It’s Just a Flesh Wound

The 10% are for sure those who would go down with the ship before admitting they were wrong...
They are the 10% who will be taxed more so by our next president Senator Barak Obama!

If you believe that people actually answer the questions that they are being asked when polled, you might need to think about this. When you realize that 10% of the people are trying to get off the phone, have no idea what they really think, or are just messing with the poll taker, it doesn't mean that much.

"One in 10 Americans can't be repo men or Bush relatives. " This has got to be the best line I've seen in a news article since the election began. I personally think that the 10% consists of the country's greatest ignoramuses (don't you know, "ignorance is bliss?"). I'm serious. Not everyone is intelligent and logical. Some people are dumber and less sensical than others. There are scores people out there who are either too stupid, too dense, too self-centered, or all of the above, to recognize when crap has hit the fan. That some of them happen to probably be die-hard Republicans is just a coincidence.

I happen to think these 10% or so are all hard core Bush supporters who are willing to go down with the captain. Most propably have some kind of stakes in all the companies that have been rapping the tax payers these last eight years. Of course they don't care, they have most of their money in off shore accounts and also have houses in several different countries. When, in November they have all that King George can get them, they all hop on their 25 million dollar planes and go find a bunch of other suckers to rape and pillage!

Yes I guess all of the wealthy will be laughing at the rich wanna be people. Those who opted to put on airs until they could not put on any more. I opted to say no to those who called me during dinner or when I did not really need the credit cards and expensive things. I opted to sell my home before I lost it. Smart choice I would say, now seeing all this turmoil. Chris seems to understand the reality of intellect and doesn't under estimate it. You sir do not seem to get it , not even now. Still part of the story seems like it fits the daily puzzle of the American Economy.

I would surmise the 10% club are Bush and Cheney family and friends, and of course all the guys who received their "golden parachutes," nothings wrong in their lives. Secret Service for the rest of your life, $200/$400k yearly pension for the rest of your life, hospitalization/medical, free (Pres/VP). So hey, how could they say something was wrong?

No, CUAO007, things won't be perfect once Obama is elected. Things will still suck horribly. It's sort of like, if I came over to your house, took everything out of your refrigerator and threw it all against the walls of your kitchen and then said "ok, clean it up," your kitchen would still be a disgusting mess for quite a while. But your kitchen would be more likely to eventually be clean if you could get me to stop throwing garbage against the walls. See where I'm going here?

Priorities for what is good for this country are the proper use of taxes--for public interest benefit such as schools, policy, firemen, water supplies, garbage disposal, recycling, maintaining public structures and buildings, and OH YES, it can be done if you are public minded at the helm, and not greed and profit oriented, it can be that healthcare as a universal offering from taxes, single payer (the government pays the bill, not insurance companies), and the non-profits are the deliverers, and oh yes, the trillion in debt warfare that keeps rising, would be CUT entirely except for a basic proper balance, and the IN THE BLACK budget with constructive not destructive priorities, these would be for the good of America and the end of commericalism from government with true democracy in place, if Nader is elected. He can win, and now, I am moving past that view, he is on the ballot in 45 states and a write-in in four others plus D.C., so the majority who is currently registered outside the two parties, if they want real change and a budget on track for America, they can vote majority rule against the Bush horrors in front of us. 38% are registered in the combined two parties. The balance is essentially nonb-partisan, I am one of those, 50% of MA is Independent, the Democrats are not the majority, and I am not undecided, I am against the minority rule of corrupt against the public for their interests against OURS at a majority level. Majority rule for the majority will turn the 90% dissastisfaction into immediate proper view of what is hope for proper optimism of solid goverment spending for good, not evil.

This link of a CSPAN video 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

"Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

I consider myself to be in this minority. Yes, I am concerned about the economy and the state of affairs as it pertains to the US position on the geopolitical stage. But a bit of perspective is in order here. If we as a country think about where we live as opposed to say, Pakistian, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia we really don't have it all that bad. We are free to come and go and do as we please without fear of reprisal from the religious police, the secret police, or warlords who will execute you just because you don't have your self covered from head to toe. It seems that we have to have something to worry about, to agonize over because if we don't then we can't be happy. We take for granted the many things we can be thankful for while exacerbating the scope and content of our problems to the point that this is all we see. We have the ability to start over again after failure, while understanding the lessons that failure teaches us will ultimately pave the road to our success. We seek perfection in ourselves and our leaders and are dismayed when we find that we are all to human and that as humans we all make mistakes. We should cut ourselves some slack, lighten-up and take things just a bit easier. Because if we do, then we can put our problems in perspective and with the tenacity the is the embodiment of the American Sprit solve those problems as we realize that our best days are just over the horizon.

What about the ON TRACK versus off track of the MEDIA...they feed only two candidates and have elected themselves as the majority rule telling us who the two candidates are, there are six on the ballot in November, is that in spite of the public or in spite of the media, I am certain it is IN SPITE OF THE TWO PARTIES, and IF there are 10% who believe we are on track, yes I would say they are Republicans, it must be so, and the 90% who said off track, one must presume want change. Certainly that is what democracy is for. What about the media railroading the two parties and being complict in a criminal usurption of our democracy? the public thinks there really is a majority in favor of what the media says the polls show., No one cares that the polls offered TWO choices as the ONLY choices! 62% are registered non-partisan, almost, about 1-3% are in the minor parties, the rest are independents, over 100 million. A sample of 1000 of forced votes between two choices netting a two party result as if wanted, when it was all they tendered, but it is not all democracy offers, and the change offered is by SIX who claim change. What about OFF TRACk with regard to allowing accuracy and facts and merits, instead of lipstick and racism?

I agree with you amethystlady2, Bush's failed policies and McCain and his fellow Republican's love of deregulation are partially to blame, but I'm sure that there are many more people and institutions that should be sharing in that blame. GREED is the main culprit and lack of oversite was the method that all those at fault took advantage of.

Although someone doesn't have all their facts straight... you don't either. It is true that BofA bought out ML and there are still buildings out there with both of their names on them in big ol' letters, BofA only absorbed a portion of ML's bad debt. The Fed had to absorb the majority of that debt, and we are the Fed whether we like it or not

I think this is a rather good article. I don't think this country has been going in the best of directions for the past 8 years, but I would rather be an American going in the wrong direction than to be anywhere else.

amethystlady2: someone else may not have their facts straight... but neither do you. BofA may have bought ML and there are still buildings out there with both their names in big ol' letters, but BofA only absorbed a portion of ML's bad debt. The Fed had to absorb most of it. Just be glad that as a tax payer, you own a little of both of them.

I MEANT ONE NOT WON .. OOPS

I RESENT THE CHRIS MATHEWS REMARK. I WATCH HIM EVERY NIGHT AND HE IS WON OF THE MOST HONORABLE NEWSMEN .. HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH AND PERSUES IT WITH ZEST. BUT I WOULD BET THAT THE 10% ARE A BUNCH OF AIRHEAD BUSH SUPPORTERS. I MEAN COME ON, WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?

I was just a dumb factory worker in Detroit in 1980 when Reagan and the GOP bedazzled the public with deregulation, lower taxes for the rich, reducing spending on social programs and infrastructure,etc. I was a member of a United Auto Workers study group and we predicted that in 20-30 years we would be looking at a potential disaster comparable to the Great Depression unless the American people woke up and stopped these public money lovers from wanting tp privatize everything. Clinton tried but had to go along for political reasons. . Wow-two Great Depressions in my lifetime (born 1926) Unf---ingly believable !