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- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -8/+46Spoiler alert: He is a republican. Yeah, I was shocked too. It turns out he belongs to the same slimy maggots party that George Bush belongs to. You were suppose to learn that right after the elections though.
- Hercules, on 09/18/2008, -6/+43The Daily Show said it best about Palin -- she said "We need to overhaul our regulatory oversight!" and in the same breath (literally) said that there's too much regulation.
I'm sorry, but the woman is just an idiot. I wouldn't hire her to run a laundromat. - chrissku, on 09/18/2008, -6/+32McCain obviously hates America.
- jerrym123, on 09/17/2008, -15/+39It worked for Clinton over Bush 1 it can work for Obama over McSame/Bush 3. it's the economy stupid!
The momentum of this campaign can change dramatically if all Obama supporters would just take 10 minutes and forward the email below (or create your own) to everyone you know. The email below should not offend anyone but it will get people researching and thinking for themselves and once they do that McCain will plummet in the polls. This election is too important for each of us to not take the effort to try and get every single vote.
Dear friends and family,
Dishonesty is nothing new in politics, Winston Churchill said "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" and Adolph Hitler was quoted as saying “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” which probably explains why some modern day politicians keep repeating the same lies over and over even after they have been debunked. Factcheck.org a non partisan group that debunks misleading ads from both campaigns has called the latest ads by one candidate for president "particularly egregious".
Have the lies already worked on you? Have you already fallen for the propaganda? Valdimir Lenin the former communist leader of the Soviet Union knew a thing or two about propaganda. He said “A lie told often enough becomes truth”. So have you been falling for the empty propaganda that some politicians have been spewing in our direction? Or are you going to stand up and show the world that American voters are not as stupid as some of our politicians take us for.
It is time for voters to put aside the wedge issues that the campaigns and lobbyist always use to manipulate and trick us into voting against our own best interest. Put aside abortion, gay marriage, wars, religion, etc. We will not have a country to be able to fight for or against those issues if the economy gets worse. Our current economy is destroying families, causing mental breakdowns and hardship for millions. Put aside party lines, put aside racism, put aside it all and think of your country as a whole. One thing I think everyone can agree on is that America wins when the economy works for everyone. Get educated, learn the truth, vote smart, and help spread the word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85hHj1Idjvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZt5iN96iM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aa4ipe4fhU
http://www.factcheck.org/
Thanks,
[INSERT YOUR NAME HERE] - Berkana, on 09/18/2008, -3/+24"Fooled me, can't get fooled again"
An arrow dipped in ink now flies
and to its target swiftly glides
to strike upon its target true
and drive in deep a point of view;
indeed the call to aim and shoot
to lift an ax and strike the root
is given now to all who care
about the way this country fares
to not sit still while folly grows
to what horrors, no one knows.
Speak ye loudly, speak ye swift
leverage every single gift,
give and give until it pains
for naught are all our little gains
if once again we blink and fall
and have a fool command us all;
A not-so-wise man did misquote,
"Fool me once, 'tis shame on you,
fooled me, can't get fooled again"
yet foolishly did many vote
and thus his saying's shown untrue
for legion are the twice-fooled men. - pintomp3, on 09/18/2008, -4/+25solving market crashes with less regulation is like reducing traffic accidents by taking down stop signs.
- Echota, on 01/05/2009, -2/+22I hear he dosen't like Spain either!
- kenedamick, on 09/18/2008, -2/+21McCain switches his position once again. What a douche.
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -1/+14I used to think it couldn't get worse than Bush
- Wryly, on 09/18/2008, -5/+18Check McCain's record. Huckabee's right.
- richirwin, on 09/18/2008, -1/+12Mike, you must not have gotten the memo.
When John McCain lies about his positions, you are supposed to follow suit.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM, HUCK! - illinoise89, on 09/18/2008, -2/+12The news turns to the economy and Obama gains in the polls. As Wall St. crashes and burns around us, his advantage will increase. The guy above was right- "It's the economy, stupid!" That's how Obama can win.
