World Politics

[VeloCity]

Of course. It's how you are hard-wired.
In these days of video cameras on every cell phone it's curious that there's no corroboration. I mean, if numerous people heard it, saw it, etc...

Oh you're right, I'm sure everyone who corroborated the story is lying.

And what goes on at the OWS rallies, I mean, in these days of video cameras on every cell phone, etc etc...

BTW, What's going on with Cain (sex harrasment, to dumb to spell IRAQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jpKh18UV_E) wouldn't happen to be because he's black, would it??

Course it is, that's why we voted for and support Barack Obama, who's...oh wait.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh you're right, I'm sure everyone who corroborated the story is lying.

And what goes on at the OWS rallies, I mean, in these days of video cameras on every cell phone, etc etc...


Course it is, that's why we voted for and support Barack Obama, who's...oh wait.

But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."

A phrase coined by your side http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story

Is Obama Black Enough?

As much as his biracial identity has helped Obama build a sizable following in middle America, it's also opened a gap for others to question his authenticity as a black man. In calling Obama the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," the implication was that the black people who are regularly seen by whites — or at least those who aspire to the highest office in the land — are none of these things. But give Biden credit — at least he acknowledged Obama's identity.

The same can't be said for others. "Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan," Stanley Crouch recently sniffed in a New York Daily News column entitled "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me." "Black, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves," wrote Debra Dickerson on the liberal website Salon. Writers like TIME and New Republic columnist Peter Beinart have argued that Obama is seen as a "good black," and thus has less of following among black people. Meanwhile, agitators like Al Sharpton are seen as the authentic "bad blacks." Obama's trouble, asserted Beinart, is that he will have to prove his loyalty to The People in a way that "bad blacks" never have to. Obama, for his part, settled this debate some time ago. "If I'm outside your building trying to catch a cab," he told Charlie Rose, "they're not saying, 'Oh, there's a mixed race guy.'" Obama understands what all blacks, including myself, know all too well — that Amadou Diallo's foreign ancestry could not prevent his wallet from morphing into a gun in the eyes of the police.

Uh huh. Got it.

With friends like that who needs enemies.

 

[redtreviso]

By collapse I believe they are talking about residential housing and the mess with Fannie & Freddy.

Here's the Title of the article; Smoking-Gun Document Ties Policy To Housing Crisis.

The mess with Fannie and Freddie is all about wall street with the help of the fed having something to loot. When someone catches on just start talking about minorities.. Works perfect with you scott.

Bush had their back from the beginning..

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/housing/2004-01-20-fha_x.htm

want me to find where he avoided talk of the economy to brag about first time home ownership of minorities being at an all time high??????????

 

[Anonymous]

The mess with Fannie and Freddie is all about wall street with the help of the fed having something to loot. When someone catches on just start talking about minorities.. Works perfect with you scott.

As usual you do very little reading.

Here's a novel suggestion; Read the article, refute it with your proof source and show everyone here what a dumbass I am for bothering to post it.

 

[redtreviso]

As usual you do very little reading.

Here's a novel suggestion; Read the article, refute it with your proof source and show everyone here what a dumbass I am for bothering to post it.

your own words work for me. BTW you're suppose to go back to Jimmy Carter not Clinton.. Don't you get the GOP daily directives?

 

[Anonymous]

your own words work for me. BTW you're suppose to go back to Jimmy Carter not Clinton.. Don't you get the GOP daily directives?

So, is it laziness or something else?

 

[redtreviso]

In case anyone is wondering whose water scott is carrying today..

""Memo to former NYSE CEO **** Grasso: CRA did not cause the housing crisis or the bank bailout

Grasso was interviewed on CNBC very recently about the housing crisis and 'Too Big to Fail' banks. He immediately sought to put the blame, not on the banks, but reached back and sought to place the blame for the housing crisis, financial meltdown and it's consequences on the Community Reinvestment Act.
""

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/10/28/business/100000001140864/****-grasso-on-occupy-wall-street.html

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/10/12/53802/private-sector-loans-not-fannie.html

 

[Anonymous]

In case anyone is wondering whose water scott is carrying today..

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No, actually it was an article from Investors Business Daily. Not exactly a conspiracy.

BTW, what are you afraid of? Just refute the article. With your intelligence it should be sooo easy.

 

[redtreviso]

So, is it laziness or something else?

I got contis to fill and Nalini to get out of the dryer.. you know.. priorities..

 

[redtreviso]

Did the CRA force AIG to write Credit Default Swaps to banks so that the banks could take the risks off of their balance sheets?

