he should be tried for treason, It's obvious he's working undercover for the Obama camp
he should be tried for treason, It's obvious he's working undercover for the Obama camp
You are abasolutely right!!!!!!! Tried for treason !!!!!
And also....Barney Frank should be FIRED!!! If I was in charge of overseeing the finances of organizations much smaller in size than he was in charge of----------
and such GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF NOT DOING MY JOB RESULTED IN PEOPLE LOSING HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY------------you KNOW that I would be fired.
Furthermore, Barney and the CEO's who practiced such poor business loan practices for mortgages should be fired, AFTER WE DOCK THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR A FEW MILLION TO HELP PAY BACK THE LOSS.
This link of a CSPAN video clip may help set the context, as these hearings were at the time of McCains attempt at S.190.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
"Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"
wow! What won't a man do to win!
It's sad, but true - shoot daggers, like Schmidt and McCain are doing, and this will be tagging them for what they are - willing to do whatever it takes to win, even if it is Rove style attacks of lie, smear, and deceit to win. I had more respect for John before he started this. ...And the tactic has rubbed off on Obama, who is forced to reply to these smears, but seems to have a more diplomatic and truthful way of approaching it.
Obama, in the mean while, has really spent more time on the issues, and is running one of the most successful campaigns in history. Schmidt needs to take lessons from this, yet it's hard to overcome McCain's and Palin's less than stellar pasts.
For more information about these campaigns, and how we can really approach another issue that needs addressing regarding TRUE health care reform, go to:
http://www.RootsofDemocracy.com
http://www.HealingNews.com
Obama may well win, but most people don't know what they're getting. For example, he has voted against extending the Bush tax cuts, which expire at the end of 2010. This means -For families with taxable income of:
$17,000 - increased taxes of $400
$29,000 - increased taxes of $1,100
$72,000 - increased taxes of $2,300
$251,000 - increased taxes of $6,900
When he says that people making under $250,000 won't see a tax increase, he means no increase above the scheduled increase after 2010. And if you have anything that sells at a profit (capital gains), there will be more taxes on that as well. McCain voted to make these tax cuts permanent, but the Democrats in Congress voted against it. Watch your wallets when Obama gets in and he has control of Congress.
Reality Check, you're misstating Obama's plan. He will make the Bush tax cut permanent for incomes up to $250,000, but eliminate it for incomes over $250,000. Here is your table, corrected to show the actual plan:
$17,000 - no increased taxes
$29,000 - no increased taxes
$72,000 - no increased taxes
$251,000 - increased taxes of $6,900
You are correct, we do not quite know what we are getting with Obama. However, we know exactly what we are getting with McCain: Palin as vice president. This is the scariest thing to think about for any American who is capable of independent thought. Given the poor choices there is no reasonable choice but Obama in this race. By the way, if you believe that tax cust are sustainable in the present economic situation you are dreaming.
Schmidt a Rove want to be nastier and absolutelyt no concience. No concience no touch of deciency. John McCain the only person with absolutely no morals or ethics an ideal piece of clay for schmidt too play with. McCain has no mind left to control himself of course that happened as a child and has gotten no better with age. Win all all cost the country be damned hate fear McCain's friendly tools.Church of Satin indorsed McCain tactics complements of Schmidt tool of Satin..
"Elastic with the facts..."? Do you mean lying? It just seems hard to believe that a Republican strategist would ever lie... Yeah, I guess it's a dirty game and a dirty job. I'm just tired purveryors of dirt running this country. I don't think even Sarah Palin could do a worse job than the current simian at the wheel -- but then -- I could be wrong about that too.
