Democrats Go On Offense

Financial Times:

Barack Obama fought to regain the initiative in the presidential race on Tuesday as the Wall Street financial crisis threatened to stall the recent burst of momentum behind John McCain.

The banking meltdown has thrust the economy back to the centre of the campaign, giving Mr Obama a chance to hit back after two weeks of declining poll numbers and escalating Republican attacks.

Read the whole story: Financial Times

Comments

[Shannon2008]

"Separately, a group of Je* wish organizations issued a press release saying that both Palin and Sen. Hill *ary Clinton would take part in a demonstration outside the United Nations against Ah*madinejad, who has said Isra*el should be wi*ped off the map."

Taken from:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080916/pl_nm/usa_politics_palin_un_dc;_ylt=AsU83a2ydUiA5sH9Z_9mRUayFz4D

Does anyone know anything about this?

[Shannon2008]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_palin_1

Who put this little plan together?

[Shannon2008]

"Separately, a group of Jewish organizations issued a press release saying that both Palin and Sen. Hillary Clinton would take part in a demonstration outside the United Nations against Ahmadinejad, who has said Israel should be wiped off the map."

Taken from:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080916/pl_nm/usa_politics_palin_un_dc;_ylt=AsU83a2ydUiA5sH9Z_9mRUayFz4D

Does anyone know anything about this?

[coyote4]

Obama is a statesman true to the American ideal; a moral person; and someone who can rally Americans for the hard decisions facing us.

wait..........................wait...................................hard decisions, you say? Who better to take the fall than a Democrat? Come on Republicans; I am sure you can see that the American Dream has fallen into rats_hit. Do you want one of your own to take the fall?

[NoToGOP08]

All in the family - Jeb Bush's involvement in Lehman Brothers - http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/11/30/florida-bush-lehman-biz-beltway-cx_mb_1130florida.html

[only1Demvoter]

NoToGOP : I guess ' name recognition ' ain't gonna cut it anymore...


-ralph

[RStone]

Just think, he could have been running for Presisdent! Scary.

I hope we can get McCain's number at http://www.boppoll.com up to 800,000 today.
Tell some friends. 10 people can add 600 bops per minute.

Go Obama/Biden!

[Vinca]

NoToGop08: < IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY> CROOKS

[robodweeb]

McCain wants a commission... why bother.

McCain Misses 9 / 11 Commission Vote
By Joe Bodell 3/13/07 7:44 PM

Today the U.S. Senate passed S. 4, a bill which writes several important aspects of the 9 / 11 Commission"s recommendations into law.

Both of Minnesota"s senators, Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republican Norm Coleman, voted for the measure, which passed on a 60-38 vote. Missing the vote were Democrat Tim Johnson of South Dakota, who is recovering from a b rain h emorrhage he suffered in December, and Arizona Republican John McCain. McCain is not recovering from a cerebral h emorrage, but is running for president.

[coyote4]

The official_9_11_myth is that no one saw this coming and little could be done to stop it. Yet we know that the security agencies of other countries knew and alerted us. We also know that low-level investigators found threads of the plot and were told to cease and desist.

We know that superiors who ordered investigations terminated were not f_ired or disciplined, but PROMOTED. Instead of a purge at the_C_IA, the head - George T_enet - was given a Presidential Medal, honors and a f_at pension.

Is America so incompetent that failure is rewarded? My argument here is simple: if we eliminate c_onspiracy........................... then the remaining conclusion is that of unaddressed MASSIVE AND OVERRIDING INCOMPETENCE.
Cont....(if allowed)

[coyote4]

9_/11 was the result of the complete and total failure of all agencies involved, from failure of watch lists to stop t_errorists from entering the country to the FDA failing to properly alert the military during the hijackings. Incredibly the only fighter plane ready to fly and defend Washington DC was not a_rmed. The pilot was planning to use his aircraft to c_rash into the jetliner heading to the P_ent_agon. The President was on Air F_orce One and ready to take command as in a state of w_ar, but all communication systems failed such that the Vice-president was illegally issuing commands.

There is more, but I dare not

[scandals&skeletons]

It is going to be difficult for o to win this election when the media shrugs off most of Mack / Palins constant, and I mean constant li-eing. Not only do they li=e repeatedly they repeatedly voice said li-es.
And sadly, the majority of the electorate will fall for this as the MSM sits by & watches giving spending little time addressing this outrage.
Palin is a despi-cable excuse for a human being and Mack has turned into the same this election cycle.

[only1Demvoter]

s&s : Yep.

Inexcusable.


-ralph

[abby4ever]

I'd say of the two, he is still the worst, for example (and if this next doesn't convince you of what a cad he is, nothing ever will):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/mccain-knocks-obama-over_n_127003.html

[marinade]

The American people must be made aware that the economic crisis did not happen overnight. It is not an accident. It was avoidable.

