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Off Topic Chatter Forget Bushisms, Biden Gaffes, We have Obama blunders
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 22, 2009 5:21 am)  In hindsight Reagan was a better speaker and able to create more optimism at most times than any who have came since, who at best had only episodes of good speaking. However, he didn't clean anything up - his years created alarming debt, and American actions in other nations during his reign created misery for many. And regarding Carter, the previous regime didn't exactly leave him with a clean house either. Nixon's regime will eventually be credited with the destruction of the first world. Neoconservatism is the most evil western ideal to be born in the past three quarters of a century.
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 21, 2009 8:20 pm) The war on Iraq was voted for via deliberately false information so a few could profit. Would anyone think Gramm's baby was presented differently? When has he shown honesty and ethics in his career? Any examples? Gramm needs a debtors gallows. |
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 22, 2009 7:47 am) 2009-09-23 HOUSTON, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Formal U.S. President Jimmy Carter has sent his best wishes to the Chinese government and people on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and called on the two countries to work together to tackle global challenges. "The people of China and I have enjoyed a long and precious friendship, and I congratulate you as you celebrate the accomplishments China has achieved during the past 60 years," Carter said in a letter dated Sept. 14 to Yanping Gao, China's consul general in Houston. Carter recalls the days when he, as U.S. President, made the decision with then Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to establish diplomatic relations between the United States and China in 1979. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/23/content_12100889.htm |
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Even the Wall Street Journal is criticizing his lack of proper leadership. Can he get the White House Press Corp to paint them as talk hosts and not authentic news sources like Limbaugh and FoxNews? Of course, they're just biased and don't understand inheriting a mess that he has to clean up, despite his halo, grin. Or maybe it's just that the people are expecting a leader who is presidential in demeanor and not thinking it's a campaign trail with pep rallies. Or maybe they want a president who respects the White House like Reagan and Bush instead of viewing the White House as an annointment on the way to the next higher calling. Always remember your campaign promises and keep them--Tip of the day for the White House staff actually pulling the strings. |
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US Overseas Private Investment Corporation That is a new one on me. Looking at the website it looks like its sole purpose is to get more countries into the ONE WORLD net. Now Obama wants to funnel up to $150 million through them to Muslim technology development. Am I missing something here? http://www.opic.gov/ If I understand this correctly. Obama has failed to create jobs in the USA, so he is going to try and create them in Muslim countries. The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world. The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds. The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will "catalyze and facilitate private sector investments" throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement. Eligible projects would advance economic opportunity and create jobs in areas like technology, education, telecoms, media, business services and clean technology, the White House said. |
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The following statements by Soros make sense and get to the heart of what is flawed with the legislation that Gramm is blamed for. I would hold all that voted and signed it as co contributors to the problems it has created. I still don't see where it was directly tied to lousy lending practices that have gotten US in the current mess. Mr Soros, who joins a transatlantic chorus calling for limits on risk, leverage and compensation at big banks, said proprietary traders belong at hedge funds, not at banks, and that the compensation at Wall Street companies should be limited to prevent excessive risk. “With the too-big-to-fail concept comes a need to regulate the payments that employees receive,” said Mr Soros, who will elaborate on his views in lectures in Budapest next week. Some bankers have argued that limits on pay would make it difficult for them to retain their most talented risk-takers. Mr Soros agreed and said this would be a good thing. “That would push the risk-takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds, where they actually belong, because hedge funds take risks with their own capital, not with deposits and not with government guarantees,” he said. |
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I found this to be a good article on a war hero having second thoughts on our effectiveness in Afghanistan. U.S. official resigns over Afghan war American families, he said at the end of the letter, "must be reassured their dead have sacrificed for a purpose worthy of futures lost, love vanished, and promised dreams unkept. I have lost confidence such assurances can be made any more." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.- - html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009102603447
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 27, 2009 6:54 am) Where's the media pressure with the repeated nightly reports on OBama not doing anything to effectively define and fight the war or change the pattern and get out? If this were Bush the nightly news and MSNBC and CNN would be repeatedly running the story with pictures of the caskets they fought so hard to get the right to take. Now that their guy is in charge, those pictures and war dead don't mean much because it would make their boy in the White House look bad. This is the problem with on-the-job training for someone with no legislative or management experience. There's a sagacity that comes with age and his advisors surely don't have it either. They're all politics all the time any time.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Oct 27, 2009 7:43 am) President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months." So sad to see the Communist News Network doing poorly. CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 27, 2009 12:25 pm)
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