Derogatory Comments About Sarah's....

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Derogatory Comments About Sarah's....
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 1:40am

intelligence. In reading viewer's comments on various sites in which the election is discussed I've been noticing that many people state that Sarah is unintelligent.


Why do you think many people see her this way? Although I do not like all of the nominees, I do not feel that any of them are unintelliegnt in any way.

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:12am
Except conservatives and the flocks of independents who are voting McCain/Palin. LOL! Sorry, Barry...it was a good run while it lasted...back to community organizing.
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Registered: 12-07-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:12am

You criticize her honesty then can cite nothing to back up that criticism!

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Registered: 12-07-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:16am

Check off one more Independent in that McCain/Palin column.

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:19am

I sometimes get a blank screen when I'm posting, too.


Re: the colleges, I don't think that means she is unintelligent, either.

 

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:23am

(((Except conservatives and the flocks of independents who are voting McCain/Palin.)))

An independent that saw McCain's vague speech today on the American worker and regulating what he used to not want to regulate could not vote for McCain in good conscience. Unless he/she had a concusion.lol. Or an aneurysm. lol.

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 12:54am
BTW...really like your posts...
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Registered: 09-15-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 1:04am
Do you mind if I ask...
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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 1:23am

*** An independent that saw McCain's vague speech today on the American worker and regulating what he used to not want to regulate could not vote for McCain in good conscience.

I love it when liberal hypocrisy rears it's head. LOL! Actually...big surprise...you're mistaken. Unlike Barry-come-lately who, as usual, is WAY behind McCain (and Bush) on the curve, McCain's position on lending regulation has been long-standing...

"Politically, the pertinent question is this: Which candidate foresaw the credit crisis and tried to do something about it? As it turns out, John McCain did — and partnered with three other Senate Republicans to reform the government’s involvement in lending three years ago, after an attempt by the Bush administration died in Congress two years earlier."

In this speech, McCain managed to predict the entire collapse that has forced the government to eat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Bear Stearns and AIG. He hammers the falsification of financial records to benefit executives, including Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of whom have worked as advisers to Barack Obama this year. McCain also noted the power of their lobbying efforts to forestall oversight over their business practices. He finishes with the warning that proved all too prescient over the past few days and weeks.

It never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis. Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money

Open Secrets has the list of Congressmen who have benefited from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac largesse since 1989 (inclusive). Remarkably, after only serving less than four of those 20 years, Barack Obama has vaulted to the #2 position on Capitol Hill. Only Dodd outstripped him. He took more than six times the amount that McCain received in a 20-year period.

The record shows that McCain saw the problem coming and tried to get Congress to act. In 2005, both McCain and Obama served together in the Senate. Did Obama attempt to pass this reform, sign on as a co-sponsor, or even speak out in its favor? The record is tellingly blank.

As we have seen, McCain has been talking reform for three years, with no assist from Barack Obama. And McCain at least knows the correct name of the company that got its bailout last night from the federal government. Is Team Obama so incompetent that they couldn’t check the name before issuing the statement?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/17/mccains-attempt-to-fix-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-in-2005/

JOHN McCAIN: FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.

For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market.

I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190#sMonofilemx003Ammx002Fmmx002Fmmx002Fmhomemx002Fmgovtrackmx002Fmdatamx
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And before McCain, the Bush administration tried to address concerns with unsafe lending, but they were blocked by Democrats...

The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.

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.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/whose-policies-led-to-the-credit-crisis/

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

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Registered: 12-07-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 2:17am

I don't really care for either Presidential candidate but Sen. Obama has shown that he will not learn from his mistakes (or even admit them).

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Registered: 12-07-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 2:30am
And it's a shame that more can't see the humor in your sarcasm.

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