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 A Look at the ‘Bush-Obama’ PresidencyPosted on Aug 22, 2011
Essayist, Yale English professor and TomDispatch contributor David Bromwich takes a careful accounting of the “sacked” and “saved” members of the Obama administration in an attempt to reveal the similarities between his presidency and George W. Bush’s. As Bromwich argues, Obama’s value to the American public should be determined by assessing his behavior and its consequences, rather than his expressed intentions. To do this, he inspects 16 of Obama’s administrative appointments and the efforts to dismiss or retain them. What follows should be regarded as one of the major attempts to detail the particulars of Obama’s failure to fulfill the promises of change he made as a presidential candidate in 2008. —ARK
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By ardee, August 24, 2011 at 5:28 pm Link to this comment
Jay Lindberg, August 24 at 11:00 am Link to this comment
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The half Black Messiah (half Black- Half
corporate)sold us out.
I think the statement you posted would have stood without the part I noted above. Is the melanin content of his skin so very important to you?
Report thisBy Jay Lindberg, August 24, 2011 at 11:00 am Link to this comment
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The half Black Messiah (half Black- Half
corporate)sold us out. His loyalty to the banksters
and their\his criminal ways is absolute.
This banking fiasco is modeled after the S&L disaster
20 years earlier only orders of magnitude larger. The
S&L bailout came with a price tag of over half a
trillion dollars.
You had Wall Street pushing approximately a trillion
dollars in toxic paper and the rating agencies
claiming that paper was investment grade.
This time the swindle went global. The rating
agencies were claiming over 100 trillion dollars in
in Derivatives and and Credit Default Swaps were
investment grade paper. In reality they were just
like the junk bonds of the 90s.
I was in the mortgage industry in the late 80s and I
knew we were looking at junk bonds and an inevitable
system collapse. I left the industry when the
system collapsed.
In 2005 I got back into finance and it wasn’t long
before I saw the same mess, this time however, the
financial instruments more more complex. I watched
people pour money into these instruments nobody
understood. (The fact that nobody understood these
financial instruments should have eliminated their
status as investment grade securities alone.)
This is getting kind of long so I will cut it short
here and leave you with this. How did people in the
finance industry deal with my concerns? Don’t rock
the boat, you’re in it.
When I say, the people responsible for this mess need
to go to jail or worse i am right because their lack
of accountability and safety in numbers mentality has
to change.
Jay Lindberg
Report thisBy Maani, August 22, 2011 at 6:08 pm Link to this comment
“This should be required reading for all those who believe a democrat in the white house is an automatic progressive victory. It also gives the lie to the ‘lesser of two evils’ vote.”
As Reagan would say, “There you go again…”
So…if you had a gun to your head - you could not NOT vote - and you HAD to vote for either GWB or Obama, what would you do? How about between Perry and Obama? Bachmann and Obama?
You’re full of it…
Report thisBy chip, August 22, 2011 at 4:55 pm Link to this comment
It has been apparent (from day one) that Obama hated being president and was using it as a stepping stone into the “Bohemian Grove” crowd.
Whats next for bama? A job with golden sack, I doubt it. Maybe, Morgan-Chase-Obama or the Carlyle-Obama group.
Is Vegas taking any bets on where Obama sets up shop after ruining any chance the people had to get their country back from the crooks?
“Save Ron Paul”
Report this“Save Dennis Kucinich”
By ardee, August 22, 2011 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
This should be required reading for all those who believe a democrat in the white house is an automatic progressive victory. It also gives the lie to the ‘lesser of two evils’ vote.
Report thisBy MD, August 22, 2011 at 3:24 pm Link to this comment
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Good article. This does speak volumes. Obama is status quo really. Bush-lite. He
Report thisonly sounds smarter than Bush, but really just as lame.
By raja1031, August 22, 2011 at 2:02 pm Link to this comment
Are you floating a feeler for a book?
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