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- robotron3k0
I predict Bush will call a National Emergency and have the executive branch take complete control over the financial areas.
Jerome Corsi wrote about the Bush power grab last year:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/new…
Bush is already prepping with "homeland tours" of military personnel training with the latest in crowd control devices. http://www.armytimes.com/news/20…
- Correct! Tomorrow.MrOneHundred
- FEARMONGERS!!!!johndiggity
- robotron3k0
weeee good times.....
- mg330
WTF... Why doesn't she just stand on a street corner wearing a sandwich board that just says "I'm what an idiot looks like!"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn…
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Palin: I'm a 'Joe-six pack American'
Posted: 07:21 PM ETFrom CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
SEDONA, Arizona (CNN) — Sarah Palin on Tuesday called herself a “Joe-six pack American” and said that her family has lost $20,000 in the stock market because of the financial meltdown on Wall Street.
Palin made the comments in a radio interview with conservative talker Hugh Hewitt while taking a break from debate prep at John McCain’s ranch in Sedona.
“I know what Americans are going through there,” Palin said on the radio show. “And you know, even today, Todd and I are looking at what’s going on in the stock market, the relatively low number of investments that we have, looking at the hit that we’re taking, probably $20,000 dollars last week in his 401K plan that was hit.
“I’m thinking, ‘Geez, the rest of America, they’re facing the exact same thing that we are. We understand what the problems are.’”
Hewitt asked Palin her reaction to the “extreme hostility” that she has faced from liberals.
“Oh, I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that a normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it,” she said
- no need to link and copyfooler2
- in case you want to say something there.mg33
- "i've always thought that lowering standards was what america needed," is what she's saying.colin_s
- a full 20 ...KwesiJ
- I know Joe Six Packs. She is no Joe Six Pack.TheBlueOne
- hallelujah0
good shit
- Holy WOW. Sadder by the minute.mg33
- she has read every magazine. ALL AND ANY PUT IN FRONT OF HER.sofakingbanned
- a) You can't name ONE fucking newspaper that you read? FFS. b) Alaska is NOT a microcosm of the USTheBlueOne
- can she not name one newspaper?arthur
- she reads DOTDOTDOT a lot i heard, and she's friends with Bill Drummondjanne76
- oh no, she is in fact a creation from Bill Drummond.janne76
- ofjanne76
- whatevs..ffsjanne76
- <-- haha i am feeling to embarassed for humanity to watch that.. i just can't hahajanne76
- She is potentially one of four people on the entire planet who could order a nuclear strike. Right into the funnel...TheBlueOne
- She reads the Enquirer...and People Magazine.BusterBoy
- Holy f**k, where do the Americans get people like her? First Bush, now her...MakeBelieve
- ouch...yeah that's pretty bad. I'm movin.tommyo
- oh boy, we are doomed!********
- colin_s0
any info on if the leak regarding palin's gaffe on not being able to name a supreme court case other than roe v wade was credible? and if there's video of it?
- ukit0
My God...couldn't she have just said NY Times...WSJ....or even National Review or somethin....it's not that hard!!!!
- she would never say the NY Times - too liberal for repubsarthur
- and by liberal, I mean factual, based in reality.arthur
- Fuck..what about the Wasilla Gazette....TheBlueOne
- loljoeth
- bulletfactory0
even fucking mad magazine.
- mg330
Just heard an interview with McCain on NPR - and I think it was Chicago Public Radio specifically, where they asked what about Palin living in Alaska and being governor gives her foreign policy experience, and he immediatly started talking about the state's oil production, and that pipeline that she's getting built. Nothing about Russia. Nothing.
I'm used to all that by now, but the one thing that really bothers me is when McCain says "Obama has absolutely no experience..."
That is just stupid ignorant arrogant bullshit.
- And Palin called Biden "old". Did she look at the fossil she was running with?TheBlueOne
- Then she lied about it being a jab in the first place. Stupid liar.Mimio
- TheBlueOne0
Today is the day the Hedge Funds Die....market should be fun...of course, considering my company is building two houses for hedge fund managers I might be out of a job next week....
- mg330
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who touts her state's proximity to Russia as part of her foreign policy experience, has not met with Russian leaders or delegations, negotiated any Russian issues or visited the country, according to an Associated Press review of records from the governor's office. The review showed that the Republican vice presidential candidate has negotiated with only one country, Canada, and until last week had met with the leader of only one other, tiny Iceland."
How about when Putin rears his head? "The Alaska governor has no command authority over the guardians of U.S. airspace despite her recent suggestion otherwise. 'She doesn't have any role in that process,' Air Force Maj. Allen Herritage, spokesman for the Alaska North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Daily News. .. Moscow’s bombers have skirted Alaskan airspace 20 times, though they have not violated it, during Palin's governorship, officials said. When F-15 and F-22 interceptors scrambled from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage in response, John McCain's running mate was not speed-dialed with the news."
