Comments on: A Pause for Wretchard

By: Vince P

Vince P — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:49:53 +0000

To add onto what Mitsu has contributed..

Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis.

At a 2004 hearing see Democrat after Democrat covering up and attacking the regulations to protect Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (their Cash Cows) that are now destroying our economy because the Democrats let them cheat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

By: Vince P

Vince P — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:18:31 +0000

If you folks want a preview of what an Obama administration will be like then I suggest reading this transcript from Rush Limbaugh’s show on Friday where he describes the surreal happenings that occurred at the White House on Thursday when all the Congressional Leaders + Presidential Candidates + Treasure Dept were at the White House to iron out a deal on the bailout.

None of this is comforting.. These people are so untrustworthy it frightens me.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092608/content/01125107.guest.html

By: mishu

mishu — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:33:12 +0000

Please do explain, for my edification, how “excessive regulation” was responsible for the current financial mess? As opposed of course, to the usual suspects of greed, improvidence and short-sightedness? This video is a good primer.

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:33:54 +0000

Please do explain, for my edification, how “excessive regulation” was responsible for the current financial mess?

Fine, I’ll edify tomorrow. It’s almost midnight here.

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:32:45 +0000

campaigns, not campaign

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:31:43 +0000

-Hope is not a plan.

It is for Obama. It’s all he got.

I really don’t see what can be done right now, the situation is very fluid. The bailout issue emerged all of a sudden, changing the momentum of the campaign and the poll numbers yet again.

Let’s wait for Monday for now. Bernanke and Paulson insisted that the bailout absolutely has to happen this week or we would see the financial system go down the drain. If they fail to agree on a final bailout plan tomorrow and the sun rises in the East on Monday morning anyhow, the bailout plan probably will lose a lot of support. It also might mean a new shift of momentum for the various election campaign.

By: Sean F.

Sean F. — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:03:42 +0000

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:44:00 +0000

Ralf:

-A Democratic Congress is likely if Obama wins.

-Hope is not a plan.

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:21:40 +0000

The blog Athens & Jerusalem suggests that McCain is actually an Elizabethan.

As Elizabethan as Francis Drake? The ‘arr! part would fit him well. :)

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:20:04 +0000

“unlike McCain he won’t be able to put them into practice”…really? Even given that he would probably also have a Democratic House & Senate?

I had heard that the chances for a Democratic Congress had declined considerably. Of course, that was before the bailout issue that also had improved polls for Obam again. I should have thought of that.

If all three houses tuen Democratic I will hope on Obama’s tendency to dither to prevent the worst.

By: david foster

david foster — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:36:59 +0000

The blog Athens & Jerusalem suggests that McCain is actually an Elizabethan.

By: david foster

david foster — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:34:37 +0000

“unlike McCain he won’t be able to put them into practice”…really? Even given that he would probably also have a Democratic House & Senate?

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:26:16 +0000

“Stonewall Jackson”

D’oh.

By: fred lapides

fred lapides — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:44:59 +0000

I do not intend to get into a spitting match about McCain, suffice it to say that Stonewall Jackson was about as strong a president as we have had and he was responsible for the barbarism of the Indian removal (read: genocide).

It is always questionable to take one character from an author’s work and suggest that that character stands for the author. In fact, Ivan is an intellectual–and certainly McCain is not that.

Here is the character who best summarizes values Dostoyevsky came to believe in when he wrote this great novel:
“Alyosha becomes the messenger of the Elder Zossima’s teachings and is presented as the closest thing to a more perfect human since the Prince in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. “

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:23:30 +0000

Having a strong leader right now, or somebody who thinks he is strong and has a good grasp on the issues (but is sadly mistaken, I think) is the worst thing that could happen to you. FDR and John ‘The Dollar is our currency but your problem’ Connally each were strong leaders in their own way, and they were instrumental in getting you into the current mess. Mccain is displaying some serious warning signs already. I don’t think that he truly believes in free markets and he is already railing against companies and business leaders, instead of discussing how to reduce the malignant influence of the state on the private sector. Excessive and downright insane regulation led to this mess, but McCain the populist is going to turn on business once elected. Obama’s ideas are even worse, but unlike McCain he won’t be able to put them into practice. That’s the virtue of having a weak leader, especially so in a crisis none of the candidates understands, or is even able to understand.