Tee Me Up, Phil

From the WSJ in 2005:

He is refreshingly blunt when he tells me: “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” OK, so who does he turn to for advice? His answer is reassuring. His foremost economic guru is former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm.

So, a McCain “guru”— a Texan named Phil—said today that the nation’s economic woes were basically psychological, a meme McTeeMeUp has also been pushing for months. In response, Obama pulled out his driver and knocked McCain’s empty head three-hundred yards down the center of the fairway:

Senator Barack Obama, noting that Mr. McCain had previously said an expansion of offshore oil drilling might have a “psychological” benefit for the country, seized on Mr. Gramm’s remarks, made in an interview with The Washington Times.

“You know, America already has one Dr. Phil,” Mr. Obama said at a campaign stop in Fairfax, Va. “When it comes to the economy, we don’t need another.”

My god, golf has never been so easy.

Posted by poputonian on 07/10/08 at 09:24 PM • Permalink

i can only imagine the outrage among the villagers if a key advisor to obama had made similar remarks.  words like “elitist” and “out of touch” would be repeated endlessly.  as it is, mccain’s just a regular guy who tells it how he sees it.  ugh.

couple this with mcsame calling the way social security is organized an “absolute disgrace”, and you’d think there’d be a narrative there.  but no.  he’s just a funny guy who likes to joke about killing iranians.  what a maverick!!!