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America is lucky - it’s being saved by the mob
Times of London ^ | 09/28/08 | Simon Jenkins

Posted on 09/27/2008 7:02:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

September 28, 2008

America is lucky - it’s being saved by the mob Simon Jenkins

Party politics is customarily suspended in time of war. It should have been suspended in America this weekend, with a crisis raging in the markets and confidence in the nation’s leadership on the line.

The purpose of an election campaign is to expose weakness in contenders for high office. Today the purpose should be to restore confidence in their strength.

Friday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain was, as a result, a flaccid affair. They were clearly discomfited, like boys caught fighting during a funeral. On the economy, McCain was appeared hesitant because of his association with the Republican administration and his attempt to have the debate cancelled. Obama was calm and authoritative, but also aloof and preppy. Neither was able to answer a clear question about the financial rescue package.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bailout; financialcrisis; people; representation
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1 posted on 09/27/2008 7:02:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Uncle Ike; RSmithOpt; jiggyboy; 2banana; Travis McGee; OwenKellogg; 31R1O; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 09/27/2008 7:02:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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Its a crisis when the big money donors decide it’s a crisis. When we’re overrun by millions of illegal aliens, no problem. When we pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas, it’s vacation time.

I’m so disgusted by washington right now.


3 posted on 09/27/2008 7:08:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good article. The author actually likes Americans.


4 posted on 09/27/2008 7:12:09 PM PDT by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Party politics is customarily suspended in time of war.

That would be true, if we were at war.

The Army's at war - America is at the mall.

5 posted on 09/27/2008 7:14:39 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Haud Deus Est)
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These people are just unnerved that if we don’t bail them out then they are going to have to bail themselves out. They want to see us go down in flames in order to support them. This is why Paulson was so insistent on being able to spend bailout money on them. And they just love Obama! After reading this then I can say that I hope those socialists over there are the first to crash.


6 posted on 09/27/2008 7:14:55 PM PDT by Revel
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To: keats5
Yes, he does more than Obama could ever done.:-)
7 posted on 09/27/2008 7:15:25 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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Correction: Yes, he does more than Obama could have ever done.:-)
8 posted on 09/27/2008 7:16:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good read. He *gets* it. He’s also informed about the way our government is structured.

Some of the comments following it...


9 posted on 09/27/2008 7:20:17 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Old Sarge

Old Sarge, do you listen to Tom Bouerle @ WBEN? Just wondering.


10 posted on 09/27/2008 7:22:37 PM PDT by Jay Thomas (A DUmmie I ain't)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m a proud member of the mob.


11 posted on 09/27/2008 7:23:18 PM PDT by mhx
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To: Revel

Ok I just read this whole article, Instead of just what appeared here. I guess I misunderstood what it was. The first part sounded to me like it was Critical of the American people for holding up the bailout. Now I am not totally sure what his whole point is. But my comments were too harsh.


12 posted on 09/27/2008 7:24:55 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Jay Thomas

Never heard of it or him.


13 posted on 09/27/2008 7:26:16 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Haud Deus Est)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Not since the 1890s tub-thumper William Jennings Bryan have the “little people” expressed themselves so forcefully against what Bryan derided as ‘the few financial magnates who, in a back room, corner the money of the world’. In e-mails, faxes and phone calls, they too have told their congressmen: ‘You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’”


14 posted on 09/27/2008 7:44:12 PM PDT by combat_boots (God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
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I heard that phase about the army/mall on his show from an e-mailer. Kind of cracked me up but it’s true. As a nation we are rather detached from the war being waged.


15 posted on 09/27/2008 7:50:51 PM PDT by Jay Thomas (A DUmmie I ain't)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The article makes some good points, but loses my endorsement by invoking the by now banal indictment of Bush for invading Iraq, calling him arrogant and dishonest.

I’m so sick of people attacking Bush (and Blair) for making the necessary yet extremely difficult and dicey decisions noone else was willing to undertake.

Decades from now, if Iraqis do prove that that Middle Eastern Muslims can be worthy of being called anything but primitives, Bush and Blair will be remembered as heroic.

Meanwhile, Hussein Obama and his Democrat socialists should be rounded up and shot for wrecking our economy; for forcing banks and Wall Street to make bad loans, creating an environment where derivatives became the drug of choice for avoiding the reality of coerced runaway “diversity” financing.


16 posted on 09/27/2008 11:49:49 PM PDT by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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Decades from now, if Iraqis do prove that that Middle Eastern Muslims can be worthy of being called anything but primitives, Bush and Blair will be remembered as heroic.

Decades from now, both leaders will be known by nicknames such as King Richard the Lion-hearted (during the Crusades).

17 posted on 09/28/2008 12:03:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s time to disintermediate the bankers (and off with their heads, while we’re at it). I’m ready for WikiEconomy.


18 posted on 09/28/2008 12:08:02 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

From the title, I thought the Mafia was somehow involved, but now I see he meant the mob (the populace) and not the Mob (the criminal gang).


19 posted on 09/28/2008 12:09:53 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
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Odd how he calls the voice of millions of Americans speaking in unison the “mob”. Author also has the Iraq War decision incorrect....we voted for it, make no mistake.


20 posted on 09/28/2008 12:27:50 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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