Obama, McCain: Economic blues 101: The Swamp The Swamp Posted
September 16, 2008 6:15 AM  The Swamp  by Mark Silva  With a
limping economy now No. 1 in the campaign trail debate,
Republican Sen. John McCain maintains that "the fundamentals of
our economy are strong,'' while Democrat Barack Obama insists
that McCain is "out of touch'' with reality.  "Our economy, I
think... still the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but
these are very, very difficult times,'' McCain said Monday,
campaigning in Florida amid news of more colossal failures on
Wall Street. "I promise you, we will never put America in this
position again... We will clean up Wall Street... This is a
failure.''  Obama, campaigning in Colorado with word of "some
very serious and some troubling news from Wall Street, said,
"this is a serious, serious situation, as bad as anything that
we've seen... There is a lot of talk about how we're going to
get our economy back on track.... We are going to have a lot of
rebuilding to do.''  The situation, h