Is Obama Punking Us?

[DroppinScience]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09rich.html

... It’s a measure of how out of touch G.O.P. leaders like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are that they keep trying to scare voters by calling Obama a socialist. They have it backward. The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy. If anything, the most unexpected — and challenging — event that could rock the White House this August would be if the opposition actually woke up.

[RobMoney$]

The entire trillion dollar bailout package was nothing more than the biggest suck-up to corporate america in history.



Hi, the name's Obama, I'm the new President.
Here's a trillion dollars.
Let's be friends. ;-)

[Knuckles]

I wonder where the country would be right now if the bailout never happened?

[Echewta]

What does Bernanke think? (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B4105C1B5AC4303B&search_query=60+minutes+bernanke)

[RobMoney$]

I wonder where the country would be right now if the bailout never happened?

My guess is that a bunch of bank execs wouldn't have gotten their million dollar bonuses this year being that was the first thing the banks spent the money on.

[b i o n i c]

what does the hooker-gov think (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g32ObW8PoOg)?

[kaiser soze]

I'm so glad McCain championed the bailout!

He sacrificed so much (including his RNC convention)

[DIGI]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[yeahwho]

The entire trillion dollar bailout package was nothing more than the biggest suck-up to corporate america in history.



Hi, the name's Obama, I'm the new President.
Here's a trillion dollars.
Let's be friends. ;-)
Yet you call him a socialist? Isn't that a stretch from reality?

[RobMoney$]

I would have called their bluff.
Fuck no were not bailing you out. You're a fucking investment bank.
Go bankrupt, I dare you.


...and IF they did happen to go bankrupt, (which I sincerly doubt would have happened) where would we be?
THE GOVERNMENT THEN WOULD HAVE COME IN AND TAKEN THEM OVER.


Save yourself the trillion and call their lying ass.
Worst that would have happened is you're in the same place you are now.
Nothing to lose.

[yeahwho]

The main reason I enjoy the NYTimes more than any news outlet in the Country is because the writing is always adequate and at rare times knocks the topic out of the ballpark.

But the real reason to read the NYTimes Ed/Op page is the comments, specifically the readers recommendations (http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09rich.html?sort=recommended),

Obama tackled the wrong things first. We'll never get a reasonable health care system in this country or a reasonable energy/climate change/environmental policy until we get a law that corporations are not people covered under the Bill of Rights and money for lobbying is not tax deductible and money or services given to politicians are not a legal campaign contribution or whatever else the lawyers have come up with, but an illegal bribe. Until that happens, we are hostage to corporate special interests that will do absolutely anything, including fomenting violence, to protect and increase their profits.

There's always a great response that encapsulates the original piece or calls the writer out on their delusional thought process.

[Bob]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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