THE ROAD TO THE INAUGURATION

Holding Pattern

Relax, Obama—foreign policy's stalled at the moment.

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  • Posted By: cougar_gal06 @ 03/03/2009 3:11:26 PM

    We should be creating a diplomatic partnership. It will help make America a safer place to live in. Another thing that the Obama administration should be focusing on is helping eradicate global hunger. The more people that are left starving, the more people there are for the Taliban to potentially recruit. If all it takes is giving them food, shelter and schools for their children (which are things they really need) why wouldn't you want to pledge an allegience to them? The Borgen Project (www.borgenproject.org) has some great ideas to help reduce poverty and make developed countries a better place to live in.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 02/20/2009 9:14:41 AM

    Meanwhile, "Sen. Dianne Feinstein's blurt during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week forced the U.S. intelligence and military community to acknowledge on Thursday that the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives using unmanned drones based in Pakistan.

    The acknowledgement that the Pakistanis not only are turning a blind eye to U.S. operations in their territory, but also are lending a hand by supplying a staging area could create political problems for the fragile government of President Asif Ali Zardari. The Pakistanis themselves are still officially denying the arrangement, a decision predicated on the weak federal government and extreme anti-Americanism in tribal communities, particularly the Federally Administered Tribal Area in the Northwest, where Taliban and Al Qaeda support is strongest."

    Scooter Libby was convicted in a witch hunt for not remembering what day he might have talked about a third rate CIA agent who wasn???t active and was peripheral to the matter at hand. Here, we know who the leaker is, and it is on a matter critical to our operations in Afghanistan and to the stability of our ally. Dianne Feinstein should be thrown out of the Senate immediately and prosecuted for revealing classified information to the public and endangering our troops.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/13/2008 10:43:17 AM

    What ever Democrate leaves White -House ,they leaves the Country with High -Note Surplus,When ever Republican Leaves White-House they Bankrupt the Country.
    Americans all FED-UP as far they concern....GOP are HISTORY.

    • Posted By: Doc HowI @ 11/22/2008 12:19:57 PM

      Jack999 well that isnt true but I agree that GOP is History because the Socialist Revolution has begun! Gobama!

  • Posted By: Doc HowI @ 11/22/2008 12:15:08 PM

    Obama will fix everything by taxing us into prosperity. The world's rich and producers will flock to America to pay our higher corporate income taxes and our immense income tax rates. Everyone will love America again because we are going to cut the military budget 25% in the first year making overseas bases not financially viable and our ugly babykilling Military will finally be put in its place!! Gobama!

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 11/14/2008 5:03:55 PM

    While Obama is in a holding pattern, the Bush Administration is pillaging America transferring as much wealth as possible to Wall Street.

    I hope you ignorant republicans who elected Bush for his second term are happy because you share direct responsibility in the current financial meltdown.

    I' am certain however you will try to pass the blame elsewhere.

    Sorry, it wont wash. Bushes second term and the republicans are what got us here. Period.

    • Posted By: varacefan @ 11/18/2008 4:54:30 PM

      Oh, I almost forgot. Chenney was at VMI just a week or so before the game. That proves it!!

    • Posted By: varacefan @ 11/18/2008 4:50:57 PM

      I agree and I am also pissed that VMI beat Kentucky last week in basketball. You can't tell me Bush didn't have something to do with that! I mean VMI is a military school!!

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/14/2008 6:23:34 PM

      Passing the buck will not cut it. Even leftwingers [DAILY KOS,MOTHER JONES,AMERICAN PROSPECT,MOVEON,TRUTHOUT,DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND] are horrified at Obamas economic picks of Robert Rubin and Jim Lynch,the destroyers of the GLASS-STEAGALL Act,which brought about a huge portion of this current trouble. Then too,why would an agent of ''change''cram into his administration a posse of FANNIE MAE hacks who were also responsible for the meltdown including his own Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel?[ and yes,yet another Tony Rezko crony,this one in the person of Valerie Jarrett]. You forget a rather basic,rather factual point. The only ones who contested this bailout with any cohesion were Republicans. Particularly those in the House. Yet your leaders were saying all along from Day One that the bailout must go through. Even as it was to be cut up among Wall St. banks and lending institutions.[let alone union hacks in Detroit].

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 10:17:35 PM

    Obama,if we can believe HAMAS,is already ''embroiling''himself in the Palestinian/Israeli mess.

    Three things immediately raise themselves as a hindrance,offering no better luck than Bush had,perhaps even worse.

    1. HAMAS spokesman Ahmed Yousuf admits to Londons AL-HAYET Islamic newspaper on Monday that the Obama team has been ''meeting with HAMAS for months''leading up to the election. This represents a departure from Obamas promise that he would not consider negotiating with this terrorist organization.

