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One could easily say that the bailout has been more about bailing out Goldman Sachs than anything.
The following were principals at Goldman: Jim Cramer, Gov. Corzine. Robert Rubin, Christopher Cox, Hank Paulson.
Guess what?
All but one of them is a Democrat.
Goldman's clients must deposit $10,000,000.00 and have at least $10,000,000.00 with Goldman under management to be a Goldman client.
It's like a club of rich liberals.
So, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the stimulus/bailout has been all about stimulating and bailing out rich liberals. In bailing out AIG, our gov was also taking care of Goldman.
This might lead to somethings they did not expect.
0bama will jettison the rich liberals in a flash if they suddenly become problematic. With his rhetoric he might try to ignite a firestorm of resentment which extends to his own erstwhile bankers at GS.
0bama is all about 0bama. He is not about capitalism. He is about 0bama. He is not about socialism. He is about 0bama. Goldman Sachs and her clients probably funded a significant portion of his campaign, somewhere between 20 and 50%.
Liberalz, especially rich ones, may have gotten far more than they expected this time.
What happens to the rich liberals when 0bama must turn on them?
Are you proud?
The Persian Gulf coast is beautiful. The people are very nice and friendly.
Ohhhhhhh, I forgot, the government of Iran has said that there are no gay people there.
There are no gay people in Iran.
Whoops, Glennn and the Ipanema Dude might have a little trouble getting a visa!
Well, how about Yemen? Now there's a lovely place for two newly weds to start a new life. The Red Sea Coast is a wonderful place to snorkel and swim.
No? They got problems with the gay, lesbian and transexual community too?
Ok, well, there's Syria, with lovely Roman ruins and pistachio nuts to die for.
What about Syria, with a beautiful Mediterranean coast, Syria, where the past meets the present?
No? Syria is uptight about that too?
OK OK!
Glennn IS Jewish, right?
He could make Aliya with Ipanema, right? They'd take them in.
But Glennn would rather go to Iran, if you don't mind, OK?
Would he be forced to shout "I am a Jew," like Daniel Pearl, right before they started slicing it off?
And, If he had a few moments of consciousness left after his head was removed from his torso, would his brain suddenly think, "00000 KAY, now I get it, these buggers just killed me!"
If you get a Keyshound excited, he/she will revert to wolf. He/she will bare her teeth, get real low and start spinning. It is hard to get hold of a fast spinning animal with big teeth and several layers of thick hair to protect it, and it knows when to stop spinning and get after you.
We humans have instincts too. Self preservation will bring out things we would rather forget.
Israel is 51. She was born fighting against prohibitive odds and she won. She had to fight two subsequent wars, and against all odds, she won them too. There have been ongoing skirmishes and terrors and Israel is still there. It is hard for moderate and realistic Arabs to have any say in this because they are denounced and even murdered if they do not jump up and down when the obligatory destroy Israel slogans are shouted. Palestinian kids have a curriculum of hatred in their schools. Now Iran is swaggering into town.
Isn't it time for even left wing Americans to insist on a sensible peace before we spin into an unpredictable dance of massive death?
I realize this is your social network here, but I have yet to see anything remotely let alone totally intelligent coming from you, other than your tendency to tut tut at any and all who disagree with the orthodox liberal rubbish which is promulgated here day after day.
Who the France are you, sir?
Are you an old fart in a nursing home in Ann Arbor? Or are you an old fart in a nursing home in Portland? Madison? Do you live in the great Dean state of Vermont?
So you read "The Nation" cover to cover 4 times a month and then come here to police your favorite smug libral website when you want to take a break between your 4th and 5th read?
You sir, are the blase conformist who never has had the gumption to question the idiotic left wing ideology