I’m sure as one who was terribly upset by the ATF program called ‘Fast and Furous’ you are also appalled at the initial program under the Bush administration and you’ll want to research it just as religiously.”

It’s a pity that you didn’t take your own advice with regard to research. If you had you would have known that “Wide Receiver” was conducted in conjunction and with the full involvement of Mexican law enforcement. In every case in which the guns were allowed to walk across the border during Wide Receiver (relatively few in number compared with the thousands under Fast and Furious) Mexican authorities were given notice so that they could pick up surveillance on their side of the border. After they lost track of some of the guns a few times the problem with the operation became apparent and Wide Receiver was halted.

Now, contrast that with Fast and Furious…which was initiated under the Obama administration, in spite of the “lessons learned” from Wide Reciever. Under F&F *thousands* of guns were not only intentionally walked across the Mexican border, at NO POINT WAS THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED ABOUT IT. In other words, the policy of Wide Receiver was to track the weapons to their final customers, but it failed on some occasions, and so was halted. Under the Obama admin, it was decided to resume walking guns not only on a larger scale, but without even TRYING to track them. The clear intent of F&F was to arm drug cartels. It succeeded.

Now let’s see if you clowns attempting to blame this one on Bush can figure this one out.

Posted by: Danny | October 7, 2011, 1:14 am 1:14 am

I agree that research is critically important when fighting right-wing smears but it’s very time-consuming. With nothing to weigh me down like a job, family, friends, or even pet goldfish, I usually spend all but 6 hours a day devoting my life to spinning anything negative about President Obama. I never leave my PC. Power outages cause me to have panic attacks. I keep a large supply of ramen noodles, bottled water, and a microwave in my room and a 5-gallon bucket when nature calls. Do you have any tips to help me improve my productivity? I’d like to sleep only 4-6 hours a week, sitting upright if possible. Maintaining my current lifestyle is obviously of paramount importance, so you can understand why Obama’s re-election means so much to me.

You don’t say. You really should better educate your liberal followers.

Obama: “You know, the financial sector is very creative, and they are always looking for ways to make money. That’s their job.”

That’s why government should have stayed out of the mortgage market, rather than guarantee the debt behind such risky behavior. Absent the government guarantee, the private sector would have never taken on so much risk on their own. The private sector did their job and did what was expected by making money within the system government created. I’m glad Obama can finally admit that.

Colombia, Peru, Mexico or Afghanistan with their coca leaves, marijuana buds or poppy sap are not igniting temptation in the minds of our weak, innocent citizens. These countries are duly responding to the enormous demand that comes from within our own borders. Invading or destroying these countries, thus creating more hate, violence, instability, injustice and corruption, will not fix our problem. We need to collectively admit that we are sick. — Prohibition is neither a sane nor a safe approach; left unabated, its puritanical flames will surely engulf every last one of us!

When we legally regulate something, (as opposed to when we foolishly attempt to prohibit something) we do NOT automatically condone it’s use; the legal regulations concerning the sale and manufacture of alcohol and tobacco are there to protect us from the vast increase in criminality and mayhem that would otherwise surely exist if we were foolish enough to prohibit them.

When governments prohibit drugs they effectively and knowingly hand a monopoly on their sale to dangerous criminals and terrorists. Without a legal framework in which to operate, these black-market entities can always be expected to settle their disputes violently, while terrorizing many peaceful and innocent citizens in the process. Were the users of alcohol to blame for the St Valentines massacre in 1929? Of course not! It is just as naive to assume that one can compel all the users of Marijuana or Cocaine to simply quit, as it is to assume that all the users of Alcohol should have stopped drinking after the introduction of alcohol prohibition in 1919.

Posted by: EPU | October 7, 2011, 12:58 am 12:58 am

You might want to just shut up until you learn what ‘truth’ means, and ‘lies’. And until you learn how to do research.

Here’s a clue. Go to the Bureau of the Public Debt website. They have a program that allows you to call up the national debt by date. Can you figure it out from there, or do I have to lead you through the process step by step to find out the debt when Bush left office and now?

Then you can keep in mind that the budget for the fiscal year 2009 was not an Obama budget and subtract whatever you think that might be from the total.

Then you can begin to think of the impact on the national debt of the massive economic collapse under the Republican president. Any ideas? A budget is made up of two things 1) revenues and 2) expenditures. Any idea how a massive economic collapse might affect revenues? What about expenditures?

The right wing should be embarrassed by the complete jackas*es it creates.

The corruption is in the White House. Can Wall Street improve? Yes, but they’re just gaming the overregulation that the liberal agenda has propped up over the decades and taking our money overseas, because they see that liberals want to just take the money and run. Can Wall Street improve? Only with the help of a government letting loose of their firm stranglehold on our economy – and Obama is not about to let his tight clenched grip on power slip through his fingers.

Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | October 6, 2011, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm

He could just as easily been killed by a weapon that ‘walked’ under the Bush ATF program “Operation Wide Receiver”.