Steelers, Steelworkers rally for Obama in Boardman

This is great!

By the way, here’s what The Progress Report says about the ACORN controversy: “Mass voter fraud is just a conservative myth used to justify increasing the difficulty of the voting process. In an interview with Salon, Lori Minnite, a professor of political science at Barnard College who investigated allegations of widespread voter fraud, explained, ‘From 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud. Twenty people were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five people were found guilty of voting more than once. That's 26 criminal voters -- voters who vote twice, impersonate other people, vote without being a resident ... Meanwhile thousands of people are getting turned away at the polls.’”

Meanwhile, the story on McCain’s ties to special interests just gets worse. According to the morning news, “Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain sought to resolve an old problem -- the lack of cellphone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz., nestled deep in a tree-lined canyon called Hidden Valley. Over the past year, she offered land for a permanent cell tower, and Verizon Wireless embarked on an expensive public process to meet her needs, hiring contractors and seeking county land-use permits."

Hey, Columbusguy: I couldn't agree more, and I think it gets so much worse:

A key reason to believe that economic policy in a McCain administration would mirror President Bush's approach--to strongly presume in favor of economic deregulation, at almost all costs, and to limit taxes even to the extent that it doubles the national debt in less than a decade--is that Senator McCain's campaign organization is simply overrun with business lobbyists. The man in charge of his campaign is Rick Davis, who earned $2 million lobbying to protect Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac from tighter regulation. Regulation, that is, that could have kept them from engaging in the extremely risky behavior that required their bailout by taxpayers. (click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/...) And then there is Phil Gramm. Until this July Gramm was the McCain campaign's senior economic advisor, but he was removed from official status for his "nation of whiners" comment, and his publicly expressed view that we are living through merely a "mental recession." While it is no longer as likely that Gramm would be McCain's Treasury Secretary (once a sure thing), he still travels with the campaign and likely would hold high place in a McCain White House. Gramm, now a professional lobbyist, is best known for introducing bill, while he was a US Senator, deregulating the US banking industry. He also cosponsored deregulation of "derivative" securities, like the "credit default swaps" that brought down Lehman Brothers. There are many others, throughout the campaign (notably McCain's likely transition team leader, William Timmons, and his former chief economic advisor, Senator and now lobbyist Phil Gramm) and in Senator McCain's Senate staff as well (notably Mark Buse, Senator McCain's Senate chief of staff and a former lobbyist).



McCain needs these advisors, incidentally, because he has himself said that he doesn't "really understand economics." ." (click here: www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feat... and here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01...).