Letter? I Never Got Any Letter, Herbert.

???Sarah Palin haters???, I think people who use that phrase are missing the point. It really isn???t hatred; it is disgust, disgust with her many faults and her brazenness and surprise and disgust first with John McCain for bringing her out of obscurity and now with those who are trying to make her their next puppet to pick up where GWBush left off. There is where the real fault lies. One individual stated they didn???t think she was a sociopathic personality because she had meaningful relationships but, as McCain discovered, it is apparent she just uses relationships for her advantage. They also felt she deserved credit for having her DS baby instead of aborting yet there is the question, does she deserve credit when she constantly uses the baby as a prop, soliciting sympathy and recognition, and then just handing it off? No, those along with all of her other self-focused characteristics, especially the lack of any conscience, strongly suggest she really fits the sociopathic category and would be a real disaster in any national office (as the sociopathic GWBush has been). Personally, I think she is a sick and sad case and simply wish that she would fade away. George W Bush has proven to be the worse President this country has ever had and we need to remember all of it in order to recognize and reject anyone else who is similar ??? Sarah Palin is a cut from the same mold!

A Reality to Remember: The last eight years, with the Bush-Cheney policies, have proven beyond any doubt that cutting taxes for the wealthy and/or patronizing Special Interests neither stimulates the economy nor does it create jobs. What we have experienced really indicates the exact opposite. Small businesses and all businesses simply do not thrive and hire people because their taxes are lower but rather grow because the economy is good and because people are spending money; that is simply Business 101 honesty. Then the reality is that the way to increase income for businesses and even for the wealthy is to simply insure more people have more money to spend. The ???trickle down??? theory is a fraud as our economy has always been more of a ???bubble up??? action and then stimulating it at the bottom really does benefit everyone. The rationalizing that more consideration for the top end stimulates the economy is not only false but it causes the focus to be in the wrong place and to be counter-productive for everyone. Giving more money to those who already spend all they want on whatever they want only makes the wealthy wealthier and likely stimulates campaign contributions but not the economy. That is one thing the Republican Party under GWBush???s leadership has thoroughly and clearly demonstrated and is something that should be remembered.

One more thing, I am so glad he picked a Black wife. It will do so much for African-American women to boost them up in spirit! His wife is a well-educated, fine lady. She will be a fine 1st lady....and remember all who are so quick to call Obama an "African-American." He's also half European-American. Don't ignore MY people in him will you? In fact, why can't we just call him an American without the hypen & let it go at that?
Thank you. Rocheux

Well, let's give Obama a chance. He did not get to Harvard on his looks, let alone that he also was head of THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW. The man has a fine mind. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders.
I say again, let's give him a chance. If you are tempted to put him down like Sean Hannity and Rush, I say, hold off, Sean and Rush, sit down, be quiet for a while and let's see what happens. America has risen up, they've had enuf with right wing interests and big oil as king. Bush feeds the banks from the top down in crisis times, while like FDR. Obama wants to create jobs just as FDR did with the CCC and WPA. Time will tell, time will tell. My hat's off to Obama. I think he's a natural (a combo of MLK & JFR in a way).
Stan Rocklin, Mesa AZ

...................Obama being compared to FDR and Bush being compared to Herbert Hoover.....Interesting!!!

I have a neighbor who, like myself, is a typical middle class taxpayer and he currently is very upset because ???tax cuts??? include payments to people he says are like his in-laws (who ???he loves???) who simply don???t pay any taxes and therefore don???t deserve a ???rebate???. I also have a long term, close friend who is an extremely heavy taxpayer who thinks the burden falls unfairly on the wealthy and that there are just too many people who don???t make the effort required to get where he is (his contention being that the opportunity is there for everyone). Both are conservative Republicans, who express their strong concern over the possibility of having a liberal Democratic ???tax and spend??? government that they feel would be unfair to them. It is hard for me to give them any empathy as I see it as they are simply failing to accept reality. I personally suspect it has a lot to do with their egos and their need to be recognized as somehow superior. My response to them, which they don???t want to hear, is to ask if they realize that the economy has a history of consistently being better under Democratic leadership. And then, do they recognize that the ???trickle down??? theory is actually a fraud as when more money is given to those who already spend all they want on whatever they want it does little for the economy and rather only makes the wealthy wealthier (and likely encourages campaign contributions and support), while when more money is given to the poor and middle-class it gets quickly spent and does help the economy, literally helps everyone including creating profits for businesses and the wealthy. Then, do they really naively think that opportunities are the same for everyone and do they ignore that helping the poor to bring them up literally benefits everyone. And lastly do they really fail to understand that the higher up the wealth ladder the more uneven advantage there is, such as in recent years while the wealthy have dynamically, continually increased their net income the middle-class has constantly been loosing ground and for the poor that is even more true, constituting the real inequity and a strong negative impact on the economy. Their thinking further surprises me as it indicates they are ignoring all that has occurred over the last eight years, the apathy, the costs and the abundance of subterfuge being given to the average American, with the drastic problems that have resulted, all disguised as conservatism (with real run away greed and dishonesty) and always only benefiting a select few. No, if it is their egos that dictate their thinking, it is not only misguided but very apt to be costly for them and for everyone else. What we really need is for both political parties to move towards a more responsible and honest centrist position that correctly benefits everyone and for voters to be more objective and Independent in demanding that direction, refusing to ever again be mislead/manipulated by appeals to th

