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I guess your sitting out this election then.
Clinton, McCain and Obama have been on Fox - Obama the least.
I guess that you can't vote for any of these candidates then.
Does this mean that you are voting for Nader?
I drink your milkshake
by there will be blood on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 07:30:52 AM PDT
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Pea Coil?
by Grass on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 07:32:14 AM PDT
Bondad- check out this article:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the government of President George W. Bush were to blame for the U.S. financial crisis, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a magazine interview. "This man (Greenspan) has unfortunately made a lot of mistakes," said former World Bank chief economist Stiglitz, according to a preview of the interview to be published on Monday in profil magazine. "His first one was to support all the tax cuts which were introduced under Bush -- they didn't stimulate the economy very much ... This task was then transferred more towards monetary policy, though then (Greenspan) created a flood of credits with low interest rates," Stiglitz was quoted as saying.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the government of President George W. Bush were to blame for the U.S. financial crisis, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a magazine interview.
"This man (Greenspan) has unfortunately made a lot of mistakes," said former World Bank chief economist Stiglitz, according to a preview of the interview to be published on Monday in profil magazine.
"His first one was to support all the tax cuts which were introduced under Bush -- they didn't stimulate the economy very much ... This task was then transferred more towards monetary policy, though then (Greenspan) created a flood of credits with low interest rates," Stiglitz was quoted as saying.
Greenspan and bush caused recession- Nobel Laureate
Stiglitz calls out the slime pair for their disastrous handling of the US economy- tax cuts for millionaires, followed by even more tax cuts for millionaires are not sound economic policy, you pair of disgusting bubble-headed idiots.
by MD patriot on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:31:28 AM PDT
It’s not that the former Fed boss Greenspan was incompetent that is remarkable. Incompetence is common enough after all, even in important jobs. What’s remarkable is that so many people don’t seem, even now, to get it. Do people just believe high-quality self-justifying blarney? Or is it just that they apparently want to believe that critical jobs in a great country attract great talent by divine right. Sometimes, of course, they do, but sometimes the most important jobs – even that of a presidency or a Fed boss – end up with mediocrities. Let us pause here to regret the absence of Mr. Volcker and wonder what a parallel Volcker universe would have been like. Just as we can wonder how much a few votes in Florida or a vote in the Supreme Court would have changed our world from what it is today. Confirming Link (download and read Jeremy Grantham's 1Q2008 letter to clients)
It’s not that the former Fed boss Greenspan was incompetent that is remarkable. Incompetence is common enough after all, even in important jobs. What’s remarkable is that so many people don’t seem, even now, to get it. Do people just believe high-quality self-justifying blarney? Or is it just that they apparently want to believe that critical jobs in a great country attract great talent by divine right. Sometimes, of course, they do, but sometimes the most important jobs – even that of a presidency or a Fed boss – end up with mediocrities. Let us pause here to regret the absence of Mr. Volcker and wonder what a parallel Volcker universe would have been like. Just as we can wonder how much a few votes in Florida or a vote in the Supreme Court would have changed our world from what it is today.
Confirming Link (download and read Jeremy Grantham's 1Q2008 letter to clients)
by brjzn on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:36:38 AM PDT
although Gus Hall is hanging in there as well.
by wondering if on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:48:49 AM PDT
Who ya gonna write in now, purity troll? Seein' as how Frank Zappa's widow and son have been on Fox News.
"We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans." -- Barack Obama
by jhutson on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 07:35:44 AM PDT
Were Only In It For The Money ever again.
George "Herbert Hoover" Bush=John McCain
by nicweb on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:55:28 AM PDT
Who ya gonna write in now, purity troll?
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." --Samuel Johnson
by joanneleon on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:11:22 AM PDT
from time to time.
Know the Facts about Barack Obama.
by Elise on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:16:55 AM PDT
I'm not going to call a long time contributor to this site a troll.
by joanneleon on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:21:46 AM PDT
when I've called FPers purity trolls...and days when I've acted like one myself...
by Elise on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:36:41 AM PDT
I'm an Impurity Troll.
Just ask the nun who taught my sixth grade.
Hmmm, in retrospect maybe she really could read my thoughts.....
All snark is dedicated to station wagon.
by Eddie Haskell on Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 06:38:41 AM PDT
Joe Pine was Sean Hannity before there was a Sean Hannity. He asked Zappa if having long hair made him a woman. Zappa asked him if having a wooden leg made him a table. One of the classic moments in television.
'1984': "Big Brother is watching you". 2008: You're going to end up on YouTube.
by jhecht on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:17:16 AM PDT
God, he was awful...
Funny how your brain can purge ugly memories.
by juca on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 11:10:46 AM PDT
by debrazza on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 06:10:31 PM PDT
troll?
by ladygreenslippers on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:41:12 AM PDT
I'm pretty sure Nader has been on Fox, too, leaving only Cynthia McKinney, or perhaps the LP nominee if it's not Bob Barr.
A true progressive with more experience than Obama: Cynthia McKinney for President
by green in brooklyn on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 07:36:02 AM PDT
this is pretty lame and a waste of a diary.
"Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot." - Grandpa Simpson
by ourhispanicvoices on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:08:10 AM PDT
cycle.
by CeeusBeeus on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:18:42 AM PDT
We do have alternatives before Nader and McSame.
Time will tell what Faux Infotainment does with Obama's lapse there. I don't believe they'll pull out the sliced-and-diced attack until the general election gets underway.
by bronte17 on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:23:05 AM PDT
If we applaud his willingness to talk to foreign enemies, why is it a lapse to appear on FOX?
by Heart of the Rockies on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 09:33:14 AM PDT
in that they creep into the discourse without any alarm bells going off. All folksy and all in their stealth.
Fox is not a real news network. They admitted it in court... they are an infotainment network with the objective of entertaining the masses and therefore are not required nor bound by any obligation to adhere to truth and journalistic integrity.
by bronte17 on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 11:11:02 AM PDT
In the general election he's going to have to deal with FOX, one way or another. Ignoring them won't necessarily help. It might have been the stick, and his appearance today is the carrot.
by Heart of the Rockies on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 11:42:58 AM PDT
we are going to have to get back some semblance of integrity and respectability and reliability in our national news.
That will not come from Rupert Murdoch and Fox Infotainment Network.
Our leaders should not engage with fools.
by bronte17 on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 06:33:31 PM PDT
they are running Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe's butt-kissing comments in a Fox promo for crying out loud.
by jazmen8 on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:42:57 AM PDT
Please. Enough of this nonsense. You WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA in the fall.
I know you are smarter than this diary.
by Tackle on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 08:50:59 AM PDT
wide narrow
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