Left or right: a false choice

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Monday June 24, 2013 · 7:16 PM PDT

2013/06/24 · 19:16

I remember reading this website in 2008. As the excitement of the primary process built, I read diary after diary chronicling Obama's triumph over Clinton, and later, McCain.

The slogan was change.

But has anything really changed?

Executives at the largest banks, financial institutions, credit rating agencies, and government sponsored entitities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not criminally prosecuted for their wrongdoing. Maybe the appointment of Eric Holder had something to do with it. Holder peviously defended clients in white collar crime cases, and as a deputy attorney general once wrote a memo suggesting that executives at large firms were "too big to jail" because of the consequences of prosecutions on financial markets.

Timothy Geithner was appointed treasury secretary after assuring, as NY federal reserve chief, that Goldman Sachs was fully paid for their Credit Default Swaps during the AIG bailout.

During the Bush administration, we constantly complained about the encroachments of executive power on civil liberties. Now we find, courtesy of Edward Snowden, that Obama has been continuing Dick Cheney's policy of building a surveillance state.

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind, that had Clinton won, she would have also appointed the same Washington insiders like Geithner, Summers, and Holder. So remember when you vote next time, that you have a choice. Your vote is either for the banks and the surveillance state or the banks and the surveillance state.

Maybe he really is putting country first...

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 10:29 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 10:29

...by tanking this election harder than the chicago black sox, the 2006 Seattle Supersonics, and new coke. Combined.

Now just bear with me for a second. If John McCain was a real moderate "maverick" republican, with a disdain for "agents of intolerance", what better way is there to serve the country than to give them complete control of your campaign (and a vp nomination), and then fail spectacularly. Seriously, what better scenario could democrats hope for than is now being played out. The GOP, for the forseeable future, is in the hands of Sarah Palin. McCain managed to kick her in the head much more effectively than we ever could have by introducing her to a national audience before she was ready.

Maybe he's taking a dive. Now that would be a real hero.

A thought experiment

EconGrad

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 8:04 AM PDT

2008/10/20 · 08:04

A thought experiment for conservatives, crossposted from redstate.

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