Mr. Obama’s Washington

Arrogant, Elitist, Obama embarrassed of America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7I3mwrC9M4

Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It's not because of Gramm's obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" who are in "a mental recession." Those remarks were so ascerbic that they may've been made just to give McCain an excuse to distance himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.

When Gramm was a Senator he was Chairman of the Banking Committee. He pushed through the legislation known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why investment banks were able to falsely inflate the prices of oil, wheat, corn and other commodities through massive futures trading, causing your costs of gas, heating oil and food to go through the roof.

Gramm also created the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. The Gramm Act was touted as a new way to protect consumer privacy, but the real meat on the Act's bones was banking deregulation. Essentially, this Act did away with laws written after the Great Depression to protect us from another Wall Street/Banking Industry collapse. That's right, Gramm stripped the system of it's safe guards nine years ago, and guess what? The value of the dollar has nose-dived, four major economic institutions have failed, Wall Street is unstable, and we are in a worsening recession.

Notably, the US investment banks that gained the most from the Enron Loophole and from the Gramm Act contributed more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign.

Currently Gramm is Vice Chairman of UBS, the Swiss Bank that came up with the idea of "death bonds." Worse, though, UBS is involved in a scam where they sold auction rate securities to American customers. Auction rate securities are supposed to be as safe as cash, but the way UBS did it, the fees garnished by their in-house investment bankers were intentionally higher than the return on the securities, ripping off their American customers. The Massachusetts Attorney General has already filed charges against UBS, and private brokers world-wide have dropped UBS stock. UBS is forecasted to lose 82.91% of it's value in 2008. We are talking about the corporate bank where Gramm is Vice Chairman. Looking at his track record there and at the havoc he has wrought on the US economy through the Senate Banking Committee, it's clear that either Gramm is a criminal or grossly incompetent.

Now McCain wants nothing to do with Gramm, wants us to forget Gramm has been a key player on McCain's team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISOR. Previously, McCain had said that he planned to appoint Gramm as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

With Gramm as McCain's leading economic advisor, now you know why economists and analysts say that McCain's economic policy plans are untenable.

THERE ISN´T MUCH DIFFICULTY IN KNOWING HOW WASHINGTON IS RUN BEFORE YOU DESIDE TO CHANGE IT! IT IS NONESENSE TO MAKE SUCH SUGGESTIONS.IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN RISIDING IN AMERICA AND ARE SMART ENOUGH,YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO VISION THE TERRACE AND TOPOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON.WHEN THAT IS CLEAR YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY DIFFICULTY FINDING THE RIGHT CONTOUR LINES OF REPAIR!
OBAMA IS ENERGETIC AND SMART ENOUGH TO TAKE UP THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE WITH HIS POSSIBLE CABINET AND ADVISERS.BECAUSE HE HAS OFTEN DISPLAYED A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD JUDGEMENTS IN THE MAJOR ISSUES,THERE SHOULD CERTAINLY BE NO CAUSE FOR ALARM BUT FOR AN AGING AND FORGETFUL McCAIN,WHO DIRECTLY IS INVOLVED IN THE PLOT THAT LED TO THE WAR DRAGING AMERICANS KNEES ON THE GROUND ECONOMICALLY AND WEAKENING OUR SECURITY AS A RESULT.McCAIN HAS MAITAINED AMERICA IS BETTER OF,HIS PHIL GRAMM SAYS AMERICANS ARE COMPLAINING TO MUCH AND WHYNNING,SUGGEST McCAIN REMAINS INCORRIGIBLY OUT OF TOUCH.A TRUE CONFIRMATION OF HIS ZERO KNOWLEDGE OF THE ECONOMY.HE SAYS HE NEEDS TO BE EDUCATED ON ECONOMY BUT AMERICA CAN´T WAIT FOR HIS AGING BRAIN TO FIRST GET IT.NO NOT AT THIS VERY FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW!!I AM CONFIDENT THAT EVEN THE LEAST EDUCATED AMERICAN WOULD MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE THIS TIME!WE CAN´T COMPLAIN ABOUT BUCH,YET CONSIDER A WORSE CANDIDATE THAN BUSH IN ALL FASHION.

Can't wait until he is in office

TO ALL HILLARY SUPPORTERS Q; HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL THAT OBAMA IS MORE OR LESS PIMPIMG OUT HILLARY AFTER ALL HE'S DONE TO THE WOMAN NOW HE'S HAVING HER WORK FOR HIS BENIFIT I'M VERY SURE SHE NONE TO HAPPY ABOUT IT BUT BECAUSE OF THE DEBT SHE INCURRED TRING TO DEFEAT THE DIRTY TRICKS HE PULLED ON HER SHE IS MORE OR LESSED FORCED TO DO THE WORK FOR HIM ITS A DAMN SHAME WE ARE LETTING THIS BOZO GET AWAY WITH THIS IN THIS DAY AND AGE HE SAYS HE'S FOR FAIRNESS IN THE WORK PLACE BUT LOOK HE'S GETTING HER TO FOR SOMETHING SHE JUST DON'T BELIEVE IN I'LL BE FRANK WITH YOU ALL I'M A NUTTY REPUBLICAN BUT I'M GOING TO GIVE THE MAX AMOUNT TO GET THIS FORMER FIRST LADY OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF THIS DIRTY POLITICAN BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA I CAN SAY THIS TOO I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE TWO EXPERIANCED SENATORS GO FOR THE WHITE HOUSE RATHER THAN THIS IDIOT NO EXPERIANCE OBAMA GET IN AT LEAST IF EITHER HILLARY WON OR McCAIN THE COUNTRY WOULD STILL STAY THE COUNTRY WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE BUT IF THAT IDIOT GETS IN ( OBAMA ) WELL WE CAN KISS IT GOOD BYE !

