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  • Yes, you are. You can't seem to stay on topic.

    Obamao inherited a deficit, so the fact that he has tripled it...........

    doesn't mean a thing, right?

    If only you libs would stop emoting and start THINKING LOGICALLY, they

    could start dealing with THREAD TOPICS>

    hell, maybe they might start answering their own dumb questions.

    maybe, even stop changing thread subjects..... maybe...

  • My point exactly, Cal. I just spent a few posts trying to explain to you the major reasons why the debt climbed over the last two years, and how they would have climbed anyway no matter who was president, and you go back to insisting that Obama "tripled it."

    You couldn't answer the question when I asked it. Neither could Steve. So I answered it. And then you both ignored it, and went back to blaming it all on Obama. And then accused me of not thinking logically.

    It's a really fun board, filled with wonderful, informed people.

  • No, you didn't, you just spewed out silly stuff to defend your failure pres, Obamao.

    Bush support want cap n trade. Obamao did.

    Bush didn't do Fannie and Freddie failures.... Frank and Dodd and other Dems did.

    Bush didn't do auto co. bailouts... Obamao did.

    Bush didn't talk about redistributing the nations' wealth, Obamao did.

    Bush didn't cram through the gigantic hc bill, Obamao did.

    Bush didn't pass the gigantic and fraudulent "stimulus" bill, Obamao did.

    Yeah, I wasn't happy with the deficit spending of the Reps.

    But I'm really ,really not happy with the devasting extra two gigantic layers of deficit cake Obamao has built.

    You all of a sudden love the deficit and want higher taxes.

    You are a silly little biased knuckehead.

  • Again, my point exactly. You have no idea where the deficit comes from and just want to blame Obama, all while pretending you're above being a mindless partisan. While being a mindless partisan.

    If you knew what made up our deficit, and what's running up the debt, you'd speak differently, and more like a grown up. But you don't know. And you're not willing to learn.

  • My point exactly, Cal. I just spent a few posts trying to explain to you the major reasons why the debt climbed over the last two years, and how they would have climbed anyway no matter who was president, and you go back to insisting that Obama "tripled it."

    You couldn't answer the question when I asked it. Neither could Steve. So I answered it. And then you both ignored it, and went back to blaming it all on Obama. And then accused me of not thinking logically.

    It's a really fun board, filled with wonderful, informed people.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    My point exactly, Cal. I just spent a few posts trying to explain to you the major reasons why the debt climbed over the last two years, and how they would have climbed anyway no matter who was president, and you go back to insisting that Obama "tripled it."

    You couldn't answer the question when I asked it. Neither could Steve. So I answered it. And then you both ignored it, and went back to blaming it all on Obama. And then accused me of not thinking logically.

    It's a really fun board, filled with wonderful, informed people.

    Heh.

    Yeah. Great explaination.

    Sharon Angle and Pat Toomey.

    But if that's your point then you should at least try to answer what caused that recession if it is indeeed to blame and Obama can't be asked to do anything.

    Also if it'd be the same no matter who won the election then what makes Obama special?

    At least he has a rubber stamp so far.

    And the list I gave was basically your (the dems) campaign along with slogans and empty promises.

    Pardon us if we thought you were serious.

    Isn't it fair to repeat that?

    Or when you bleat "conservative think if you give the rich tax cuts everything will be great" is it just as insightful to say "and liberals think all you need to do is take more from the rich and we'll be shitting in tall cotton!" ?

    WSS

  • Steve, after already having a long conversation with you about the many things that contributed to the economic collapse, and you repeating the nonsense that it was the result of poor people and the CRA, please spare me the indignity of having to do that again.

    And I think Obama can't be asked to do anything about it? Whaa??? Where do you get this stuff? Or even the idea that he's not doing anything. I thought that was your complaint - about all the stuff he's doing.

    As for the next bit, yes, if McCain were president, you'd still have a massive dropoff in economic activity, and the resulting loss in tax revenue, and the huge increase in transfer payments.

    You'd also still have some version of a massive stimulus package, TARP, and probably most, if not all the other bailouts too. Because it's a lot easier to pretend you're against something like the auto bailouts when you aren't in charge, and there are a bunch of economists telling you that they're not sure the economy can take the loss of the million or so auto industry related jobs without overwhelming the measures you've already put in place, and sending us back into the hole.

    It's much easier to be a loudmouth prick in the stands who pretends he knows more than Mangini than it is to be Mangini.

  • Steve, after already having a long conversation with you about the many things that contributed to the economic collapse, and you repeating the nonsense that it was the result of poor people and the CRA, please spare me the indignity of having to do that again.

    And I think Obama can't be asked to do anything about it? Whaa??? Where do you get this stuff? Or even the idea that he's not doing anything. I thought that was your complaint - about all the stuff he's doing.

    As for the next bit, yes, if McCain were president, you'd still have a massive dropoff in economic activity, and the resulting loss in tax revenue, and the huge increase in transfer payments.

    You'd also still have some version of a massive stimulus package, TARP, and probably most, if not all the other bailouts too. Because it's a lot easier to pretend you're against something like the auto bailouts when you aren't in charge, and there are a bunch of economists telling you that they're not sure the economy can take the loss of the million or so auto industry related jobs without overwhelming the measures you've already put in place, and sending us back into the hole.

    It's much easier to be a loudmouth prick in the stands who pretends he knows more than Mangini than it is to be Mangini.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    Steve, after already having a long conversation with you about the many things that contributed to the economic collapse, and you repeating the nonsense that it was the result of poor people and the CRA, please spare me the indignity of having to do that again.

