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The people who write these types of commentaries should be taken out and shot for their stupidity. The jist is. Pobrecito Obama. Losing votes because of ingrained racism.
Obama is the recipient of 10 to 20% of the vote only because he is black. The racist vote for Obama far outweighs the racist vote against Obama.
I believe America under communism looks like this!
Surly you see the similarities.
Actually,
I prefer this one.
Regards,
BM.
[QUOTE=Punter 127]I believe America under communism looks like this!
Surly you see the similarities.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=BadMan]Actually,
I prefer this one.
Regards,
BM.[/QUOTE]I ’m sure you do …. Heil Obama.
[I][b]“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Sidney]It is a comeuppance for all the country for allowing Alan Greenspan to be appointed and reappointed for 20 years. He had the ''tools'' to stop all this madness but he ''joined the party'' instead of stopping it! So many financial disasters occurred during his tenure. Not surprising, he had so much ''bullshit'' that most were in awe of him! --Kind of like Obomba (sic) who has many of Greenspan's characteristics! But so far, only 50% of the voters are in awe of his ''bullshit''![/QUOTE]I would agree that after Greenspan fell under the sway of Comrade Bush and Comrade Cheney he "joined the party". All the country did not appoint and re-appoint Alan Greenspan, that was the decision of Comrade Bush.
Frankly if I was Obama, who nows leads in the national polls, I would be withdrawing my name from the race so I didn't have to fix two gigantic Republican owned problems, Iraq and the Financial meltdown. Unfortunately Obama is one brave son of a ***** and refuses to turn it over to the handicapped alternative (s) who are so short on abilities to fix them it's absolutely frightening.
From what I can tell, Greenspan and Bush, as far back as 2004 or 2005, were terrified by the direction that the Fannies were going I. E. Loaning money without oversight.
They drafted a bill to rein in the Fannies. The opposition was led by the two Democrats who had received the most campaign contributions from the Fannies I. E. Clinton and Obama.
One of three sponsors of the bill that might have prevented the meltdown of the Fannies was McCain.
I think that the problem goes back to the.
Paul Volcker era as head of the Federal Reserve.
It was during his tenure that the Central bank was.
Completely separated from the Government (I. E. You.
Separate fiscal policy (taxes etc) from the policys of.
The central bank.
This has been followed in most Western Countries.
The most stupid, the European Central Bank, who is.
Only guided by inflation. Even if we here in Europe is.
Heading to the biggest recession since the 30ies, the.
Eu Central Bank would not lower interest rates because.
Of the inflation fears.
[QUOTE=Isola2000]I think that the problem goes back to the.
Paul Volcker era as head of the Federal Reserve.[/QUOTE]"Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927 in Cape May, New Jersey) is an American economist. He is best known as Chairman of the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987) He is today an economic advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama."
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker[/url]
[QUOTE=El Alamo]From what I can tell, Greenspan and Bush, as far back as 2004 or 2005, were terrified by the direction that the Fannies were going I. E. Loaning money.
Without oversight.
They drafted a bill to rein in the Fannies. The opposition was led by the two Democrats who had received the most camp[aign contributions from the Fannies I. E. Clinton and Obama.
One of three sponsors of the bill that might have prevented the meltdown of the Fannies was McCain[/QUOTE]Pelley interviewing McCain on "60 Minutes"
Pelley: In 1999 you were one of the senators who helped pass deregulation of Wall Street. Do you regret that now?
McCain: No, I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy.
McCain has been an advocate of deregulation most of his career, but Thursday he endorsed the biggest bailout in history - a plan for the government to take on the bad debts of financial institutions.
"We're gonna take over these bad loans. We're gonna take over these bad - these bonds and we're gonna keep you alive. And we're gonna have the taxpayer help you out. But when the time comes and the economy recovers then anything that's gained back is gonna go to the taxpayers first. I'm not saying this isn't gonna be messy. And I'm not saying it isn't gonna be expensive. But we have to stop the bleeding," the senator said.
Pelley: But why would you let the Wall Street executives.
McCain: I'm not.
Pelley:. Sail away on their yachts and leave this on the American taxpayer?
McCain: Well, it's not the greedy Wall Street people that I worry about, although I am, like most Americans, frankly, enraged. It's basically a Ponzi scheme, as you know, that sooner or later was gonna collapse. And I'd like to get that money back from them. But we've gotta fix the average citizen who's the innocent bystander that is in danger of losing their pensions, their 401(k)'s, their IRAs. Their very life savings are at risk here.
