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Boston Properties' Mort Zuckerman Obliterates Barack Obama
Media and real estate tycoon Mort Zuckerman, who recently admitted he helped write Obama's speeches in the past, has come out blazing with easily the most damning missive of the president and his legacy to date. Mort joins such other distinguished and notable CEOs as Steve Wynn to openly blast the administration and its policies. In the meantime, the president has surely not made many new friends in the executive offices of the E&P space. Before all is said and done, look for letters such as the one attached to become a daily occurrence.
Obama Is Barely Treading Water (first posted in US News)
By Mort Zuckerman
The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered
out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans
are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made
right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a
poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he
is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the
nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval
rating.
There is a widespread feeling that the government doesn't work, that
it is incapable of solving America's problems. Americans are fed up with
Washington, fed up with Wall Street, fed up with the necessary but
ill-conceived stimulus program, fed up with the misdirected healthcare
program, and with pretty much everything else. They are outraged and
feel that the system is not a level playing field, but is tilted against
them. The millions of unemployed feel abandoned by the president, by
the Democratic Congress, and by the Republicans.
The American people wanted change, and who could blame them? But now
there is no change they can believe in. Sixty-two percent believe we are
headed in the wrong direction—a record during this administration. All
the polls indicate that anti-Washington, anti-incumbent sentiment is
greater than it has been in many years. For the first time, Obama's
disapproval rating has topped his approval rating. In a recent CBS News
poll, there is a meager 15 percent approval rating for Congress. In all
polls, voters who call themselves independents have swung against the
administration and against incumbents.
Even some in Obama's base have turned, with 17 percent of Democrats
disapproving of his job performance. Even more telling is the excitement
gap. Only 44 percent of those who voted for him express high interest
in this year's elections. That's a 38-point drop from 2008. By contrast,
71 percent of those who voted Republican last time express high
interest in the midterm elections, above the level at this stage in
2008. And these are the people who vote.
Republicans are benefiting not because they have a credible or
popular program—they don't—but because they are not Democrats. In a
recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, nearly two thirds of those who
favor Republican control of Congress say they are motivated primarily by
opposition to Obama and Democratic policy. Disapproval of Congress is
so widespread, a recent Gallup poll suggests, that by a margin of almost
two to one, Americans would rather vote for a candidate with no
experience than for an incumbent. Throw the bums out is the mood. How
could this have happened so quickly?
The fundamental problem is starkly simple: jobs and the deepening
fear among the public that the American dream is vanishing before their
eyes. The economy's erratic improvement has helped Wall Street but has
brought little support to Main Street. Some 6.8 million people have been
unemployed in the last year for six months or longer. Their valuable
skills are at risk, affecting their economic productivity for years to
come. Add to this despairing army the large number of those only
partially employed and those who have given up their search for work,
and we have cumulative totals in the tens of millions.
Many people who joined the middle class, especially those who joined
in the last few years, have now fallen back. It's not over yet. Millions
cannot make minimum payments on their credit cards, or are in default
or foreclosure on their mortgages, or are on food stamps. Well over
100,000 people file for bankruptcy every month. Some 3 million
homeowners are estimated to face foreclosure this year, on top of 2.8
million last year. Millions of homes are located next to or near a
foreclosed home, and it is the latter that may determine the price of
all the homes on the street. There have been dramatically sharp declines
in home equity, representing cumulative losses in the trillions of
dollars in what has long been the largest asset on the average American
family's balance sheet. Most of those who lost their homes are
hard-working, middle-class Americans who had lost their jobs. Now many
have to use credit cards to pay for essentials and make ends meet, and
they are running out of credit. Another $5 trillion has been lost from
pensions and savings.
But it is jobs that have long represented the stairway to upward
mobility in America. For a long time, it was feared they were vulnerable
to offshore competition (and indeed still are), but now the erosion is
from economic decline at home. What happens as those domestic
opportunities recede? Middle-class families fear they have become
downwardly mobile and have not hit the bottom yet. The financial
security that was once based on home equity and a pension has been swept
away.
In a survey just released, the Pew Research Center explored the
recession's impact on households and how they are changing their
spending and saving behavior. Nearly half the adults polled intend to
boost their savings, cut their discretionary budgets, and cut their debt
loads. The report concludes that the present enforced frugality will
outlast the recession and its overhang. Fully 60 percent of those ages
50 to 61 say they may delay retirement. What does that mean for the
young would-be employees entering the labor force over the next few
years?
