Posted on 02/20/2009 2:36:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 02/20/2009 2:44:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The White House fired back directly Friday at a cable-news commentator whose rant against President Barack Obama's mortgage plan has become one of the hottest videos on the Internet, getting him an invitation to the White House for a cup of decaf and a chat about what the plan really entails.
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Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There’s no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell’s at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one’ll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don’t bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I’m Carr, the floor walker. I’m responsible for order in here. Any man don’t keep order spends a night in...
Luke: ...the box.
Carr: I hope you ain’t going to be a hard case.
That: “pick the target, personalize it, polarize it...etc.) tactic may be highly effective for a rabble-rousing community activist, but its got serious drawbacks for a Chief Executive. It makes him look like a thin-skinned whining bully.
As Obama will be finding out.
Their insecurity is showing. Never did President Bush’s press secretary give such a disgraceful diatribe against his much more vitriolic critics. It is a free country with free speech...or at least it was.
and then say AMF!
Criticism from the otherwise fawning media will not be tolerated. If anyone in the MSM had any cajones, that would bother them.
And what the hell were these FOOLS thinking when they took out ARMs in a market that's balanced for fixed rates? Did they think that rates would really go down any further than the record lows we've seen the past five years? Puh-leeze.
Unfortunately a lot of people fall for a sales pitch.
We were in the market for a house a decade ago. I knew our credit wasn't good, but gave it a shot anyway. The realtor offered reasonable payments on a house we liked. We both thought it was priced too high - the housing bubble had recently hit this area. I read over the mortgage agreement (against the wishes of the realtor) and found it had an adjustable rate. She told us not to worry - if it ever did go up it would only be a fraction of a percent and we could always refinance because real estate prices would only go up.
We walked out and renewed our apartment lease.
I don’t know a single person who fell for the adjustable rate scam. Maybe Good Ole Boy Redknecks are smarter than city libs.
Santelli doesn't but the ink, the drive-bys do and, unfortunately, they're in league with Obama.
“And what the hell were these FOOLS thinking when they took out ARMs in a market that’s balanced for fixed rates? Did they think that rates would really go down any further than the record lows we’ve seen the past five years? Puh-leeze. “
No, they were playing flip the house hot potato and eventually got holding the potato.
It would be an honor to buy you a beer. Doing the right thing is not always doing the easy thing or even doing the difficult thing, but sometimes it's the toughest bitch of a thing to do.
It took a lot for you to go back to your apartment and I cannot praise you enough for that decision.
If you're ever in Sacramento pm me. Beer and dinner will be on me.
And hopefully he will be slow in getting his brownshirt groupies going !
Curiouser and curiouser...
He'll sure try to "get back to you on that", though.
New ‘round here?
FURG
“Franklin United”, Robert Gibbs
It took a lot for you to go back to your apartment and I cannot praise you enough for that decision.
Thanks, but it didn’t take that much effort. We were disappointed that we couldn’t buy the house - but we knew it was a fools deal. I’ve known a lot of people who were house hunting in the last ten years, but none fell for the pitch.
Like I mentioned, our Good Ole Boy Rednecks ain’t that dumb.
“gamblers” don’t get Fan/Fred loans.
ACORN types do.
This is just a payoff to his favorite demographic.
I guess they don’t consider lying on your mortgage app or getting a $400k house on a busdriver’s salary to be “irresponsible”.
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