Comments on: Gratitude

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:10:38 +0000

Bill Clinton did a good job with the economy, with two major exceptions.

First, his economic policies allowed the stock markets to hit a ridiculous bubble, causing a huge inefficiency in the markets and unfairly created and distributed wealth.

Second, his easy money policies made housing prices go way, way, up, making them LESS affordable and making loans available that people could not pay back.

These were bad mistakes. Furthermore, his personal misconduct as president made the democratic party weak, giving a horrible republican candidate the chance to win the election in 2000.

Overall i’d say Clinton was a good president, not great, and definitely not something Obama wants to talk about as part of his platform.

By: chemicalscum

chemicalscum — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:58:52 +0000

@Paul Murray

Thanks for the Onion link very prescient indeed.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:15:02 +0000

The PUMA sites are operated by and for right-wing operatives. There’s nothing to see there, not even the names, which will be abandoned.

By: yo

yo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:30:01 +0000

“I am Hillary supporter”
“When McCain wins I will not angry”

did McCain hire third graders to be internet trolls?

By: Paul Murray

Paul Murray — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:32:30 +0000

I’m reminded of that very famous - and prescient - article on The Onion: “Our long national nihtmare of peace and prosperity is finally over”.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

By: kurt

kurt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:36 +0000

I am Hillary supporter. No republican here. I don’t think I’d ever vote McCain. But let’s put it this way- when Gore and Kerry lost I was pissed for a very very long time.
When McCain wins I will not angry.
As someone said McCain shouldn’t win Obama can’t win.

By: Count Iblis

Count Iblis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:03:46 +0000

Kurt was hired by McCain to do this

By: tacitus

tacitus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:28:34 +0000

Obama will get tired of being president after 100 days or so and decide to run for president of the world. he could win that.

LOL. Jealous much?

Give up Kurt. Nobody is drinking your kool-aid around here.

By: darek

darek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:38:10 +0000

Yep Obama disenfranchising the voters of MI and FL since the beginning!

It wasn’t Obama’s decision to take away the delegates from those states, it was the party as a whole, and both Obama and Clinton did agree with that decision and voted for it. So stop trying to make it out as some sort of plan hatched by Obama.

Clinton’s eventual insistance that the delages be seated had nothing to do with her worrying about disenfranchised voters, she needed those votes and she was willing to cause a rift in the party if that’s what it took.

As for health care and energy, even if you think Clintons plans are better than Obamas regarding those issues, McCain is the polar opposite of both of them. And with Obama in office Clinton has a much better shot at getting anything done from the senate anyway.

Again, if you were at all concerned about the issues that Clinton supported, voting for McCain wouldn’t even be an option.

By: Michael Bacon

Michael Bacon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:28:25 +0000

Does anyone really believe that Kurt (who is no ordinary person) was really a Clinton supporter?

There are any number of half-crazy Republican zealots trolling the web trying to stir up divisions and sow confusion among Democrats.

Not saying that’s you Kurt, but . . . . .