    2. Tying in to No.1,Obama again goes back on a campaign pledge that he would not utilize the services of Robert Malley,in May,then thought to be a person of some possible position within an Obama administration,which caused worry among American Jewish circles in Florida and other battlegrounds based upon Malleys position during the Clinton presidency and for years afterwards while serving for George Soros that were and still are, percieved to be pro-HAMAS and pro-Arafat. [his own writings confirm this]. Clinton himself accused Malley of revisionism in his role in the Camp David Accords,which was ultimately wrecked by the Second Intifada in 2000. On May 9,2008, Obama stated that there will ''be no role in the future''for Malley.
    Malley was again named Obamas chief Middle East adviser and flew to engage in diplomatic overtures two weeks prior to the election that went unmentioned by the MSM that have already included talks with HAMAS, according to AL-HAYET, thus breaking not one,but two main Obama foreign policy platform promises. It remains astonishing that NEWSWEAK has not bothered to confirm these events. Malley next meets with the gangster Assad regime in Damascus,[which is currently sending arms to Lebanon in open violation of a UN resolution that was supposed to ''end''the 2006 Summer War ], and then goes to Egypt.

    3. Bidens comments. While Joe is a routine big mouth who can normally seen chewing on shoe leather,for the Israelis,even his Iranian comments were beyond the pale,when the Jerusalem Post,HA'ARETZ,and Israel Army Radio all nailed Biden for telling senior Israeli officials that they ''would have to reconcile themselves with a nuclear-armed Iran''. Of course Obama immediately denied that Biden had said any such thing...But then he also denied that he would ever again retain the services of Malley. Pitifully,[for NEWSWEAK and other American news services],we must look to foreign sources to provide news.

    AL-HAYET [London] Nov.10,2008:''Interview With Ahmed Yousuf''

    The London Times May 10,2008:''Barack Obama Sacks Adviser Over Talks With HAMAS''.

    Middle East News Nov.05,2008:''Obama Promises Improved Ties With Egypt,Syria''.

    HA'ARETZ Sept.01,2008:''Biden Quoted As Saying Israel Would Have To ''Reconcile''Itself To A Nuclear Iran''.

    • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/13/2008 9:16:12 AM

      Lee, You're one of the biggest imbeciles on the blogs. You don't know dick about the Hannity and Morris provided lines you're reciting. Here's your logic, President Obama is aligned with Hamas and to prove that, his first appointment was his Chief of Staff. Who did he appoint/ Rohm Emunel and Orthodox Jew.

      Let's discuss your Republican Party of Hate a little, ok? The GOP is the party of the KKK, and the Neonazi skinheads. Both are headquartered and protected by Republicans in RED states. Which one of these groups supports Isreal? The Republican party of hate also relies on it 's Christian evengelical Base. What do you think this group thinks of the Jew or the Catholic for that matter..

      Your Party hates the Jew and you've got the coconuts to attack Obama? Get you head back up Limbaugh's butt before you catch a cold!

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/13/2008 11:49:35 AM

        Well,I can ride circles around your infantile nonsense anyway.[which is no large feat].

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/13/2008 1:00:48 PM

          Not so far. CAN you explain Obama's chief of staff, if Obama is supposed to be such a Jew hater?

          • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/13/2008 9:23:50 PM

            Do not be provacative.[or dishonest]. Indicate in one place or at any time I stated that Obama ''hated Jews''. I am rightly critiquing Obama on his honesty and his early forays into foreign policy which are controversial. You idol worshippers are not up to this task. It thus falls to those such as myself.

            • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/15/2008 9:20:47 PM

              " It thus falls to those such as myself."

              What, the bitter loser crowd?

              • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/17/2008 1:00:38 PM

                Nope. Those of us who do not put words into others mouthes.And those of us who are not blinded by the Messiahs light,as is the obviously lockstep and already disgraced [Washington Post Nov.17,2008],media.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/13/2008 9:17:22 AM

      " Obama,if we can believe HAMAS,is already ''embroiling''himself in the Palestinian/Israeli mess."

      Since when is Hamas a credible source?

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/13/2008 11:48:00 AM

        Since Malleys meetings were also covered by MIDDLE EAST NEWS, AL-ARABIYA,and AL-JAZEERA. [all for Nov.05,2008].

        Thats how.

        You have been unwilling or unable to adress this Malley controversy. America was willing to take Obama as a ''credible source''when he flatly and publically stated that he would no longer use Malley in any capacity.



        ''He promised us gold. He lied. He is not...perfect''.

        Anthony Quinn to Omar Sharif. ''Lawrence Of Arabia''[1962].

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/13/2008 12:59:36 PM

          "You have been unwilling or unable to adress this Malley controversy."

          You haven't proven there IS a controversy. Everything is "unmentioned by the MSM".

          So far, I'm only inclined to recomment moe tinfoil for your hat. Now, if you can come up with a source that isn't a right wing blog or Hamas doing a little attention-whoring, I might become more interested.

          • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/13/2008 9:20:17 PM

            Uhh,Doc. Obama did not fire Malley because everything was A-OK. He did it due to the [London Times,May 10,2008],''controversy'' Malley generated by meeting with HAMAS when Obama had already made plain in the Charlotte SC debates as well as his campaign appearences in Florida that he would not meet with HAMAS,considered a terrorist organization by the US. What is it about this strange move by Obama that you refuse to grasp? People fired one day reappear to meet with a coterie of assorted Middle Eastern terror-sponsoring thugs.[Malley is meeting with Syrias Assad. The same Assad that said that there was no move on his portion to develop nuclear weapons in the same Syria that the IAEA has found concrete ,irrefutable evidence of processed uranium, at a suspected plant that was bombed by the IDF,not that this would ever appear in NEWSWEAK]. ''Lobbyists''that are supposed to be no portion of an Obama presidency are packing in his administration,with a former FANNIE MAE lobbyist leading the way.[yet you base hypocrites were wailing to the roof when McCain inserted as an adviser,a person who had also lobbied on FANNIE MAES behalf].

            Where is your phony outrage now?

            The Los Angeles Times. Nov.13,2008:''Barack Obama Taps Former FANNIE MAE Lobby Boss To Review State Dept.''

            REUTERS Nov.10,2008:''IAEA Finds Traces Of Uranium In Syria''

  • Posted By: neocon @ 11/13/2008 3:58:02 PM

    I???ve been reading about this Obama/Biden Transition Project,??? it is a 501(c)4 tax-exempt organization, with no limits on the contributions it can receive and no requirements to divulge the names of individuals or organizations that give it money. They have stated that it will remain throughout Obamas term. This will be a huge sum of unregulated money to fund groups like ACORN. There are also many who helped Obama???s campaign that won???t be able to pass security clearances whom they will pay out of this fund. There will be billions coming in from foreign governments, drug cartels and people like George Soros. A 501(c)4 may be legal but it certainly isn???t ethical.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/14/2008 4:29:50 PM

      "A 501(c)4 may be legal but it certainly isn???t ethical."

      How is it not ethical? And why didn't "legal but not ethical" concern you with regard to Palin?

      Oh, yeah. Because this is just another partisan, hypocitical rant.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/14/2008 2:00:50 PM

      Glad you brought that to our attention, thanks...

    • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/13/2008 5:53:03 PM

      Feeble!

  • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/12/2008 4:24:27 PM

    Why make excuses for the media? Give them credit for recognizing early on the the GOP party of hate was finished. Who but Fox News and a few dozen purveyors of Hate on radio would have an audience so ignorant that they couldn't see the difference in President Obama, a man of the people and Senator McCain a nasty old clone of the Republican bottom feeders.

    Here was a typical interview with a GOP pundit. Do you think Obama is a Socialist? Answer No! Do you think Obama associates with Terrorist? Answer No! Do you think Obama is a Muslim? answer No!

    Do you think it's fair to bring those issues up in negative Ads? YES! That really says it all for the Republican Party of Hate. Hate defines the Republican, it's what they are!

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 5:49:47 PM

      Yet it is not ''Republicans''in Hollywood using the invective ''Ni..er''to describe those who voted for Prop 08[gay marriage ban].

      The Huffington Post Nov.10,2008:''N-Bomb Dropped On Black Passersby At Prop.8 Protests''.

      You were saying.............?

      • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/13/2008 5:55:53 PM

        Some one says the N-word and the Republican Party of hate is somehow cleansed. No!

        • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/14/2008 3:40:08 PM

          It is now more than ''someone''. In less than 24 hours,in Michigan at an LDS,Church,person or persons now sought by the police for a ''possible hate crime'' threw a burning bible at the front of the church along with what appears to be an ammo clip bearing rifle shells. In Utah,and the LDS HQ of ''Temple Square'', the FBI is looking at envelopes containing a ''white powder'' that were sent to the Mormons. In California,an eighty-year old woman had a cross violently knocked out of her hands which was then stomped on during a Prop.8 protest.

          It appears that ''hate''is a universal problem not confined to ''Republicans'' alone,does it not?

          www.instapundit.com Nov.14,2008 for the full roundup of anti-Prop 8 outrages and hate crimes directed at the LDS Church,racial tensions over the Prop 8 vote,and a perspective on the violence from gay moderates,and the Mormon science-fiction author Orson Scott Card.

      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 7:33:35 PM



        I have it on excellent authority that it WAS a republican who hurled that epithet. It's just that the mainstream media you mention is in cahoots with all the rest of those SOBs that infect the entirety of the MSM, and they all got together to conceal that they have a photo of the party registration of that republican, so they can continue their distortion of the news in their ongoing effort to destroy all liberals...

        • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 9:23:57 PM

          Then quit wasting my time and PRODUCE your ''excellent authority''. I have taken to opportunity to cite with non-partisan[or in the case of HUFFINGTON,even liberal],sources. It is not difficult for you to exercise the same custom.

          • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 9:40:18 PM



            "Holmes": I saw that you gave a citation. I was wondering what was your authority for saying: ...it was not "Republicans"...

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 8:11:48 PM

          Was there an "er" or an "uh" on the end? Maybe we can start with the pronounciation and inflection.

  • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/13/2008 5:59:27 PM

    Please tell me that the GOP party of hate has someone left besides an imbecile named Lee the idiot Holmes to stand up for it. If this is all they've got , it's game, set, match!

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/14/2008 1:59:14 PM

      While I don't share a lot of views with Lee, he is at least on the blog and provides more than one liners. He doesn't stick his head in like some of these people on here and say some really outlandishly ignorant thing and disappear.