Well, JohnAV, I agree with your disgust at the way the dirt purveyors run things. But I have to disagree with one thing: Gov. Palin could be much worse than the current occupant of the WH. And that's saying something. But at least Pres. Bush didn't stock his cabinet with guys from his high school. I mean, Gov. Palin actually gave the head of the Agricultural Commission to a real estate agent friend of hers who had been a classmate in elementary school. The only qualification the friend listed was her "childhood love of cows." I wish I was funny enough to make that nonsense up. And then you get to the whole Alaska Independence Party thing. Secession from the Union? Come on... Her husband was a member for 7 years, even after 9/11, and she herself attended many conventions (including sending a videotaped greeting to this year's convention, thanking them and telling them to "keep up the good work"). Pres. Bush got us into unnecessary war, but at least he didn't try to take Texas away from us.... Luckily it appears that Senator McCain will continue to snatch overwhelming defeat from the jaws of narrow defeat.
Just as McCain is ruining his campaign by turning to abuse and fear-mongering, Newsweek is ruining this forum by allowing an abusive Neanderthal to spoil the dialogue.
Obama: Last man standing...... McCain: Old man sitting....
The polls you quote are far from several I've seen the last few days. Zogby has Obama by 2 and another has Obama by just 1. The workd is finally learning what Obama really is. A friend to terrorists, convicted sleaze balls, Communists and heads of state of our enemy nations.
Obama is neither good or smart. His campaign as the Manchurian Candidate started when he was 20 and travelled to Pakistan with his mother on Indonesian passports. Just what did he do in Pakistan? They never signed a pledge of allegiance after this jaunt that is required to keep one's citizenship in such a situation. There is a legal action in PA you can check for more about this. Obama's campaign is being managed as it has been for all the years that his image was created, by Al Monsour. Check "Obama/Al Monsour" online. Then be very afraid. How did Obama get into Harvard--certainly didn't have the grades. Who paid for it (whil he moans about his student loans)? How could he be on law review and never write a paper? Then how could he "work" at a prestigious law firm and never try a case? This is a "hollow man, a stuffed man. Headpiece filled with straw." He is a created man by Al Mansour and his ilk (George Soros to Saddam Hussein all have a piece of him/check Auchi).
So if he got in by sleight of hand, how did he keep up his grades through all his courses, are you saying that all his professors at Harvard were in the pay of Soros? How did he graduate with such high grades? How did he get appointed to his teaching position, and hold it for TWELVE years. Surely someone would have blown the whistle on his ineptitude before now.
Your attempts at being clever don't even appear clever! If you represent the support that the Republican party going for it, then that party is doomed, for a long time. You lie like a child.
I'm finally beginning to understand what has puzzled the rest of the developed world for the last 8 years. Let me quote one London newspaper, "How Can 54 Million People Be So Dumb?"
Omaba: the last man standing..... McCain: an old man sitting.... masharif
Just as McCain is ruining his campaign by turning to abuse and fear-mongering, Newsweek is ruining this forum by allowing an abusive Neanderthal to spoil the dialogue.
THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCERN OF AMERICANS IS HOW WE GOT INTO THIS ECONOMIC MESS AND LETDOWN. I HAVE HEARD ONE ECONOMIST IN THE FOX CHANNEL PRESENT THE SITUATION IN DETAIL FROM EARLY 2000 AND HOW SEN. MCCAIN AND SOME REPUBLICANS TRIED TO PUT SOME CHECK & BALANCE INTO THIS HOUSING AND FINANCING SYSTEM, AND HOW DEMOCRATS PLAYED POLITICS AND BENEFITTED FROM THESE INSTITUTIONS INCLDG. BARACK OBAMA. WHY CAN SEN. MCCAIN NOT DELIVER THIS PRESENTATION DURING THE DEBATES OR ON CAMPAIGNS TO MAKE AMERICANS REALIZE WHO IS MOST ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS ECONOMIC MESS, WHO HAS POOR JUDGMENT, AND IS ALL TALK BUT NOT HAS NO RECORD AND HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING. WE WANT SEN. MCCAIN TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND IT WILL BE A LETDOWN TO THIS NATION IF WE ALLOW SOMEBODY WHO HAS NOT SERVED AND DOES NOT HAVE A RECORD OF SERVICE TO THIS GREAT NATION. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO RISK THE FUTURE OF THIS NATION, ESP. AT THIS TIME, TO SOMEONE WHOSE BACKGROUND WE CANNOT EVEN CHECK AND VERIFY.
