Sarah Makes Katie Nervous

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sarah Makes Katie Nervous
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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 12:31am

In all the excitement of today's news I wonder how many saw the interview with Katie Couric today. Sarah did great. Katie had the nervous blinking syndrome. It was so interesting to watch Katie's reactions to Sarah - between all the blinks - I could sense some real hatred. I enjoyed watching it.

Here it is :

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:40pm

Obama has "done nothing". Google "obama senate record". It brought up over 369,000 items. Here are a few. Sadly, I doubt you'll actually go and read any of these items but at least I tried.

digg.com/2008_us_elections/I_found_the_BEEF_Obama_s_Senate_Record

www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS030017

uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/09/05/obamas-senate-record-110th-congress.htm

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Registered: 09-19-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:12pm

*** McCain wasn't concerned about a financial crisis--he was concerned that Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac had pulled a few shady accounting tricks to make themselves appear more attractive. It had nothing to do with the current crisis.

Can't help you if you don't actually read what McCain said at the time he was proposing the regulation.

>The bad mortgages are at the heart of the current “crisis.”<

*** OK. Let me explain this to you: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don't make loans to people. They BUY loans from banks, just like Wells Fargo bought my mortgage from the local bank that originated it. That's what a secondary market is all about. And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't the only organizations buying mortgages on the secondary market. After deregulation, everyone was free to buy mortgages on the secondary market. That's why AIG, Lehman Brothers, etc. are also doing poorly. McCain's suggested oversight would not have affected this function at all, merely would have ensured that Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac reported all their assets properly both to the IRS and in their annual reports.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...oh, sorry...are you done yet? ; ) You said that the sub-prime mortgages weren't the cause of the problem...you're wrong. Thanks for playing.

>It was the Democrats who proposed and supported those sub-prime lending policies…and the Democrats who had oversight and protected them from the regulations the Republicans wanted to impose.<

*** HUH? Deregulation of the banks was a Republican battle cry. Please show me the oversight legislation proposed, other than that one failed piece of legislation that most Republicans didn't support.

Who are you, Katie Couric? Why would I need to show you more than the two relevant attempts at reform put forth by Bush and McCain? Sorry, not interested in playing that stupid game. I'll just let you deal with the FACTS, that the sub-prime loans were pushed by Barney Frank, had Democrat oversight and that regulations were proposed by Republicans.

>Who deregulated the banks…specifically…and what regulations…specifically…were lifted that led to this economic crisis?<

*** Repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act. Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act (1980), Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act (1982), and my favorite Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999). That's what lead to the problems in investment banking. Some think the Community Reinvestment Act's amendments in the mid-1990s may have encouraged some bad lending practices, but the vast majority of CRA loans were neither securitized nor resold. State attempts to regulate banking practices were squashed by the US Treasury Dept.

The repeal of Glass-Steagall was bi-partisan and signed by Clinton. And while deregulation may have loosed the bonds, it was the liberalism of the left that corrupted the system by pressing institutions to make loans that they knew the “poor” couldn’t pay back.

>What wall street was going was lending and trading and insuring these failed mortgages. If the mortgages were good then we wouldn’t be in the trouble we’re in.<

*** I think I've connected the dots quite well.

Right…bi-partisan deregulation…Democrat liberalism…Democrat pressed sub-prime loans…Democrat oversight…Democrat opposition to Republican proposed regulation…KABOOM!

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:12pm

She doesn't say anything right and always sounds confused this wasn't a first. It wouldn't be a big deal if this were the first time but it wasn't.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:20pm
Nah, it's understandable that Palin would slip a bit after such a huge bounce and the relentless smear campaign that the left is engaging in. What's really pathetic is that Barry's so close despite the relentless butt kissing campaign that the left is engaging in.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:21pm

I'm afraid you're mistaken (SHOCK!!!) You might take notice of the "s" at the end of "exampleS" in the quotes below...



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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:27pm
I'll admit I was wrong but you need to admit like your acting like a two year old with your "shocking" comment. You can prove you are right without being rude.


Good luck with that.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:45pm
Nah, it's understandable that Palin would slip a bit after such a huge bounce and the relentless smear campaign that the left is engaging in. What's really pathetic is that Barry's so close despite the relentless butt kissing campaign that the left is engaging in.




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Registered: 09-16-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:47pm

Challenging democrats to understand what the h e double hockey sticks she is trying to say!

MC=W3

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:55pm

*** I'll admit I was wrong but you need to admit like your acting like a two year old with your "shocking" comment. You can prove you are right without being rude.

Um...nah...but I appreciate the hypocrisy in the face of your "snarkiness" laced ..."It's nice that you liked to think differently but it's really just your thought." BTW, it's kind of silly to demand "conditions" to admit you were wrong when it was proven pretty conclusively...still, if I've offended I'll try to tone down the sarcasm.

<<< "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?"

*** I don't feel like this question was out of line. There is more then one thing that can be done about what happened I am sure.

The problem wasn't that more couldn't have been done, it was purposefully trying to make Palin look foolish or inept because she couldn't recite everything McCain had ever done on every issue throughout a career that spans a quarter century. Do you think Obama could recite every bill, every speech, etc. that Biden has done on every issue throughout his career? Quite simply...no...but the point is that no reporter would ever ask Obama something as stupid as that.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:58pm

*** She hasn't slipped a little bit she fell off the mountain for pete's sake. What is this blame everyone but Palin?? How is it anyones else's fault that she keeps falling on her butt??

Please...do we really need to go on and on and on about Biden's gaffs...LOL!...and no one's trying to "gotcha" him. Palin's had only a few weeks in the game...she's doing fine. The difference between her and the other candidates is that she will get better and playing the game.

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