Time to Channel Cousin Frank

I'd rather channel up Teddy Roosevelt than William Ayres, Reverend Wrong and all the others. Jonathan Alter: You are nothing but a second rate Kool-Aide drinking hack. You are precisely one of the reasons that journalism as we used to know it is dead.

It is such a sad day in America when a man like Obama with little quailifications for the office of president receives the blessing of supposed intelligent writers. Noticing with my feeble mind that 95% of Hollywood and 95% of the mainstream media all think in the terms of the left. Another factor that this feeble brained man has obeserved. I've been to and throughout out Russia. Guess what? It (left wing) doesn't work! Great people, but a waste land except for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The fact that 95% of journalist, actors and attorneys thinking the same way is a scarey thought. That is not logical! In any working and normal field there are political differences with a more balenced % left and right.. You stated Warren Buffet being left minded. There are many businesemen that are right minded. See the logic? There is no logic in the 95 percenters.
The most important thing I can state is, "I agree that your idealogy is admirable and a wonderful world it could be. The only problem is that it doesn't work!" So you have to see the solution is the next best thing. Common sense tells you to let your children grow up and become responsible. Socialism leans toward helping those in need. God Bless you leftys for that too, but you don't stop there. You want to give to anyone that doesn't do or want to do a hand out. That actually is nice too. Except for one little problem. I don't like working an extra 20 to 30 hours a week to pay for it! Responsibility, hard work, freedom, and our own road map and not the government's plan is my solution!

John McCain is a self-professed "American Hero". Real hero's don't go thumping their chests about their heroism. John McCain has just shown us in this campaign how shallow his character really is. He has traded lies for serious debate, distraction for substance, and cynical pandering gestures for genuine dialogue. He should be ashamed of himself. I am sure (at least I hope) he has accomplished some noteworthy things during 26 years in the Senate (beyond railing about $3.0 million bear studies and offering us $20 gas tax holidays). During the last months, he has undermined anything he may have accomplished. In that respect this hideous election process can be said to have worked. Now, whether distracted, superficial, scared American voters will actually perceive any of this? Tune in on November 3, 2008.

Let's be honest here. McCain imagines a world of stark black and white, wrong or right choices. He cites dramatic examples and makes risky gambles. But let's be honest here. In the real world, where you and I live, where most of us are damn well certain of how many homes we have, the consequences of our choices aren't quite so stark as he imagines. We live in a world of nuance, a world of technology and open knowledge, we live in a place where every possible consequence has to be imagined and anticipated. Where victory and defeat are empty words when we can't afford to heat our homes, or or feed our families.

In this complicated, nuanced world, we choose our words carefully, we talk to our enemies as well as our allies, and we stop and think about what we do before we do it. Otherwise we face financial ruin, place our families in danger, and continue to harm the planet in disastrous ways.

For McCain, they are either with us or against us. Heroes or Villains. Let's be frank. That attitude, the consequences of that attitude, now threaten to destroy our nation. We choose whether we continue to use 20th century attitudes, even 19th century attitudes, in a 21st century world. Let's pray that we all consider the consequences of our actions very carefully.

Especially in the voting booth.

Dare tell, just when was it that McCain had character?

Teddy Roosevelt graduated magna *** laude from Harvard while McCain graduate 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. He supported universal health care and was a true progressive. He was bound and determined to regulate industry and the government for the protection of regular Americans. McCain never met a regulation he liked until 2 months ago and voted 19 times to keep the minimum wage at $5.15 an hour. Not exactly progressive. That John McCain is at all like Theodore Roosevelt is a myth created by John McCain.

McCain is simply a rich con man. He's for John McCain first, last and always. He has marketed himself well and deserves kudos for how far he has advanced himself although he was aided by his wife's great wealth and his family's military legacy. That is why he can only do one thing at a time - his all-consuming focus is the advancement of John McCain. The perfect metaphor for his always putting himself first is his choice of Sara Palin as his runningmate. He would rather put this country in grave jeopardy than lose this election.