The administration's stimulus program, because of the way Congress
put it together, has created far fewer jobs than anyone expected given
the huge price tag of almost $800 billion. It was supposed to constrain
unemployment at 8 percent, but the recession took the rate way above
that and in the process humbled the Obama presidency. Some 25 million
jobless or underemployed people now wish to work full time, but few
companies are ready to hire. No speech is going to change that.
Little wonder there has been a gradual public disillusionment. Little
wonder people have come alive to the issue of excess spending with
entitlements out of control as far as the eye can see. The hope was that
Obama would focus on the economy and jobs. That was the number one
issue for the public—not healthcare. Yet the president spent almost a
year on a healthcare bill. Eighty-five percent in one poll thought the
great healthcare crisis was about cost. It was and is, but the
president's bill was about extending coverage. It did nothing about the
first concern and focused mostly on the second. Even worse, to win its
approval he accepted the kind of scratch-my-back deal-making that
suggests corruption in the political process. And as a result, Obama's
promise to change "politics as usual" disappeared.
The president failed to communicate the value of what he wants to
communicate. To a significant number of Americans, what came across was a
new president trying to do too much in a hurry and, at the same time,
radically change the equation of American life in favor of too much
government. This feeling is intensified by Obama's emotional distance
from the public. He conveys a coolness and detachment that limits the
number of people who feel connected to him.
Americans today strongly support a pro-growth economic agenda that
includes fiscal discipline, limited government, and deficit reduction.
They fear the country is coming apart, while the novelty of Obama has
worn off, along with the power of his position as the non-Bush. His
decline in popularity has emboldened the opposition to try to block him
at every turn.
Historically, presidents with approval ratings below 50 percent—Obama
is at 45—lose an average of 41 House seats in midterm elections. This
year, that would return the House of Representatives to Republican
control. The Democrats will suffer disproportionately from a climate in
which so many Americans are either dissatisfied or angry with the
government, for Democrats are in the large majority in both houses and
have to defend many more districts than Republicans. In any election
year, voters' feelings typically settle in by June. But now they are
being further hardened by the loose regulation that preceded the
poisonous oil spill—and the tardy government response.
The promise of economic health that might salvage industries and
jobs, and provide a safety net, has proved illusory. The support for
cutting spending and cutting the deficit reflects in part the fact that
the American public feels the Obama-Congress spending program has not
worked. As for the healthcare reform bill, the most recent Rasmussen
survey indicates that 52 percent of the electorate supports repeal of
the measure—42 percent of them strongly.
It is clear that the magical moment of Obama's campaign conveyed a
spell that is now broken in the context of the growing public
disillusionment. Obama's rise has been spectacular, but so too has been
his fall.
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Obama has less to work with than Bush did. Nowhere to hide... And, the elites are getting restless (as has been noted about this article by Mort). However, no more needs be written, and understood, than this:
Do people demand a really just system? Well, we'll arrange it so that they'll be satisfied with one that's a little less unjust ... They want a revolution, and we'll give them reforms -- lots of reforms; we'll drown them in reforms. Or rather, we'll drown them in promises of reforms, because we'll never give them real ones either!!
- DARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Make no mistake about it. The only game in town is the continued concealment of fraud and the spread of fascism because the boomer's idea of government has had it's hands busy protecting and guaranteeing it for 45 years. All the crying in the world won't change that, nor will precious hope and change gimmicks to expand the pool of bag-holders, many of whom excercise prudence and self control their whole lives only to be rewarded with bonuses for criminals and election of political thugs supported by corrupt untouchables that serve anything but America.
Barrack is one thing - a spineless sucker that let ALL Americans down in the first few hours of his presidency by forfeiting the law and doing the same bidding for the same Bush TBTF thugs waiting in the wings for the prearranged bidding of the new sucker administration.
Barrack's administration is an utter failure who's continued actions, policies and leadership repeatedly support continued lawlessness by the select rich, and enables systemic fraud and moral hazard. His presidency (one trick only) has literally undermined and slaughtered the common man, his [broken] family, his savings, and his way of life-- all for criminal syndicates of the elite (now viral worldwide), ammoral "global" corporations, and a 100% captured and corrupt political system that guarantees the recently affirmed, "no change you can believe, even if it's the will of the majority." Life in the US for the "lower 98%" is heading for an orchestrated catastrophe of bag holders 3 generations deep, but hey, bonuses and lies on Fraud Street are up, not to mention war prospects on domestic soil -- Perfect for the rigged-market thugs aggressively promoting precisely such things against America, the common good, and everything it stands, has stood for, and every person whom has died to protect only to save their corrupt asses.