The economy isn't even the major crisis that Biden said Obama will face! Let's see how this guy handle's a threat or a terror attack on our country.

Hey jonjon long time no read. It's a great time for you isn't it? Barry mentions your book and all these references to FDR must have it flying right of the shelf, eh? I can't imagine many of your faithful readers will be buying it. Just stopped by to give you an update on our polls since you're the king!

Pro-obamamedia bias?
Yes 83%
No 10%
Not sure 5%

Top 10 pro-obama media
Tied for # 1 Newsweek & MSNBC

Top 10 obama infatuated men
#1 jonjon alter

Top 10 Least convincing "neutral"
Tied for #1 jonjon alter, Fineman, Donna Brazile and Norah O'Donnell

Most vile
Herr Olbermann 32%
jonjon Alter 31%
Chris Matthews 22%

Even I didn't think you'd beat out Matthews. Come by and vote for yourself so you can edge out olbermann and be #1 across the board!

http://citizensagainstproobamamediabias.blogspot.com/

What a great idea! Bush & Cheney would resign; Pelosi would be President, and we can get the ball rolling

Another difference you failed to point out: this financial crisis belongs to the D party, courtesy of the Civil Reinvestment Act passed under Carter in 1977 that encouraged mortgage loans to those who would not otherwise qualify. With the blessing of the Clinton Administration in the 90s up through current, Fannie and Freddie made that happen and issued mortgage backed securities to absorb the risk. The encouraged banks to make the loans by giving them favorable ratings for doing so. This mortgage crisis brought to us by Democrats is roundly considered the primary reason for the banking meltdown. Maybe your article should be discussing the avoidance of absorbing the Democrat party's meltdown. Oh wait why would you guys tell the truth, you are after all the left wing biased US Media.

While there are similarities between 1933 and now there are also some differences. With the cooperation of EVERYONE we will get things back on track. Mistakes were made by a lot of people. It is now time to learn from our mistakes and take action to prevent them from happening again. President-Elect Obama is surrounding himself with some of the finest people we have in the country regarding the economy, and everything else for that matter. I suggest we give the new president a chance. If things work well we all can rejoyce in that fact. If they don't work out we can remove those people from office just as fast as we put them into office. Doomsday purveyors seem to be very vocal, as they usually are when we see change coming. If we all pitch in and do our part we will all be better off. If we don't than those who don't cooperate will be held responsible for any failure we experience.

Deregulation, greed, people buying what they couldn't afford and borrowing money from other countries to fund a very expensive and very unnecessary war all contributed to the mess we are in. It won't be easy but American's have done the seemingly impossible in the past and we can and will do it again.

UCLA Economists say FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years! http://tinyurl.com/obamalikefdr

Obama has announced his plans for 2.5 million make-work government jobs. What a loser we selected! He's a messiah? You gotta be kidding. Anyone can come up with a plan to put workers on a government dole of wasteful jobs that will do NOTHING to help the economy. Only the 2.5 million blacks who get the make-work jobs will be happy.

Utter crap. Alter takes no lesson from history and therefore is doomed to repeat it. NONE OF THE POLICIES THAT FDR IS CREDITED WITH -- Strengthening unions, public works projects and increasing taxes, just like Obama proposes -- took us out of the depression. INSTEAD, if you read history, you will see tht FDR's POLICICIES PROLONGED THE DEPRESSION AND DEPEANED IT. What finally got us out of the depression was the war. We were making and selling things for the UK prior to our entry into the war and that increased and the available workers decreased after we entered the war.] Alter cant see truth with his head up Obama's butt.

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