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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 (123296)	2/4/2012 1:13:53 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224687

Barack Obama Lashes Out at Banks For Risky Mortgages in Weekly Address …Forgets to Mention His Lawsuit Forced Banks to Ease Lending Practices from Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft In his early activist days, Barack Obama the community organizer sued banks to ease lending practices. State Sen. Barack Obama and Fr. Michael Pfleger led a protest in Chicago in January 2000. ( NBC 5 Week of January 3, 2000) Today Barack Obama lashed out at lenders who sold home loans to families who couldn’t afford them in his Weekly Address. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been traveling around the country and talking with folks about my blueprint for an economy built to last. It’s a blueprint that focuses on restoring the things we’ve always done best. Our strengths. American manufacturing. American energy. The skills and education of American workers. And most importantly, American values like fairness and responsibility. We know what happened when we strayed from those values over the past decade – especially when it comes to our housing market. Lenders sold loans to families who couldn’t afford them. Banks packaged those mortgages up and traded them for phony profits. It drove up prices and created an unsustainable bubble that burst – and left millions of families who did everything right in a world of hurt. It was wrong. The housing crisis has been the single biggest drag on our recovery from the recession. It has kept millions of families in debt and unable to spend, and it has left hundreds of thousands of construction workers out of a job. But Obama forgot to mention that he was the one who sued banks to force them to make loans to families who couldn’t afford them. In 1994, Barack Obama was one of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit, alleging that Citibank had engaged in practices that discriminated against minorities. The lawsuit forced the bank to ease its lending practices. For some reason he forgot to mention that in today’s Weekly Address.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (123296)	2/4/2012 1:14:30 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224687

the unemployment rate is 15.1 %

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (123296)	2/4/2012 2:54:29 PM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224687

Bush inherited an unemployment rate of 4.7% and left office with unemployment at 7.8%. With a Democratic $enate and Hou$e with dollar signs for eyes. Obama inherited an unemployment rate of 8.3% which rose to 10.1% and is now back to 8.3% Which proves my point. The CLOWN is TOTALLY WORTHLESS and incompetent. Joey is right about you. You whimper and whine about Bush no matter what.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (123296)	2/4/2012 3:00:03 PM
From: locogringo	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224687

OH NO.........I guess we won't hear from you for at least 48 hours again, right kenny? Geesh, even the #3 guy is whipping that TOTAL FAILURE that you voted for, and pimp for daily. In a potential Election 2012 matchup, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is at 45% while President Obama earns 44%. m.rasmussenreports.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (123296)	2/4/2012 3:02:00 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224687

PBS’s Moyers Says Saul Alinsky ‘A Good American’ Bill Moyers used his Friday night PBS show to defend community organizing icon Saul Alinsky from Newt Gingrich’s recent attacks. Alinsky's 1971 book "Rules for Radicals," which was dedicated to Lucifer, popularized many organizing tactics. Moyers quipped “Maybe that’s why Newt Gingrich has been slandering Alinsky’s name,” Moyers said. “Maybe he’s afraid. Afraid the very white folks he’s been rousing to a frenzy will discover who Saul Alinsky really was. A patriot, in a long line of patriots, who scorned the malignant narcissism of duplicitous politicians and taught every day Americans to think for themselves and to fight together for a better life. That’s the American way, and any good historian would know it.”