The Republicans lacked the leadership, competence and will to prevent it.

[DutchSockPuppet]

They also must change their spending habits and don't fall prey to easy credit.

[FrictionSoul]

Fought? Obama fought to regain initiative?

Did anybody read the story that linked from this HuffPo "page"? I did and it's a perfect example of media spin.

I was there in Golden, Colorado yesterday and Obama laid out exactly what he has done the past 2 years to avert this crisis. Wall Street has known about this for a long time now. McCain advisor Phil Gramm convinced Congress to remove the barriers that were put in place during the Great Depression to prevent the very crisis we're seeing right now.

The article was written by someone in London and simply didn't include anything from Obama's statements before and after what few words they quoted.

Come one HuffPo, you can do better. Obama hit home run after home run yesterday by simply stating the facts, how fixable this is, how Wall Street and the Treasury Dept don't want to fix it.

I even object to Rachel Maddow saying that Obama mocked McCain. How does pointing out one's flip-flopping, hypocrisy and overall cluelessness amount to mockery? I was there. Obama was Obama: calm, thoughtful and articulate. He doesn't dumb anything down.

The Financial Times article wasn't worth anything at all.

[DrCahill]

Very well said FrictionSoul. I was expecting an explosive article when I clicked on that link to the FT, but all I got was a whimper!

[FrictionSoul]

Here's a link to Obama's statement's in Golden, Colorado:

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_10478250

[coyote4]

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Are you gone and onto someone new?

I needed somewhere to hang my head
Without your noose
You gave me something that I didn’t have
But had no use
I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again

Best Of You
Foo Fighters
2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmWxb1JYn9c

[only1Demvoter]

coyote : They're 'aight, but...

Us ' old guys ' also know how to get it on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1IoQJ_PVoM


More to follow. -ralph

[coyote4]

Thank you. I don't have that in my MP3. it is on my acquire list now.

[robodweeb]

WaPo: "McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing"

I guess his campaign finance "reform" was just another McGimmick.

[iluvsam]

The Dems are on the offense; now can we keep it that way please? Don't go backwards. Keep pounding the economic message home in those battleground states, especially Ohio. Those people are suffering tremendously under this administration's economic policies, yet they don't seem to understand that. McCain is still up in in polling in that state.

[MCOConnor]

The British are so sensible...

Just heard from a friend of mine from England and he had this to say:

"We're all crossing our fingers and hoping that you guys see sense and elect Obama President. The world will celebrate with you..."

Right On!

[peacekitten]

and that certainly beats the he11 out of the fact that the government of sweden sent its CONDOLENCES when booosh was installed in 2000.

[only1Demvoter]

pk : They did ??

( I was unaware of that. )


Good morning. -ralph

[coyote4]

Hey kitty: hope life in TX finds you well. Is all Ok?

England's conservative commentator A.A. Gill describes Palin as "looking hard and calculating and a bit of a b_itch."

[MNmommy]

We're all praying that the Ugly Americans don't win this one.

[dentuso]

London Telegraph last week -

"This election is far too important to be left up to Americans"

[abby4ever]

Yes, mainstream Americans will just love to hear that, see link above in my reply to MCO.

[DutchSockPuppet]

Outside overseers must be involved in keeping American elections clean.

[coyote4]

3 out of 4 Europeans and Canadians want to see Obama President as per weekend polls.

[abby4ever]

I think you better read this article before you pass that on to very many Americans, at least if they live in Ohio; it's about what happened the last time the Brits tried to influence an American presidential election (2004):

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-04-brits-letters_x.htm

[riverhippie]

It's too bad the Europeans don't get to decide our elections for us. I know most you liberals believe most Americanse are stupid and inferior to the folks across the pond. Obama would surely win; the Europeans love socialists.

[DutchSockPuppet]

Europeans love life and hate war..............they have experienced it whereas most Americans haven't.

[DutchSockPuppet]

Well, not inferior, however the following terms apply, SIMPLEMINDED, NAIVE, GULLIBLE.

[DJBrunner]

Morons is the term I'd apply to those Americans who keep doing things against their own best interests and have abdicated their social responsibility to think for themselves.

In case that sounds elitist let me paraphrase someone more down home, a gentleman by the name of Ron White, who very wisely said 'You can't fix stupid'.

[coyote4]

Generally the more education and income a family has, the less we reproduce. Poor and ignorant folks naturally choose reproduction as an evolutionary advantageous tool as more babies equals more opportunity. The Republicans are informed, albeit rich and powerful, but they require a poor and ignorant and economically depressed voting mass to support their me-me-me agenda. The ordinary American is thus transformed into a Republican tool; the ordinary work-a-day worker is suddenly important to the Republican political worker: a tool to insure wealthy Americans election priority.