I wish I could say it amazes me how the American dream has been cannibalized by it's own rich AND poor, and yet simply forfeited by the rest of a complacent remainder whom don't participate because of the owned and operated political system of entrenched corporate dividers promoting precisely that cannibalization. "Mission Accomplished"
Last time I checked, being an American meant you were proud, law abiding, moral/ethical, merciful and tough, especially when it was needed most in the face of steepest odds challenging those ideals - not a country of fag-fraud-bailouts, Constitutional marginalization, greed, and only supporting mafia markets that cheat, steal and abuse those that are vulnerable and faceless and indenture the rest of us to slavery and monetary class-inequality.
Unfortunately, this citizen fears that elections are ripe for bullets, not ballots as personal accountability of all those doing the plundering and operating above the law has been long overdue. I hope these fears never come to fruition!
+1000
+ !!!!
Perhaps a little over the top and dramatic I'll admit.
I know the people of the United States are capable of so much better, Barrack included.
As a collective group, people of the US need to seek the realities of our long term problems. What tools as a nation do we need to address these problems, and how do we need to mature (as a collective people) to find all the balances (political, fiscal, etc) necessary to use those tools and solve those problems -- rather than settling for the fall(s)?
America needs to put her big-girl panties back on and stop being the passed out drunk chick screwed at the Bilderberg ball.
ditto....!
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/?story=/politics/war_roo...
The stress that Obama's presidency is under is obvious. He set the bar so high. He promised everyone everything. He even came through and paid down many people's mortgages. But he promised that if you were not happy with your life, he would make everything great. Impossible to meet that kind of expectation.
"The stress that Obama's presidency is under is obvious."
Yeah, it's starting to show up in his golf score. Clearly something will have to be done to improve his handicap.
Does this mean my new flat screen TV is being delayed? Do I still get a free unicorn with 10 fill up's of ethanol?
Thanks.
A possible solution. Perhaps Obama was just too greedy. He wanted to sleep in the white house four years. What we need is to allow folks like him to spend a few nights in in the WH without actually becoming president. Then he can brag to his friends about it and no real harm is done. Just a thought. Maybe I should shut up now.
Anyone who has actually had to meet a budget would be nice.
The unwritten rule adhered to for a long time was to elect governors for the top spot as they at least met this standard.
That is, preening peacock senators need not apply.
Anyone who has actually had to meet a budget would be nice.
The unwritten rule adhered to for a long time was to elect governors for the top spot as they at least met this standard.
That is, preening peacock senators need not apply.
oooh, thats a good one! I always thought us peasants could build the socio-paths a giant brick wall to spray paint their name on when they wanted to leave a mark. It beats 1000 page bills nobody reads.
The real problem is that somehow you get to vote. Let's see the cancelled checks from Obamatard's bank account on those retired mortgages... Oh he put us all further into the hole to bail out the imprudent?
Expectations that Obamatard was gonna make life happy? Only 2.5 more years and he won't even be able to pass a kidney stone after the mid-terms. Look for Obamatard to go into hiding after November - they won't even want him on the Community College lecture circuit; outside of the 'hood of course.
BTW, say Mrs. Obamatard wagging her fat jowls in front of the NAACP - subject of sppech was overweight children and obesity... obviously no mirrors allowed in the White House. read that she has 42 assistants - FORTY TWO!
"Look for Obamatard to go into hiding after November - they won't even want him on the Community College lecture circuit; outside of the 'hood of course."
Yeah, and then watch the dipshit GOP push Palin onto the stage. That'll surely light the stage for Obama.
Fucking suckers...
Obama is no more the president than you are. The real president is the guy who types in the words that appear on Obamabot's teleprompter.
"The fundamental problem is starkly simple: jobs and the deepening fear among the public that the American dream is vanishing before their eyes."
Hope... fear... dreams... feelings... blah blah blah... This is just the same intellectually vacuous, contrived propaganda that voters fell for last time.
"necessary but ill-conceived stimulus program"
Sounds like a socialist - i.e. one lacking knowledge of economic science.
"it was feared they [jobs] were vulnerable to offshore competition (and indeed still are)"
i.e. he's not aware of Ricardo's law of comparative advantage.
"stimulus program... has created far fewer jobs than anyone expected"
Yeah right, because government can create jobs magically by edict, without draining capital from the economy and harming existing employment.
