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Links: 9/15/08, 8/15/08, 7/15/08
Wall Street's Woes Challenge Candidates (Wall Street Journal)
The meltdown poses problems for both presidential candidates and doesn't especially play to the strengths of either.
Wall Street crisis is culmination of 28 years of deregulation (McClatchy)
WASHINGTON — No one cog in the federal government's machine of financial regulation let down the country by failing to prevent the latest shakeout on Wall Street. The entire system did.
Why isn’t Obama saying this, over and over and over? Could it be because most of Obama’s economic advisors don’t like regulation, either? And could it be because calling for fiscal responsibility would remind Democrats too much of the Clintons?—Caro
Obama ad hits McCain for saying economy's 'fundamentals are strong' (On Politics, USA Today)
In its latest TV ad, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign again takes aim at Republican John McCain for saying the economy's "fundamentals are strong." The ad, released moments ago, repeats a message that Obama and his running mate Joe Biden pushed hard yesterday as the crisis on Wall Street continued to unfold. They say McCain doesn't understand that the economy "is broken:"
That is not the same thing as saying that there are problems, and the problems are because of many years of Republican POLICY. No one wants to believe that the entire economy is broken. It’s too far a stretch right now. People won't go that far in their thinking without more preparation.—Caro
Obama needs to invoke Clintonomics, but he can't (by Iain Martin, The Telegraph, U.K.)
The Democrats have a good claim to being the true fiscal conservatives in recent US history, arguing for balanced budgets and stability. But to illustrate that argument the Obama campaign would need to point to the record of a previous administration which governed, for the large part, in such a fashion. And the problem is that at its head was Bill Clinton… Obama is denied access to fiscal conservative themes - which could help him greatly in charging the Republican party with incompetence and economic neglect - because he doesn't want to invoke too many memories of the Clinton era.
And, of course, the only person limiting him is he himself.—Caro
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Carolyn Kay
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Economy broken vs Greedy Wall Street Financiers
I agree, Caro, the economy is too much of a stretch. Everyone would prefer to believe that the current financial crisis is a fixable disaster, blameable on greedy Wall St. types; no one wants to believe it's a problem with the system fundamentals.
Obama's moved toward a better place by finally focusing on the economy, but he's still not offering any solutions, and that's all anyone wants to hear now. Neither is McCain, but his political rhetoric is more appealing than reciting our collective woes:
McCain's response to the ad, in a CBS interview:
McCain short: American workers are the best, they totally rock it's all those greedy bastards' fault.
Obama short: It's a huge mess, blah blah blah generalized and anonymous attribution to Washington insiders, oh, and people who live in small towns are so stupid that they're afraid of smart people.
Ok, to be fair, the smart people thing was Biden. This time.
Is McCain lying, more or less? Yes. But Obama's offering up pretty much the same thing -- lots of words, no solutions. So the winner will end up being the one whose message is better, and easier to hear. And I'm betting that the 'I'll get those bastards for you, you salt of the earth folks' will play better than either 'The economy is broken' or another Faculty Club lecture.
I'll say it again, Democrats just want to win the argument, Republicans want to win the election.
Yep.
I like your argument vs. election phrasing.
I'll be using that ;-)
Julius Rosenberg was really a spy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/nyregi... -- Rosenbergs’ Sons Accept That Father Was a Spy -- "... But after digesting Mr. Sobell’s confession, in an interview last week with The New York Times, that he and Julius stole nonatomic military and industrial secrets, the Meeropols have now concluded that continuing to claim that their father was innocent of an espionage conspiracy was no longer defensible. ..."
Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits to Soviet Spying -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregi...
"... on Thursday, Mr. Sobell, 91, dramatically reversed himself, shedding new light on a case that still fans smoldering political passions. In an interview, he admitted for the first time that he had been a Soviet spy.
And he implicated his fellow defendant Julius Rosenberg, in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information and what the American government described as the secret to the atomic bomb.
..."
Now, if we could just debunk ...
... some of the OTHER conspiracy theories.
9/11
JFK
Lincoln
Some people would have nothing to do with their time.
well, neither should have fried--
especially not Ethel.
leaving Virginia???
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peter
Use the blockquote tag
So people can tell this is quoted material. I almost deleted this as spam.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
who's after Rangel? GOP or Obama's people?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008/new... -- PELOSI PUSHES RANGEL TO STEP DOWN FROM COMMITTEE CHAIR