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To: i-node who wrote (496193)	7/18/2009 12:01:38 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1571636

Obama can't read, most Kenyans can't

To: i-node who wrote (496193)	7/18/2009 12:31:57 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571636

History tells us a contraction this severe comes with 10+% unemployment. There's nothing surprising about that. It would in fact be surprising if unemployment doesn't exceed 11% before this is all said and done. Then why didn't history tell Obama he couldn't stop it at 8% like he said he could? Link please.

To: i-node who wrote (496193)	7/18/2009 1:27:33 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571636

When the stimulus package was designed and passed, the estimate for Q4 '08 GDP was -3.8%. Calculations and projections were based on that number. Since then Q4 '08 GDP was revised down to -6.2%. That's a huge negative revision, and it rendered all previous projections obsolete. In the real world, things change, and you and you adjust to those changes. SD

To: i-node who wrote (496193)	7/18/2009 7:38:20 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571636

You know.....I think you may be onto something. There is no racism in the US except in the GOP. Even GOP leaders are racist. Its not even funny anymore......its disgusting. This is not a white only country. The Rs need to come to turns with that fact. In fact, they must......its intolerable, sophomorish behavior. New GOP "Racist" Headache by John Avlon After "Barack the Magic Negro" and other GOP racial gaffes, a top Young Republican official—who was elected chairman Saturday—laughs at a racial slur about President Obama. The Daily Beast's John Avlon on a choice facing GOP brass: Lose the radical fringe, or never email, use social media or send out holiday CDs again. Note to Republicans: Racist “humor,” the Internet, and political ambitions don’t mix. Audra Shay, vice chairman of the Young Republicans and the leading candidate to be elected its chairman on Saturday, is now the latest in a growing list of GOP officials learning this lesson the hard way, based on pictures of a now-deleted Facebook page obtained by The Daily Beast. “This is still America… freedom of speech and thought is still allowed… for now any ways… and the last time i checked I was a good ole southern boy… and if yur ass is black don’t let the sun set on it in a southern town…” On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating a political conversation by posting that “WalMart just signed a death warrant” by “endorsing Obama’s healthcare plan.” At 1:52, a friend named listed as Eric S. Piker, but whose personal page says his actual name is Eric Pike, wrote “It’s the government making us commies… can’t even smoke in my damn car… whats next they going to issue toilet paper once a month… tell us how to wipe our asses…” Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.” Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker’s comments: “You tell em Eric! lol.” Click Here to View Image of Facebook Comments Shay now claims that she was only responding to Piker’s first comments, not having noticed the second. The eight-minute gap between the second post and her response strains the credibility of this defense. It didn’t take long for other posters on Shay’s page to do the math. First, Derek Moss wrote “What’s disheartening is the use of the word 'coon' in 2009. Wow… I’m usually outnumbered about 500-to-1 on Audra’s threads so go ahead, lemme have it, I deserve it.” He apparently expected to be criticized as among this crowd for calling out the racist comment. Cassie Wallender, a national committeewoman from the Washington Young Republican Federation, then wrote: “Someone please help a naïve Seattle girl out, is Eric’s comment a racial slur?” She answered her own question one minute later: “Okay, why is this okay? I just looked it up. ‘It comes from a term baracoons (a cage) where they used to place Africans who were waiting to be sent to America to be slaves.’ THIS IS NOT OKAY. And it's not funny.” This was followed soon after by the chairman of the D.C. Young Republicans, Sean L. Conner, who wrote “I’m really saddened that you would support this type of racial language. ..wow! Thanks Cassie for standing up…” Shay was silent on this exchange, but soon word started spreading throughout the Young Republican circuit, open to GOP members under 40. Significantly, Shay then “de-friended” Wallender and Conner—in the world of Facebook, that means cutting off relations—after calling her out, but kept Piker as a “friend” (subsequently, it appears their profiles are no longer linked). “If Audra really did find these remarks to be 'outright disgusting,' then why was her response to immediately de-friend those who made statements against Eric's blatant racism?” Wallender wrote yesterday in a letter to the Young Republican National Committee. “I was blocked for stating that Eric's racist comment was "NOT OKAY. And it is not funny." Please take a moment look at the entire screenshot linked above, and ask yourself: which comment would lead you to de-friend someone, mine, or Eric's?” thedailybeast.com