The Republicans are showing just how shameless they are. Even after Monday morning announcement of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the stock market plunged hundreds of points in the opening minutes, McCain, in a campaign speech, said that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were "strong." After Obama and the media jumped on that, because it was obvious that they weren't, McCain changed his stump speech.

In a talk that afternoon, he repeated, like a robot, any number of times, that the fundamentals of the economy were "at risk." He had dropped the "fundamentally strong" language. But the next morning, on the talk shows, such as the Today Show and Good Morning America, he had changed again. Now he was saying that the American worker was the fundamental of the economy, and that the American worker as strong. Oh yeah? And he then he went on to say that he was for the worker, which he's been repeating in his robot ways since then. Oh yeah? since when are the republicans for the workers?

Just check out Berry Craig's columns on Rural Thoughts if you want some proof of that. But obviously McCain has no shame and will say anything to get elected. In fact, yesterday morning, when the Bush administration stepped in and propped up AIG with $65 billion of taxpayers' dollars, McCain at first said he was against a government bailout. Later though, he changed his tune and said it was the right thing to do. The guy is so all over the map it is impossible to know what he is for and what he is going to do if he gets in. Is this honor? Is this character? No, it's doing and saying anything and everything to get elected.

Look at the last century of our country's history. It's been the republicans allowing the big money interests to go wild which has brought us the worst economic times, and the democrats stepping in to help the regular people weather the republican economic storms. That's just what is going on now, and workers should not be fooled again by false promises by a republican desperate to keep the party in the white house. If McCain gets in, we'll see the ol' "trickle down" continue. The problem is that almost nothing trickles down.