Wow!  McCain used a brilliant one-liner to accuse all Chicago's politicians as lying.  What are they doing?  Trying to become a senator in Arizona?

neither will balance the budget with the tax cuts they have proposed, although mccain will make it harder to achieve with his policy of give even more to those that already have.  the problem is that we are going to get to the point where we cannot deficit spend our way out of economic trouble, such as now, because we will be so deeply in debt it will do no good, and foreigners are not going to lend us the money.  we're a nation of adults, supposedly, and yet we cannot manage to operate on a budget, with income more or less equaling spending.  we all want, want, want, but don't want to pay for it.  we're borrowing money to subsidize tax cuts.  

matt lauer trying to push the idea this morning on the today show that wall street tanked because of obama's rise in the polls.  apparently all those bank and business failures had nothing to do with it.   of course, when clinton raised taxes on the wealthy early in his administration that brought predictions of disaster from all the republicans, and the reverse happened.

Is Robin Abcarian now writing news articles? So that's what happened to her.

In the past, Abcarian was nothing more than a very mediocre, light weight human interest columnist in the now defunct 'Family' section.

What a shameful demise, that L.A. Times.

To be honest, who knows for sure when the budget can be truly balanced. The only way to really start cutting the deficit to end this highly privatized Iraq War and end the no-bid and cost-plus contracts. If we have to keep a few troops there so be it but get those profit-seeking companies out. Just let the army do what it has always done in reconstruction/nation building.

Also, just a note to future presidents: during war time, you're supposed to RAISE TAXES so that the debt doesn't get passed on to our grandkids! And the longer we wait to pay it off, the more expensive it will be for them.

McCain, who was responsible for two plane crashes prior to the one that landed him at the Hanoi Hilton, probably didn't need any more flying lessons.  Nor did he need any more lessons in ethics after being repremanded for his lapses by the House Ethics Committee.  Now, despite his admitted ignorance of the economy, he prides himself in needing no lessons from anyone in Chicago, home of Milton Friedman's free market economic theories which he supported.  McCain, who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class will continue to pride himself by making sure that he learns nothing from anyone because he knows everything!  Coupled with Palin who can't remember the names of any newspapers she reads we have a winning team to continue in the literary tradition of George W. Bush!

Actually I beleive the crash that got him into the Hanoi Hilton was his fifth plane.

GRAMPS McCAIN: I don't need lessons about telling the truth to the American people.

Because you can't teach an old dog new tricks.  :-)

This is "conservative m isinformation"?

Yet again - MM takes an article that is largely unflattering of McCain, finds something to take issue with, and presents a false perception that the LA Times is somehow against Obama.

Meanwhile, nothing can be further from the truth. The LA Times is viruently pro-Obama. They're not even hiding it anymore! The paper's pro-Obama position has been very well documented.

"The LA Times is virulently pro-Obama" -- take out "virulently" and I'll agree with you.  Unfortunately, reality is pro-Obama too.  What's a newspaper to do?