Palin as Joe Six-pack? "Palin said if she and John McCain win, they will 'put government back on the side of the people of Joe Six-pack like me.'" But, "Palin makes $125,000 yearly as governor, and her husband makes about $90,000 a year combined from his commercial fishing business and his part-time job as a production operator on the North Slope. Palin said her husband's 401(k) retirement account lost probably $20,000 in the last week as the market dropped. According to the most recent state financial disclosure forms, filed March 10, 2008, the Palins had about $164,699 in a private investment account and $198,102 in a separate retirement account."
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These first two things are what Obama really needs to run ads with. jFinally a publication is coming out and telling it like it is about her lies and her foriegn policy un-experience.
- GeorgesII0
that bitch!! she's lying like she's singing a lullaby, that bitch
- Good flippin Lord. Is this for real? This is getting sadder and sadder by the second.********
- "Choose life" only extends until you pop out of the birth canal for these tools...TheBlueOne
- ..after that it's OK to start wars or have the death penalty.TheBlueOne
- if this doesn't make your blood boil, you're deserve what you will get if she gets elected,GeorgesII
- YAY!! IF she ruled here a while back i would have been a dad now!!janne76
- Good flippin Lord. Is this for real? This is getting sadder and sadder by the second.
- TheBlueOne0
She doesn't know what Hamas is?
And McCain gets lost...
- tommyo0
Hmmm so this morning I woke up and thought, 'Why was government pushing sub-prime loans in the first place??' I came up with two theories: 1. Conservatives were trying to push the economy through the risky involvement of the mortgage industry. 2. Liberals and extreme socialism were trying to make it so that every family could buy homes. Either way, someone pushed and then allowed the banks to pursue the risky practice of subprime loans. So I did a little digging ... not much mind you, tons of work to do today. But I found this:
'The thousands of mortgage defaults and foreclosures in the "subprime" housing market (i.e., mortgage holders with poor credit ratings) is the direct result of thirty years of government policy that has forced banks to make bad loans to un-creditworthy borrowers. The policy in question is the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which compels banks to make loans to low-income borrowers and in what the supporters of the Act call "communities of color" that they might not otherwise make based on purely economic criteria.
The original lobbyists for the CRA were the hardcore leftists who supported the Carter administration and were often rewarded for their support with government grants and programs like the CRA that they benefited from. These included various "neighborhood organizations," as they like to call themselves, such as "ACORN" (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). These organizations claim that over $1 trillion in CRA loans have been made, although no one seems to know the magnitude with much certainty. A U.S. Senate Banking Committee staffer told me about ten years ago that at least $100 billion in such loans had been made in the first twenty years of the Act.'
Now I know that even if this is 100% accurate, there are a lot of people to blame in-between industry being given the go-ahead to push loans like this and the state of our economy today. Also, I'm sure both sides of the political fence share a ton of blame for allowing it to get as far as it has. And I do understand that good ol fashioned American Greed accounts for a lot of the blame. But if anything, this should illustrate how government should not be involved in policy such as this. In an ideal world it would be great if everyone could own their own home, but in a realistic world ... some people don't have the sensibility to take on the financial responsibility that a home represents. If the reasons for this bill coming into being are accurate - then we're currently reaping the rewards of Socialism.
<IMO> Government should provide the basis for which we can all succeed i.e. a sound and strong economy. Once that is achieved then it should be up to us to make the decisions in our life that determine our success. Government involvement that basically 'gives' us the rewards of a successful life is an end-run around something all Americans can use a little more of, responsibility. In the case of the economy we're now staring in the face - government overstepping without strict industry regulation was like opening the hen house and inviting the wolves over for tea. Pardon the gross arms-length generality of this opinion, I do know that our problems go a lot deeper than just socialism and government policy. But if the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act was the thread we left hanging from our national sweater vest then we were asking for it to be tugged on until our communal navel was showing for all to see.</IMO>
- How about this: "Real Estate as the means of wealth transfer from the have nots to the haves."TheBlueOne
- You think that's what this is all about? Mortgage crash - foreclosure - the 'haves' buy the real estate - market rebound?tommyo
- My cynical, I really don't want to believe that side says yes. And these days..well...TheBlueOne
- I see what you're saying - but I disagree. Why would they start a program in the first place to inflate values, only to buy ...tommyo
- them once they go back to the values they were when the bubble started to fill?tommyo
- Failed policy with idealistic intentions is what I'm seeing here.tommyo
