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newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » Things like ethics — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:34:53 +0000

[...] of course, having the right buddies helps. Remember Obama’s “First of all, I know both these guys”? Again, it’s not actually ethics, just something that is a thing like ethics — call it [...]

By: insurance adjuster

insurance adjuster — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:55:45 +0000

in today’s modern finanical markets — in order to make a buck, all you need to do is get your pals at the FED to print a buck. Of course, the sucker for Wall Street is the general public who saves $. The talk about loans and TARP payback is nothing more than a David Copperfield Jedi mind trick for the uninformed masses. Look up the term Seigniorage or Quant Easing - the official FED name.

By: Thomas Nephew

Thomas Nephew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:38:29 +0000

Thanks, “WWW”. Yes, I think Obama never really got the extent to which Bush, Paulson, and the financial sector took a great big dump on his presidency before it ever got going — and probably never figured they couldn’t believe their eyes when he picked the likes of Geithner and Emanuel to help run the new ship. We needed a new New Deal, we got pretty much the same old deal with a little “hope and change” bow on top. The net spending freeze on the heels of the MA election was the kind of leadership you’d expect of McClellan, not a Lincoln. Like McC, Obama strikes me as someone who is permanently conceding the other side maybe outnumbers him and maybe has a point, rather than of someone who knows what he needs to do to win what he knows he has to win.

By: WorldWideWeber

WorldWideWeber — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:18:11 +0000

Great post, Thomas. Normally I’m a big fan of nuance. But a politician must respond to the exigencies of the times, and here Obama fails. We needed Alexander the Great, and we got Aristotle. We needed someone with a trial lawyer’s ability to distill a complicated argument into a memorable and stirring summation, and we got a constitutional law professor. And I agree wholeheartedly about the dangers posed by Palin and her ilk.