Party Propaganda

Fundamentally Strong?

The Democratic National Committee today released a web video called "Fundamentally Strong?" highlighting McCain's out-of-touch claim yesterday that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" even as Americans watched the stock market plunge and saw their savings and retirement slip away and as two major financial institutions went belly up.

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  MCCAIN: "I want to convince you of my belief and my firm conviction that
  Americas economy, the fundamentals of it, are strong." [Town Hall, Chula
  Vista, CA, 3/24/08]

  MCCAIN: "So our fundamentals, I still believe, are very strong." [Town
  Hall, Round Rock, TX, 2/29/08]

  MCCAIN: "But the underpinnings of our economy are strong." [Rally,
  Pensacola, FL, 1/22/08]

  MCCAIN: "But the fundamentals of America's economy are very strong."
  [House Party, Concord, NH, 12/31/08]

  MCCAIN: "I believe the fundamentals of our economy are still strong."
  [Town Hall, West Palm Beach, FL, 1/24/08]

  MCCAIN: "The fundamental principles, the foundation of our economy, is
  strong." [Speech, Aiken, SC, 1/17/08]

  MCCAIN: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." [Speech and
  Roundtable, Santa Ana, CA, 3/25/08]

  MCCAIN: "Our economy, I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy
  are strong." [Rally, Jacksonville, FL, 9/15/08]

  MCCAIN: "The fundamentals of it are strong." [Rally, Pensacola, FL,
  1/22/08]

  MCCAIN: "I still believe that the fundamentals of our economy are
  strong." [Laura Ingraham Show, 8/20/08]

  TEXT: "Things today just aren't that bad." "When it comes to the
  economy, we have surely become a nation of exaggerators." McCain Advisor
  Donald Luskin, September 14, 2008.

GRAMM: "We've surely become a nation of whiners." [Interview with Washington Times, 7/9/08]