Amd just as loony is the notion of "jobs" and "capital."
Suckers! Mother Nature is going to spit the very last of us out, what fucking hubris.
That was a really well-written and concise piece by Zuckerman... very impressed with his ability to think and communicate.
the duke speaks out against the king in an attempt to dissuade the peasants that he had anything to do with it all
One bit of truth ,Sarah Palin is a tool ....... whether its of the establishment I don,t know.
The fact that the establishment seems to hate her, across the board, is the only thing that recommends her, imo.
Anyone the bankers and their puppets are that afraid of must be doing SOMETHING right...
Pawn!
I listined to this kind of shit when Bush was in office. Same fucking thing. Cheerleading for our slave masters.
False...Bush was never made out to be against the establishment and it was fucking apparent to anyone with an IQ above that of an insect that being the son of a former President pretty much excludes one from claiming the mantle of anti establishment.
Sarah Palin on the other hand has a record of fighting her own party. Her husband has an even more interesting set of beliefs that Sarah may not completely share but that does have some influence. Todd was a member of the Alaska Independence Party...here is the first paragraph of their website.
Yea that sounds like Sarah Palin is all about the establishment...dumbass.
Exactly...having met her I will say that she struck me as just a mom who happens to have a talent for getting elected.
While it is apparent that the Democrats hate her what may be less apparent for the non-political junkies is that the GOP establishment hates her just about as much.
She attacked the GOP establishment in Alaska for their corruption...I have a feeling she would go absolutely bat shit crazy upon seeing the corruption in DC as someone who could do something about it.
Reading between the lines, I guess Zuckerman is upset that Obama has not yet instructed Geithner to bail out CRE. That and USN&WR advertising is probably down. Yes, Morty, we all have our gripes, though some of us gripe about the whole and not the parts just affecting us.
That being said, it is already clear---18 months into his only term---that Obama is headed back to Chicago 20 January 2012, and Wall Street will have a new batch of fledgling legislators to purchase come January 2011. They will buy well, as they always do, and---if Bill Gross is right---buy incredibly cheap.
The crux of the problem is the control lobbyists have over the legislative process, and no matter who is elected, the result will be the same. There are only two solutions, one realistic and the other emotionally satisfying. The workable solution is to limit EVERY elected official to a single term. No more Barneys, Byrds, Stroms or Teddys. No re-election, so lobbying will be limited to outright bribes (rather than campaign contributions), which will be a felony subject to the death penalty carried out in a public square, perhaps even on Pay-Per-View.
The unworkable solution is to publish the names and home addresses of all the lobbyists and all their paymasters, and let those Americans who are at wits end think of an imaginative way to "convince" these folks to back off.
Nothing less can save a democracy. Indeed, I suspect that by 2020, the US will have neither the 57 states Obama thinks we have nor the 50 we actually do have. Any state with a decent budget and a mostly self-sustaining economy, will consider seccesion. Texas and Oklahoma, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and maybe Idaho and Montana might start the Balkanization of the country formerly known as the USA.
It's all over but the shooting.
I'd gladly join the National Guard of any state that secedes.
I don't see it happening, though. Not this time around. Maybe around 2020 or so, when the shit REALLY hits the fan.
I agree with Chindit - wait until Obamatard strats bailing out the most Socalist States. How would you like to live in a State with a balanced budget and have to pay for Ill's or Cali's stupidity... Its not like the states with the worst deficits are even really dealing with it.
Problem is that most people are economically illiterate. It will take a long time before it begins to sink in with the masses just how badly they have been screwed.
Finance and economics are not taught to young people at the high school level. It should be. But there is a reason why it isn't.
Those that seek to learn economics go to college and then find that economic academia has been stocked by the fed and the banksters with fractional reserve disciples for a couple of generations now.
You're right. College economics is pretty much worthless pseudoscience.
I strongly recommend reading Hazlitt or Bastiat as an alternative.
+ 1,000 gold coins ripper.
Double post deleted.
Oh, they're "dealing with it" allright - if by "dealing with it" you mean, like Devolve Patrick (D-MA), begging Uncle Barry to not cut off the flow of "other peoples' sugar" flowing out of DC and into state coffers, that is.
Oh, you mean actually fixing the structural deficits in their own states? Pfft - that just doesn't happen anymore, dude. Sorry.
So true Chindit13, Zuckerman is just pissed off he didn't get a bailout deal like the investment banks got!
And I agree with you that the only reform that could make a permanent difference would be term limits: one term for EVERY elected official.
