Comments on: Bill Schools Barack * Open Thread

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:30:44 +0000

NAFTA was actually signed by George Bush Sr. in November, right before Clinton took office in January.

What CLINTON did, was add labor and environmental requirements to it.

Those requirements became law, but were not enforced under George Bush II.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:30:43 +0000

NAFTA was actually signed by George Bush Sr. in November, right before Clinton took office in January.

What CLINTON did, was add labor and environmental requirements to it.

Those requirements became law, but were not enforced under George Bush II.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:43:39 +0000

yes he was. As a matter fact, it was by the same margin too, and at the same time, right after the first debate. And you heard the same rhetoric. Everyone was sure he would be the next pres. But I don’t think he ever got much up past 50% either.I think he did more than Obama is though. These polls are used to discourage us. They won’t be even close to accurate until the week before the election, because then they watnt to be right. But until then it is playing politics and playing with out minds. These are MSM polls.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:38:23 +0000

I live in Florida. I don’t think BO will take it. McCain support does seem to have weakened a little since the wallstreet thing, people just seem confused. But it isn’t by alot. I don’t think McCain will win it by as big of a margin as he would have, but I think he will still win it. I still see more McCain signs than Obama ones. And just notice too that Bill is singing out of both sides of his face. He barely supports Obama, talks in generalities, sends A-bombs at him and the democrats in congress just about every chance he gets. Blamed the democrats for this mess. And BO seems to be oblivous to it. It is hillarous to watch. He hasn’t endorced McCain but he has. I would bet money that when he is in the privacy of that booth he pulls the lever for McCain. I actually have more respect for him watching this than I did before. He completely destroyed him with that Bill Vs. Barrack on banks deal. It has been a lot of fun to wait and see what A-Bomb he’s going to drop on the messiah’s head next. LOL!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:28:51 +0000

It started 27 years ago. But the law was expanded in the 90s, and that is really what set the stage. There was a study done and the study showed discrimatory lending. Later it was found that the report was misinterpreted and there actually wasn’t discrimatory lending, but it was too late by then. It forced banks to take on unwise lending practives, threatening them with fines if they did not lower their standards for lending money. That is where sub prime mortages came from, to enable people more “affordable housing”. People who probably should have never been qulified for the loan in the first place. It did away with the down payment and found ways to lower the monthy payment, like paying on the interest and not the principal the first few years. . Problem is the interest rate went up and with it their mortage, people had been paying on the interest and then had to pay on the prinicpal, and they culdn’t afford it. Then the buble crashed and they couldn’t sell the house before it was forclsed. Freddie and Frannie took that and made it worse, and they became some dem’s piggy bank. They make Enron look honest. Remember all the outrage over Enron??? Don’t see alot of outrage now do you.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:58:50 +0000

I am incredibly sick of hearing about this. Corporations are not evil. There are a few bad seeds just like there are bad people. But businesses are vitally important—where else are you going to work??? If a corporation does not make a profit, how the hell are they going to give anyone jobs. Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a profit in business? I do. Just because you open the doors doesn’t mean you are making money. It is VERY DIFFICULT TO TURN A PROFIT. There are a large number of businesses not making a profit, and you do not pay taxes on your profits WHEN YOU AREN’T MAKING ANY MONEY.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:51:31 +0000

BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T MAKING ANY MONEY. YOU DON’T PAY TAXES WHEN YOU ARE LOSING MONEY.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:48:58 +0000

Well, he has to come up with something that isn’t an outright lie. HA!

Watching Bill Clinton skate around Obama’s inexperience is just hilarious. Must see TV.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:10:58 +0000

Sleeves,
thanks… you’re right. The Alan Colmes reference was like a bucket of cold water!
I had to let go of a friend of over thirty years last night over this shit and I’ve been too damn cranky!

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:31:06 +0000

Zelda,
You have no clue what you will be missing until its too late. This is no place to discuss your fear of violence. Cowards want peace at no cost and get what they are willing to pay for. When someone wants to take what you have, you get to choose to give it to them or keep it.
That choice only lasts as long as you are willing to defend it. How does it feel to live in a jar? I’ve always wondered.
The life I have is a good one with solid friends who know what is what. They don’t go around with friggin’ daisies in their hair, waving the “peace wand” and hoping things will get better. They fight for their country and their families. They look at weaklings who haven’t got the courage to stand up for themselves like you as excess baggage, fools who think that a smattering of fairy dust will make it all better.
Pull your stupid head from your ass and get real.
Obama is a clear and present threat to our Republic because of the policies he wishes to force on us.
There will be no “next election” if he wins.
sheeple….

By: PurpleDragon2

PurpleDragon2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:58:56 +0000

Hey Perry, why don’t you reveal this is a made up stat from a HuffPo article?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/the-simple-arithmetic-of_b_97655.html

By: Maverick

Maverick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:31:05 +0000

Long unemployment lines under Carter and longtime manufacturing companies closing for good. It was awful.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:16:19 +0000

the Obama tax plan adds up to a 39.6% personal income tax, a 52.2% combined income and payroll tax, a 28% capital-gains tax, a 39.6% dividends tax, and a 55% estate tax.

By: Monet

Monet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:50:54 +0000

NAFTA was not a Clinton creation. NAFTA was drafted during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Regardless of who won the 1992 election, NAFTA was going to be signed into law. In fact, I had a class in law school in 1988 on NAFTA and it was at that time nearly completed.

Manufacturing jobs began moving out of the US long before NAFTA and if NAFTA had never existed, they would have continued moving out of the country.

By: Monet

Monet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:45:56 +0000

Someone who wasn’t around in 1977 when it was difficult for minorities to obtain mortgages, especially in white neighborhoods. The bill wasn’t designed to hand out mortgages to high risk home buyers, but to make it easier for minorities to obtain mortgages that their incomes qualified them for.

No one could have foreseen that ACORN would jump on the law, twist and turn it and use it to coerce banks to write high risk loans for people who would never be able to pay them off.