I am thrilled we have no candidates from major parties that understand economics! Keep voting for your football team because who cares if you have a job, the football team winning is more important.

Keep spending more money Bush, you can always print more!

Don't get me started on Barnicle.  This clown had a radio talk show for a number of years here in Boston and I think he reached his due date and has been gone for a at least a year, thankfully.

I always like to listen to the opposition but this guy is one of the few that really get me steamed any time I listen.

Here is a guy who is a true liberal do-as-I-say because I am better than you elitist.

When he talks about families and such you think, "here is a down to earth guy" yet when he talks politics and policy he is all for government control and total socialism.

Plus he just looks down his nose at the "unwashed masses" who vote republican.  He once spent an entire Bush speech, which was broadcast live during his radio show, heckling Bush.  I hope that is what got him fired. He was constantly making sarcastic comebacks to everything Bush said.  I am not sure he actually knew he was on the air or not.

Any way, as a political commentator I hate the guy.  he never has anything positive to say about any one or anything conservative.

Nice quote from him though "Has the Economu Helped?"

Someone needs to get some behind the scenes footage of News Anchors cheering when bad news comes through the ticker, or whatever it is they get "hot news" from.

Barnicle is as terrified along with the rest of his ilk...they know the internals, a lot of them do...now they are all at work in unison trying to make sure and deflect the Palin effect/affect.

Not only is his skirt showing, his slip already fell to the ground. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

He got fired from the Boston Globe for plagerizing George Carlin.

I think MB is okay. His question seems reasonable in a sense he's seeking feedback from Jill. Rather than the long drawn out hailstorm of paragraphs that Matthews machine guns out of his mouth. Barnicle is to the point and doesn't taint his question with a loaded bomb like Olbermann too. If Barnicle is a liberal, then he's the most civil one I've seen on the MSNBC network.

On the otherhand, it seems all MSM networks, reporters and pundits are so happy the economy is tanking. They're spinning it all positive for Obama now. It's a shame, the Dems need to prey off of our pain in the pocketbook in order to win an election.

MIKE BARNICLE: Jill, off of anecdotal evidence, I'm not asking for anything specific here, but when you're out in places like Michigan and Ohio, the Sarah Palin effect, does it resonate still, like with working women, or has the economy, helped, you know, stump that?

  That's a great example of the media thinking what they are focusing on is what becomes reality for everyone else.  This financial mess is stuff that is too complicated for most people to understand (even Congress) so it is just something that makes them nervous.  Neither candidate can make much political gain out of this crisis by offering solutions to something not understood.  As for Palin, this is good for her because it has steered the media 'pack of wolves' over to something else they believe will help obama.  Basically both candidates, for the last few days, might as well have been speaking in a foreign language.