WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!
'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
We've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...
I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
" We cannot blame the white people any longer."
Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
REFLECTIONS
The Jordan Gospel
In an excerpt from his book 'Make It Plain,' a collection of his speeches, Vernon Jordan looks back to explain the here and now. How the men and women obligated to 'disturb the unjust peace' gave us the candidacies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Published Oct 25, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Nov 3, 2008
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Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 5:16:39 PM
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Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/01/2008 2:39:55 PM
FUN QUOTES FROM PALIN
I got all of these quotes off of google quotes
You really couldn't make up this kind of stuff up if you wanted to
This all part of the reason why so many important republicans have been saying she
is a joke
When asked about her foreign policy experience she said
"As Putin rears his head," she said, referring to Russian prime Minister Vladimir Putin, "and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE SHE HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT HER RUN FOR VP
"It's time that normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice-presidency"
WHEN ASKED TO NAME ONE SUPREME COURT DECISION AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SHE CAME UP WITH THIS ANSWER
"I'm in that sense a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas"
when asked again to name one decision she responded
"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings"
When asked about being a redneck she said
"Someone called me a `redneck woman' once. You know what I said back? `Thank-you very much.'"
when asked what promises she might not be able to keep
"How long have I been at this, like five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot that I've promised, except to do what is right..."
Talking to dobson about prayer she said
"It is that intercession that is so needed and so greatly appreciated," Palin told Dobson. "And I can feel it too, Dr. Dobson. I can feel the power of prayer, and that strength that is provided through our prayer warriors across this nation."
When asked about being a environmentalist she originally said
"I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity."
when asked again later if she thought people had a impact on global warming
"Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change,"
asked about voting she said
"I truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be rebuilt on [Election Day]. As they enter that voting booth, they will understand the stark contrast between the two tickets,"
when asked how mccain did at his first debate
"I just thought he was great, because the American people are angry, and John McCain is angry, too
when asked about tina feys imitation of her she said
"I watched it with the volume all the way down," Palin said. "I thought it was hilarious."
IS SHE KIDDING IS THIS WHOLE THING A JOKE
IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE SOMEONE COULD BE THIS CLUELESS
SOMEONE THAT THINKS THEY COULD RUN THE COUTRY NOW LESS
VOTE OBAMA BIDEN NOW AND SEND HER BACK TO ALASKA
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Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/01/2008 2:39:08 PM
FUN QUOTES FROM PALIN
I got all of these quotes off of google quotes
You really couldn't make up this kind of stuff up if you wanted to
This all part of the reason why so many important republicans have been saying she
is a joke
When asked about her foreign policy experience she said
"As Putin rears his head," she said, referring to Russian prime Minister Vladimir Putin, "and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE SHE HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT HER RUN FOR VP
"It's time that normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice-presidency"
WHEN ASKED TO NAME ONE SUPREME COURT DECISION AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SHE CAME UP WITH THIS ANSWER
"I'm in that sense a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas"
when asked again to name one decision she responded
"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings"
When asked about being a redneck she said
"Someone called me a `redneck woman' once. You know what I said back? `Thank-you very much.'"
when asked what promises she might not be able to keep
"How long have I been at this, like five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot that I've promised, except to do what is right..."
Talking to dobson about prayer she said
"It is that intercession that is so needed and so greatly appreciated," Palin told Dobson. "And I can feel it too, Dr. Dobson. I can feel the power of prayer, and that strength that is provided through our prayer warriors across this nation."
When asked about being a environmentalist she originally said
"I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity."
when asked again later if she thought people had a impact on global warming
"Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change,"
asked about voting she said
"I truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be rebuilt on [Election Day]. As they enter that voting booth, they will understand the stark contrast between the two tickets,"
when asked how mccain did at his first debate
"I just thought he was great, because the American people are angry, and John McCain is angry, too
when asked about tina feys imitation of her she said
"I watched it with the volume all the way down," Palin said. "I thought it was hilarious."
IS SHE KIDDING IS THIS WHOLE THING A JOKE
IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE SOMEONE COULD BE THIS CLUELESS
SOMEONE THAT THINKS THEY COULD RUN THE COUTRY NOW LESS
VOTE OBAMA BIDEN NOW AND SEND HER BACK TO ALASKA
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Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:58:59 PM
Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:
1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
$120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
after they break their campaign promise to the American people.
2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
no pre-conditions!
John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!
John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
candidate of the DNC.
