DISQUS

martha · 1 year ago

And Barack Obama is not some generic dem who rails against the repugs. He is really, really smart and really, really ethical. The American people could seize the moment and elect him OR...

grandma · 1 year ago

I agree...Obama is a statesman

grandma · 1 year ago

OT:

25,000 to 30,000 Show Up For Obama in Charlotte Today! (Kos)

martha · 1 year ago

What is with 60 Minutes? They are so kissing McCain's butt. Wow the surge worked! What? Obama is going to increase our taxes. What? Palin is the most popular govenor. Yea! Why does 60 Minutes hate America?

grandma · 1 year ago

Watching that too....he picked Palin because she was the best for our country...not a political choice at all.

Liar Liar Liar

martha · 1 year ago

Yea , she was was the most qualified choice, she has been so vetted, like Hillary - McCain thinks we are all so stupid. Maybe we are.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Was the show produced before the taxpayer bailout? If not, who produced it. You can bet its some Fox News watching, Rush Limbaugh listening Republican apologist.

martha · 1 year ago

Wow Obama just said on 60 Minutes (which I have been wishing he would say when someone says "the surge worked") - if we had pulled out troops and demanded more from the Iraqi government we could be in a better position today. Yes, so violence is down - but we are still spending 12 billion dollors a month and the war goes on for 100 years - according to McCain. Maybe leaving is the best policy.

Joneses · 1 year ago

I was listening to Air America today and I heard a caller say that although Phil Gramm bears some of the fault so does Clinton.

It's always Clinton fault isn't it. Will they ever stop saying it?

The Greedy shall not inherent the earth.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Yea, Clinton left with balanced books and everyone seems to think they have to go and blame a Democrat to ensure they are somehow balanced in applying blame where it belongs. It belongs with the greedy Republicans who expect the taxpayer to clean up after their failed policies have been rammed down our throats for a decade.

lynchie · 1 year ago

The truth is that Clinton continued the deregulation started by Regan and Bush. The real problem is that 12 years of Republican controlled Congress and 8 years of Bush with no oversight from anyone including the Dems has gutted any controls on what Corporations or Wall Street do. Food from overseas is full of mercury or poison. Dog food kills and maims thousands of dogs. The list is endless. Not a single mother is in jail. The destruction of our economy and Paulson, Bush and the Congress want to reward them for doing a good job of destroying this country not only now but for decades. I just don't get why Americans continue to vote against their very survival.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Many voters I know are comfortable in their middle class Wal-Mart voting disengaged lifestyle. They don't even know congress is thinking about handing $700 billion to Bush, or worse, they don't care. They won't care until they can't afford the mortgage, food or shopping at Wal-Mart. In the meantime, the low information voter is excited about voting in the next election because it reminds them of "American Idol" or its a way for some to vote Republican and punish the 'homosexicals' who want to get married. Until they get their asses in a bind, they don't look at how the election personally affects them.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Obama's pretty much up for sale. But,? he's not any worse than the others.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Yea, that's relevant - NOT!!! Busboy, you and your kind have been the problem for a decade. Its been deregulate and let the economy work its magic on the rich and everyone will be happy. Now we are seeing the results of this philosophy because you have to admit, you've had your way for an entire decade. You can't escape it. The whole ownership society has collapsed into "you're on your own" unless you're lucky enough to have married a rich heiress, and then the average tax payer needs to ensure you never fail. Why don't you just give it a rest instead of popping in with a non sequitor like "Obama's pretty much up for sale..." when the topic is how disastrous the Republican philosophy has been on our nation.

Busboy · 1 year ago

I'm listening to Obama right now on the telly, Cowboy. His only plan is to raise taxes. He needs to check his hole card. Right now he's praising the surge......

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

and the Republican plan is to NOT raise taxes, right? Use taxpayer money to pay for a war, and send $700 billion to their Wall Street friends while making fun of Biden for saying its patriotic for the rich to finally send some money to the treasury to bailout Wall Street, right? As far as the surge is concerned, who cares if Obama was wrong about it? The Iraqis haven't taken advantage of the relative calm surrounding the Sunni awakening so the surge, successful or not, just delayed the inevitable time bomb waiting to go off because their hasn't been ANY political reconciliation, has there?

shanobama · 1 year ago

Obama was never worng about the surge. What worked in Iraq is paying the militias not to fight and Sadr calling a cease fire. More soldiers would not have had an effect if those changes of policy were not enacted at the same time. They made friends with the enemy and paid them.

I also wonder if we started giving the jobs to Iraqis instead of slave labor from Indonesia, how much more violence would go down. Having more soldiers around does not solve all that many of Iraqs real problems.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Ah, Obama has stated repeatedly he is going to raise taxes, as has McCain. The question you should be asking is who's taxes. Under Obama, not mine.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Unless he goes into "unchartered territory" He's not going to get mine or Teddy Kennedy's. My guess is he'll get your's before he gets mine...

shanobama · 1 year ago

Probably. Because under Obama, seniors who make under 50 grand a year pay no taxes.

You may have to find another way to hide your payment from the CIA, (or is it FBI?), though. Because a whole lot of loop holes are going to close.

kevinh · 1 year ago

Here is the history on Phil Gram-this should be a campaign point-

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Cowboy, this is hilarious: Now he's claiming to not be a Muslim sympathizer.... What a Joke!.....

grandma · 1 year ago

Pelosi's response to the administration's bailout proposal:

"Congress will respond to the financial markets crisis by taking action this week in a bipartisan manner that will protect the taxpayers’ interests. The Administration’s $700 billion proposal does not include the necessary safeguards. Democrats believe a responsible solution should include independent oversight, protections for homeowners and constraints on excessive executive compensation.

"We will not simply hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street and hope for a better outcome. Democrats will act responsibly to insulate Main Street from Wall Street.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/21/184740/...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Guess we should all get down on our knees and thank the NRA for lettin our powder stay dri.

shanobama · 1 year ago

And for voting Bush into office twice. Morans.

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

Paulson urges quick action on $700 billion bailout. I just bet he does!

The Bush administration insisted Sunday that Congress must move quickly to approve what one lawmaker called the "mother of all bailouts" — a $700 billion proposal to buy a mountain of bad mortgage debt in an effort to unfreeze the nation's credit markets.

I’m not opposed to bailouts in general; I recognize that the alternative would be disastrous. But to hand Henry Paulson — the man who either didn’t see or didn’t care to deal with this financial crisis which was predicted more than a year ago–a blank check and demands no accounting, no transparency, nothing… is literally economic insanity–doing the same thing that got us in trouble the first time and hoping for a different result. Paulson said today that taking away CEOs’ “golden parachutes” as part of the bailout process was a “poison pill.” How’s that for fixing the economy?

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

McCain's a McMoron.