Did the CRA force mortgage companies to fraudulently sign off on mortgages?

 

[Anonymous]

Did the CRA force AIG to write Credit Default Swaps to banks so that the banks could take the risks off of their balance sheets?

Did the CRA force mortgage companies to fraudulently sign off on mortgages?

I dunno, was that in the article (that you didn't read)?

Hot air filling your conti's yet?

 

[VeloCity]

A phrase coined by your side http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story







Uh huh. Got it.

With friends like that who needs enemies.

I'm assuming you aren't going to vote for Obama. Is that because he is black? I mean, if we on the left are only going after Cain because he's black, then I can't see why it wouldn't apply both ways.

btw the right going after Michelle Obama - think her being black has anything to do with it? Or is that just the left going after Cain?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...bama-as-angry/2011/10/31/gIQAb3mxZM_blog.html

Course the best was FoxNews calling her "Obama's babymama".

 

[Anonymous]

I'm assuming you aren't going to vote for Obama. Is that because he is black? I mean, if we on the left are only going after Cain because he's black, then I can't see why it wouldn't apply both ways.

btw the right going after Michelle Obama - think her being black has anything to do with it? Or is that just the left going after Cain?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...bama-as-angry/2011/10/31/gIQAb3mxZM_blog.html

Course the best was FoxNews calling her "Obama's babymama".

I'm assuming you aren't going to vote for Obama.

Probably a good assumption on your part.

Is that because he is black?

Nope. But the real question is does BO know how to spell Iraq?

I mean, if we on the left are only going after Cain because he's black, then I can't see why it wouldn't apply both ways.

Okay, let's be honest for a second. Replace Cain with Obama in those clips and articles and what would you be thinking, if not saying?

Course the best was FoxNews calling her "Obama's babymama".

Is that more or less worse than Biden in '07?

Biden is taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he said of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a rival for the nomination: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2838420&page=1

I realize that Biden is a gaffe-a-minute, but c'mon.


I just think the hypocrisy is rife. That's all.

 

[redtreviso]

no one seems to want to laugh about this..

NAME THAT DRUG!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4gz97Y9W8

 

[Bala Verde]

GOP "fun" in VA. Embarrassing.

http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=10939

http://www.tooconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/obamashotinthehead1.jpg

And another corruptico or corporatchik uncovered.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/regulators-investigating-mf-global/?hp

But regulators are examining whether MF Global diverted some customer money to support its own trades as the firm teetered on the brink of collapse. If that was the case, it could violate a fundamental tenet of Wall Street regulation: Customers’ money must be kept separate from company money.

Anyone surprised GS was mentioned?

 

[blutto]

No, actually it was an article from Investors Business Daily. Not exactly a conspiracy.

BTW, what are you afraid of? Just refute the article. With your intelligence it should be sooo easy.

...of course it isn't a conspiracy, only an idiot would call an article a conspiracy and last I checked no one here has ( and nobody called the writer a racist either )...but it is either disingenuous or not particulary smart on your part to couch your response in that way...or put another way you are either playing a little game using truthiness to produce some fanciful projection or you don't know what you're talking about....

...either way you lose...

Cheers

blutto

 

[Anonymous]

...of course it isn't a conspiracy, only an idiot would call an article a conspiracy and last I checked no one here has ( and nobody called the writer a racist either )...but it is either disingenuous or not particulary smart on your part to couch your response in that way...or put another way you are either playing a little game using truthiness to produce some fanciful projection or you don't know what you're talking about....

...either way you lose...

Cheers

blutto

Geez, B.

Now I'm all down and stuff.

However, if you had been paying attention then the conspiracy part would have made sense.

 

[redtreviso]

Halloween

""I'm going to give my whole bag of candy to the richest looking kid I see & trust that he'll trickle it down to the other kids.""

 

[blutto]

...the article that SoCal was waving around in an attempt to prove something is here...

http://news.investors.com/Article/589858/201110311638/Housing-Crisis-Obama-Clinton-Subprime.htm

...I would urge everyone to read it, if only to see how the low the level of the fluff that SoCal uses to build his little houses of cards on actually is....though I guess from his perspective this stuff is real serious scholarship...but the reality is somewhat different......on the surface these sorts of articles seem to provide insight....they are well put together and present what seems like a broad understanding of the field...they have facts and stuff ( numbers for instance are really good for gravitas since they are sort of like intellectual exclamation marks )...but upon a closer look you see the understanding, while appearing wide, is only an inch deep....there is no real proof of anything, just insinuation,and most importantly, no connection to the big picture ( the place of this issue in the building of a mountain of toxic debt that is the real problem)....so if one were foolish enough to take SoCal up on his dare to disprove the article one would find very quickly that there is nothing to disprove because it the article proves nothing...its much the same as SoCal, just as bunch high falutin well written, or in SoCal's case, well argued truthiness....