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Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 10/31/2008 11:19:25 PM
Study finds Media has Betray Trust of American People
Newsweek Article:
Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
Study finds comments on evening newscasts over the past two months favored the Obama campaign
"For whatever reason, the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain," said Robert Lichter, a George Mason University professor and head of the center. "If you watch the evening news, you'd think you should vote for Obama."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/165218
"A former Newsweek reporter admitted in an article this week that he has no objectivity and imagined disabling Rudy Giuliani so he wouldn't run in the presidential primary race last year.
Michael Hastings wrote in GQ magazine that he had a "recurring fantasy" that he could somehow stop the former New York City mayor in his tracks.
"I quickly realized Rudy was a maniac. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took him out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did. Objectivity is a fallacy," he said."
http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_7484&pageNum=2
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash
55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp
Pew Research finds Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted' CNN
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/51_say_reporters_are_trying_to_hurt_palin_39_say_she_has_better_experience_than_obama
51% Say Reporters Are Trying To Hurt Palin; 39% Say She Has Better Experience Than Obama
Add to that The ugly side of Big Brother Socialism from the Obama Campaign: Media Blackmail
October 31, 2008 12:27 PM ABC Reports:
The Obama campaign has told three reporters they have to drop off the campaign plane this weekend. All three work for papers that endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.: the New York Post, the Washington Times, and the Dallas Morning News.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/citing-space-co.html
Barack Obama's campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station, the Orlando Sentinel reported .
"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, according to the Sentinel.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertai
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Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/30/2008 12:38:31 PM
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama can't be trusted with the economy.
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is naive with foreign policy.
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim.
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama doesn't live in "Mr. Rogers"
neighbourhood.
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama bought the media networks.
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that African Americans are voting for Obama only because he's Black.
Well..it???s proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama cannot pay for his 1,000 promises without raising everybody's taxes!
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama has ACORN trying to steal the election for him!
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama is no Martin Luther King.
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama believes in Marxism.
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama says a lot but says nothing!
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama is sympathetic with terrorists!
Well..its proven beyond a reasonable doubt Barack Hussein Obama only spoke the truth with "Joe The Plumber???
On Tuesday...Nov 4....I'm getting my popcorn ready and watch how many dumb Americans vote Obama.
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Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:00:12 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
Shame on you, NowfortheTruth.-
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 5:09:44 PM
VOTE NOW,
What the heck, what, you taking over for Nins know with this posting . . . ore are you Nins. . .or better yet, this is propaganda provided to multiple posters? Well anyways, here are my responses back to Nins to this posting. . . .
You can discredit the guy who wrote, but either way you look at it, it was cowardly of Obama not to confront his own party. Instead, he took a backdoor route to get on record (with the Treasury Secretary) that sub-prime loans were dangerous - instead of standing up for his beliefs in front of his peers. The article did not say he literally voted present; it was that Obama???s reaction to handling his objection WAS SIMILAR to his TACTIC of voting present in his Illinois senate. It sounds like something typical Obama would do based on his past history in his legislator voting. I wouldnt put it past him.
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 3:03:14 PM
Comment:
It would have showed that he walked the walk and didnt just talk the talk. It would have shown him facing his peers stating his belief, regardless of whether it wouldnt have passed or not..
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 3:23:12 PM
Comment:
FROM THE ARTICLE:
On the matter of deregulation and the financial crisis, Sen. Obama should consider his own complicity in the failure of Congress to adopt legislation that might have prevented the subprime meltdown.
In the summer of 2005, a BILL emerged from the SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE that considerably tightened regulations on Fannie and Freddie, including controls over their capital and their ability to hold portfolios of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. All the Republicans voted for the bill in committee; all the Democrats voted against it. To get the bill to a vote in the Senate, a few Democratic votes were necessary to limit debate. This was a time for the leadership Sen. Obama says he can offer, but neither he nor any other Democrat stepped forward.
Instead, by his own account, Mr. Obama wrote a letter to the Treasury Secretary, allegedly putting himself on record that subprime loans were dangerous and had to be dealt with. This is revealing; if true, it indicates Sen. Obama knew there was a problem with subprime lending -- but was unwilling to confront his own party by pressing for legislation to control it. As a demonstration of character and leadership capacity, it bears a STRONG RESEMBLANCE to something else in Sen. Obama's past: VOTING PRESENT.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122403045717834693.html?mod=todays_us_opinion
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/25/2008 8:13:36 PM
See also
http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732 from this web site. (oops!) stating that Freddie Mac was spending tax payer money to target Republicans in 2005 who were trying to regulate Fannie and Freddies fraud. Democrats were not targeted, as the were all in the tank with Fannie and Freddie to kill the regulations. Hear that, the article admits that Republicans were trying to regulate Freddie and Fannie, and Democrats were trying to stop it from happening as a means to facilitate the Community Reinvestment Act.