      I am not defending his views here, he can do that. I am just defending his right to have them. He is part of the discussion, and generally does not go to personal attacks.

      If he wasn't here we would not have anything to discuss, because many of the kookie people that throw a rock at your from a distance and disapear provide no meat for discussion, they are not reaslly relevent.

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/13/2008 9:25:05 PM

      Pot,meet kettle.

  • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/14/2008 1:31:31 PM

    Whatever happened to concernedcanadian? Would sure like to go over his outlandish predictions. Kinda faded away I guess...

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 11/14/2008 12:32:50 PM

    Political Two Party Realities:

    There are totally valid Republican philosophies: i.e., the least amount of government is the best government; and government should only do what the people can???t do for themselves. Inherent in those philosophies are many important responsibilities which history tells us the Democrats are better at meeting: i.e., protecting the vulnerable majority against exploitation by the powerful few; and insuring fair and equitable opportunity for all.

    Obvious responsibilities include: National Defense, Law Enforcement, Education, Social Security, Medicare, Homeland Security,,,
    Currently neglected responsibilities: Infrastructure, Transportation, Global Warming, Energy, Fiscal Responsibility, Medical Costs, Responsible use of Military, Necessary Regulation and Control of Financial Industry, Needed Limits and Enforcement in Politics,,,

    The Bush admin is a vivid example of an irresponsible and self-serving government with their total focus on benefit for Special Interests and a select few (who return both overt and covert support, political contributions and even promised compensation for after leaving office) while giving only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to the average American.

    Both parties are really capable of doing better and the voters need to demand that they do, without accepting their deceptive rhetoric aimed at manipulating public opinion through individual interests!

  • Posted By: wilder @ 11/12/2008 1:58:45 PM

    This news publication, along with others bascially laid the red carpet for the wonder that was to come of an Obama presidency. Now we are told, by Newsweek and others, that we really shouldn't expect much from Obama, because he will be basically finish what Bush started (which is somehow now correct) or leave the problems to other countries. Sounds like "Change and Hope" have become "Wait and See".

    • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/13/2008 10:24:05 AM

      America annual expenditure budgets always have been on table aroundt US 600 Billion for fiscal year anually ..Im wondering where shall Obama get this money for the fisical year 2008 Budgeted Year? After G.W B screw-up the US economy.,and the country has to cope up with 700 Billion Bailout?

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 2:12:52 PM

      It wasn't the media, sorry. They fact is that Obama ran a much more respectable campain and it showed. McCain's campaign degraded to a spectacle, so did the media generate that?

      Unfortunatly for McCain he was running for president under a party that he disagreed with on some key issues in the past. He was stuck between his values and honor and running a scortched earth campaign.

      So yes, Obama did fare better with the media, but Obama did because of his campaign, that it was more respectable.

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 3:09:17 PM

        Yes. In point of fact,[The ANNENBERGS ''FACTCHECK''], the media all by itself generated several instances designed to become ''spectacle''.

        ROLLING STONE and its totally revisionist lies about McCains service while on USS FORRESTAL that included a physical impossibility .[lighting up a missle on the craft behind McCains when McCains jet exhaust faced the sea,and ''wet-starting''a supersonic aircraft which is impossible]

        The New York Times,CNN,and The Washington Post [The Post and CNN delivered retractions,the Times did not],on the Palin ''book-banning list''that was an invention of the leftwinged blogosphere and thus was never even minutely vetted by allegedly ''hard-news''organizations.

        CNN,which claimed that Palin ''decreased''[Campbell Brown and Anderson Cooper], funding to special education/needs children when FACTCHECK observed that she actually increased it.

        CNN,MSNBC,The Washington Post,and the New York Times that blamed Palin for ''charging for rape kits''when FACTCHECK again observed that it was not in her capacity as then-Mayor of Wasilla that she had any authority or responsibility to either set price,or not charge at all. This was a state function. Not a municipal one. [All except MSNBC and the Times included later retractions].

        The New York Times,which claimed that Palin and not her husband ,was an actual member of the AIP.[no retraction submitted by the Times].

        MSNBC and the Washington Post,which called McCain in ''error''[ Olbermann called him ''constitutionally ignorant''],in McCains urging president Bush to fire FEC Chairman Cox. It was later pointed out to both news services by constitutional law professors at HARVARD,GEORGE WASHINGTON and PRINCETON ,that the president does indeed have this authority as originated in a 1950 E.O. signed by President Harry S.Truman [the Post retracted, MSNBC,and its constitutionally ignorant Keith Olbermann, did not].

        ''Faux'' or ''Fixed'' News....But FOX is not included in these examples of journalistic departures from the truth[which has caused American trust in these services to drop to an all-time low[PEW Center for People and the Press Poll,Oct.24,2008],that were deliberately designed to ''generate spectacle''.

        www.factcheck.org

        www.politfact.com

        www.people-press.org

        www.volokh.com The Volokh Conspiricy [Law review] Archives,Oct.2008 Keywords ''McCain'',''FEC'',''Keith Olbermann'', ''MSNBC''

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 4:04:32 PM

          Ya, the media are wrong all the time. They pushed along all of the Obama crap as well. It is not just one-sided. The media is always looking for spectacle. Objectivity is lacking in just about everything you read.