As projected by the increasingly leftwinged,increasingly dishonest AP at any rate.[a full summary of their journalistic departures from facts,which are becoming alarmingly legion,[and patently partisan,which is not their damned business], may be viewed at the libertarian www.instapundit.com]. ''Change'',obviously,does not tilt always into ''good''territory,for social issues,the economy,energy or foreign policy. Indeed,things,as bad as they may be [energy] or appear [Iraq],have the capability to become much worse. The problem is that while leftwingers[being of a strident political wing]are easy to sell down the river,governance by a liberal ideology is as intractable as anything we have seen between 2001-2006,when the GOP had undisputed control of the three government branches.
No longer. A Congress that promised us a ''drained swamp'',run by liberal governance has shown complete inertia on the days major issues. And when it is not static,it is corrupt,as any of the recently observed pay-to-play schemes involving Democrats illuminate.[a real mess involving a federal investigation of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers[Mich] wife is now brewing in Detroit. What role Conyers may have played is still unknown,and of course the firesale deal on mortgage rates offered majority -Democrats who sit on banking committees by the disgraced COUNTRYWIDE Loans is still on the front burner].Senate Majority Leader Reids stock is in freefall in his native Nevada,with voters seeing him as a person who is not a clear thinker,as his ''energy is making us sick''speech demonstrated. Obama,as president,with what he has to work with in Congress,has the capacity to create ''change''that will create negative impacts for this country,barring a ''throw the bums out''coup by American voters THIS IS BARROWED FROM LEE HOLMES

We could wait a lifetime for a skeleton key presidential nominee to come along who flawlessly interfaces with each of our pet issues, and, consequently, we'd probably die a politically disappointed and overly cynical death.

What attracted me to Senator Obama's candidacy wasn't that he was going to evolve into some kind of liberal messiah who I would agree with all the time. He never really made any promises of that sort, and it was clear -- especially to Kucinich and Edwards supporters -- that Senator Obama wasn't entirely in line with what are generally considered to be netroots or progressive causes. Rather, he's always been the pragmatic liberal whose every slogan and statement -- often employing the collective pronoun "we" -- seeks common ground between deep blue and blood red. He's the liberal who this week, while simultaneously reaching out to evangelical voters, issued an unequivocal statement of opposition against any constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. That's textbook Obama.

After I read the letter of support he sent to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, I remembered why I chose to support the senator's campaign -- and why it evolved into an enthusiasm for a politician that I've never quite experienced in my adult life. So why then...? In the simplest terms possible, choosing to support Senator Obama has never been about issues, but rather, it's always been about, 1) electing a thoughtful, smart president we can reference with pride -- a president who won't flatly embarrass us every damn day, and 2) electing a president who can inspire and negotiate the necessary support he'll need to roll back the darkness of the Bush years.

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To that effect, and even though there are many who come close, I can't name another presidential-quality politician who's shown himself to be better suited to achieve these broad goals. Despite how we feel about individual issues like FISA or NAFTA, I think most of us with liberal or progressive tendencies can agree that we have a candidate here who is going to succeed on these challenges, while potentially forming a long-range coalition of support that could one day result in a purely progressive netroots candidate.

Those of us who have been strapped into this dark ride -- arms and legs locked into the tram, following these crimes and scandals and unconstitutional measures for too long... we've been damaged a little. We've been round-house kicked in the throat once too often. Sometimes by members of our own party. So it makes sense when some of us express shock or disillusionment at the actions of a politician regardless of their party affiliation. Besides, there's nothing wrong with criticizing the friendlies (though we're told that, politically, it might be wiser to keep our powder dry until after Senator McBush is soundly defeated). But what has served to keep me sane during these last weeks -- or saner -- has been the broad-stroke recollection of why, irrespective of the finer points, I decided to back this guy named Barack Obama for president in the first place.

If we're able to deliver the mandate he'll require in November -- which means a solid electoral college victory and expectations-defying down-ballot victories -- Senator Obama will help to vindicate our long-suffering, dark ride generation and, thusly, our time in American history -- a time that seems to be so perfectly summarized in thumbnail-form by this current Summer of Awful. If we can keep our attention focused on the big ideas that attracted us to the senator in the first place, he will make us proud.

Posted By: RetiredMarine @ 06/25/2008 10:12:56 AM
Comment: Id like to see a candidate address and try to fix this:

How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain... let's take a look at New Orleans .. It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number... what does it mean?

Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.

Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

Or... if you are a family of four... your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C???. HELLO! Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, CDL License Tax, Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Dog License Tax, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gasoline Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax), IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Property Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service charge taxes, Social Security Tax, Road Usage Tax (Truckers), Sales Taxes, Recreational Vehicle Tax, School Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax, Telephone Minimum Usage, Surcharge Tax, Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax, Telephone State and Local Tax, Telephone Usage Charge Tax, Utility Tax, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax., Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt... We had the largest middle class in the world... and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell 'POLITICIANS!'

And I still have to press '1' for English.

What the heck happened?????

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

the kool-aid recipe is the reason you should not vote for him it sums up his reasons for running and if you think he's qualified to be president then you have been slipped a micky so to speak someone slipped you some obama kool-aid check his record his votes but most important check his agenda and ask your self is this who i want to run the country ! think about his tax plan think about his willing to give free health care to 15 million illeagles think about his forgien policy or lack there of think about all his plans and if you feel like he's the one take some ipecac syrup because you've ingested his kool-aid then go vote for someone who will get this country back on track i prefer the John McCain/ Mitt Romney ticket hopfully thats who will win the election in november if Obama gets it we are gonna have a hard row to hoe !!