See also: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."
In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we found out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html
Their failed policies are what brought us to ruin. Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.-
Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:02:13 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/26/2008 1:17:31 AM
NowfortheHALFtruth, that Newsweek article you link states that the Fannie/Freddie regulation was killed by a group of REPUBLICANS who were "in the tank" with the lobbying company. It also states that McCain was NOT one of them, that McCain tried to get this legislation brought to a vote, but that the other Republicans tabled it without voting. This article does NOT say that the Democrats were part of the group that was in cahoots with the lobbyists. You made that up.
And the Wall Street Journal article that you reference has NOTHING to do with your blog. Just trying to manipulate people, aren't you? Most readers don't know that your links almost never lead to pertinent articles. In fact, your links often REFUTE what you are saying.
That WSJ article you quote says that there hasn't been a liberal Democrat majority in Washington since 1965, and before that, 1933. This is historically true. Other assumptions made in the article (especially vis a vis Medicare) are just that, assumptions made by a conservative Republican paper concerned about losing power.
For those readers who can think for themselves, think back to 1965. Kennedy and the Civil Rights movement. A pivotal time in our history, one we can all be proud of. And 1933, when FDR gave us the New Deal and turned around the Great Depression. If you think about the past century, the only two times that we have had a liberal Democrat majority, America got STRONGER and BETTER.
Obama '08-
Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 1:34:50 AM
p1-2 Quote:
Unknown to the senators, DCI was undermining support for the bill in a campaign targeting 17 Republican senators in 13 states, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The states and the senators targeted changed over time, but always stayed on the Republican side.
In the end, there was not enough Republican support for Hagel's bill to warrant bringing it up for a vote because Democrats also opposed it and the votes of some would be needed for passage. The measure died at the end of the 109th Congress.
p5 Quote:
"Democrats did not like the harshest provision, which would have given a new regulator a mandate to shrink Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by forcing them to sell off part of their portfolios. That approach, the Democrats feared, would cut into the ability of low- and moderate-income families to buy houses."
The political backdrop to the debate "was like bizarre-o-world," said the second of three people familiar with the program. "The Republicans were pro-regulation and the Democrats were against it; it was upside down."
p6 quote
Sen. Richard Shelby, the committee chairman at the time, underscored that in a statement Wednesday, saying that with Democrats already on their side, it was not surprising that Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae went after Republicans. "Unfortunately," said Shelby, R-Ala., "efforts then to derail reform were successful."
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 4:10:51 PM
What do you really know about Obama's economic philosophy? Since he has never run a town, state or business, he has no record to look at. Oh, he has made lots of promises, but given that he broke his promise to be limited to public campaign funds, you cant put much faith in that, and there will be no means to keep those promises anyway.
But you do know that Obama, along with his democratic buddies in Congress, personally and professionally advocated for a residential housing policy favoring forced sub-prime lending, which subsequently resulted in massive defaults and foreclosures, leading to your loss of significant equity value in your home, to the point that it destabilized your banks, which panicked the stock market, which wiped out your savings.
Look and listen to Obama for yourself. Obama in this video, addressing his community activist work and his work representing ACORN in litigation against the banks and relating to the Community Reinvestment Act, and addressing the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as those actions relate to the destruction of our economy by causing the current real estate and subsequent financial crisis, states that, and I quote:
"Subprime lending started out as a good idea, helping Americans buy homes who previously could not afford to. Financial institutions created new financial instruments that could securitize these loans, slice them into finer and finer risk categories, and spread them out among investors and around the country, as well as around the world. In theory, this should have allowed mortgage lending to be less risky, and more diversified."
Acknowledging the catastrophe, but as apologist for the Democrats, Obama then offers this justification.
"The original idea was a good one, which was, lets see if we can distribute risk more broadly, and make it easier to provide loans to people who otherwise might not be able to get one."
Yah, great idea. Economically unsound, but embraced by Obama. Listen for yourself. You cannot dispute the mans on words recorded live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
Below is a link to C-SPAN video clips of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie. See for yourself who said what.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs-
Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:01:57 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
Shame on you, NowfortheTruth.