    Actually I gave a list of Dem campaign attacks.

    If you say the housing debacle had no effect on the recession fine.

    But since you seem to want us to think that the recession is the sole cause of the problem then help us out.

    Which of the "failed policies of the Bush administration" are at fault?

    And I think Obama can't be asked to do anything about it? Whaa??? Where do you get this stuff?

    Oh you gave soms spin as to why he couldn't bring himself to change anything he bitched about even with a 60 senator majority.. Spending political capital and all...

    Or even the idea that he's not doing anything. I thought that was your complaint - about all the stuff he's doing.

    Me? Or was it Cal? I asked if you think he's done anything wrong. And still...

    As for the next bit, yes, if McCain were president, you'd still have a massive dropoff in economic activity, and the resulting loss in tax revenue, and the huge increase in transfer payments.

    And you'd be defending the Republicans?

    You'd also still have some version of a massive stimulus package, TARP, and probably most, if not all the other bailouts too. Because it's a lot easier to pretend you're against something like the auto bailouts when you aren't in charge, and there are a bunch of economists telling you that they're not sure the economy can take the loss of the million or so auto industry related jobs without overwhelming the measures you've already put in place, and sending us back into the hole.

    It's much easier to be a loudmouth prick in the stands who pretends he knows more than Mangini than it is to be Mangini.

    One need not be Vince Lombardi to know what 1 and 5 looks like.

    So I guess you're Obama's Lumbergh?

    WSS

  • I would be defending McCain, yes. From charges that he created all of the deficit, rather than inherited most of it. Yes, I would. When you step into office and the economy just collapsed and we got to paper over the collapse with some new measures we'd never tried before, it's not exactly a winning situation.

    The disagreement is over tactics and how you design the best rescue and recovery efforts. And the stuff Obama/Geithner/Summers/Bernanke did, as well as Bush/Paulson/Bernanke will be studied for decades. It's extremely complicated stuff. Some of it is working better than anyone anticipated, like TARP, and some of it hasn't worked, like the loan modification program. The stimulus has had a positive effect, but probably wasn't big enough. There's lots to discuss.

    But in here, it's just about hating the cartoon. In here, as in most of right wing crazyland, it's about questioning his motives, as if he was doing all of that stuff because he wanted to. In right-wing crazyland, everything is misunderstood and oversimplified, and then we get to discuss whether or not he's some sort of Maoist figure who wants to dramatically change/ruin America.

    Those are the other two Americas - the one where the real conversations transpire, and the one where we obsess about paranoid bullshit, and everyone's motivations are questioned except ours, because we're "real" Americans who love the Constitution, blah, blah.

    It's sad.

  • I would be defending McCain, yes. From charges that he created all of the deficit, rather than inherited most of it. Yes, I would. When you step into office and the economy just collapsed and we got to paper over the collapse with some new measures we'd never tried before, it's not exactly a winning situation.

    The disagreement is over tactics and how you design the best rescue and recovery efforts. And the stuff Obama/Geithner/Summers/Bernanke did, as well as Bush/Paulson/Bernanke will be studied for decades. It's extremely complicated stuff. Some of it is working better than anyone anticipated, like TARP, and some of it hasn't worked, like the loan modification program. The stimulus has had a positive effect, but probably wasn't big enough. There's lots to discuss.

    But in here, it's just about hating the cartoon. In here, as in most of right wing crazyland, it's about questioning his motives, as if he was doing all of that stuff because he wanted to. In right-wing crazyland, everything is misunderstood and oversimplified, and then we get to discuss whether or not he's some sort of Maoist figure who wants to dramatically change/ruin America.

    Those are the other two Americas - the one where the real conversations transpire, and the one where we obsess about paranoid bullshit, and everyone's motivations are questioned except ours, because we're "real" Americans who love the Constitution, blah, blah.

    It's sad.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    But in here, it's just about hating the cartoon. In here, as in most of right wing crazyland, it's about questioning his motives, as if he was doing all of that stuff because he wanted to. In right-wing crazyland, everything is misunderstood and oversimplified, and then we get to discuss whether or not he's some sort of Maoist figure who wants to dramatically change/ruin America.

    There's some truth to that.

    Still that's how Obama won the election.

    By demonizing Bush.

    WSS

  • @heckofajobbrownie said:

    But in here, it's just about hating the cartoon. In here, as in most of right wing crazyland, it's about questioning his motives, as if he was doing all of that stuff because he wanted to. In right-wing crazyland, everything is misunderstood and oversimplified, and then we get to discuss whether or not he's some sort of Maoist figure who wants to dramatically change/ruin America.

    There's some truth to that.

    Still that's how Obama won the election.

    By demonizing Bush.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    There's some truth to that.

    Still that's how Obama won the election.

    By demonizing Bush.

    WSS

    I would submit that as one of those oversimplifications.

  • @westside-steve said:

    There's some truth to that.

    Still that's how Obama won the election.

    By demonizing Bush.

    WSS

    I would submit that as one of those oversimplifications.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    I would submit that as one of those oversimplifications.

    So?

    WSS

  • So oversimplifications aren't a good thing. They pretend to tell you answers, but don't tell you much of anything. Because it's, you know, oversimplified.

    Like saying Obama won the election because he demonized Bush.

    I'll cut you some slack because I don't expect full election analysis from you, nor do you probably have the time or knowledge or resources to do full election analysis. It's a message board. Pithy works fine here.

    I'm just saying I expect you to do better that that.

  • Heck, you apparently don't have the nads to start your own thread yet.

    You live in a glass house, and love to throw stones.

    Not smart.