..oh well, whatever gets you thru the night...

Cheers

blutto

 

[redtreviso]

...the article that SoCal was waving around in an attempt to prove something is here...

http://news.investors.com/Article/589858/201110311638/Housing-Crisis-Obama-Clinton-Subprime.htm

...I would urge everyone to read it, if only to see how the low the level of the fluff that SoCal uses to build his little houses of cards on actually is....though I guess from his perspective this stuff is real serious scholarship...but the reality is somewhat different......on the surface these sorts of articles seem to provide insight....they are well put together and present what seems like a broad understanding of the field...they have facts and stuff ( numbers for instance are really good for gravitas since they are sort of like intellectual exclamation marks )...but upon a closer look you see the understanding, while appearing wide, is only an inch deep....there is no real proof of anything, just insinuation,and most importantly, no connection to the big picture ( the place of this issue in the building of a mountain of toxic debt that is the real problem)....so if one were foolish enough to take SoCal up on his dare to disprove the article one would find very quickly that there is nothing to disprove because it the article proves nothing...its much the same as SoCal, just as bunch high falutin well written, or in SoCal's case, well argued truthiness....

..oh well, whatever gets you thru the night...

Cheers

blutto

in other words.... DOG WHISTLING

 

[redtreviso]

 

[rhubroma]

How someone could think that membership in the United Nation's organization on Education, Science and Culture constitutes an obstacle to peace is beyond me.

I think that the Unesco organization, per se, doesn't constitute a threat to peace, however, as it has been made known, the vote has a significance that tanscends the actual outcome.

That's because Palestine, under the banner of Unesco, has the required international legitimacy to pursue justice at the Hague for the crimes it has endured by the illegal Israeli colonnies within its territory.

This is also why Israel, and hence the US, needed to be in such vehement opposition to Palestine's admittance, because the result thus exposes Israel to international legality in a way that formerly it never was.

What's consequently going to be really interesting to watch, is how the International Court will handle the inevitable cases, for which we will see if it has any real authority in this delicate matter. For the US the great travesty lies in the fact that it recognizes how its unwavering support of the Jewish State has become increasingly unpopular before a global community, which obviously feels that the Palestinian debacle has gone way past it's expiration date.

In this sense, America, allong with the economic downturn and military fiascoes, has further affirmation of its decline in global leadership and, therefore, inability to mold the world after its own image and liking.

 

[Anonymous]

...the article that SoCal was waving around in an attempt to prove something is here...

http://news.investors.com/Article/589858/201110311638/Housing-Crisis-Obama-Clinton-Subprime.htm

...I would urge everyone to read it, if only to see how the low the level of the fluff that SoCal uses to build his little houses of cards on actually is....though I guess from his perspective this stuff is real serious scholarship...but the reality is somewhat different......on the surface these sorts of articles seem to provide insight....they are well put together and present what seems like a broad understanding of the field...they have facts and stuff ( numbers for instance are really good for gravitas since they are sort of like intellectual exclamation marks )...but upon a closer look you see the understanding, while appearing wide, is only an inch deep....there is no real proof of anything, just insinuation,and most importantly, no connection to the big picture ( the place of this issue in the building of a mountain of toxic debt that is the real problem)....so if one were foolish enough to take SoCal up on his dare to disprove the article one would find very quickly that there is nothing to disprove because it the article proves nothing...its much the same as SoCal, just as bunch high falutin well written, or in SoCal's case, well argued truthiness....

..oh well, whatever gets you thru the night...

Cheers

blutto

In other words... you got nothin'.

Just refute it, B.... what have you got to lose? Your post drips with condescenion, so it's got to be too easy to shoot the article down with something other than your opinion. Right?

 

[blutto]

Geez, B.

Now I'm all down and stuff.

However, if you had been paying attention then the conspiracy part would have made sense.

...if only I had been paying attention?....funny because the last time someone used that line on me it was like this...if you only paid more attention you would realize that the Illuminati, who are controlled by trans-dimensional lizards from another galaxy, are trying to take over the world thru the imposition of a One World Government...and oh yeah, they are using the climate change issue to do it!!!!!....

...so, you are right, maybe I should pay more attention...

...sleep tight, don't let the socialists bite...

Cheers

blutto

 

[Anonymous]

in other words.... DOG WHISTLING

You need a new slag term. This one is worn out (and boring).