How busy imploding was John McCain this week? Over three crisis-laden days, he couldn't find the time to read Sec. Paulson's original 3-page bailout plan. How not-ready-for-prime-time was Sarah Palin? When pressed to cite an example of McCain pushing for oversight of Wall Street, she told Katie Couric: "I'll try to find you some, and I'll bring 'em to you." How bitter was Bill Clinton? He couldn't stop singing McCain's praises, from Larry King to The View to Letterman to GMA. How much did Joe Biden need a history book? He claimed, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television." How unhinged was Newt Gingrich? He called McCain's campaign suspension gambit "the greatest single act of responsible leadership ever taken by a presidential candidate." How steamed was David Letterman? See for yourself.
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Spot on as always.
McCain does not know the issues. Win, Win, Win,,, what? WIN WHAT? A needless war based on lies and discovered by the whole world? KNOWN THE WORLD OVER?
McCain couldn’t even look up from his podium during the debate. Parents,,,, what would this tell you about,,, Little Johnny,,, and his honesty????
More of the SAME,, McCain,,, A FEAR and HATE, Talking Points. Stump Speeches, and ROVE Mantras.
In context however, I still am forever saying I am going to get that record,,, when CDs have been out, replacing,,, Vinyl 33 rpm Long Playing recordings for decades.
Wait till Sarah Palin bans half the books of Sir Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Boyle, Marx, Darwin, and mandates the Smithsonian to build a Creationist wing.
JMO
This Crisis and Bailout is a HOAX!
NOW what to do?
Ummm? Lemmy think?
Ok,, OK,, Got it.
A. Gather groups dressed in suit coats and ties, women in business outfits. Carry Cameras.
B. Go to ALL downtown Business districts.
C. Begin to march,,, NOT IN A LINE,, but in a circle, around City Center. Counter Clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, Clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
D. Set leaders at the corners of the march, if the crowd is walking 4 abreast, march 4 blocks square. 6 abreast, march 6 blocks square, and so on.
Walk silently, without any signs, NO chanting, NO slogans or protesting,,, JUST WALK.
Just a suggestion.
All the best
Knute Neo-LIB
The reason for marching Counter Clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and Counter Clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere is symbolic and for identification.
Counter to the Coriolis Effect. The way things are seen to turn on the earth, when viewed from above.
Counter Coriolis,,,,, Symbolic of,,, TURNING BACK TIME.
All the best
Knute Neo-LIB
I meant Clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
(BLUSHING)
Sorry,, I’m OLD and I’m blind,, I use a computer reader to type.
To be very honest, I had even forgotten which way the Coriolis turned. SOOOOO,,, I had to fill a sink in the kitchen with water,, dump in a bunch of Coco Puffs and then drain the sink to see which way it turned. What a Brain Freeze!
Sorry,, Sorry!
I will be back later,,, I need to go clean my sink of soggy Coco Puffs.
All the best
Knute Neo-LIB
Hopefully this will be remembered the next time the government is asked to approve a merger.
Oh, I guess they did!
Down the rabbit hole we go!
America will be very lucky if it ends up with 4 or 5,, HUGE, HUMONGUS BANKS.
And you are witnessing this Banking takeover and consolidations happen,,,, with FULL Government approval and assistance!
WITH YOUR OWN EYES!
WATCH!
All the best
Knute Neo-LIB
My answer is that the greatest fear of McCain and of his campaign was that he would lose his cool during the debate (as he has a history of doing).
So to reduce the likelihood of that happening, by being angered watching Obama talk, he decided to not look at Obama at all. Even though that made McCain look small and disrespectful.
However his anger still seeped out around the edges with his contemptuous remarks about Obama and the mutterings under his breath.
See Bob Cesca's blog for more:
http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2008/09/the_highlight_r.html
However, it was the responsibility of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the SEC to have seen the crisis coming a few years ago and if not stop it at least warn us.
(Heck, three years ago a friend and I were talking about how all of these "suicide mortgages" (the term "subprime mortgages" was not in vogue yet) were going to come crashing down and take a lot of innocent people with them.)
Paulson, Cox, and Bernanke were MIA.
Then my broker had the nerve to tell me a few days ago that no one saw this coming. Give me a break!!! The greedy boys got theirs and it looks like they will again with this bail out. I bet Wall Street has already found the loopholes needed to scam this system too.
Actually, she said, 'I'll try to find you some ....and [big, awful grin] I'll bring em to YA.'
The 'YA' is so patronizing that I wondered if Couric wanted to get up and leave immediately. 'Ya' implies an intimacy that just isn't there. It talks down. This locution, including the "'em", made me feel outraged; I happened to see it three times and felt the same, or more, each time.
http://clintonfoundation.org/about-the-clinton-foundation/contact-us/contact-form
If they were able to develop a "COMPUTER OF TRADING TRICK" that made a BROKER ten Billion in an afternoon or a week they took home $30 mill bonuses!
Brokerage FIRMS USED UNIVERSITIES as training grounds to "Take" investors of all types.
BROKERS who hired these "WHIZZES" became the GREAT TRAINING GROUND FOR GREED!
These young people still exist and are still tasked with "DEVELOPING TRICKS!" to SCAM US.
That is why we need "PROTECTION" in the form of REGULATIONS for FAIR MARKETS.
WE NEED ETHICS TRAINING FOR EVERY YOUNG PERSON COMING OUT OF A UNIVERSITY!
Therefore our military, foreign policy, economic, etc. policies must be different.
Obama understands this; McCain does not.
It is sad that there are many people out there for which race is a consideration....however...this is progress. Twenty years ago Obama wouldn't have even been able to make a serious run for the nomination. Now he could possibly BE the President. Most of the non-white people that I know say that they thought this wouldn't happen in our lifetime. I can't say how proud I am that my 6 year old mixed race niece does not know there was a time that Obama couldn't have even run.
How can Newt say that with a straight face?
That is clearly a four out of four on the Pinocchio meter.
SOLDIERS VOTES FROM IRAQ ARE DISALLOWED !!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.truthout.org/video/greg-palast-rove-has-already-fixed-2008-election
Why is no one talking about the Far Right's desire to hobble government (and the Far Right's Iraqi and financial excess successes to do just that)? Why is no one reminding us that "the government" of the United States of America is US, the citizens of the United States of America? The Far Right has convinced too many of us that all taxes are bad, and that all tax cuts are good. Meanwhile, legal protections for corporations have stripped the financial sector of all personal responsibility. This, while rewarding personal greed.
There was a time when being pro-business meant being pro-manufacturing, pro-research, pro-development, pro public education, pro-American government!
This pendulum has swung way too far. It's time to get it swinging the other way with the election of Obama/Biden and Democrats who know the value of investment in progress and people, not paper. Then we can begin to see moderation in government, and the promise of America, once again.
While both parties were to blame, the Republicans by far were the worst offenders.