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The Failure Factory:
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats,
and Big Government Republicans
Are Undermining America's Security
and Leading Us to War
by Bill Gertz
Posted on 11/15/2008 10:26:30 PM PST by Lancey Howard
If the Presidential campaign of 2008 was a football game, the game-changing play came when the alleged "looming meltdown" was announced. The stench of this announcement was so strong that it still staggers the mind that nobody stopped and said, "Wait a minute...! You, Henry Paulson, just discovered today that there is an imminent economic meltdown so catastrophic that Congress needs to pass a $700 billion bailout bill by freaking Monday??"
It made no sense on the face of it, and I figured it had to be a setup. I mean, this horrific news about global economic meltdown breaks just six weeks before a Presidential election?? I was born at night, but not last night. Then when Obama curiously and suddenly took a low profile I knew it was a setup. The Obama team knew what was going on. It was the Democrats' "October surprise", launched a little early and very likely set up by George Soros, who already had God-knows-how-much money invested in this and other campaigns around the nation.
Of course, McCain played right into the scheme by "suspending" his campaign and jumping on his white horse to race back to Washington and take charge and.... Well, who knows what he thought he could do. It doesn't matter, because he ultimately contributed nothing to the process and only made himself look impotent.
All the while, Obama kept his distance as he quietly sat and watched and chuckled. McCain ended up accomplishing basically nothing - - and getting almost no TV face time, to boot! After a day or two of floundering around he finally bailed out (no pun intended) of Washington and made his way back to that debate he wasn't supposed to make... You know - - the debate Obama wouldn't agree to postpone? And Congress did what it did (handed 700 billion taxpayer dollars over to Hank Paulson) without any help from McCain.
Ball game.
The biggest question remaining is: Who orchestrated this election fix, and was George W. Bush in on it? (Yeah, I know - - where's my tin-foil hat. The timing of this was all just an amazing coincidence. Right.)
Too bad nobody had a podium that could explain to the public why the bill was precisely the wrong medicine.
McCain had the podium shoved right in his face but he failed to step up to it.
What I think is that it was an ingenious plan to cast our country back into a 70’s-era stagflationary cycle that will reap the next 12 years of Republican presidencies, allowing a FULL generation of people to grow up loving conservatism.
Or not.
Got a little video for ya, girl, while you’re waiting.
May not be economy related, but it does relate to The Big O and his plan for our safety.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AYG4y5et5g
Yes, it was him... Mr. Andrea Mitchell that started the negative mindset. In fact, if he felt there was a reason to worry about a pending housing crash the reasons we could have been crashing deserved to be addressed, not the negative mantra he was spewing. Now all a person has to do is walk through Home Depot to see all the different businesses negatively affected by his self-fulfilling prophecy... I think it was reckless, Schumer was reckless, Dodd, Franks and company have all been reckless and frankly I wish we could all sue the bastards... (sorry for the strong language).
It was a failure of charcter IMHO that he voted for instead of against it and then didn’t even have the nerve to speak on the senate floor before the vote — unlike throw himself in front of any passing camera Obama.
I dissent with your description of the plan as “ingenious” because as I stated before, it was an evil thing to do.
David Gregory’s wife is chief lawyer for Fannie Mae.
How weird it is to see, Gregory and Mitchell on NBC
without a single acknowledgment of their spouses’ roles.
IT is very wierd.
Uh McCain didn’t create the crisis and he didn’t discover it weeks before the election.
It doesn't matter if they are right or wrong he should of kept his mouth shut about it until the election was over that is what Obama did and it worked for him.
I did consider that possibility but thought it too much of a stretch, even for McCain.
I am rethinking that position.
The reason I originally dismissed the idea that McCain was "in on it" was because if there was an obvious and natural direction for the candidates to go, it was McCain and the Republicans talking about national security, and the rats talking about handing out "free stuff for (nearly) everybody!" (ie., the economy).
For God-only-knows-what-reason, McCain largely opted to battle 0bama on his own turf while "national security" as an issue seemed to drop off the face of the earth. If McCain had shown just one television ad showing US fighting men on the battlefield, and ending with a picture of the goofy-smiling 0bama with the bannered question, "Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama??", it would have flipped up to 5% of the vote, I am positive.
Meanwhile, 0bama stuck to his message of giving "95% of the taxpayers" free stuff confiscated from the other 5% (their neighbors). McCain never had an answer for that and was never able to find a catchy mantra; not even a silly, meaningless one like "change". (He did try out some boring, insincere thing at the end of the GOP convention, but I forget what it was. "Stand with me"?)
Heck, not only was McCain thoroughly impotent at explaining why 0bama was a brazen liar on his tax plan, he never even answered 0bama's ridiculously out-of-context claim that he, McCain, would RAISE taxes by taxing health-care benefits. McCain somehow managed to lose even the tax issue!! That is unforgivable.
Again, one television ad showing clips of Clinton's 1992 campaign would have flipped many gullible voters: "Bill Clinton was another Democrat Presidential candidate who promised America a middle clas tax cut. Americans believed Bill Clinton, but they never got the middle class tax cut he promised. In fact, just one year after his promise of a middle class tax cut, Clinton signed the largest Democrat tax INCREASE in history." (Cut to a clip of the House cheering passage of the tax hike.)
Bottom line: McCain's campaign was absolutely atrocious. It was so bad, in fact, I do have to reconsider whether McCain actually could have been in on the "global economic meltdown" gambit, thinking it could help him somehow. Could the McCain campaign have possibly been that stupid? Yep, given all the evidence, absolutely.
FRegards,
LH
Remember when Bush claimed, after winning so convincingly in 2004, that he "had political capital and was going to spend it"?
Who knew that he was heading for the craps table?
He spent his second term as a beaten man, uncapable of defending himself, his policy successes, or those who defended our country.
failure factory site:freerepublic.com
The Failure Factory:
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats,
and Big Government Republicans
Are Undermining America's Security
and Leading Us to War
by Bill Gertz
Don’t forget when harry reid came out and said two insurance companies were failing.
Thanks, I have wondered what the story of McCain’s involvement during the Infamous Goldman/DNC Coup. I think it interesting that some think GWB Admin had such hatred for McCain...OTOH, I can sympathize with the animosity towards ‘my friend’, retch!
BINGO!!! No one's been beating that drum longer, and stronger, than I have... and no one's been blasted more for it... I stand vidicated... Bush has destroyed the party, and to a good degree, conservative causes for years, by NOT fighting back. What a DISGRACE
He disgusted me from the get-go, the SOLE positive was his selection of Palin...
Not wanting to get banned is all that stops me from profanity-laced posts against this bast---.
All you had to do is look at the timing... Right after the GOP convention, when McCain was ahead, and right before the election... That’s ALL you need to know
Absolutely manufactured... Without a doubt
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