Posted on 10/01/2008 11:01:25 AM PDT by ofwaihhbtn
Great video makes it clear Dems caused the current financial crisis. The Dems caused the financial crisis
This has been posted over and over and over and over!!!!!
#1 on the list of things to do, FR.
FIX THE DARN SEARCH FEATURE!!!!!
As it should be.
This is interesting. Here is what one person said in the comments to the video:
“So where’s the flip side of the coin? where do we see John McCain as some evil Robin Hood? I don’t mind trying to spread the truth but while we’re at lets tell the whole truth and don’t slander someone just cuz you don’t like them.”
This person is, by definition, stupid. That is according to this quote I got from a “proof we landed on the moon” site:
Do I think hoax believers are stupid?
I am sometimes accused of treating hoax believers as if they are stupid. Let me say this here and now and clearly. I do NOT consider that ALL hoax believers are stupid, okay? Some, possibly, may be quite normal sensible people that have just got the facts wrong - they have been misinformed and do not happen to posses the knowledge or wit to realise it. This is perfectly understandable given the complex knowledge of physics sometimes required to understand what is really going on. Many hoax believers are ignorant of the facts, which is a different matter entirely to being stupid. However, when given the facts, a sensible person will see the logic of it, whatever the subject, and will either have the sense to accept the obvious, or perhaps have the wit to ask another more penetrating follow-up question in order to clarify a point. Fair enough. When the explanation then makes perfect sense and can no longer be challenged, when the evidence presented simply cannot be denied, the sensible person is left with no alternative but to accept that they were wrong.
If however, in this situation, they still insist that they are right, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence, then they shift from a position of being ignorant - they are no longer unaware of the facts - to a position of being stupid. I’m sorry if this offends but there is no other word for it. The dictionary says ‘stupid - deficient or dull in understanding: showing lack of reason or judgement: foolish, dull, boring’ So yes, many of the hoax believers that I deal with, the ones that send me very strange emails indeed, I do consider to be stupid, they perfectly fit the dictionary definition of the word. I do not consider them to be stupid because their questions may sometimes appear to be rather simplistic and show an alarming lack of even basic knowledge (that is often understandable as it depends on the level of education they have received) it is because they deny the answer and choose not to accept the logic of a given fact that is in reality inarguable.
If for example someone tells you that 2 +2 = 5, and you clearly and patiently show them by using four coins that 2+2 = 4, and they still argue that they are right, that you are an idiot, and that they have positive proof that you will be proven wrong, would it be unreasonable to assume that they must be stupid? It is an unfortunate fact of life that there are some people in the world that are undeniably stupid, we have all met them. I realise of course that this causes some people to call me arrogant - and many other highly descriptive phrases - so be it. If being unafraid to tell the truth, if knowing your subject well, if carrying out extensive independent research, if being able to reply to a question using facts and logic, all make a person ‘arrogant’, then fine, I am happy to accept - that by that definition - I am arrogant. I would rather be arrogant than stupid. But I repeat again, not all hoax believers are stupid - some are just ignorant of the facts but do have an open mind - but some hoax believers are undeniably incredibly stupid.
Yeah, it’s only linked at the very top of the FR homepage.
You people really need to start paying more attention.
The video is called “ Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis”
I think there is some more incriminating information on Fannie Mae in the Britney Spears sex tape that has hit the internet. ;)
We are making the mistake that conservatives always make: We arrive at our decision through thought and consideration of the facts, so we assume our opponents do, too — they just don’t have the right facts. Nothing could be further from the truth. They don’t think, they FEEL. Therefore, we have to attack on the EMOTIONAL plane, not the FACTUAL one.
This has already been posted about a dozen times.
Everyone needs to see it, though.
I emailed a link to all my contacts.
Rush is correct, McCain won’t fight Democrats. We were afraid of this back in February. Our nightmare is coming true. He’s neutered the Pit Bull and refuses to fulfill his promise to “name names.” Somtimes I think McCain suffers from some variation of Stockhom Syndrome. There’s never been a Democrat he didn’t feel sorry for.
Maybe there’s a way to trick him into thinking Raines, Johnson, Gorelick and the rest of the book-cckers are Republicans. THEN he’d speak up!
The subprime crisis, if it had been limited to the United States, would not have had the impact it did. The other necessary ingredient was the creation and marketing of credit derivatives by Greenspan and the Fed Reserve system to all Fed Reserve related countries (the G7, eg). By combining ‘local’ US originated subprime mortgages (not tripleAAA) in tranches of credit derivatives (SIVS, CLOS, etc), US mortgages were expatriated and disseminated worldwide in massive quantities...all tranches were rated triple AAA when they contained toxic waste subprimes and other waste...THIS WAS THE FRAUD. All foreign institutions have demanded that all this fraudulent waste be REPATRIATED to the US. And so, in the original Paulson bailout, and in the Fannie and Freddie bailout compliance with the foreign demand to ‘take it back’ or else, was honored. The price of credit derivatives and the liberal housing programs have brought down the Western financial world and infected a great many others. Correction and retribution are underway.
Both parties and the world loved the credit derivatives, and liberals loved give away housing programs..the result has been disaster.
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