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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (99044)	8/6/2011 12:43:14 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

"I am expecting the blame game for the S&P downgrade to begin in earnest." Barney Frank blamed it on "conservative" S&P.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (99044)	8/6/2011 1:28:14 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

a bad name for the US unlike unemployment which is a personal issue. Yes...as if the debt ceiling fight were not enough. I found a really depressing, for us, assessment on Der Spiegel last night and I didn't have the heart to post it anywhere. He didn't blame Obama. Although he implied TeaPartier racism ever so delicately. One major point he made was how the politics of hate, and what he calls "godfather-like" funding of the tea party by the Koch's and Murdoch's "hate-stirring" fox news have basically poisoned the willingness of the 2 parties to compromise and therefore run a successful democracy. Sounds melodramatic but folk here and on Pal's thread have been posting about this concern for quite a while now. Here it is if you want to get depressed;-( spiegel.de