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| Tue, 10-07-2008 - 10:24pm |
Hello - I understand the rules of these boards are 'no personal attacks/name calling' to other members. SO, I'm wondering why so many people can get away with attacking and name calling the candidates. Any thoughts?
Also - please watch this video. No matter what side you are on, it's interesting, factual and relevant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_193366

The TOS say that you can't attack members. The candidates are not posters here. Thus, TOS doesn't apply.
Additionally, some people lack the ideals of courteous debate when tempers grow and tensions heighten.
As for the video...I don't do 'youtube'. Completely not credible as a news source.
I was going to watch it, but stopped at "they tried to ban this video" sadly, the first slide.
Let's blame it on the minorities! NOT...
Subprime SuspectsThe right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, at 2:08 PM ET
We've now entered a new stage of the financial crisis: the ritual assigning of blame. It began in earnest with Monday's congressional roasting of Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld and continued on Tuesday with Capitol Hill solons delving into the failure of AIG. On the Republican side of Congress, in the right-wing financial media (which is to say the financial media), and in certain parts of the op-ed-o-sphere, there's a consensus emerging that the whole mess should be laid at the feet of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the failed mortgage giants, and the Community Reinvestment Act, a law passed during the Carter administration. The CRA, which was amended in the 1990s and this decade, requires banks—which had a long, distinguished history of not making loans to minorities—to make more efforts to do so.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2201641/