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Posted By: stevemoschetta @ 10/27/2008 7:25:53 PM
HEY NOWFORTHETRUTH - ANSWER MY QUESTION:Hey Nowforthetruth: what town, state or business has McCain run? And if the tax cuts are so successful, why are we in a recession. The key difference between the Bush/McCain tax cuts and Kennedy's is that Kennedy also reduced the rates on the lower brackets which is exactly what Obama will do.
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:14:45 PM
Arizona, a Beer distributership with his father-in-law
Your in a recession because Congress, lead by Dodd and Frank, and Fannie and Freddie and groups like Acorn blackmailed banks with the Community Reivestment Act to make bad loans, undercutting sound lending practices in the name of social engineering. Over the course of years, this undercut the real estate market, which tanked with massive foreclosures, which then called the accounts held by the banks into question, undercutting the stability of the banks, which flat-lined credit market which then spooked Wall Street, which then promply went to ground, taking your savings with it. With less to spend and economic uncertanty all around, the economy contracted. See for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
Kennedy's tax cut mainly targeted the top because those are the people who create jobs., with great results. Obama plans to raise their rates, the one thing almost every economist knows you do not do in a recession. Which would you rather have if your in the middle class: a job or a tax cut?-
Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:15:55 PM
For clarification, by "accounts" i meant notes, not deposits.
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Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:01:27 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
Shame on you, NowfortheTruth.
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:03:51 PM
Now there is proof. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama let it slip that he really is as radical as his early political mentors, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now, an interview with Obama in 2001, mysteriously overlooked all this time by the main media outlets, proves this fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Obama's redistribution and restitution plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html
Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGnSAlqjoU
See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html-
Posted By: stevemoschetta @ 10/27/2008 8:24:57 PM
NOWFORTHETRUTH - answer my questions: WHAT TOWN, STATE or BUSINESS HAS McCAIN RUN?
BY YOUR DEFINITION THEN KENNEDY WAS A SOCIALIST, SO WHY CITE HIM?
IF THE PAST 8 YEARS OF TAX CUTS HAVE WORKED SO WELL, WHY ARE WE IN A RECESSION?
AND WHY THEN, WOULD YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THE BUSH/McCAIN TAX PLAN?
WHY DON'T YOU STATE YOUR REAL NAME AND WHO YOU ARE WORKING FOR?-
Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:01:15 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
Shame on you, NowfortheTruth.
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Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/28/2008 4:00:02 PM
Comment: If you follow NowfortheTruth's link to the Wall Street Journal you will find that it doesn't lead to a real article, but to an opinion piece. It is titled "Obama voted 'Present' on Mortgage Reform" but oddly enough the article does not go on to say that Obama ever voted Present on this issue. In fact, he could not have, since this is a Federal issue, and the US Senate does not allow Senators to vote Present. The title alone should clue you in to the fact that lies and deception will be the basis of the article.
It was written by Peter J. Wallison, a member of American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's public policy. More than 20 AEI alumni have served in the current Bush administration, including Lynne Cheney (VP Cheney's wife), and Irving Kristol, the founder of the neo-conservative movement, both Senior Fellows at AEI. This is a radical right wing group. A bright bunch, to be sure, but very one-sided.
Wallison's editorial in the WSJ tells us that the Bush administration did not deregulate the financial industry, that such talk is just Democrats telling you lies.
It is terrifically hard for anyone to believe that, however, since Peter Wallison is AEI's Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project, and served under President Bush writing financial deregulation policy. If the financial industry was not deregulated under Bush, how can Mr. Wallison explain his job title as Co-Director of the Financial Deregulation Project?
Actually, what this article really represents is a self-serving narcissistic inflation of the Republican's mistakes into virtues. Oh, and it also represent's NowfortheTruth trying yet again to feed the readers on this blog site atrocious lies.
Shame on you, NowfortheTruth.
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Posted By: ariziowa @ 10/28/2008 3:40:08 PM
Well, Osama said that I should say this! Yes, I filed 1040s many years. And yes, they can take much time.
But 1040EZ? I can do that one in my sleep!
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Posted By: ariziowa @ 10/28/2008 3:34:55 PM
Excuse me, nins, you obviously haven't haven't filed in your life! I have been doing it for over 35 years. You are such a nimrod - 1040EZ - look it up.
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 3:01:58 PM
Sorry, Sharenews, but the idea that Obama should have somehow "confronted his own party" and that if he had, the bill to regulate Fannie and Freddie would have passed, is ridiculous. That bill was KILLED by a group of 35 Republicans, before it even reached the floor for a vote. You can't blame Obama for blocking it -- it never even came to a vote. And as for standing up to his party on this, it was the REPUBLICANS who blocked it, not the Democrats.
