Google has introduced a kick-ass "Candidate Quotes" search engine. Check this out...

[WilliamPitt]

(edited to add correct link to op proud patriot Moderator Democratic Underground)

The main link: http://labs.google.com/inquotes/index.html

I did a search for quotes regarding Phil Gramm. The McCain side was pretty thin, but there are five or six Obama quotes on Gramm that are just brutal, like: "By the end of the week," Barack Obama joked in Elko, Nev., "John McCain and Phil Gramm, they're gonna be talking about how they're gonna grab those seven lobbyists, they're gonna plan to storm the Treasury Department with torches and pitchforks. Come on!" - 9/17/08

A search under "bailout" has McCain saying this on Sept. 17th: "We must not bailout the management and speculators who created this mess. They had months of warnings following the Bear Stearns debacle, and they failed to act"...

...and then saying this a week later, presumably after the White House called and ordered him to stuff his "Wall Street reformer" horseshit and get his ass on board the bailout train, no matter what the final language may turn out to be: "On Tuesday, McCain said government “has a clear responsibility to act in defense of the public interest, and that’s exactly what I intend to do.”

...and, for the fun of it, Obama's retort: "Obama, meanwhile, seized on what he called McCain’s 'newfound support for regulation' and accused his rival of supporting 'a broken system in Washington that is breaking the American economy.' In Golden, Colo., Obama blamed the economic crisis on an “economic philosophy” that he said McCain and President Bush supported blindly. 'John McCain has spent decades in Washington supporting financial institutions instead of their customers,' he told a crowd of about 2,100 at the Colorado School of Mines. 'So let’s be clear: What we’ve seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed.'"

Ouch. Count it.

If either candidate has said something about any of the main issues in this election, a simple one-keyword search ("Iraq," "Gramm," "Bailout," and "Debt" were my personal favorites) will find it, and probably a few others as well. This Google gadget is an amazing rapid-response resource, as well as a pretty nifty general research tool...and it's entertaining as hell, besides. I just spent 30 giggling minutes pulling up verbal evidence of McCain's total lack of consistency, integrity, and in several notable instances, basic sanity.

Feast. :)

[BlooInBloo]

1. Linky no worky... Need to delete the space between the 's' and the '/'...

Thanks for the site tho - looks very cool!


EDIT: And this should by no means replace *real* research - the quote-search is clearly woefully incomplete. McPOW has certainly said more than 2 things about Gramm.

[gateley]

2. Cool site - thanks! And thanks to Bloo for helping me actually find it! nt

[Citizen_Penn]

3. Here's an updated link

http://labs.google.com/inquotes/

[L0oniX]

4. Here's some McLame quotes...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/L0oniX/32

[Politicalboi]

5. Here's MaGoo

Saying dissenters should be kicked out of the US

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=1kixpu

[offog]

13. Hey, MaGoo!

Back in 1776, patriotic Americans were the dissenters.

[AtomicKitten]

6. Great source for excavating info rolling around in our heads.

thanks for posting the link

[RoccoR5955]

7. Extremely kewl site.

Google has out googled themselves again!
Those mad scientists at Google Labs are right on the ball!

[lame54]

8. link - "not found"

[PatSeg]

9. Very cool!

The poor man's Lexis Nexis!

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. George W Bush on "Recession"

No quotes about "recession" available.

[cosmodem]

11. thanks for the heads up. it works with the updated link above.

[WilliamPitt]

12. Thanks, pp!

:hug:

:toast:

Gonna suspend my campaign and make some dinner.

:P

[Maestro]

14. Nice!

Thanks.

[quantass]

15. "...storm the Treasury Department with torches and pitchforks. Come on!"

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

16. Thank you.

Perfect for people writing LTTE.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

17. Very cool!

K&R

[Sweet Freedom]

18. If you put in "trollop"

you actually get the trollop quote, but if you put in Cindy McCain, it doesn't come up.

(Sorry, I was bored. :))

[Usrename]

19. It kinda sucks a little bit.

"mission accomplished" gets no hits. But there was the famous statement on Faux. Maybe Google is up to something with this site.



"Why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?" McCain asked Neil Cavuto after the Fox News Channel anchor said "many argue the conflict isn't over."