Comment El Alamo?
I knew that McCain was fucking a stripper while stationed in Pensacola for pilot training, and I've always suspected that he had done some mongering as a Navy office in SE Asia, but I did not know that he made it to Brazil, and that he's bragged about it to boot.
Gome on guys, how many reasons do you need to vote for McCain?
Remember: Experience counts.
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/lt_brazil_mccain_s_romance[/url]
[quote=By BRADLEY BROOKS]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago. Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential candidate fondly described — though never named — in his 1999 book "Faith of My Fathers."
In the book, McCain said he met a "Brazilian fashion model" as a young Navy sailor in Rio de Janeiro when the destroyer USS Hunt docked in the city for a week in 1957. McCain was stationed on the ship.
Local reporters tracked her down late last week, turning Teixeira into an overnight media sensation.
She declined requests for an interview Monday, but told Brazilian media last week that the young McCain was a romantic and a "good kisser."
"We met because I used to have lunch near the docks," Teixeira told the newspaper Extra. "He is so cute. But I never imagined he would write about me, that was a surprise."
Gelson Guimaraes, a neighbor of Teixeira's for the past 20 years, said she "always said she had important lovers, but never said anything about McCain."
In his book, McCain wrote about his rambunctious time in Rio, saying he and his fellow sailors "indulged in the vices sailors are famous for."
McCain wrote that he returned to Rio after the short stay and saw her again, but that the romance didn't blossom for long because of "youthful impatience and short attention spans."[/quote]
I like this one.
Regards,
BM
Mongers,
The bottom line here is that the Republicans have been in power now for eight years and they have fucked up the United States so bad that an African-American with some Muslim roots is going to win the White House and make the Republican greed-driven fascist pigs that Jackson and his Rush Lingbaugh lovin' lackeys get such a hard-on about pay for their heinous crimes against America. The top officers of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fannie / Freddie, and AIG should and likely will be tried for their crimes and should receive long prison sentences and massive fines. A recent CNN poll reveals that 63% of Americans favor Government-guaranteed health care even if it requires raising taxes. Obama will remake the political landscape with his far-reaching reforms and the Republicans will be out of power for the next 40 years. There will be national healthcare paid for by funds formerly going to the military industrial complex that will become available after Obama brings peace and downsizes the military to half of its former size and budget. Obama will meet and make agreements of peaceful co-existance and cooperation with former foes North Korea, Iran and Cuba.
Suerte,
Rock Harders
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]A recent CNN poll reveals that 63% of Americans favor Government-guaranteed health care even if it requires raising taxes.[/QUOTE]Number of Americans Paying [b]Zero[/b] Federal Income Tax Grows to 43.4 Million - or [b]41 percent of the U.S. population were completely outside the federal income tax system in 2006[/b]. This total includes those who pay no tax, and those who pay some tax upfront and are later refunded the full amount of the tax paid or more.
Guess this accounts for 2/3 of the 2/3 that want higher taxes - wonder who the other 1/3 are (of course accounting for Warren Buffet)?
Mr. Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
[quote]By Michael Reagan September 18, 2008
When I was a little boy we used to play a game where we wore a blindfold and tried to put a slip of paper on a drawing of a donkey we couldn ’t see. I thought of that as I watched the chattering class, blindfolded and frantically trying to pin the blame for the Wall Street debacle on everything but the real donkey, the Democrats, whose symbol is. Guess what?
Right, a donkey, and that ’s where the blame lies, on Barack Obama ’s Democratic Party.
To find the donkey you need to go back to the Clinton administration, which decided that everybody and his kid brother was entitled to a mortgage even when they didn't begin to qualify for a home loan.
In saner days, banks designated certain areas as no-loan zones – depressed neighborhoods where lending money to potential home buyers was not just a risky investment, but a certain future foreclosure. Critics of the practice called it "redlining " and President Clinton and his chums on Capitol Hill decided that banks should no longer act like banks and lend money only to home buyers who could afford to handle the monthly payments. Now all bets would be off and people not the least bit creditworthy.- and speculators.- would be entitled by law to obtain mortgages even when it was obvious they couldn ’t afford to handle them.
Enter those now infamous quasi-government banking instruments known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which poured fresh money into the banking system by buying mortgages from banks. Over the long haul they managed to load up their portfolios with billions upon billions of dollars of risky mortgage paper that banks had been forced to offer and then dumped on them.
