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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 (84020)	5/16/2010 5:44:15 AM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224704

BS Kenneth

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 7:07:35 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224704

Hey Obama, thanks for the greatest man-made environmental disaster ever. You are doing a great job you incompetent, ignorant, POS...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 7:14:26 AM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

ken...""After [Republicans] drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No! You can't drive! We don't want to have to go back into the ditch! We just got the car out! We just got the car out!""... LOL...I detect desperation in this statement from you..this is good ken..this is good...do you sense now that the citizens of the USA are waking up to what dangerous buffoons democrats like you really are? and to think one of you made it into the White House...scary wake up.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 8:23:07 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	7 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

Kenny, when the whole country is being chauffeured by Thelma & Louise, who gives a crap about who was driving yesterday? p.s.....Eric Holder is looking particularly ignorant lately....can you imagine the press coverage if Alberto Gonzales had said some of the same things. He should resign or be fired.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 11:18:28 AM
From: lorne	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

Obama's nightmare: Exposé makes New York Times list 'Manchurian President' climbs to No. 22 among best sellers May 15, 2010 © 2010 WorldNetDaily wnd.com Barack Obama's efforts to downplay his past have taken a serious blow now that Aaron Klein's exposé of the president's connections with extremists and America-haters is climbing best-seller charts everywhere. This week, Klein's "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists" hit No. 22 on the New York Times' best-seller list for hardcover, non-fiction titles. As WND has reported, the book has also been a huge hit with the online book retailer Amazon.com. Earlier this week, "The Manchurian President" climbed all the way to the No. 1 position on both Amazon.com's "Hot New Releases in Politics" list and its "Hot New Releases in Non-Fiction" list. The book also grabbed the top spot among bestsellers in the Politics category and ranked third among all non-fiction titles sold by the retail giant. "The Manchurian President" is the result of two years of solid investigations into those within Obama's inner circle as well as the president's shadowy younger years. With more than 800 citations, the brand-new, autographed title from WND senior reporter and WABC radio host Aaron Klein bills itself as the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama's political background and radical ties. Klein's co-author is historian and researcher Brenda J. Elliott. "The Manchurian President" also unmasks, exclusively, important aspects of Obama's carefully covered-up college years, with new details of his student career at Occidental College and later at Columbia University. Obama's associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and black political extremists are also revealed, with extensive new information on the subjects. "The Manchurian President" contains potentially explosive information not only about President Obama but also concerning other officials in the White House, including top czars and senior advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod. "The Manchurian President" also exposes how Obama's health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists, some of whom reveal in their own words that their principal aim is to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers. Klein began investigating Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and broke major national stories. He first exposed the politician's association with Bill Ayers in a widely circulated WND article. The story prompted the Nation magazine to lament, via the CBS News website, that "mainstream reporters now call the Obama campaign to ask about Klein's articles." It was in a WABC radio interview with Klein that Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to Hamas, "endorsed" Obama for president, generating world headlines and sparking controversy. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and Obama repeatedly traded public barbs over Hamas' positive comments. Klein was among the first reporters to expose that Obama's "green jobs " czar, Van Jones, founded a communist organization and called for "resistance" against the U.S. government. The theme was picked up and expanded upon by the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck, leading to Jones' resignation last September. Co-author Brenda J. Elliott is a historian, author and investigative researcher known for her blogging during the 2008 presidential election about Ayers, Tony Rezko and other controversial figures linked to Obama. Since 1988, Elliott has been responsible for a number of historical projects, has won an award by Project Censored for her work and has been named "One of the Intriguing People" by Central Florida magazine. The introduction to "The Manchurian President" relates: "Barack Obama is backed by and deeply tied to an anti-American fringe nexus that, as this book will show, was instrumental not only in mentoring Obama and helping him to build his political career, but essentially in overthrowing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and in securing and powerfully influencing Obama's presidency. "As will be seen, these radical associates not only continue to influence Obama and White House strategy, but some are directly involved in creating the very policies intended to undermine or radically transform the United States of America."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 11:21:52 AM
From: TideGlider	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

The dumbest post in a very long time.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 12:17:42 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

That was strange...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 5:57:50 PM
From: chartseer	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

oh bummer! Miss hillary did not say the economy "was' in a ditch. Miss hillary said the economy "is" in a ditch. You have to pay CLOSER attention to those tenses. Did you catch jay leno? to paraphrase. "bamah was mad and said he had enough of the oil companies pointing fingers. The time for finger pointing was over. Then he blamed bush for the oil spill." Don't worry! Be happy! the hopeless comrade chartseer in the new era of hope

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 6:07:48 PM
From: mph	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

Is that why the Dems are afraid to fulfill their obligation to prepare a budget? LOL. Don't know how to drive, eh?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84020)	5/16/2010 9:20:57 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224704

Oh oh ken...looks like some democrats may have to face some justice for the housing mess they created which in turn created the entire mess...barney franks would fit well in jail...acorn ...hussein obama etc. etc.. Greece Considering Legal Action Against U.S. Banks for Crisis By Timothy R. Homan bloomberg.com May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Greece is considering taking legal action against U.S. investment banks that might have contributed to the country’s debt crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said. “I wouldn’t rule out that this may be a recourse,” Papandreou said, in response to questions about the role of U.S. banks in the crisis, in an interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” The program, scheduled for broadcast today, was taped on May 13. Neither Papandreou nor Zakaria mentioned any banks by name. U.S. stocks fell and the euro slumped on concern that Europe wouldn’t be able to contain the debt crisis stemming from Greece. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index declined 1.9 percent May 14, while the euro fell below $1.24 for the first time since November 2008. Papandreou said the decision on whether to go after U.S. banks will be made after a Greek parliamentary investigation into the cause of the crisis. “Greece will look into the past and see how things went,” Papandreou said. “There are similar investigations going on in other countries and in the United States. This is where I think, yes, the financial sector, I hear the words fraud and lack of transparency. So yes, yes, there is great responsibility here.” Speculators In the days leading up to the May 10 announcement of a loan package worth almost $1 trillion to halt the spread of Greece’s fiscal woes, European Union regulators were examining whether speculators manipulated the prices of bonds and equities and contributed to the crisis. The Committee of European Securities Regulators said on May 7 it was investigating “exceptional volatility” in the markets and would work with other regulators, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as part of a coordinated clampdown. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said May 6 that he was concerned about speculation in bond markets using credit default swaps. “By first buying the CDS and then trying to affect market sentiment by going short on the underlying bond, investors can make large profits,” he said. Credit-default swaps are derivatives that pay the buyer face value if a borrower -- a country or a company -- defaults. In exchange, the swap seller gets the underlying securities or the cash equivalent. Traders in naked credit-default swaps buy insurance on bonds they don’t own. In the CNN interview, Papandreou said many in the international community have engaged in “Greek bashing” and find it easy “to scapegoat Greece.” He said Greeks “are a hard-working people. We are a proud people.” “We have made our mistakes,” Papandreou said. “We are living up to this responsibility. But at the same time, give us a chance. We’ll show you.”