Strickland mashes McCain on economy (radio address)

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Source: The Boston Globe

Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, speaking for Democrat Barack Obama, ripped into Republican John McCain today on issue No. 1: jobs.

Citing Friday's job report that showed another 159,000 jobs cut during September, Strickland went after McCain for saying on Sept. 15, in the early days of the current Wall Street meltdown, that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”

McCain has tried to explain that he was talking about American workers, but Strickland continued Obama's line of attack: "John McCain doesn’t seem to understand that this crisis isn’t two weeks old. Maybe he doesn’t realize that we’ve lost jobs every month this year. Maybe he doesn’t know that the average family’s income is down $2,000 in the Bush economy. Maybe because John McCain’s trying to remember how many homes he owns, he doesn’t understand that 7,000 families are losing their homes each day."

Strickland, who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries, then proceeded to bash McCain's tax cut and healthcare proposals. "John McCain just doesn’t get it," he said. "He hasn’t said one thing he’d do to make his economy look any different than George Bush’s economy.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/strickland_mash.html

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The text of Governor Strickland's national address
http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/30463459.html

[Bushies gotta go]

1. Oh yeah....

This is the type of stuff we need to keep hammering home on.

[Trillo]

2. I love it! Keep hammering the Bushco meme

"fundamentals of the economy are strong". Strong for whom?

[bulloney]

3. Strickland knows about picking up the pieces left from a Republican mess.

Bob "Howdy Doody" Taft had the most incompetent, corrupt administration Ohio's seen in my lifetime. In addition, the Repubs controlled every elected cabinet position in the state for a dozen years before 2006. The Repubs still control the House & Senate, which they've had for over a decade.

Strickland has been walking a fine line in working with both sides of the political aisle and installing some long-range plans to turn Ohio's economy around, but it's been very difficult due to budget deficits.