That it could make a difference is why it will never happen.
"The workable solution is to limit EVERY elected official to a single term."
Solution to what? Continuing the rule of the slave masters?
"Nothing less can save a democracy."
I liked a lot of what you had to say, but you're naive. The US does NOT have a democracy (it's a "republic" - rule by a select group of elites). And, pure democracy doesn't scale (no known instances of this): proven to break down after a population size of around 128. So, if you want "democracy" you're going to have to abandon the notion of any big government/institution.
It's desperate times. We've fooled ourselves that growth could continue ad infinitum. Here's what ignorant/deceiptful minds/systems are up against: http://dieoff.org/page224.htm
Mother Nature, bitches!
Thanks for playing!
Well written and conceived, except for the unfortunate fact that you (like almost everyone) miss the fundamental point. And I don't mean the obvious ("republic" .vs. "democracy"). I mean, the one and ONLY legitimate, ethical purpose of government is protection of individuals (usually formulated as "individual rights"). Only when government (which is nothing more than a fictional term for a bunch of individuals) respects [and defends] each individual, and forces NOTHING upon them, can individuals taking actions "on behalf of government" be anything other than PREDATORS.
Today, all governments are pure, unadulterated predators. Period. End of story. The only two solutions to "predators" are: become a better predator, or become a producer and avoid/refuse/destroy all predator assaults.
Only when enough individuals understand the fundamentals can this planet be viable. I am not optimistic. Likely the only solution for producers in the future is isolation, to go hide somewhere extremely remote (extreme boonies; middle of ocean, perhaps underwater; outer space) and establish a self-sufficient enclave. Extremely difficult, but probably easier than convincing humans to wake the frack up.
hahahaha
I had the same reaction.
Just a quick rebuttal for all those think being Governor of Alaska is like being president of the PTA:
State has population of 700K.
Like all other U.S. states, Alaska is governed as a republic, with three branches of government: an executive branch consisting of the Governor of Alaska and the other independently elected constitutional officers; a legislative branch consisting of the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate; and a judicial branch consisting of the Alaska Supreme Court and lower courts.
The state of Alaska employs approximately 15,000 employees statewide.[57]
The Alaska Legislature consists of a 40-member House of Representatives and a 20-member Senate. Senators serve four year terms and House members two. The Governor of Alaska serves four-year terms. The lieutenant governor runs separately from the governor in the primaries, but during the general election, the nominee for governor and nominee for lieutenant governor run together on the same ticket.
Maybe that's part of the reason she quit.
+ 10,000
How'd you find the time to write that while sucking on her tit?
P A W N
In a Corporate Fascist World, success is based on who you have relationships with.
After thinking about this, this column from Mort must be a cry out for help to others in the Corporate Fascist world that all is not well. And what is happening to him could happen to any of the others still running hand in hand with Obama.
Or it could be a call for help to those that pull Obama's strings.
Either way, the gig is up for Zuckerman. He just doesn't know it yet.
+100 but... I think Zuckerman knows that it's up; as a matter of fact, I think most of these elitists know that.
CD. Not that I have a vast real estate empire, but I have found that the more I understand about life, the more money I make. Sure, people with money have their luxuries but hanging on to money is harder than making it. Making it and hanging on to it is much harder than punching a time clock.
"I have found that the more I understand about life, the more money I make."
So, life = money?
Congratulations on being a valued member of a corrupt system!
As assured by the administration during the TARP shakeout post Lehman here is further evidence that the goal all along and currently ongoing is to ensure Wall Street not only does not have to endure a recession/depression like the remainder of the middle class throughout the nation but the gap has grown even further.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/henry-paulson-buys-aspen_n_6436...
chindit13 - many have predicted the USA will break-up into six regions/countries, within the next 20 years.
Time will tell.
Regional governance of the US makes a lot of sense. I do have to wonder if those predictions arise more from wanting it to happen than the probability that it will actually happen.
Another 9/11 will distract the populous from internal contentions!
You know it is in the works. November will be here soon...........
That's why TBTB have to ensure that we have affordable electricity and big screen TVs.
Evidently, Hell hath no fury like a champagne-socialist scorned.
Yeah, the socialists are armed with champagne, while the fascists are armed with nukes and cruise missiles. Take yer pick.
Door number three.
Our sons & daughters have their finger over the button. The Marine behind them to make sure they press it when ordered, with the 9mm in his hand, is also someones son.
Think about it. It won't happen.
