blather
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z the dow jones closed 504.6 points down today. 080915
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what McCain said "You know that there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall St. And it is -- people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong"

I'm sure, if pressed, however, he will tell us that for five-and-a-half years, he wasn't allowed to be glaringly ignorant of economic indicators
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z nine houses, eh? 080915
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z ouch! 080926