The fact that Obama discussed sub-prime mortgages with the Treasury Secretary a couple of years ago only shows that he was acting Presidential, and that he had a long eye for the future. He asked the Treasury Secratary to intercede long BEFORE the market crashed. If he had been President two years ago, the Treasury Secretary would have had to listen to him, and maybe the financial crisis could have been AVOIDED.
I would also like to say that I have enormous RESPECT for the fact that John McCain supported this bill, even though other Republicans killed it. By all means, praise McCain for standing up on this issue. But you can't blame Obama. Unless of course you are being unfair.-
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 3:08:45 PM
It would have showed that OBAMA walked the walk and didnt just talk the talk. It would have shown him facing his peers stating his belief, regardless of whether the would of or wouldnt pass anyway.-
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 3:19:29 PM
FROM THE ARTICLE:
On the matter of deregulation and the financial crisis, Sen. Obama should consider his own complicity in the failure of Congress to adopt legislation that might have prevented the subprime meltdown.
In the summer of 2005, a BILL emerged from the SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE that considerably tightened regulations on Fannie and Freddie, including controls over their capital and their ability to hold portfolios of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. All the Republicans voted for the bill in committee; all the Democrats voted against it. To get the bill to a vote in the Senate, a few Democratic votes were necessary to limit debate. This was a time for the leadership Sen. Obama says he can offer, but neither he nor any other Democrat stepped forward.
Instead, by his own account, Mr. Obama wrote a letter to the Treasury Secretary, allegedly putting himself on record that subprime loans were dangerous and had to be dealt with. This is revealing; if true, it indicates Sen. Obama knew there was a problem with subprime lending -- but was unwilling to confront his own party by pressing for legislation to control it. As a demonstration of character and leadership capacity, it bears a STRONG RESEMBLANCE to something else in Sen. Obama's past: VOTING PRESENT.-
Posted By: sharenews @ 10/28/2008 3:20:20 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122403045717834693.html?mod=todays_us_opinion
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 3:02:12 PM
Here's a video in which Obama discusses fiscal responsibility. Anyone who cares about the economy should see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4a6RNhCUo
On this web page, you can calculate the amount of your TAX RELIEF under Obama's plan (This tax calculator is for personal income, not for businesses. Remember that if you itemize, your tax cut will be higher than what the calculator shows. However, Obama's new 1040EZ allows people to get credit for some itemizations without having to fill out the long form and schedules.)
http://taxcut.barackobama.com/
You can get even more information on Obama's economic policies from the Blueprint for Change.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 3:01:08 PM
Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.
And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your priorities.
You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 2:50:07 PM
Here's a video in which Obama discusses fiscal responsibility. Anyone who cares about the economy should see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4a6RNhCUo
On this web page, you can calculate the amount of your TAX RELIEF under Obama's plan (This tax calculator is for personal income, not for businesses. Remember that if you itemize, your tax cut will be higher than what the calculator shows. However, Obama's new 1040EZ allows people to get credit for some itemizations without having to fill out the long form and schedules.)
http://taxcut.barackobama.com/
You can get even more information on Obama's economic policies from the Blueprint for Change.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
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Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 10/28/2008 12:53:52 PM
McCain and Palin want to pin a label on Obama to scare everyone. First off, the labels Marxist, Communist, Socialist and Liberal are all real stretches of their imagination that only reflect McCain???s and Palin???s desperation but more important, what we know for sure has failed and that should really scare us is ???more of the same???. We need to realize McCain and Palin simply don???t offer anything but more of the same. They talk of change but offer nothing specific, only empty rhetoric. What McCain does change is his position frequently. First he brags that he shares Bush???s philosophy and that he voted with Bush 90% of the time and in-between he says that he isn???t Bush, that Bush???s policies failed, that he is different and will provide change from Bush. We have actually seen him change multiple times almost each day as the economic crisis unfolded, always worried about political advantage instead of finding real answers. McCain is really not convincing as he is either unsure and tentative or impulsive and poorly thought out without any real answers and only criticizes Obama who in contrast does confidently present detailed plans. McCain vacillates between his need to convince his ???conservative??? base and trying to manipulate the voters with the most likely result being that he would just provide more of the same; the same Bush-Cheney style failed ???conservative??? policies that he has supported all along. We really can???t take more of the same, whatever you want to call it!
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Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 1:39:18 AM
Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.
And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your priorities.
You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.
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