Comments on: The Obama Portfolio: Sideways

By: guest

guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:18:40 +0000

The real problem was Bush was no conservative. He spent like a mad man and his stimulus package right before he left office was horrific. He was basically engaging in democratic spending and helped the economy go to hell. When people saw the economy was going to hell they voted for the other side on their sunshine and rainbows promise. However, Obama is doing the same thing Bush did, spend spend spend. It won’t fix anything, it’s just a continuing the failure.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:48 +0000

fucktard @22. There’s a difference between intellectual and intelligence. Note which states are economically tits-up right now too. And your “poor” states are affordable. Just because you think your shitty 300 sq ft apartment is worth $1.7MM doesn’t mean it is. Their $200k house with 2 acres and 3000 sq ft is actually much more valuable.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:11:56 +0000

read through this message board and ask yourself if the people responsible for the 9/11 attacks believe they were a success or failure? They trained within our borders under Clinton after he failed to appropriately address the first WTC bombing. Under Bush, they sat in their caves and watched the USA (although we have not been attacked since) spend 6 years (and counting) in Iraq and lose our dominant status as the global leader.
Clinton oversaw the tech bubble and Bush the real estate bubble. Unfortunately, the public and private sector have misallocated resources tremendously over the last sixteen years– too many houses, bad bets on wall street, garbage internet stocks, free handouts and entitlements — the whole episode is embarrassing. The last 16 years have been the biggest political / economic choke in world history; and both sides are to blame. Anyone who objectively listens to Barney Frank / Bill O Reilly / Sarah Palin / Nancy Pelosi / Chris Dodd on a regular basis understand this fact. Our politicians are completely incompetent and our business leaders too eager to make a quick buck. The nation is more divided than it has ever been.
I would watch Barack slaughter McCain during the presidential debates and listen to him preach about the need to make tough decisions, to reunite as a country, and to regain our global status. While it is too early to say his efforts have failed, it is also much too early to say that we are moving in the right direction, and quite frankly I’m disappointed I drank the kool aid. I had hoped he would look at the last 16 years and acknowledge the failed policies of Clinton and Bush, but, he’s taken the easy way out and blamed everything under the sun on the most recent administration. Even worse, he’s continued Bushs’ failed policies – bridge loans to auto companies and auto suppliers, programs to aid the financial sector (TALF PPIP), huge budget deficits, massive government borrowing, and an even bigger stimulus. Bush passed a stimulus and it didn’t work; why is Barack doing the same? I was laughing when everyone made fun of the bridge to nowhere in Alaska, the train from LA to las vegas is no different. If policy lag is a few years as @5 pointed out, what will this country look like

By: guest

guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:03:42 +0000

1929 recession + Republican majority = Great depression.
Have anyone ever wondered why every major intellectual centers in the US (CA, MA, IL, NY, etc) are almost always blue? hmm… ??
Also why are the “poor” states (SC, TN, KY, MS, LA) almost always red? hmmm..??
I wonder if there’s any connection..??

By: trojan

trojan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:42:22 +0000

@16
FNC = nightly spoon feeding for seniors who don’t like their worldviews to shake more than their hands

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:23:22 +0000

I vote for a LBO of the govt by GS – i mean basically lets jsut do this shit above board for once!

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:19:20 +0000

@15
Hate to break it to you but it was Clinton’s Treasury Secretary of started the “large financial institutions” on thier ascent to black hole status.
Ivoted for “change i can believe in”.
Which has turned out to be “hope is now a strategy”. And the reality is nothing has changed. With respect to the “finanical world” we have nothing but a continuation of the Bush years(possibly worse) with Geithner/Summers.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:15:07 +0000

@16 oh no Fox News is not a “piss take” it is one of the most influential and respected news networks in the country – make of that what you will….
Personally I am a Republican, and always feel embarrassed that my side of the argument (the correct side) is also the side of crazy religious fuckwits and “culture warriors” like Bill O’Reilly – when the other side has pot smoking students, greenies and ivory tower academics, although they do get the poor people. Still it’s not fair! we are right, thats why its called the RIGHT for fucks sake.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:14:42 +0000

@15 false properity? Unlike Clinton where we had real prosperity, like the dot com start-ups, huge loss of silicon valley and universal healthcare that went no place?
He cut military spending to balance the budget and we got more terroist attacks on his watch then any other sitting prez in HISTORY! you want a false sense of security…i give you Clinton and now Obama.
Most of what you are saying was actually done under Clinton. Bush didnt remove the policy and that is actually the problem.
ACORN and pols like Obama pushed these sick mortgages by pressuring banks and finacial institutions to help low income families. how do you not get that?
You think bush wanted to push mortgages to low income families or does that smell like liberal agenda shit?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:06:04 +0000

@11 im not a DEM i’m a kiwi, we live on an island in the middle of butt fuck nowhere and have our views of Republicans shaped by Fox news – so even tho we know it’s kinda of a piss take, it still creates a bad impression of them.
Boiling down massive issues into one or two points and making huge calls on the back of them is retarded anyway.
Ie “/11 is the reason Obama is President” or the awesomeness of how 9/11 was dealt with is the reason he is president? – see, just generally retarded both ways.
Meh, we don’t vote in my country anways so I don’t really know how it works. Something about who has the most money behind them right?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:03:10 +0000

9 The jobless numbers are the result of 8 years of false prosperity. Basically a pump and dump economy built on the back of a housing boom that turned out to be just a bubble. Similar to the Reagan years, where it was pump and dump built on significant expansion of consumer credit.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:02:04 +0000

@12 you think Obama taking your money and spending it for you is choice?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:00:19 +0000

@10 draw me a map of how the fuck you get prosperity from a 10 trillion dollar debt and higher taxes?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:57:31 +0000

Purity rings should become law, I mean the Arabs repress their woman hard and they’re doing well!
Go the Christian right! we love the jebus and he will save us from those liberal freaks who believe in evil things like personal freedom of choice

By: guest

guest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:55:28 +0000

@8 i think your myopic view on 9/11 is actually frightening. 9/11 is the reason Obama is President.
So far it is the entire basis for his agenda.
I do love that you call Bush “party boy” yet clinton is the one that had the fat girl polish his knob in the oval…what color is the sky in DEM world? whats it like to be a hypocrite?