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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (20706)	1/28/2008 11:15:24 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

Bad news for your man, McCain >RASMUSSEN: ROMNEY PULLS INTO LEAD IN NATIONAL POLL; leads by 15 among conservatives.<

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (20706)	1/28/2008 2:30:19 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

Bill Clinton got lucky. He was elected at a time when the nation was pulling out of a recession anyway. He got the benefit of that. The economy continued rising. He also had the benefit of fundamental changes in technology which he had absolutely nothing to do with and couldn't possibly begin to understand finally coming to fruition after decades of development. If the economy showed any signs of slowing he simply leaned on his complaint Fed chairman to step on the gas- -print more money. It worked, of course. By the time he left office, a rip roaring bubble, the worst since 1929, had begun to burst. WTH? HE wasn't going to be around to deal with the consequences. That would be the problem of his successor, GWB. When it burst, an economic downturn began. Surprise! You expected different? The new Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, having been groomed under AG, became alarmed and started lowering rates. Well, the stock market was clearly kaput. Let's try housing. After, the banks often were literally paying you to take their money. So the stock market bubble was replaced by a housing bubble. Then it burst. The Fed was stuck now; it didn't know WHAT to bubble next, but it HAD to DO SOMETHING. So it lowered rates. The US$, already in a multi-year swoon because of increasing debt caused by a war begun by an attack on NYC by Islamofascists, really got sick. But, Kenny, should George have ignored that large scale attack on American citizens on American soil? Yes? No? Iraq? Do youREALLY want me to give you all the quotes by DEMOCRATS who said there were WMD on Iraq and connections between al Qaeda and Iraq? Hill said it as late as 2002; Bill as late as 2004. Want proof? Bush inherited a military that couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag. It had been stripped by the previous coward in the Oval Office who had hid out in England to avoid HIS military service. He was never shy about sending soldiers to get killed when he needed a distraction from Ken Starr, though. Bush Had to fight a war that most of the cowardly Europeans didn't like. They's rather be overrun- -just like before WWII. That's THEIR PROBLEM, not ours. Frankly, neither he nor I are responsible for economic ignoramuses such as you. Get yourself some education, then come back and post.