- wrxpert, on 09/18/2008, -2/+12No don't you understand. If the rich don't get richer they take away our jobs. LOL. You trickle down idiots are really drinking the kool-aid.
- DavidYeah, on 09/18/2008, -1/+10I don't want us to take over our country's healthcare, I just want us to pay for it instead of letting these sleazy insurance companies rip us off while actually letting us have the lowest healthcare quality in the world.
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -2/+11Those taxes seemed to work out just fine during the Clinton years before Bush bastardized corporate taxes.
- banderwocky, on 09/18/2008, -2/+10Is this Exxon Johns "Change" idea?
- scaaven2, on 09/18/2008, -3/+11You can put lipstick on a pig -- but it's still a pig.
- sassyjack, on 09/18/2008, -1/+8Obviously, we have _always_ been at war with Eurasia.
- littlequeenie, on 09/18/2008, -0/+6pandering pandering. Anything to get elected. Hopefully the people who are still believing in his "straight talk" are jumping off his bus
- StrangeFamous, on 09/18/2008, -2/+8Other than the whole fundamentalist thing, Huckabee's actually a really cool guy.
He's like that uncle that you love to hang out and joke around with - as long as nobody mentions anything related to abortion or religion. - inactive, on 09/18/2008, -0/+6Her late uncle, Jay Pritzker, purchased a 50% stake in the bank in 1989 from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which had taken over the bank when it failed in the 1980s
In July 2001, FDIC seized the bank after the recapitalization could not be resolved.
A 2001 Business Week article described the bank's other half-owner, Alvin Dworman, as the more dominant partner in its operation as a result of agreements Jay Pritzker made early on.[11] Quoted in the New York Times about the failure of the bank, a Pritzker family friend observed Pritzker was trapped in a deal of her uncle's making: "Penny got sucked into this … This was really the legacy of Jay."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Pritzker
I mean, straight from wikipedia man. Took me five seconds. Your a scum bag and a douchemeister.
Superior didn't even fully get involved in the sub-prime mess, as it really started taking off after 2002. - RUATL, on 09/18/2008, -1/+6It's funny how these companies when they are at the prime of their prudence gaining the millions off of capitalism don't shed a dime to put in the taxpayers wallet but when times get rough they want both you and me to pick up the tab for their mistakes.
"Socialism for the wealthy", while the real workers of this country are financially raped and told things will be OK" Give me a break, if you don't see what's happening you're a fool. - stevetrojanman, on 09/18/2008, -0/+5Nothing like denial, is there, UK4Life?
- UK4Life58, on 09/18/2008, -4/+9The people who EXPLOITED the deregulation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are on [McCain's] campaign staff.
That's the little secret the media and [McCain have for some reason ignored.]
You can blame the lack of regulation but the people who exploited it in the housing and mortgage industry, which was the start of ALL the problems you see today, were [***** aided by Neo Conservative values]. And they are [McCain's] advisors (sic) [like Phil Gramm for instance.]
There fixed it for ya! - sousademiami, on 09/18/2008, -0/+5It's not the switching that is bad. Personally I like a man who thinks, and adjusts as new evidence becomes available. It's WHEN he switched his view that's scary. If he were making decisions, we'd already have let AIG collapse upon itself and take thousands upon thousands of Americans with it.
- pcpimpster, on 09/18/2008, -3/+8What mortgage crisis? We can just keep printing more money to bail out more of these failing financial corps...
I'll be right back, i got a fresh batch of 1000 bills i need to cut up on my laser jet.
Don't worry everyone, i got this! - nofate2029, on 09/18/2008, -1/+6What else do you expect from Mike Huckabee? The dude thinks Dinosaurs were just giant horses & pigs that roamed the earth no more than 6000 years ago.
