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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (139323)	9/29/2008 7:25:58 PM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Well, it's pretty obvious that the Bush administration has failed miserably in their attempt to sell this bailout to the public. The fact that people are calling their representatives 20,30,50-1 against shows that they have not been informed as to the ramifications of inaction. There is plenty of tactical blame to go around for today's fiasco, to both sides of the house leadership. But McCain is the biggest loser politically; he showed how little pull he has with his own party, and how they disdain him as a leader. The issue is whether the public recognizes that McCain's weakness and lack of leadership, or whether they just direct their anger at Washington in general. Unless some agreement is made in the next week or so, we're gonna be in deep doggy dodo.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (139323)	9/29/2008 7:26:41 PM
From: geode00	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Obama will be inheriting a HELL OF A BUSH MESS. Actually he will be inheriting the mess that is Reaganomics. All the more reason to not have a man who graduated 894th out of 899th with Palin a heart beat away in the WH. We may have some $3 trillion gold in Fort Knox or somewhere around there even though Wikipedia says it isn't anywhere near that much...phooey. Maybe these guys will go and guard it...ya never know. "Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas. But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities...." armytimes.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (139323)	9/29/2008 8:12:24 PM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Then they thought they were doubly and triply safe by buying credit default swaps to hedge Well, then these companies also share some of the blame. Who in their right mind would think that a credit default swap was 'triply safe'?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (139323)	9/29/2008 10:27:48 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Obama's economic thinking is unsophisticated Marxism. Thats why he was impressed with Jeremiah Wright's "white mens greed drives a world in need" and quoted it approvingly in one of his books. he has no private sector business experience. Has worked on either foundation money or the government teat (indirectly as his firm represented developers who sought government housing contracts and later directly once he won office) his entire life. What does he know about economics or business? Nothing. Worse than that the things he thinks he knows is Marxist bullshit. Obama favors the sort of policies that created the subprime mess in the first place. With Obama, the kneejerk leftist and the braindead Reid and Pelosi (remember just last week they were gonna adjourn w/o doing anything because in Reid's words "no one knows what to do") running the country, we'd have another Great Depression.