Our First President With an MBA

Harvard must be so proud.
If only he had read the homework he turned in.

Outstanding! A Harvard grad? Wow talking about the Ivy league!
Jen

They are going to get the government off your back, yea, so they will have no over sight and can move in and steal you blind. That my friends is true Republican economics 101. They live it they believe it and they have buffaloed you idiots into thinking the democrats are the crooks when they were picking your pockets the whole time.

That book must have had a ghost writer becasue that hardly sounds like dubya talking. I guess in any case he didn’t learn very well.

Just another reason that shows…
you can do anything if your father is connected.

Bush must’ve gotten an ‘A’ in cronism.
Obama/Biden 08!

Bush = Obama
Bailing out the wealthy with the money from lower and middle classes.
Obama is supporting socialism alright – socialism for the WEALTHY.
Why is McCain the only one who understands it’s not the jobs of the average American to bail out the wealthy when their greed destroys them.
Do you know how much the Lehman heads are taking away after bankrupting their company due to over-leveraging????

This issue is the one thing that I think the pols might be most afraid of, because other than the few people who have just walked away with all of the money, this issue transcends party lines and I suspect they are scared to death that we will figure that out.

Leonard,
Address the facts rather than hurl insults.
Obama = Bush = bail out the wealthy when their greed almost destroys them.
Open your eyes. Obama has been bought and paid for by Fannie Mae (Jim Johnson), hedge funds, financial firms.

Bush and his cronies are completely responsible for this as well as all the other disasters we have and will face in the near future. Doesn’t anyone remember when he called for everyone to be able to own their home. He encouraged the easing of financial markets in order to fleece America.

JA,
The FM’s are so tight with the McCain Campaign that a former FM Admin. saw a photo of the McCain campaign team and said that it used to be his group.
I’ll hold off on the insults if you check the facts a little closer.

Let’s see: George Bush is to Obama as Deval Patrick is to Joe Biden.
Vote for Palin — the only one of the candidates who didn’t have the corporate skids greased for her from prep school on.

The book was most likely
written with help from a
ghostwriter.
He certainly didn’t learn
anything at the Harvard
Business School. Take a
walk down Wall Street.

Obama plans to give billions more to foreign countrys.

In this week when when we are all being asked to have faith in the system and there is fear of a run on the banks, one group of citizens is actually being forced to divest themselves of a % of their investments in order to pay taxes.
I refer to those of us who will reach the age of 70.5. Out 401K’s, IRA’s, 403b”s et al which generally have been invested for quite some time a percentage are now due for tax payments deffered earlier.I would be quite happy to leave my money invested ( after all the market us way down) I am not against paying taxes ( I agree with Joe!) but doesn’t it seem a contradiction to have those of us on fixed incomes to cash in our life savings at th worst time in the market for some time and at a time when the Govt is afraid of liquidity in the reatil banking market.
Perhaps this is where a delay in the implemnentation of this tax law might help the economy and a fair sized number of the population ( a growing one by the way!

Dan sez:
Obama plans to give billions more to foreign countrys.
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How so?
Another war? – i doubt it.
Obama would be looking for a return on investment, not an ideological outcome of global American Democracy.

Belle Starr sez:
Vote for Palin — the only one of the candidates who didn’t have the corporate skids greased for her from prep school on.
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When McCain can no longer function in office for one reason or another, do you really want Palin as CinC or deciding our economic fate??
Really???

Obama stands by ready for the US to pay a global tax to end poverty around the world.
Say No to Obama. Say yes to America.
McCain/Palin ’08

This proves that academic credentials really do not matter especially when you are the children of the elite, like Bush and McSame, who manage to get into those institutions through the influence of their families. It is all about connections and it’s just the same today as it was then. Get your folks to contribute and you can be have your place reserved even if you are at the bottom of the class.

Jo and dl,
If only we could each have our own alternate reality.