          Bottom line, the media was not responsible for McCain losing, it was their campaign and the campaign of Obama. Somebody one, and somebody lost, and people voted for their candidate, or the lesser of two evils as they saw it. It really is not that hard to see what happened...

          • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 4:24:21 PM



            "whatisreal": Then why can't you see it?

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 7:52:15 PM

              I am sorry, what again am I not seeing??? That the media did not win the election for Obama? That is a distraction that a loser uses to take the spotlight off themselves. It is very roach worthy. People are a lot more like roaches than they are given credit for.

              They run from the light, cannot stand it. What is the difference between a hypocrate and a roach? Roaches aren't expected to know any better....

              • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 8:54:02 PM



                Ya know, I've looked and see I've goofed up to. It's just that this guy Holmes confuses me... Let's not try to unsnarl this yarn, and start over. :-)

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 7:54:03 PM

              I don't know how I ersponded to your posting. It was Lee Holmes I was responding too, and somehow fukd it up... Sorry about that...

        • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 4:17:55 PM



          I voted against Palin because of her close "association" with a radical who has consorted with other radicals in the Alaska independence party who want to tear apart this grand Union....Oh, and why doesn't Palin share with us the certification that her witches and demons have actually been removed?....WHAT IS SHE HIDING!!!!

          • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 8:02:01 PM

            I had to get out of the tit-for-tat. Glass houses, stones, it is all very redundent and just proves fruitless to use the same logic. Palin was way in over her head, it was a desperate choice. But look at the bright side, we got to see the most entertaining and ludicrous presidential campaign in our generation. We got Joe the Plumber, how could we have ever done without that? There is some substantial comedy built into this tragedy. And after a really bad time for this country we can hopefully hope that we can burn the page.

        • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/12/2008 4:42:16 PM

          Lee, Limbaugh or Hannnity or Morris give you the lines and you repeat them. Go to the Fox blog, you'll be a hero there. Here you're just another mouth-breathing hate monger. I'm telling you this for your own good. Your poll numbers are not looking good.

          • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 5:35:59 PM

            Do not be so obtuse. You will find that none of the sources mentioned above is partisan. None belong to a ''FOX''. NEWSWEAK itself relied upon their factchecking all during the campaign. Attacking messengers is a dullwitted exercise in futility,as it does not refute that which is posited.[which it cannot anyway as even the above news sources,most of them at least,later admitted their errors]. You would be wise to do the same.

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 7:00:03 PM

              Again, a lot of crap was propogated by the media. But they did not win the election for Obama, he won it, and the McCain campaign helped him along with some really bad timing and decisions that cast doubt in the minds of independent voters.

              The media did not do that. Give Obama some credit too. He ran against and beat Clinton, the Rove tactics, and a sht load of really low tactics. That community organizer's campaign wil be emulated by others, he raised teh bar, and everybodyin the business knows that.

              • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/12/2008 7:19:31 PM

                Obamas win is besides the point. This is a area of reality [even if ''change''is a more elusive thing]. The problem now [only informationally speaking,and leaving the economy and foreign /domestic policy alone for the moment], is that the press will not stop in peddling their ''crap''. This is a huge disservice to the American people at a time when fact,and not in printing garbage peddled by the partisan blogosphere,is most needed. Take for instance this,provided by LEXIS-NEXXIS,over a one week cycle.

                128 story-lines in the American press on Bushs dog biting a REUTERS reporter.

                0 story -lines on improvements in Chinas ballistic submarine fleet and its expansion into the Pacific.

                1 story-line [REUTERS European office] on Russias naval rebuilding that will include nuclear submarines.



                The above NEWSWEAK knucklehead is telling Obama to ''relax''[after waxing hysteric a few years ago that we Were Going To War With Iran]. We do not have this luxury,and neither does Obama.

                • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 7:30:48 PM

                  I do not find cute animal stories newsworthy at all. In fact, that is one reason why I cannot stomach local news channels. I don't want my newspeople shouting out 'good morning!', it is so annoying that I want to chew my hand off. You won't get many arguements from me about the media.

                  Unfortunetly the tabloid garbage sells in this country (makes me puke), and the line between tabloid news and conventional news is a very blurry line.

                • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/12/2008 7:25:19 PM

                  I am not one to give accolades to the media too often. For the most part they regurgitate stories, and really missed the real story so many times it will make your head sping completely off. Investigative reporting is an art and science that has been overshadowed by soundbites, and sensationalistic regurgitations of the sht that was fed throughout the news cycle.

    • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 11/12/2008 4:08:21 PM

      If you could remove your head from ole rushbo's butt for a few seconds, I'll explain to you why your Republican Party of Hate lost and will suffer worse defeat in 2012.