Short that idea with reckless abandon ;-)
Trading choices are far more important than political choices.... I voted for Obama and still would if the election were to be held today. I didn't have any illusions about the guy and didn't expect any miracles from him. I just looked at the alternatives and picked what I thought then and still think now was the best choice of what was available for the presidency. In my book, Ron Paul is a Moron, so is McCain and Pailin. Besides, the only person that I would trust to run this country is a person that would not take the job for any amount of money or prestige that the Universe has to offer, me..... It's a job that would interfere with my whoring, gambling and general moral turpitude. You think that Stalin, Hitler or Mao were bad....? Count your fucking lucky stars. You definitely would not want to be standing at the wrong end of the gun with me if I were the President of this shit hole.
Are you unemployed, in foreclosure, tapped out on the credit cards, depressed anxious, disillusioned...? Need someone to blame for your poor choices....? Want to assign responsibility for your happiness to some one who is not you....? Look no further. Obama is there for you..... However, don't count on him for anything else.... Don't expect that anyone is going to fight for you. You have to fight for yourselves, if you don't you will be mowed down like grass.... To the powers that be, that's all you are...
Best regards,
Econolicious
If you're going to call someone else a moron, it's best not to capitalize the word and prove that you're also one. I voted for Bob Barr. I blame you, asshat.
"....I voted for Bob Barr....." So you pissed your vote away.... What's so great about Bob Barr....? He's just another douche-bag, just like all the rest.... Am I capitalizing the word douche-bag....? What are you, smarter, brighter, richer, perhaps more refined in your political tastes, more American and patriotic.....? FODB....! Anyone that voted for Bob Barr doesn't sail on my boat... Ciao, Econolicious
"the only person that I would trust to run this country"
Bzzt! FAIL!
Lesson: Power corrupts. Stop begging for corruption!
"I voted for Obama and still would if the election were to be held today. I didn't have any illusions about the guy and didn't expect any miracles from him."
"It's a job that would interfere with my whoring, gambling and general moral turpitude. You think that Stalin, Hitler or Mao were bad....? Count your fucking lucky stars."
We have a winner...ROTFLMAO.
I gotta say, your an honest idiot.
He was given one choice in the form of two choices. Simple.
I didn't vote. My district is about 80% Dem. I'm numerate. I would have written in something witty.
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I stopped reading after this line in the second paragraph:
I detect the hand of the FOB's (or Hill's) in this.
what did the f-tard expect from an indonesian national?
"There is a widespread feeling that the government doesn't work, that it is incapable of solving America's problems."
you are wrong mr zuckerman. government does work and it works splendidly for the sociopaths in your socio-economic class. it is called fascism for the corporation, by the corporation, and of the corporation. see nfib vs ism, bitch.
Mort, seriously - STFU.
I miss Bush...so there! I wrote it...
Yes, you did. And "Perfect Citizen" took note.
Bailiff, order that citizens e-reader cleansed.
George Walker Bush was a Bilderberger, a member of the grave-robbing Skull & Bones ghoul cult, a member of the Pilgrims Society, a member of the Alfalfa Club, and a member of the Bohemian Grove F**k everything that moves club.
911 was an inside job.
Zuckerman is a hack and a straight up stooge of AIPAC. As soon as Obama showed some spine against Israel, then Old Mortster starts spouting his drivel. What a disgusting human piece of excrement.
Yes. Exactly. The Zionists are going to shift their monetary support to a Republican.
sven,
It would be the first time.............
American Jews, are far and away Left wing libs.
And vote Democratic.
Jewish money accounts for 60% of Democratic donations and 40% of Republican. Money talks and bull shit votes walk. It does not matter who the 2% of America vote for. All that matters is the money. And ooooh dawg, do they have a lot of money. We gave it to them through AIG etc. And the Fed.
Election is in roughly 100 days. Everybody is abandoning O and this makes him very, very dangerous. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. I've listened to six months of hyperbole about the Tea Party being violent. Now I am hearing that it is racist too. It is neither, but it sure sounds to me like somebody's building justification for a bit of political theatre. Everybody who loves his country should be worried. These are dangerous times. Godspeed to all.
Political theater may easily morph into military action...the peaceful law-abiding city dwellers might demand protection from the roving mobs of dangerous anti-government protestors.
econo,
Exactly, he's even got MICHELLE into the Act.( Lying like a damn dog).
Stirring up the NAACP Crowd..............these people will never get, it's Dems who have kept them on the Plantation, destroyed the Black family, and this is the primary reason the prisons are full of young Black Americans............