Did you get that?

The Republican Party is for the rich but they use the ordinary work-a-day American to advance their agenda. Can you say "P. T. Barnum & Bailey? A sucker is born every minute."

[DutchSockPuppet]

Americans are always knocking us 'Eurotrash' because we are almost at zero population growth.

Not a bad thing considering EVERYONE can have a high quality of life.

[geneven]

Americans are NOT always knocking Europeans; it's quite the reverse. I've always been for zpg.

[scandals&skeletons]

When reading someo the tr0ll posts here at huffpo it leaves me wondering if "forced sterilization" isn't such a bad idea.

[MNmommy]

Are you familiar with the fundamental Quiverfull movement?

[RSU]

I lived in Europe for 10 years and I know first hand that the quality of life is not as high as people like you make it out to be. A person born in Europe is an instant slave to the government.

I guess that's okay if you don't realize you're a rat trapped in a cage but for those on the outside looking in, I just don't see that many trading their lives for their lifestyle. Unless you are an immigrant from a southern Middle Eastern nation.

[CocteausTwin]

at three hundred keystrokes a minute, would it really be that much more effort to say "Some Americans" or "Many Americans"?

[RSU]

Come on now . . .

Don't tell me that Democrats aren't having just as much fun playing social engineering with peoples lives.

They pit family against family, ethnic group against ethnic group, and social class against social class with experiment after experiment. Moreover, they then blame Republicans for the failures of one while advancing the exciting new promise of another.

Who falls harder, a worker who may have to change jobs every now and then, or one who has to turn to the government as its only form of salvation?

[CocteausTwin]

That is your party, sweetie.

[PaxChristi]

And I thought you were in a Kool-Aid recovery group, a relapse eh?

[Beca]

What planet have you been living on! Give me some examples of what you are saying.

[coyote4]

so medical coverage is an "experiment?"

I remember a recent conversation we had, where you stated that the poor could not be trusted, as they could be faking it. Like how could we trust they they were really poor?

Please offer some evidence for your above claim. Mine above assertions are already integrated into sociology 101.

[Adjuster]

Co ns just can't help projecting.

[CocteausTwin]

(To answer your question you posed earlier -- Someone like yourself? Definitely.)

[piul05]

Samir Amin has some interesting work on this area; taking the case of Africa, for example, you simply can't tell a family who lives from subsistence agriculture to have one or two children, as the more they have to work the fields, the greater the yelding . On the other hand, better education , better health and more specialized jobs result in smaller families, for the cost of keeping a decent standard of living (especially in urban areas) is very high.

So, really, if we want to curb populational growth, we should start by lifting people out of poverty, not lecturing them on the only (natural) tool they have to survive as family - especially when the US, with only 2% of the World population, is responsible for 40% of the total consumption of global resources.

[CocteausTwin]

I do not disagree with what you have written, but 50 x 300 million is 15 Billion. Are there 9 Billion people on this planet I am unaware of?

[only1Demvoter]

coyote : Spot On !!


-ralph

[mrJJ]

via americablog

This past July, AIG gave its failed CEO a $47 million severance package for his troubles:
Poor fellow. I hope that he will be OK though he does have the advantage of having an office and secretary until the end of the year. This is a new era, where record losses are ignored and multi-million dollar golden hand shakes are given along with a nice peck on the cheek. Let's be honest, corporate America would do this for any employee, especially after years of being treated so well with no luxury too much. Just because he was paid massive amounts based on bad business and now is being paid yet again despite the company writing down billions doesn't mean he didn't deserve it. Hey, he had a contract! Legal wasn't able to find any of those famous loopholes despite AIG losing billions upon billions.

What's that? Your company won't even pay for all of your family health insurance after working there for 10 years? Well, you people are always so greedy and just ask for too much. Shouldn't you be working now anyway?

[geneven]

I have an idea! Let's put $85 billion into universal health care!

[DutchSockPuppet]

Why not just a single payer system like we have here in the Netherlands? The insurance companies stay in business although at a lower profit margin and no PRESCREENS (highly illegal here).

[riverhippie]

That will pay for the first six months, maybe. What are you going to do after that?

[coyote4]

The powers that be gathered up $7BILLION bucks a piece from 10 of our biggest banks as a fund to save our struggling financial sector.

That's $70BILLION bucks folks.

Today our government blew $85BILLION bucks on the bailout of one bank. Guess what that $70B fund is worth? 7/8ths one bailout. That's yours and my money as com,pared to private money. Can you say ohhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Hang on tight folks; this is going to be a wild ride. America Descendant is a b_it_ch

[mrJJ]

He was CEO for a little over 3 years. He was also an advisor to bushy.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/0...

[coyote4]

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