      President Obama tfended off the feeble lies and distortions launched by your puppeteers, Hannity, Morris, Matelin, Delay, Robertson, Babe Buchanan, McCain and Palin and "carpet bombed" you with a weapon unfamilar to you. The truth. This is something Gore and Kerry failed to do. When Obama got in your face, you did what all cowards do, withered and died. In 2012 a repeat of 2008 is inevitable because your leaders will convince you that it wasn't the hate it was the candidate, it was the VP choice or it was the financial meltdown. After the party of hate loses more Senate and House seats, what's left of the GOP will be relegated to third party status.

      If you have deserted by 2012, prepare to have your butt handed to you again.

  • Posted By: pezled @ 11/13/2008 8:07:27 AM

    um, onlycure-truth.......You're so lost, you're on the wrong article. This article isn't about banking. Go cut and paste somewhere else.

  • Posted By: OnlyCure=Truth @ 11/13/2008 3:14:56 AM

    ???Only banks can loan money they don???t have and charge interest for it. Because the elite who own
    the banks made it a policy that the bank can loan 10 dollars for every 1 it actually has.
    That is what created the current financial mess or as they say problem with liquidity.
    They created the problem by loaning money they did not even have to loan.
    Dishonest usury is what it is.

    Full disclosure of banking policies would be nice lets have it all put on the table for every one to
    see just how corrupt they are taking food and housing from people who work hard while they sit
    in there penthouses reading about bank bailout's. No don???t feel sorry for them feel sorry for the
    people who are being crushed under there feet from the dishonest usury.

    Most people had to give a down payment before 2004 for a home and if you where considered
    risky you had to give a bigger down payment.
    For example
    on a loan of 180,000 with medium to low risk you would fork out 7000.00 to buy a home.

    Now what does that translate into for the bank.
    The banks can loan 10 dollars for every 1 dollar they have and charge interest for the loan.
    win - win for the bank
    1 = 10 for them right off plus interest
    7000 = 70,0000 plus interest
    then you have a payment of 750.00 or so with interest on the loan
    750.00 = 7500.00 plus interest per month as you pay in for them
    1 year of payments = 90,000 plus interest for them to loan to others.
    so if you put 7000.00 down and finance 180,000.00 they get repaid in one year with a payment of
    750.00
    Sounds strange but remember 1 dollar is as good as ten to them for every dollar they take in they
    can loan 10
    So don???t feel sorry for them and bail them out. Bail out the public who just keeps paying not
    knowing any better.

    If you paid a down payment on your house and then you paid on it for even a year you paid it off
    in the banks books. 30+ times over if you paid for 30 years.

    After the first year they use your money to pay there salaries of 22 million for 22 days on the job what a joke.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/12/2008 4:44:37 PM

    America needs a total restructuring across the country,,Honey Moon are over now,The Country citizens have to make efforts and be realistic,pragmatic and change atttitudes how we should see the future ahead.Yes standard of living are getting far too high to sustaince , the American's dreams temporary slipping away,Yes we all have fails by allowing ourselves living beyong our means and the policy of G.W.Bush doesn't make any better.
    Americans need scrifices to be make in daily Lifes style ,lowing expections ,either living from Big House to Smaller house,Big car to Smaller one,Lives in America much getting harder,Some of us have been juggling 2/3 jobs just to survives for end-meet,Life's getting like Slogs,slavery to Ownself for never ending Lust.

    Now is the time to concentrate the future of our kids eduction ,make sure they have much brighter future ahead.Start to be Humble and down to earth American again.I have travelled many countries and chances to see many changes that took place,for example like Beijing,Fuzou,Guangzhou,i've fbeen there or few times to made comparations ,Their infractures, Airport,Road,Standard of Living,Bullet Train ,Mass Transit are all New and with the highest World Standard compare to the Old shabby Americans Infractures,Recently their Government announced sitmulos package for its citizen more than US600 Billions just to be distbrutes among his citizen..This the same country aslo capable and afford to helps courtesy and LOAN America Trillion of Dollar worth of Debt,

    Intrestingly many of this Chinese scumbags can afford to lives and OWNED the land and home without worriyng being Employed.in first place.If the American out of Job Thats, the Dead End.

  • Posted By: DianaRo @ 11/12/2008 4:27:08 PM

    As it is obvious to all that president Obama has a huge task waiting for him with our financial problems not only as a country but now as a whole it seems like we may be forgetting other issues this world has as well. Global hunger is getting worse and their may be a less difficult way of looking at the problem. The solution may be the Global Poverty Act. This act will be looked at in December. This act is something that Obama has before been an advocate to. The Borgen Project an organization that is working to get this act passed as well. To learn more go to www.borgenproject.org.

  • Posted By: brydges @ 11/10/2008 4:30:32 PM

    to whatsreal - inform yourself before making stupid statements. The military majority voted for McCain with the exception of blacks, go figure

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/10/2008 4:31:52 PM

      McCain still lost.

      Deal with it.

      • Posted By: brydges @ 11/10/2008 4:37:28 PM

        I know and I thought racism wouldn't matter in this election, how sad

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/12/2008 3:52:51 PM

          Let's see...your definition of "racism" is "the Black guy won".

          Too funny.

