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So let's say the Clinton supporters go crazy because of these 4 votes. Would they have gone any less crazy had they been awarded? What about the other stolen 50 delegates? Hillary should have been awarded the uncommitted delegates too! There is no reason to think that these 4 delegates would have appeased the Hillary camp. And why should the committee appease the Hillary camp? The protesters outside had signs talking about having gay crack sex with Obama. 4 delegates would not have assuaged that level of crazy.
The line had to be drawn somewhere and the committee voted 19-8 on 69-59. The Clinton supporters would be indignant no matter where they drew the line.
Hillary has abandoned the Democratic party. Tonight was the night she was supposed to concede. She lost on the numbers. It's over. But she still insists on holding out. Can the crap about her RIGHTS. With every RIGHT comes a DUTY. She has a RIGHT to campaign, but she has a DUTY to support the winner. The party spoke, Obama won the delegates. She had a duty tonight to be a bigger person. She failed. She needs to be primaried out of her senate seat for disloyalty.
Compare Hillary's ego trip to Romney's exit. Romney knew he wouldn't win. The math was locked up against him. Romney thought to himself ... do I want to go down fighting? Or do I want to go down in service to party to defeat those liberal traitors for freedom? He wisely chose going down in service to party. Romney has a future in his party now. Romney will be long remembered as a party man who will take one for the team when necessary, an invaluable trait. Hillary has chose to go down fighting her own party's nomination of Obama.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml
Bob Woodward learned from inside the Whitehouse that Bush leaned on the Saudis right before the 2004 election to drop the gas prices. Low gas prices = incumbent does better in elections. This nut just doesn't understand economics and politics.
Bill Sasser doesn't even state an opinion. Every paragraph opens with a quote from a military guy. This isn't Sasser attempting to discern what is best for the military, this is military guys describing a problem and recommending options, and Sasser reporting what the military guys said. This is reporting, not an editorial. Real reporting suggests a conclusion by reporting real facts. In this case, real live military guys complained of the consequences of the auto promotion policy. This suggests that the auto promotion policy is bad. Then the editor sensationalizes that suggestion to get more people to read it.
One more thing, the military is civilian policy maker controlled. "Liberal pantywastes" in the pentagon that control the military are CIVILIANS. The president is a CIVILIAN. Civilians are supposed to critique the military, because the military is under civilian control. If not, we would be in a dictatorship.
They are so honest, earnest, non partisan, tireless, integrity filled, and ruggedly individualistic that we should just trust them with the 700 Billion because otherwise the nice firms won't play his game with him. Remember, you are all going to die if you don't give the post partisan wise men exactly what they want!
"Many of us believe you, Andrew Leonard
If you say Bernanke and Paulson are okay, then okay. But please keep delivering details, and please keep reading our questions.
-- timbuktom "
Are Bernanke and Paulson okay? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Let's say Bernanke and Paulser were FDR and MLK resurrected to save America from Bush, after being appointed by zombie Lincoln. Even FDR didn't go to congress and ask for a 700 billion dollar blank check for a plan he hadn't finished! And FDR was in the middle of the Great Depression! Can you be any more of an Authoritarian Timbuktom? What matters is the plan itself, which is a 700 billion dollar blank check that will banish the Democratic party to loserdom for the next 30 years. We have a political appointee asking for more discretionary power than the president, and then demanding that his decisions be unreviewable. 700 billion is enough for several small wars, or one decently long one.
Please try to keep Eleanor Roosevelt's adage in mind when considering the words of political appointees:
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
This 810 billion could have rebuilt our society. This could have employed the jobless. This could have solved the energy crisis. This could have solved the water crisis. Instead ... we have bailed out a handful of already rich investment bankers. There are no new institutions here that will provide permanent stability or renewed liquidity. This is purely a giveaway at terrible expense, when such giveaways are desperately needed to stave off human suffering. The Republicans have long plotted to destroy the New Deal, and the economic equality that it brought with it. This, this corporate tax break and corporate giveaway is the final nail in the New Deal's coffin.
Thank you so much Axelrod. Thank you. Don't let them go non responsive. Make them answer. Davis said he didn't, but there is a money trail saying he did. Davis just lied openly. Amazing. Axelrod needs to be given more respect.
Obama is a socialist okay. Socialists are like Ayers. Ayers was a communist, slightly worse. ANyways, socialists try to help the poor okay? Well, smarter, better, more survivally fit people on Wall Street trusted these poor people that Obama and his socialists kept trying to organize into a community. ANyways, the point is risky minorities cannot be trusted. And now the market is going down because of the socialists. What we need now is more capitalism and less risky minority associations.