The scandal of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dwarfs the Enron debacle. In Enron, people went to jail. With the Fannies, some just walked away with millions.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers can be blamed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two big mortgage banks that the Feds recently bailed out with big bucks. As Fox News has pointed out, they used huge lobbying budgets and political contributions to keep regulators off their backs.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the top three U. S. Senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks were Democrats, and No. 2 was Sen. Barack Obama, who as Fox noted had only been in the Senate four years but still managed to grab that No. 2 spot ahead of longtime colleagues John Kerry and Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
According to Fox, Fannie and Freddie were where big-time Washington Democrats went to work and pocketed millions. Franklin Raines, Clinton ’s White House Budget Director, ran Fannie and collected $50 million.
Jamie Gorelick, an official in Clinton ’s Justice Department.- the woman who built the "wall " that prevented the FBI from targeting terrorists before 9/11.- worked for Fannie Mae and took home $26 million. Big-time Democrat Jim Johnson, who headed Obama's VP search committee, also hauled in millions from running Fannie Mae.
Obama brazenly blames John McCain and the GOP for the current Wall Street mess when it's clear none of it was due to Republican policies. The truth of the matter is that it was McCain and three GOP colleagues who sought to reform the government ’s lending policies three long years ago after the Bush administration had failed two years earlier. On May 25, 2006, McCain spoke on behalf of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, and warned against the debacle we are now facing if it failed to pass.
He told the Senate that a report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight charged that "Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. "
McCain warned, "If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. "
McCain predicted the entire collapse we now are suffering through. He stressed the falsification of financial records to benefit executives, including Obama advisers Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson.
Now Obama has the nerve to try to pin the blame on McCain and the GOP when the facts show that the blame must be pinned on the Democratic donkey.[/quote]
RH, please feel free to believe what you like about the current crisis in the debt markets and that it is somehow of Republican making.
Your dizzying grasp, of the machinations of the US Govt, is testimony that you must have been educated at the hands of liberal NEA / AFT mercenaries. They were probably marching on Washington the day they were supposed to explain the distinct functions of the three branches of government and the notion of checks and balances. The legislature (I. E. The representative deliberative assembly with the power to create, amend and ratify laws) is the one that dropped the ball here.
While Democrats should not get all the blame, they certainly deserve most. The bane of your existence, and that of your ilk (that's right, el Diablo himself - GWB) first warned Congress about Fannie and Freddie. In 2001 (and each year since) Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are primarily responsible for blocking reform legislation that could have averted this crisis (Obama is complicit having supported them on the subject) by preventing a vote on the Senate floor. I would be interested to know if any of them even know what a "basis point" is and what purposes "spreads" and "premiums" serve in the market (hint they are compensation for something called r_ _k)
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]they have fucked up the United States so bad that an African-American with some Muslim roots is going to win the White House[/QUOTE] Why should his race or religion disqualify him from office?
In my experience, most of the top execs at those and similar firms are East Coast liberals (that way they can feel like they are better people because they have "good intentions" while enjoying their riches and doing little to contribute to mankind)
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]Obama will remake the political landscape with his far-reaching reforms and the Republicans will be out of power for the next 40 years. [/QUOTE]Unlikely, he doesn't have the skills, political capital or mandate to bake cookies let alone remake the American political landscape (not criticism, just the facts)
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]There will be national healthcare.[/QUOTE]Maybe he could appoint Hillary to run that for him (she had a layup from within the paint and still got stuffed)
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]. Paid for by funds formerly going to the military industrial complex that will become available after Obama brings peace and downsizes the military to half of its former size and budget.[/QUOTE]Good luck to him. The American "military industrial complex" (you were listening on dogma day at school) has been around a bit longer than Barry. While Carter and Clinton did their best to weaken us and expose us to foreign threats, they merely pruned the tree which grew back stronger and better (with even deeper roots) Take a look at the success (and difficulty implementing) of the BRAC Commission. Since 1988, it has closed more than 350 US military installations. However, during that same period, the defense budget grew from $290B to $651B (projected 2009) I know lots of people think he is the second coming, he'd have to be to do what you say he will.
[QUOTE=Rock Harders]Obama will meet and make agreements of peaceful co-existance and cooperation with former foes North Korea, Iran and Cuba.[/QUOTE]Keeping an enemy at bey by throwing him treats to distract him (appeasement) will only assure two things: a) someday you will run out of treats and b) when you run out of treats, he is going to be pissed and still going to want more.
Keep on trucking RH, I love your enthusiasm and respect your right to your opinion.