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/10/2008 5:08:39 PM

          What matters is we have to deal with the Bush mess and it is big. And your are shouting into the wind with your spin. I am truly in disbelief about it, but you can support a loser of historic proportions, it is America afterall. You are free here to be in denial, and free to follow inept fools form the stone age.

      • Posted By: Sunshine1957 @ 11/10/2008 11:05:19 PM

        It is bizarre to me to see how Obama brainwashed so many people. Stop hitting on Sarah, at least she doesn???t have the radical back ground that idiot Obama has. I would not allow him or his radical family in my home. HE IS A LIAR, and people like yourself, who seem to have limited education, can be brainwashed easily. The media, like CBS, ABC, NBC ??? all ganged up on McCain and Palin. Had the Media not done that and if Obama had not accepted all that money from who knows where (middle eastern???), and had the homeless not voted for him, thanks to Acorn and if Acron had not gotten all those fake voters???. Oh, one more??? if the % of blacks (99.9%) who voted for him because ???he???s a black man??? ??? ODUMA WOULD HAVE LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
        THAT???S A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/12/2008 3:52:08 PM

          Poor little spammer. LOL!

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/10/2008 4:48:13 PM

      I never really said that the military does not support it's own. Maybe though thye could have trained Sarah Palin to be a commander-in-chief:) Is tha what they wanted?? George Bush with more confidence and less competence? In this one, i think the only reason they would have voted fo McCain was because he was military. Other than that there wa no reason to have the Mayor of Alaska a heartbeat from flushing what is left of this country down the toilet after the present commander-in-chief who basically decided to give even that job to a general instead of standing up and being a president. He cound't even do that job...

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/10/2008 4:43:39 PM

      My point was not majority, I did not say that at all. Read before you blurt out inept responses. My point is that many in the miltary do not agree. You do what you are told to do, and act how you are expected to act and react. I don't blame a soldier for wanting to belive they are fighting fo a cause. Unfortunatley, the cause in Iraq was not about terrorism at all. It was a distraction, adn a collosal mistake mad by an insecure born again alcoholic, who wanted to be a tough guy with a badge and a gun.

  • Posted By: Sunshine1957 @ 11/10/2008 10:49:55 PM

    It is bizarre to me to see how Obama brainwashed so many people. Stop hitting on Sarah, at least she doesn???t have the radical back ground that idiot Obama has. I would not allow him or his radical family in my home. HE IS A LIAR, and people like yourself, who seem to have limited education, can be brainwashed easily. The media, like CBS, ABC, NBC ??? all ganged up on McCain and Palin. Had the Media not done that and if Obama had not accepted all that money from who knows where (middle eastern???), and had the homeless not voted for him, thanks to Acorn and if Acron had not gotten all those fake voters???. Oh, one more??? if the % of blacks (99.9%) who voted for him because ???he???s a black man??? ??? ODUMA WOULD HAVE LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
    THAT???S A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/11/2008 1:19:17 AM



      Um...."Sunshine".....was that the Orange Sunshine you did?......How many tabs?..... What's the comedown like?.....

      • Posted By: Sunshine1957 @ 11/11/2008 11:15:33 AM

        Hey 40 year r or whatever, i have no clue of what you're talking about. you must do drugs like OBAMA!!!! LOL.

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 1:06:13 PM

          I guess he was remarking on how ludicrous you sound, how utterly ignorant you allow yourself to be. So he was giving you an excuse, drug use. So, either you are just stupid, or on drugs...

          • Posted By: Sunshine1957 @ 11/11/2008 2:01:24 PM

            Okay, you are on CRACK and have been easily brainwashed!!!!

            • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/12/2008 3:51:06 PM

              *shrug*

              And you lost.

              So sad.

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 3:17:57 PM

              You are a raging hypocrate with absolutely no decency or integrity. Maybe when your precious GOP leqrns what integrity and decency is again they may have a chance. Otherwise you will continue to sound like a baffoon mouthpiece for losers that cannot accept their defeat, or thier place.

              Maybe someday the some of the "values" voters of the GOP, the immoral majority, OOppps i mean minority, will learn what values are. What integrity means, why Christ dispised hypocrates above all, and the depth of hypocrasy coming from the mouths of people like you sunspot.

              Limbaugh gets paid well to be a mouthpice for the GOP. He does it, likes to get people riled up, and knows it is opinion and entertainment. Unfortunatly he does not see the damage he causes to his followers integrity. He does not have class, doesn't care. But he is a celebrity, a radio personality...

              Did you know that??

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 2:49:31 PM

              You lost, you loser! Your heros are nothing but POSERS! They trashed this country in almost every way possible, and you are excusing that. You are a poor excuse for a human...

            • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 2:47:38 PM

              YA, easily brainwashed. Sorta like what the GOP does to it's so called "values" voters?? Like how Bush used fear to reel you weak fish in. Never fell for it myself, not afraid...

              What a bunch of fuking hypocrates.

        • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/11/2008 3:32:41 PM



          Still haven't come down yet? Hmmm....not a good sign....

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 1:10:15 PM

          You are a LOSER! The GOP is lost and in bed with the Christain nation folks, who really wouldn't know Jesus if he walked in the room. They are going to take the GOP further down the hole.

