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It is the kind of exploitation of children that reminds me of Young Pioneer Camps I saw when visiting the Soviet Union in the Eighties.
I thought McCain did okay, he didn't look or talk like a grumpy old man. I also didn't see much of that horrible grimace he does. Obama was good too, he seemed a bit off. i think that was the format though. I've seen him more polished than he was. seemed like a tie to me.
In a recent proposal to operate 200 speed cameras for the Arizona state police, the company explained that its ticketing cameras could be integrated into a national vehicle tracking database. This would allow a police officer to simply enter a license plate number into a laptop computer and receive an email as soon as a speed camera anywhere in the state recognized that plate.That should scare everyone.
Joe Biden gave, on Avg. $369/year to charity. Is that surprising to anyone? Read the book below and you'll understand why I'm not surprised by a Democrat's giving of his own money.
Who Really Cares book at Amazon.comIf we're going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily.Like Obama says, "you just can't make this stuff up". heh
America is changing while we debate the minutia of the presidential candidates’ syntax and style. No conspiracies, nothing hidden. A Tonkin Gulf resolution for our generation. The Executive branch reshapes our economy in plain sight. With just a nod from Congress (no tiresome bother with debate and voting). Not only is our economy being restructured, but powerful precedents are set which will be used again. And again.
Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the "trickle-down" economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.
But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions.
Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.
The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory."
Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the '90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.