USmarine0331
The two greatest wartime presidents in our history had NO military experience.
Abraham Lincoln
FDR
One from each party.

And Lincoln was a lawyer as I recall.

Who would have ever thought that a Republican MBA would have led us down the path to socialism? Karl Marx’s head is probably spinning in his grave right now
Don’t forget we fought major wars to prevent this type of government from happening in the world. Hugo Chavez is probably having a champagne brunch right about now, laughing at the nation that elected George Bush as its “leader”.
How about some crumbs, like health care, for the rest of us. For sure, we cannot afford it now. Why bother to vote for Obama, he will preside over a useless administration. Same thing with McCain, come to think of it.
It’s time to bring Hillary back.

In Washington, on Wall Street,
in Iraq – this klutz and his
policies are a calamitous failure.

The big oil and big business
deregulators Bush and McCain
are responsible for the
financial earthquake on
Wall Street.
McCain should drop out of the
contest and make his concession
speech at the opening of business
tomorrow.

Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone… Dems Ignored Warnings
check you facts

Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.
The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks. For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.
In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government’s actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.
But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.

And I love the routine about innocent lenders being forced to make loans to untenable applicants.
If the Republicans won’t take responsibility for Anything, how is it they deserve to clean up their own mess?

Please! Didnt Bush barely scrape through his studies. He to, the son of wealth has gone about life riding his families coattails and acting and using an unearned advantage to get whatever he wants. Has not really had to earn anything on grit and merited competence.
Another incompetent like John MCCaine, thinking they are entitled.

We might as well all stay home in November. The news media and Hollywood celebrities have already elected Obama. Why do we continue to debate?

The lending mess is the fault of BOTH political parties… equally.
But just for once, let’s stop blaming each other for the past and let’s think about the FUTURE!
Time machines haven’t been invented yet; we cannot re-do what was done wrong; we can, however, prevent it from happening again.
Outlaw variable rate loans for starters. Then require 20% down on real estate financing. Predatory lenders and irresponsible borrowers must SHARE the blame for the current mess.
Neither candidate is willing to attach these restrictions to the bailout plan, but if we continue to follow the existing “rules” (or lack thereof), this credit meltdown WILL be repeated.

Post Reagan Republicans-
“Underwrite our mistakes and we will undercut your future.”

Anybody check Biden’s degrees? He is just one puff away from the Presidency with BO’s ciggy habit…oh, I forgot. Hillary is going to be the new VP candidate Oct. 5, when “health” reasons force Biden out. I have heard this everywhere. Seems the CHANGELING is flip flopping again, on his VP choice.
Hillary is smarter than Obama bin Biden anyday.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN even before he picked Palin.

Why are we ruled by a bunch of corrupt lawyers and greedy business men? Where are the engineers and scientist that are into actual problem solving?

Mayor Bloomberg of NY said this morning;
“We’re privatizing the profits, but socializing the losses.”

The only reason why Bush got a degree is because of his father.He is NOT SMART man as you can see the worst 8 yrs of US history.
Definetly,there is no comparison between Bush and Obama.
Obama is new generation ,harvard grad lawyer,who chose to be community organizer than making millions working for high end law firm.
Make an educated choice
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Bloomberg for President. He’s the only politician that makes sense on this issue. George Will pegged it as socialism, and Will appears to be shifting towards Obama, indicating that McCain does not have sufficient leadership skills or moral authority on the issue. I had hoped the election would be closer, to punish Obama for his arrogance, but he may just have a runaway before its over. That is, if the NRA doesn’t step in and crush it for him.
McCain’s only hope is if he shows leadership and manages to push back the Treasury Secretary’s plan to also rescue foreign-owned businesses. Good grief. We’re going to give the Saudis good taxpayer money for any of their failed investments? That way they’ll be gouging us at the pump, and gouging us through the government’s tax collection. Isn’t Osama bin Laden a Saudi?
Personally, I’m concerned. The government has lost all credibility and we’re fast approaching chaos. One more major economic explosion like this and it is starting to look like economic Chernobyl to me.
Clinton/Bloomberg 2008

“Well… “…while I was a POW I never had a car, ot 2 … not 5 cars, no OnStar no seat warmer…. I was a POW for 5.5 years”
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Well you should been studying at Annapolis instead of partying your way to almost graduating LAST in your class. If you had, you might have been able to read a map and not get yourself shot down.