          You lost and you are crying and you are a laughing stock!!!!

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 1:03:56 PM

      There is no way Palin would be anywhere near the Whitehouse, that was a joke. As far as limited education, many many people with educations that make mine, Masters, and yours look like a joke voted for Obama. I voted for Obama. And if you weren't so ignorant my intelligence would be insulated.

      YOU LOST! BUSH WAS A JOKE! PALIN IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE BIG LEAGUE! AND YOU "MY FRIEND" ARE WACKED AND OUT OF TOUCH...

  • Posted By: Sunshine1957 @ 11/11/2008 1:43:12 PM

    Comment: It is bizarre to me to see how Obama brainwashed so many people. Stop hitting on Sarah, at least she doesn???t have the radical back ground that idiot Obama has. I would not allow him or his radical family in my home. HE IS A LIAR, and people like yourself, who seem to have limited education, can be brainwashed easily. The media, like CBS, ABC, NBC ??? all ganged up on McCain and Palin. Had the Media not done that and if Obama had not accepted all that money from who knows where (middle eastern???), and had the homeless not voted for him, thanks to Acorn and if Acron had not gotten all those fake voters???. Oh, one more??? if the % of blacks (99.9%) who voted for him because ???he???s a black man??? ??? ODUMA WOULD HAVE LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
    THAT???S A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/12/2008 3:50:01 PM

      Translation: "WE LOST! BOO HOO!"

    • Posted By: kilntime88 @ 11/11/2008 2:28:12 PM

      het Sunshine - Funny you should accuse anyone of being brainwashed. Especially when it appears you're being fed Limbaugh intravenously. When the woman can't put 2 coherent sentences together without a TelePrompter -- and then blames it on the 'elite media filter'???? Please do us all a favor and bring Ms. Palin around every 4 years. We appreciate the support!

      • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 2:34:08 PM

        It is laughable, and I have been laughing.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 2:26:21 PM

      Have you no decency?

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 2:09:04 PM

      Hitting on Sarah????

      Get this, nobody of any consequence hit on her. She was not vetted properly and needed to be by the public. She should have been scrutinized for the most important job on earth. Sorry, her resume and performance did not come even close to work as a staffer.

      Anyhow, you lost, she lost,she was in over her ead and she did teh best she could. I have no ill feelings toward her at all. If she takes the next four years to get up at the national level she could change some minds, but not this time.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 11/11/2008 1:47:23 PM

      The only thing strange is that after your humiliating loss to a "Community Organizer" you are still whining. It is also strange how you have zero integrity, which is why the GOP base appears as hypocrates when people like you are speaking in your way.

      You got to the superbowl and you were embarassed. So what. rebuild your party, make it better, bring something new to the table so you don't appear so out of touch and win next time. BFD!

      Step up!

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/11/2008 8:06:03 PM

    So, we just throw more money, more money at the public schools. Gee, do you think Obama and Michelle are going to send their children to a public schools in DC - I think not. What do you think? Also, how do you know that the "young" in Iran are going to overthrow the mullahs? "Elections"???? What planet are you living on? There are no "elections" in Iran! You seem to be a very dedicated teacher, and I always held teachers with the highest respect. Has south LA gotten better? I know south Phoenix has not! I also know that East & Central Des Moines is really going downhill.

    • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/11/2008 8:49:45 PM

      Im really ashamed of American's knowledge about the World ,You made a mistake and yet has the guts asking others Which planet does he live on? You doesnt seem to know the facts about Iran and made the same silly 4th grade boozoo like Africa is just a country ,Give one reason the World resident should not laughing at American's stupidity arrogant? . Iran ,President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is, going to meet his prospective rival and potential opponent the former President Mohammed Khatami,in Iran's presidential vote in coming June ELECTION.

      • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/12/2008 12:29:46 AM

        Again, what planet are your live on Jack? Why don't you understand there are NO FREE ELECTIONS IN IRAN!

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/12/2008 3:48:01 PM

      " There are no "elections" in Iran! "

      BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/12/2008 2:21:03 PM

      What Free election you talks about?...Where You From? Dont you know a candidate in US election spend 500 mllion just to win Election? What free Election..you taking about? only Elitist Candidates can stand......like royalty cronyism Garndfather,Son,Gandson can be ELECTED As ONLY in President's histroy Obama presidency was paid by Public.

      Its easy for anyone to guess who will be Next US president in US when 2016 comes either JAY BUSH or CHELSEA CLINTON.

      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 3:20:56 PM



        Hillary would stomp Chelsea's brains in if she got in the way....

    • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/12/2008 12:43:39 AM

      Well Jackieboy, I will bet you I know alot more about Africa than you! Care to take the bet? I really doubt if you will! (or is it jackiegirl?)

      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/12/2008 12:40:47 PM



        When did they move Iran to Africa?

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/11/2008 8:33:24 PM



      Can you spell Ahmanidinijad, Ignorant?

      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/11/2008 10:42:32 PM


        Oops. Gotta werk on dat typin...

      • Posted By: Jack999 @ 11/11/2008 9:14:25 PM

        This another boozzooo........learn about him
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad

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