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Republican John McCain distanced himself from an economic adviser who dubbed the U.S. “a nation of whiners” in a “mental recession” as Democrat Barack Obama turned the remarks against his rival.
“I strongly disagree” with Phil Gramm’s remarks, McCain told reporters in Michigan. “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.”
The Arizona senator said a person who just lost a job “isn’t suffering from a mental recession.”