After the fiasco McCain had last week when the time came to show his leadership, how can anyone in their right mind vote for this guy? This election is going to be between the informed and the delusional. What I’m afraid of, really afraid of, is that there are more delusional people out there than the informed. This is why education is so important.

one more time
1st trillion wasted …deregulation S&L and John mcCain and Keating…
2nd trillion wasted John mccain George Bush and D Cheney fighting for us to go to this war
3rd trillion Mccain gramm and the rest of the deregualtion team and lobbyists running mccain’s campaign
how many times does a politician have to be involved in the loss of a trillion dollars to us before we say
“uh yeah…this guy shouldn’t be anywhere near the white house”?
and just a little FYI
how many people saw the story about how Palin ended up getting into politics from…
…a step aerobics class…
and how she continued to have “power group” meetings with the chief of police which she ended up firing from the same class…
you could not write this stuff…
I hear you can see Iran when you did an “around the world and up and over” during the class…
ugh..
this is how to be the leader of the free world by watching lots of episodes of Northern Exposure meets some really bad disney movie.
oy

and by the way it was Bloomberg today when referencing things he has done and points he has made
that only specifically referenced what he told Obama he needs to do when he is President in a conversation just a couple of days ago…
he’s no dummy he knows who he is going to be working with …hopefully as a new head of the committee to oversee this…as Buffett recommended.

I think we now have enough knowledge and experience with GWB to know that was a load of BS.

HP Boston:
Has your ID been hijacked? The fact that Obama has more donations reflects that more employees like him. I think that you would find “American Copper Pipe” has more employees donating to Obama. More people like him.

If anyone should lay the question of experience and preparedness to be President to rest, it is Bush. He sounds great on paper–Harvard MBA, governor of a large state, lofty political heritage–but look where all that experience has got us today. And in his field no less! And yet there are people to continue to rail about Obama’s lack of experience. It’s judgment and intelligence, of course, and not experience that carry the day.
May we never have to entrust our country to McCain’s and Palin’s experience!

McCain nor Palin will be able to hide behind their lies any longer. September 26th will expose McCain’s lack of leadership on the foreign front as well as on the economic front. Refusing to meet with a NATO ally shows McCain’s lack of diplomacy as well as his age. I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas. Come on 26th, D-Day for the Obama Campaign. Yes We Can!!!

This financial crisis is due to government imposed bad lending practices.
Bush proposed the solution in 2003 but couldn’t get the votes in congress because our idiotic repressentatives liked the idea of buying votes by giving away mortgages.

Jazzman,
Obama most certainly did not earn his entry into Harvard. How could someone who graduated without any honors from Columbia get into Harvard?
Why aren’t any of his Columbia grades available?

perumal11,
I wont rant about Obama’s lack of experience. I just dont want a tax raising socialist-oriented fellow with no major accomplishments as my president.

hippiechucker
re: “Why aren’t any of his Columbia grades available?”
you seem to be the chief conspiracy dewde….why don’t you share all your secret info with us… tell us why Obama “most certainly did not earn his entry into Harvard.”

Jazzman,
It’s funny that you would see me a sprouting a “theory”.
How else would you get into the most elite school in the country with average grades, if not for affirmative action?

Hippiechucker:
re: average grades
so, you ‘know’ he had ‘average’ grades, but you keep asking about ‘why aren’t his grades available’…
you ‘know’ through your secret methods what his grades are even tho’ they’re not available… cool.
any lotto tips ?