(and yes, he said this while doing a book signing @ Barnes & Noble in Little Rock, AR while I was working there) - Rubuntu, on 09/18/2008, -1/+6McCain just said from Cedar Rapids "the regulators where sleeping". He wants to create a trust now to work with private people and regulators...
I guess he is a Regulator now... - vexingmodstwo, on 09/18/2008, -1/+5You can keep burying me but that's not going to change the facts.
Obama wants you to believe that deregulation caused the problems but the reality is that the people who took advantage of the deregulation, the ones who caused the crisis we're in, the people who actually MADE THE BAD DECISIONS AT FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC sit on Obama's campaign staff. - geekwithsoul, on 09/18/2008, -1/+5Too bad Digg doesn't allow you to award "gold stars" on comments in addition to the digg up -- you earned it with that one.
- DrunKao, on 09/18/2008, -1/+4Is this one of the excuses you're going to use not to vote for Obama. "OH NOEE, he accepted money from Freddie and Fannie, even if they were just employees. I can't support him. And he's also muslin too."
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -1/+4Quite frankly, both of them disgust me.
- kenedamick, on 09/18/2008, -0/+3What's up, you guys not gonna get on the "straight talk express" as planned?
- carve, on 09/18/2008, -1/+4Regulation, such as creating institutions (Freddie & Fannie) to take bad loans, or the fed to print (and thus change the value of) money by fiat is what got us into this mess.
If you disagree, please don't merely digg me down, but provide an example of how regulations have worked. - wissler, on 09/18/2008, -2/+5The root problem isn't regulation, it's monetary policy.
- badNetAdmin, on 09/18/2008, -0/+3You didn't get the memo? Johnny's got a new bus now:
http://jezebel.com/5051077/the-daily-show-mccain-h ... - Aeronaught, on 09/18/2008, -5/+7tl;dr
- Locnar, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2Not to sound like a total idiot.. But who authored this? It fits our times so well.
- vexingmodstwo, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2Are you disputing that Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson work for the Obama campaign?
- Wosat, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2Fine. Explain to me how Bush and "people like McCain" caused this mess. Exactly what regulation that existed during Clinton was abolished to cause the crisis?
Anyone? Can anyone explain to me how my reasoning is flawed? - inactive, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2This has already been done, see digg.com .
- malex, on 09/18/2008, -1/+3"Yes, much like Clinton Admin policies brought on 9/11,"
Hey, guess where I stopped reading. - pintomp3, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2educate yourself:
Enron Loophole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_loophole
subprime securitization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_cri ...
the banking industry lobbied for the very deregulation that caused this, such as not having to disclose the contents of a security. they packed these securities with subprime loans and sold these poison securities to unsuspecting investors all over the world. - oliash, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2968/diggsucksw ...
- humptyz, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2No need to get extremist and say all regulation is bad. Like most things in life it's good for some things and bad for others. Having someone look over the shoulder of another's activities isn't necessarily a bad thing. Having rules in place to keep dangerous conditions from coming about isn't necessarily a bad thing.
- LBTS, on 09/18/2008, -3/+5No, it was Bush and people like McCain the "deregulator" that helped cause the current crisis. They don't get a free pass for what they've done.
You watch, McCain will just propose we go ahead with another bureaucracy. He likes to say he's against the acronyms, "the alphabet soup" he calls them. Hell, I bet he flip flops again and proposes one of his own. - CarStan, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that' all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parking on the left
Is now the parking on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! - jeremyduffy, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2This issue is the one reason I won't vote for McCain. I was alerted to it by his OWN PEOPLE at the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference.
Details:
http://www.jeremyduffy.com/presidential-campaign-r ... - JoeParanoid, on 09/18/2008, -2/+4Actually, regulation is the answer. The businesses least damaged are the ones that are the most heavily regulated. No one would suggest we don't need criminal laws, so why shouldn't we have economic laws to protect the populace?
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