Here's my little script o' comebacks. I encourage you to comment and leave ideas for comebacks of your own.
McCain: The American worker will get us out of this.
Obama: Thanks to lax international regulations supported by Senator McCain, the American worker is no longer the most productive in the world. Now, Asia is home to the most productive workers in the world and the poorest workforces. Cheap sweaters here could mean slave labor halfway around the world. The ramifications of how we decide to act in this global economic crisis in the next few days will be worldwide, and felt worst right here at home.
But this crisis is not the American worker's fault for not being productive enough. This is the fault of greedy CEOs, boards, banks, and other investors who reveled in this wild west mentality. It's the fault of a lax government's lack of oversight.
No, in this scenario, the American worker can't get us out of this: he's busy losing his home, or she's losing her pension. She's already lost the health care she used to get through her job.
Families all over the country are seeing the biggest bank closure in US history, while names synonymous with economic strength and American superiority go belly up.
John, you know as well as I do, that the American worker can't just pick up the slack of Wall Street. And to claim so is a misjudegment in itself. When banks don't lend money, people don't buy stuff.
There are no more widgets to be made, Senator McCain that can solve this problem and you minimize it when you dismiss the situation's direness before this week.
How many times (during the crisis that's gone on for more than two years) have you said the economy is strong?
We're likely to see more than a trillion dollars spent on Iraq, along with a staggering death and casualty count. No, Senator McCain, what will get us out of this situation is an effective and accountable government. A government paid for by us.
The taxpayers will have earned a $700 billion equity stake in the companies they're saving.
Secretary Paulson asked for exclusive authority over $700 billion. If we've learned nothing else the past seven and a half years, is it not that this concentration of power with one person doesn't work? The taxpayers want oversight. We're in this together.
McCain: Now here you go again. I support the troops. You don't even salute the flag, Barack Hussein Obama. Why do you hate our freedom so?
Obama: [you fill in the blank.]
