Per the New York Times, the firm owned by Rick Davis, McPain's campaign manager, has been paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac - which John M forgot to tell us during his recent speeches against power, corruption, etc.

The sad part is that virtually everyone in a position of power in the US has been nursing at the teat of Wall Street, the major Banks, or the K Street folks who support them. Dems, Repigs, and everybody else. Maybe not Nader, but pretty much everybody else.

Very depressing.

Thanks for this post, Jeff. It's nice to find another Democrat with integrity and guts to say what needs to be said. To bad she has so few colleagues of her caliber. I wouldn't be surprised if Pelosi calls her on the carpet for her candor.

With all due respect to Rep. Kaptur, I am sick and tired of speeches. I want some "walk with all that talk." Everyone here knows that if we came up with several million dollars, we could get our Representatives to do whatever we wanted.

A pox on all their Houses (and Senates for that matter).

Let's not forget the $2.3 trillion that Don Rumsfeld had to admit was missing and unaccounted for from the Pentagon budget. We can add that to the total waste of taxpayer dollars.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=missing+trillions+pentagon#

Unfortunately, a flight school flunkie with a box cutter was able to execute a diving hairpin turn in a Boeing 757 that Air Force fighter pilots have said would be extremely challenging for a pro in an F-16 to pull off and, rather than plunge directly into the Pentagon causing mass casualties from the direction it was coming, swirled around and skillfully skimmed the Pentagon lawn, plunging into the very portion of the Pentagon where the audit trail of the missing $2.3 trillion allegedly existed.

Most people believe that, so it's no wonder that the market would respond to the Paulson/Bernanke bail out that comes just in the nick of time to save Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanly, after they survived to swallow up their hated competitors, then have the former Goldman Sachs exec assume power to wipe all those bad debts off its balance sheet, right before short sellers were about to drive his Wall Street buddies to ruin.

A skeptic about which "bail-out"? Right now there seem to be all kind of proposals out there. The only consensus is that the Bush/Paulson proposal is dead in its current form.

anonymous forgot to mention the army of Israeli agents (in cahoots with Henry Kissinger and the British royal family) who were videotaping the collapse of the World Trade Center towers from the New Jersey shore.

DAMN! Why didn't they run HER for President? Ohio not important enough in national elections?

The woman kicks ass!

How do these REAL people somehow escape notice when we are vetting for the Real Deal for office? I want her for my SON'S mother. Hah.

The current Wall St. meltdown and downturn into recession has given a breakthrough for Obama. Just out, ABC/Washington Post poll has Obama leading by 9 pts.

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5866046&page=1

This is reflected in the numbers now coming out of Colorado, Florid and, Virginia, and the uptick in Washinton State. What's clear is that the senior population and independents are now moving toward Obama. No wonder, as McCain is revealed for his policies, his advisors, and his plan to turn over soc. sec. to Wall St.

Ralph Nader warned of this impending disaster. Did Obama or McCain?

Mr. Bodden, I think Obama was talking about this problem although not in the terms that Nader did. McCain "the fundamentals are strong" obviously did not. But I've not done any sort of archival searching. I think we should all give Nader credit where credit is due, and he has always been one to talk about Wall Street thievery. Where I don't give him any credit at all is as a politician, a term that I do not use pejoratively. Nader disdains the very ideas of governance, organizing, party-building. Wasn't it Henry Clay who said that he'd rather he'd right than president? Seems to me that Nader has that same attitude, in spades.

Whoops, the (apocryphal?) line from Henry Clay was "I'd rather be right than president."

Building a jail big enough to house all these crooks should create a lot of jobs and be good for the economy.

Nader disdains the very ideas of governance, organizing, party-building. Wasn't it Henry Clay who said that he'd rather he'd right than president? Seems to me that Nader has that same attitude, in spades.

In other words, if people want to get elected they should be prepared to pander to the biggest voting blocks, become lying whores and not insist on telling the truth and doing what is right. And what does that say about the American voters?

