McCain should've hammered this home and not let the Obama campaign bully him into submission.  This was a completely MANUFACTURED crisis, and was the democrats october surprise.

"As long as the economy is bad, my numbers are up, I'm going to keep talking about the economy!" - Obama

but wait, i just watched all the talking heads tell me that the turning point of the election was McCain saying the fundamentals were OK. 

The press has been telling us how bad things are for a year...any wonder sentiment is down?

now, watch for a "miraculous" turnaround based on "hope" and the promise of an Obama presidency...shazaam.

Journalists have failed America.

are listening to (and believing!) the same stupid soundbites we are pelted with everyday.  Dont believe me?  Keywords and phrases pop up consistently and without much variation.  You get the DISTINCT impression people arent even bothering to do their own research, much less their own thinking anymore because they feel too hard pressed to get a story out there before the next guy does.

if journalism was a physical product it would be the mechanical equivalent of a Yugo.  Epic fail.

I have anumber of friends who will be voting for OBAMA. All I hear from them is the propaganda or talking points from the MSM. Some even believe that they will benefit from government largesse. They all are voting on emotion because the MSM has drilled the negatives of the economy and and President Bush for 8 sad long years. I feel sad that they are believers and will be heartbroken when reality hits and they find out the truth about OBAMA.

Had to look up some numbers for a report the other day.

Average unemployment during Clinton's first seven years = 5.4%

Average unemployment during Bush's first seven years = 5.2%

Average annual employment under Bush was 13 million people more than under Clinton (and that's just documented workers).

Even with the perfect storm of the Dem-created energy crisis and the Dem-created mortgage crisis, Bush's unemployment numbers for the full term will be no worse than Clinton's full term.

The so-called wealth gap is measured by economists with something called the Gini index. The gap between rich and poor did expand during the Bush administration, but under Clinton the Gini index shows that the gap expanded 29 times as much.

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that the media has grossly distorted the economy for the last eight years.

We hear about the "peace and prosperity" of the Clinton years. The record of terrorism against America pretty much blows away the peace claim, and the earnings that made up that prosperity were subsequently restated.

Bush has been an absolute dunce at protecting the presidency and the GOP brand, but he has effectively protected the nation, and has presided over an economy that by any rational measure has been as good or better than that during the Clinton years.