In 2005, for the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill, S. 190, was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets. If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0



In support of S 190, also known as the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, John McCain said: "For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs--and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO's report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO's report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16

Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 would have Amended the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to establish: (1) in lieu of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) the Federal Housing Enterprise Board.
Most importantly with regard to the CDS situation, S. 190 set forth operating, administrative, and regulatory provisions respecting: (1) assessment authority; (2) authority to limit nonmission-related assets; (3) minimum and critical capital levels; (4) risk-based capital test; (5) capital classifications and undercapitalized enterprises; (6) enforcement actions and penalties; (7) golden parachutes; and (8) reporting. Adoption of these regulatory provisions would have undoubtably affected the way CDSs were dealt with in "private" enterprises.
The bill would have also amended the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to establish the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation., and transfered the functions of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Banks to such Corporation. If this had been in place three years ago, this whole situation might have been averted.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190&tab=summary

picking palin is clearly me first, wining first, country last.

picking biden is country first; if wining is everything, he would have picked Hillary.

iw

Sen. McCain is an American hero. He keeps reminding us he was a hero. He reminds us of his sacrifice so we will skip through the rest of his resume. John McCain has been a senator from the sunny retirement state of Arizona for a long time. In Arizona his age is not an issue because in many parts of Arizona he is actually young. In the Senate he is just another elderly member. Among his elderly and less elderly fellow members, John McCain has been known for his temper throughout his career in Washington. His behavior has been and still is forgiven due to his POW experience.. Now we can add signs of senility to his instability. Now we have the glycerin to go with the nitro. John McCain is a remarkable old man who fails to face mother nature with common sense. He should retired by the voters with all due respect.

Everyone seems to conveniently forget who has the majority in the House and Senate. What makes you think things are going to change with a Democratic President? I say we vote all the bums out of office.

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/anger-entitlement-and-contempt.html

Saturday, September 27, 2008
What A Debate Reveals: Anger, Entitlement and Contempt

What I found shocking reflecting on last night's debate was how angry and entitled McCain was, in a very open way.

McCain's manner was one of that who believed he should not even be on the same stage with this person. This indicates a person of extreme rights and extreme wrongs, not a statesmanlike persona, but an angry and impulsive one.

McCain carries strong ideas of what a liberal is, ideas that very little from his cherished ideas of who betrayed the nation during the Vietnam war. A stock character, driven and created by his own rage, carried, as it has been since the '70s, with a virtual ideological blindness--blinded by a contemptuous rage--that there are others who cannot understand the world the way he can. This is not judgment, but angry certainty. This is not readiness, but a just-contained rage that he should be confronted by such ideas.

You can see it in his constricted "can you believe it" rage at one who disagrees with him. This kind of contemptuous, angry dismissal of others ideas leads easily into the impulsive decisions of the last few months--generated with barely contained contemptuous rejection of those who would reject his ideas--only the most recent forms of those essential constructs--a contemptible media, easily fed with false notions and panaceas, as he believes they were earlier in his life; intellectuals, whose reason and deliberation is contrasted with the sharp, impulsive action that for his life has constituted a certain knowledge, and an angry, certain need to sweep away those who would stand in the path of righteous certainty.

What is beautifully ironic is how McCain maintains this contempt even as he switches from one position to another in the opportunistic second--this is when the look of contempt and entitlement turns, for a moment, to anxiety and panic.

Soon, however, the gaze is back. No matter what the new position is--impulsively determined, desperately grasped--if only "they" knew better. If only "they" knew the truth.

This kind of ideological rigidity and certainty (note how Obama could not contain himself from smiling when McCain attempted to compare him to Bush in that regard) combined with impulsive decision making, from the "gut" of sure knowledge, is what has created the outcomes of the past 8 years.

It was--in a setting where one would not expect it to be, where one would expect McCain to contain it--glaring apparent last night.

This is an amplification of the last 8 years rather than a change.

We do not need to experience this type of decision making again.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/anger-entitlement-and-contempt.html