Huggybone wrote:Against principle I voted for McCain.
One party government = lots of power with no challenge = we keep heading down the path to the police state.
it's been a one party guv'ment for some time now. the business party. presidents come and go, and yes, some are better than others, but the fundamentals remain the same.
having said that, last night was inspiring i think, for a lot of people and not just us merikans.
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."
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America is bigger than even America, Obama didn't elect himself, the people elected him and it electrified the planet, once again a shiny beacon on the hill, problems of course, even bad problems, surmountable yes, with effort from the people and government and business working together for the common good. Gung Ho- work together.
I think the most savory thing about the Obama trouncing of McCan't is the implosion of the Republican Party. Those dumb asses are having a circular firing squad right now taking each other out trying to figure out "What the hell happened?"
The dumb fucks just don't get it- the country and the middle class they buffaloed with their social conservative bullshit finally woke up and realized what master these Republican dipshits have been serving- the .5% of the wealthiest, helping them concentrate the wealth at the top. These fuck sticks had the temerity to try and frighten their lost middle class demographic with the spectre of "redistribution of wealth". Well, Shazaam! What the fuck do you Republican Morons think W. has been facilitating for the past eight years? Guess what- no one is buying your bullshit anymore.
Thanks for eight years of the worst president in American History. Thanks for 10 trillion dollar deficit. Thanks for a quagmire war. Thanks for allowing capitalism to run amok and create a speculation market that has imploded and destroyed our economy. Thanks for ruining the US credibility abroad our Grandfathers created by saving the world during WWII and the post war era. Thanks for nothing...
come on... one of you W boys get on your knees and apologize for your champion.
Cock suckers.
"It really is all good ! My thinking only occasionally calls it differently..."
Normie
I am sure you don't really want to go there Lurk....calling the financial mess a republican problem is shortsighted and you know it. Putting people in homes they couldn't afford, and having the gov't "back them" was a liberal dream to get the lower class votes.
If you deny that truth, it makes you as responsible as the neo cons you loath. Now, on your knees and apologize for the subsidized housing mess you libs created decades ago, that is now falling in our laps.
While Clinton passed the deregulation of the banking industry in the tail end of his tenure, it was sponsored by Republicans. In its original form it was never meant to foster a speculative market (fundementally unsound). Economists sounder the warning about an over heated housing market for as far back as 04. "Irrational Exuberance" - does that sound familiar. Greenspan was referring to the housing market.
Bush was at the helm. He and the Republican caucus enabled it. You bet your ass they are responsible.
"It really is all good ! My thinking only occasionally calls it differently..."
Normie
subsidized housing? that's not the problem is it? I thought it was subprime lending by greedy unregulated banks, that then shuffled the loans around and sold them off in some difficult to understand form. Finally people buying these funny packets started to get paranoid and stopped buying and the banks were stuck with a bunch of worthless shit.