They have no clue what party has had their BOOT on their throats, by HANDOUTS, and WELFARE.( Jackson, Sharpton, the entire mess of them, made rich of the backs of their own people.)
It's one thing to Vent, and do so about truthful things, quite another, to use totally DISCREDITED info for a weapon.
They must think WE have no memory at all...........Hey!!!!!!!!....Bro, it's all on tape!!!.
My Dad said,when I was growing up as a life lesson, Son, it's ok, if you want to tell a lie/s........just make sure you can REMEMBER all of them.
He's going to use all his hold cards..............
Elections are just like the stock market - robot programs do most of the trading in the stock market and robot programs do most of the voting in the elections. Results in both are decided before hand.
911 was an inside job.
Notice how if you mention 9/11 or anything bad about Israel or Palin that you get flagged?
Hm...
Lots of "junking" today.
Must be the heat.
Thank you Muir for the bouncing tits avatar.
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ASk yourself one simple question. In your life and the lvies of yoru friends and family did these fuckers make a difference? Not likley.
Becuase you live in a fascist state and your alternative are fucking nutbars who want to kill everyone where does it leave?
It's simple really
leave the country and come to Canada. We\d love tyo have ya. Things are slightly better in that we have 3 fucking idiot parties made up of people who want to be fascist but are too stupid to do so.
Or.... rebel and create a legitimate 3rd party.
That is if you had the balls to have your fmaily killed off by the dems or ultra repubs.
But then again, what have you got to lose. they have fucked you over either way.
Damn shame it is, the US was the shining light and now it's corruption is so deep......
My condolences from up north.....
"We\d love tyo have ya" All of us? I doubt it.
Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, is a Bilderberger.
911 was an inside job.
All high ranking "individuals" weather elected or owners are Bilderbergers.
ATTILA, you really are making me smile today. . .
+ the bevvie of your choice, and a de-junk or three.
lol anonymous junker, nom nom nom!
well
the tribe just in a most polite manner reminds ze wasps to get the fuck palin out of the dancin' floor and come w an credible alt
we still need a prof show, dont we?
lot of people use the term fascism, hm, quite inconsideerate
wiki says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
see, they talk abot culture
Fascism, pronounced /?fæ??z?m/, is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.[5][6] Fascism was originally founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but it gravitated to the political right in the early 1920s.[7][8] Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[15] They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus they reject individualism.[15] Viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they see pluralism as a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.[16][17] They advocate the creation of a single-party state.[Fascism, pronounced /?fæ??z?m/, is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.[5][6] Fascism was originally founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but it gravitated to the political right in the early 1920s.[7][8] Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[15] They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus they reject individualism.[15] Viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they see pluralism as a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.[16][17] They advocate the creation of a single-party state.[
Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy - check
Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong - check
Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state - check
The interesting thing is that a CEO is blaming a president for the lack of job creation. Excuse me, wasn't it your people who laid everybody off and don't hire despite record corporate profits?
It's easy to blame the government, but the reality is that there is plenty of money to employ people, which will spur more growth, and that is all being held back by lack of investment by American corporations, not the government.
And your experience in owning and operating a business with employees is?
Does one needs to be a Chef to know how horrible the meal is?
The economy is still contracting. There's not going to be any significant investment anytime soon, even if corporations are sitting on gobs of cash.
If you think that people are angry now wait until this winter when it sinks in that turning the control of the Congress back to the Repugnant Party made exactly zero change from the Depressing Party.
They will do exactly as they wish no matter what they promise. It will be the same economy with the same Fed and the same wars and just new Congresscritters abusing the interns and collecting bribes.
By NEXT summer there will be a large body of people who have been out of work without unemployment payments for months. The states and cities will be openly unable to perform many basic functions. Cities that can't respond to crime such as Oakland announced yesterday will be common. If you have a burglar you can lock yourself in your closet and let him take what he wants or shoot and shovel and hope nobody notices.
Obama will be put out of office and go spend a half Billion or so for a library in which to lock up every document that can be found as state secrets. At least he should have lots of friends overseas if he wants to live somewhere else - like so many Americans will.
Bagbalm, Where in God's green earth did you come up with that name? I just got a couple more cans a few days ago. All of this ZH talk has gotten me a bit nervous and I was adding to the pantry when I realized that a couple more cans of Bag Balm would be a good to have. It'll be shoot and shovel in my neck of the woods. It mostly already is.