As for Nader disdaining the idea of governance, that is meretricious nonsense. At the core of governance in the United States is the U.S. Constitution, something he sticks to but for which the "winners" of past elections have shown disdain by ignoring it when it was politically expedient. That includes Obama, McCain and Biden. And what does it say about the American people if they don't care when politicians shred the Constitution?

It seems to me that the problem with our government is that we elect people who have no problem with getting it wrong as long as they get elected. Maybe if the people raised their standards and insisted on electing people who made a point of getting it right then we wouldn't be in our Iraqi, Afghanistan, Wall Street bailout and other messes. Some of the politicians who voted for the war on Iraq believed they had to do so to get re-elected even if they might have thought it was the wrong thing to do. John Kerry and John Edwards were told if they wanted to become president they would have to vote for Bush's blank check to go to war. According to a book written by party hack Bob Shrum, John Edwards did just that against his and his wife's better judgment. You can bet they weren't the only politicians thinking only of their re-election. No profiles in courage there.

Now which is the better person? The one who gets it right and tells you the truth or the one who tells you what you want to hear but goes along with doing what is wrong? And which would you vote for? If you are like most Americans you voted for the majority of politicians who voted for the war on Iraq and deregulation of the banks that helped get us in this mess. Chances are the candidates most people voted for will sell out on this bailout and endorse Paulson's blank check for Wall Street.

For decades the American people have been voting for the candidate they perceived as the lesser evil, and what did we get? What else? Evil.

As for "politician" being used pejoratively that should not come as a surprise when Congress managed to get a lower rating from the public than Bush or when people refer to the U.S. Capitol as the biggest and most expensive whorehouse in the world.

Mr. Bodden, all I can say is, I voted for Nader twice and do not plan to do so again. I like a lot of what he has to say. I just don't think he's got any interest in practical politics; nor do I see much evidence that most "Naderites" are interested in practical politics, which, to me, involves people running serious, sincere campaigns for everything from the school board on up. By way of contrast, the hard-right folks have been doing this sort of thing effectively. If you don't think that capturing a school board or a city council somewhere matters, then I suggest you're badly mistaken. And if you <do> think that mobilizing every four years around a curmudgeon like Ralph Nader--again, a honest man and one whom I admire in many way--is enough to shift our political culture, then again, I sugest you're badly mistaken.

But...we obviously define "practical politics" very differently. You're the one who seems to be equating "practical politics" with being a "lying whore".

You're the one who seems to be equating "practical politics" with being a "lying whore".

Unfortunately, that is true, isn't it? Or are you gullible enough to believe Obama, Biden and McCain when they promise "change" when their actions indicate it is all business as usual?

Thank you, Joel Dan Walls. I did forget about the Israeli "tourists/students" who were flown out of the country when airspace was off limits and went on TV in Israel (also available on youtube) to talk about how they were in NYC to "document" the 911 attacks.

I also forgot about how multiple CIA field agents tried to warn the White House. ...How Rumsfeld changed the response procedures for hijacked aircraft, even though they had worked flawlessly in protecting America for decades. ...How France, Israel, and Russia all tried to warn President Bush that they had intercepted intelligence that a plot was underway to attack the U.S. ...How Condi Rice testified that nobody could have anticipated planes be hijacked and used as weapons in the U.S., when the armed forces were going through planned exercises that very day for just such a scenario.

I did forget to mention that, but that's because it's just too "tin foil hatty" to bring up. That's why I support Pelosi's "impeachment is off the table" approach, because I'm a good Democrat. Would you like fries with your Merkeley lawn sign?

"Fred Thompson" wrote:

This is surreal. The only guys who made big bucks out of this situation are the folks who sold their homes at the peak of the market or who borrowed against it full value and can now walk away from their obligations.

Are you out of your freakin' mind?

Fred Thompson wrote:

A lot of folks on BlueOregon confuse money with wealth, but it's not.

<h2>I'll tell what, Fred: you give me all your money, and I will tell everyone about how wealthy you are.</h2>