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Attacking Syria as prelude to attack on Iran

By oleeb on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 6:56am |

I have thought for many months now that Bush's sick mind would prepare for and then launch an attack against Iran after the election but before the next President is sworn in so as to make permanent war a fait...

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Congratulations Prof. Krugman!

By oleeb on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 11:46am |

Congratulations Prof. Krugman on winning the Nobel Prize! I know I speak for many who are pleased to see you receive this great honor. Perhaps equally satisfying is the thought of how this will make the wingnuts of America howl...

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McCain's home mortgage relief plan

By oleeb on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 3:17pm |

It really stuck out to me in last night's debate that McCain was calling for mortgage relief by lowering the value of homes to current value vs maintaining the original mortgage amounts when people get in touble on their mortgages. ...

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Bush to Congress: Tie Obama's Hands NOW!

By oleeb on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 1:35pm |

The tyrant gave his "dire" warning to the Congress today that if they don't pass the finance industry's burglary of the treasury the sky will fall. But one of the more important motives of the tyrant at 1600 Penn. Ave....

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Why not ationalize the banks?

By oleeb on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 11:47pm |

As Dean Baker points out in a post today, when you consider the situation, it makes more sense for we the patsies (I mean taxpayers), to natonalize the banks than it does to attempt to rescue them with tons and tons of...

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Obama continues to pull partisan punches and launch mild attacks on McCain

By oleeb on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 4:14am |

The pundits--even on MSNBC were giving this debate to McCain tonight. I agree with them.Now most liberals/Democrats, etc... will scoff and say that Obama clearly bested McCain up and down the line throughout the debate. All well and good I...

The Biggest of the Big Lies Debunked

By oleeb on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 9:24pm |

Throughout my entire life I have had to endure the ceaseless bleating of the right regarding every inch of progress made in America since 1932 as though Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton were all representatives of the...

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Dire consequences eh? For who? That lie just doesn't pass the smell test

By oleeb on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 4:09pm |

Bush and all the factotems of officialdom and their lackies (in both parties)are barking and howling and yelping every minute of the day now it seems, to make sure we all buy their line that unless the common people agree...

It Ain't no Bailout: it's a Robbery! And we are the victims!

By oleeb on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 9:15pm |

The more I consider it, the more convinced I am that the common people of the United States have absolutely nothing to gain from the alleged rescue of the financial industry. There's all this chicken little rhetoric being bandied about regarding...

Before we fork over a Trillion dollars I have a question: why is it important that we save these crooks from their own greed, fraud and failure?

By oleeb on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 3:32am |

Pardon me for asking, but just why is it, exactly, that it makes any sense for me or anyone I know or run into during my life to bail out the investment banks? I really would like to know.Let's say...

Direct mortgage relief for average Americans FIRST! Bailout the rich LAST!

By oleeb on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 9:43pm |

The average homeower in America is being asked to bear an increasing burden in terms of home mortgage costs at the family level. The same people are being asked to bailout the rauds and con artists of Wall Street which...

Trillion Dollar Bailout? For Homeowners: YES For Rich Bankers? HELL NO!

By oleeb on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 10:09pm |

If the people who got hoodwinked and snookered into mortgages they couldn't pay, could just pay them, then we would have avoided this whole financial "crisis" righ? Right.That being the case, it only stands to reason that the best means...

$700 Billion reward for gutting our financial system? I smell a rat!

By oleeb on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 3:25pm |

As discussions seem to speed along (Patrioti Act style) regarding the bailout of the rich, greedy and utterly irresponsible con-men of Wall Street, the President is asking Congress for $700 billion to do it with. Now I'm no economist, nor...

Swindled Borrowers are "Irresponsible" and Uncle Sam can't help them, but Greedy, Irresponsible Bankers get Bailed out?

By oleeb on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 3:50am |

As I understand it, the entire financial "crisis" we have been going through is as a result of the large number of mortgages that borrowers can no longer afford to pay. These failed loans are a result of slickly marketed...

Americans don't want a Professor: they want a strong leader!

By oleeb on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 2:17am |

It is appalling to me to see the limp-wristed manner in which the Obama campaign is allowing the election to be taken from them even as they amass extraordinary amounts of money that OUGHT to be used to destroy not...

Why not have direct Federal refinancing of mortgages instead of bailing out the rich guys who caused the mortgage crisis?

By oleeb on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 8:11pm |

We read and hear about all sorts of ramifications of the "mortgage crisis" that have to do with how to maintain the sacred "market" which means the very businesses that created the problems originally in pursuit of quick but unsustainable...

Stay on message: We can't afford four more years of Republican misrule!

By oleeb on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 3:35pm |

Okay, so Palin is a wingnut with little experience, a genuine extremist pro-lifer and so on. So what? Her incompetence speaks for itself. Democrats, and the Obama campaign in particular, need to make sure they don't forget their winning message...

VPILF is McCain's New Coke

By oleeb on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 12:56am |

As emotional as politics can be I try to always make judgements based upon observation as opposed to feeling or my on wishes. As a Democrat, I have had to hone this skill over the years because of the frequency...

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Sign letter urging Obama not to waffle!

By oleeb on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:27pm |

An impressive group of well known and well respected people have written and signed an open letter to Obama warning him not to abandon the principles and positions that won him the nomination. You can add your name to the...

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Obama unmasked during FISA surrender statement

By oleeb on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 9:10pm |

Obama's surrender statement today on FISA lays bare the lie of "change", "hope" and moving the country forward. Anybody who buys that load of crap now is just a willing sucker who refuses to see what is plain as day:...