Mort ...... who cares ???????????
you missed this boat a long time ago
Mort Zuckerman is a Bilderberger, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Zionist.
http://www.nndb.com/people/629/000024557/
http://www.rense.com/general53/buerg.htm
de-junk.
obviously mentioning the big "B" makes some butts pucker.
sorry, do I need to speak up, or is your megaphone tool loud enough?
Cramer just did a 180. Is his memory that short?
What continues to amaze me is that so many successful, brilliant people voted for Obama in the first place, even Warren Buffet. The most cursory investigation into his background showed a person who left far more questions than answers. From voting present 90% of the time, from having an outrageous minister as head of his supposed church, from numerous associations with far left nut jobs, and having virtually no worthwhile experience, he was totally unqualified to be President.
Next time, can we please elect a President who has some reasonable qualifications, beyond giving good speeches from a teleprompter? I don’t care if he/she is Republican, Democrat, or Independent, as long as they are centrist in their thinking, have some real world experience, and can actually lead the country in a bi-partisan manner.
Vote all incumbents out regardless of party affiliation until we replace them with citizens of moral character, leadership ability, incorruptibility and some humility. It is the only solution and choice we have apart from totally destroying the current system and starting over with something new.
From way up there in the comments I have to say: Hopey is a One-world socialist (imho.)
Actions speak louder than words, and God knows Hopey uses lots of words. A speech a day for that twit. How many times has he (or one of his "selections") mentioned the word 're-distribution'? Call it what you want -progressive, socialist, Marxist -we're splitting hairs and getting off subject. Look at his actions, not his words.
As for SEER, your colors show bright, defending each Democratic piece of shit Prez. They are all corrupt, lets face it and get on with it. Big money, whether Zuckerman or Soros will always attract the greedy little minions hoping for a scrap and a pat on the head. Hopey shouldn't have even run if he couldn't handle to tough market that Bush left him...
Wow, you guys have spent the last 1 1/2 years blaming Bush (another shitty Prez) and that's not working, so you go back to Reagan? Nice. For the record, it was Reagan who had the balls to make big changes -changes that were unpopular - and turned Carters sky high inflation scenario around in pretty quick order. He helped start a 20-year boom in this country. It's not his fault that there were such bumbling idiots and ideologs that followed him. For christ sake, how do you blame someone who was Prez 30 years ago? At least when we talk about how FDR fucked things up we don't project them into today's problems. Thats insane.
Reagan was an actor. And then he was senile and led about by Nancy. The perfect puppet for head-of-state. . . "Star Wars"? don't make me laugh.
some people think it's more sane to observe the long-term (history) vs. the short-term when weighing up politics.
of course, it's more a dog 'n' pony show than anything else. . . if you want to cheer sides, or diss t'other side, you're in good company. enjoy.
Reagan and Kennedy were the two best Presidents of my lifetime. Both had huge impacts on this country in a positive way. You are obviously a lefty that can never give any credit to the other side. Partisanship is the number one problem of this country today. Everyone is about as objective of their own party as their football team.
oh wake the hell up - I'm "above" (or beyond if it suits you) left-y 'n' right-y dualist thinking - and the "number one problem" in this country today is corporate fascism, aided and abetted by an elite financial class that cares little for "national identity," nor human rights, nor personal integrity.
if you don't believe me, check my posting history. I've never voted, it's a dog and pony show to distract those who seek to be led. I don't care for "leaders" thanks, nor "heroes". . .
Why expend any energy at all defending republicans or democrats? They all suck. Clinton did this and Bush did that...it's done! Soros or Goldman, Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, it's all the same. The actors change and morph, but the direction is inexorable. Focus on the broader sweep, not the distractions.
380 comments, I read them all ! and, NOT ONCE DID I SEE THE NAMES ROBERT RUBIN & BILL CLINTON !!! CRIMINALS !! DESTROYERS !!! WHERE IS THE JUSTICE !!! DAMN CRIMINAL BANKERS !!! ........... I'm mad as hell & not going to take it anymore.
I mentioned Rubin. Just sayin.
I should also have mentioned Greenspan, Summers and Bernanke. What really upsets me about Clinton is that he is regarded as a good president.
Somehow the putrid stench of Georgie Soros was not brought up.
Odd.
Schwartz György.
He probably parachuted out of one of the planes on 911...LOL...because he's a...
Anyways...SeeYa
Seer. My point is that Mort is no Joe sixpack. Guys like him have a deeper understanding of the system. CD said that people with money are naive as everyone else. I agree they can be as naive part of the time but not as naive in totality.
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