I'm sorry. I tried to read your post, INDAYG, notwithstanding that for some bizarre reason you put it in ALL CAPS. But then you started to tell us what you learned from the "fox channel." Next.
I'm sorry. I tried to read your post, INDAYG, notwithstanding that for some bizarre reason you put it in ALL CAPS. But then you started to tell us what you learned from the "fox channel." Next.
If this board allows the use of the word "***", as mentioned in the previous comment, then Time magazine has lost all my respect.
I'm tired of Newsweek allowing its readers to be abused by the abusive comments of Imazookeeper
It's obvious that Schmidt's campaign tactics are at cross purposes of McCain's. The VP pick of Palin lost it for McCain since Palin was very obviously not even close to McCain's first, second or third choice. Also, since Palin wasn't vetted, this was contradictory to the "Country First" strategy. So McCain's first vital executive decision was not authentic, showed that McCain lost control of the RNC and the campaign and cost him the election
I agree that a possible VP Palin is a huge negative to the McCian campaign. I hope you are right and this horribly irresponsible choice will indeed cost him the presidency.
Simon, I think there will be a good deal of debate about what cost McCain the presidency. I think his lack of an economic message is the one that gets the most discussion right now, but in my opinion his lack of a disciplined approach to campaigning is what will ultimately cost him. That lack of discipline manifests itself in at least four ways:
1) He did not take advantage of the time between his primary victory and Obama's to build a competent "ground game." Instead of going to Selma and then sleeping at his Sedona ranch, he could have built a solid, Bush-like ground organization.
2) He has no message consistency. He reverses himself nearly constantly. Calling it flip-flopping is an insult to flip-floppers like Kerry, who at least can articulate WHY they were for it before they were against it.
3) He does not listen to his advisors, which amplifies the problem identified in #2 above.
4) He did not bother to vet Gov. Palin. He only met her twice. Not only did he not know anything about her, almost no one knew anything about her (including his own campaign top staff). But aside from that, he ignored what little he and his staff DID know. The troopergate investigation, for instance, was already well underway when he picked her. And her message of reform is superficial - she requested and received 3/4 of a billion dollars in earmarks as governor, she requested earmarks for studying seals and crabs (undercutting his favorite grizzly bear DNA story [which, by the way, he voted for anyway], she increased the operating budget, as distinct from the capital budget, both as mayor and as governor, and she disagrees with him on environmental policy. Every one of those things could have been determined by little more than a Google search.
So in the end, I don't think Gov. Palin alone will cost him the Presidency. But she certainly did cast the problems with his judgment into bold relief.
I'm tired of Newsweek allowing its readers to be abused by the abusive comments of Imazookeeper
Here's some fresh ammunition, right from the Messiah's mouth
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Schmidt is another Rove clone, who was an Atwater clone, who was etc. etc. The Republican party always goes negative because it works and because they are usually in the minority on the issues. They attack to distract. They have used race and race baiting to keep the South ever since the days of Lyndon Johnson. They have used xenophobia ever since McCarthy. They attack the patrioism, backround,religion, family, friends , and associates of an opponent in every campaign in exactly the same way. Anyone with a slight interest in politics could predict the tactics of any Republican campaign in any state or district in America. These tactics have created generations of haters who are against all people and views except their own. They never change their minds, they never admit mistakes, and (God forbid) they never change the campaign playbook. Schmidt comes from a long line of foam at the mouth political advisors. Watching this McCain campaign whip up the hatred and predjudice is just more of the same.
I've never heard the truth stated more precisely or concisely. To put it another way, "yeah, what he said."
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