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Mike O'Brien
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | 1  

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley gives a pretty awesome summation of the Ayers dumb-shittery:

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/dale y_dont_tar_obama_for_ayers.html

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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | 2  
Michael, amazingly Brazil is in a very good shape to face this crisis and our economy had never been stronger. any banks here had any kind of problem with the toxic bonds.

US played a role in keeping dictators in SA for a long time, but that ended in the mid 80's/ early 90's.

And believe it or not here they say many of the reform's that had strenghtned our economy were Neo-liberal....

The main difference here is the regulatory environment, very restrictive, a US bank would even call that something like Russia or Soviet Union. But it made our financial system safe.
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | 3  
Great piece Mike. Thanks for posting.
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Michael Retour
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | 4  
Marco,

Most people in the USA have no clue of the role the IMF plays in keeping nations in a perpetual state of debt etc.

South America, or Ibero-America if you prefer, could be an economic powerhouse except for the powers that be now wanting it to be one. 

As you might know, the fox has been guarding the chicken house in the USA as far as regulation for many, many years. 

Thanks for joining the conversation. 




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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | 5  
The IMF medication was always bitter.
Last year (or it was 2006? not sure now) Brazil paid the IMF and I just learned today that Brazil is the 4th country in a list of the biggest creditor of US (China, Japan and Great Britain were 1, 2 and 3rd on that list).

It is not amazing how 8 years of Republican administration can make the world upside down?
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | 6  

I'm guessing you missed this a couple of pages back?

did you miss these:

here is her video supporting their convention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7UZ1IufQ8

Now you show me a video of Obama supporting the "terrorist act",  that happened when Obama was eight.

I showed you mine, now you show me yours. LOL 

http://fightthesmears.com/articles/22/ayerssmear?source=sem- pm-fts-ay-search-us&gclid=CNGyqMCflJYCFQObFQodFB_PDg



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Mike O'Brien
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OH!  MY!  GOD!

SOOOOO CUUUUUUUUTE!

http://yeswecanholdbabies.wordpress.com/

It's a website full of pics of Obama holding babies.

Pics like these found inside:

It makes me want to have kids!  SOOOO CUUUUUUTE!!!
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | 8  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html

So much for the "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood" excuse.
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Mike O'Brien
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | 9  

Yeah, that's an opinon piece that makes a lot of claims and doesn't back any of them up.

It's like Sean Hannity, but written instead of spoken.

The author's biggest gripe is that Obama and Ayers "pushed a radical agenda" on the schools, but how so?  It's just vague generalities - including, laughably, among other, the fact "that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression"

So... resistance to racism is radical?  No wonder there was so much confusion a page or two ago.

He then tries to tie Obama and Ayers as close, claiming to use meeting notes and records, but... then doesn't give any examples.  He instead notes that Ayers was on a board of directors, so therefore must've had some say in approving Obama's position in the organization. 

Um...

Yeah, that's a pretty poorly written attack, that one is...
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | 10  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html

So much for the "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood" excuse.

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An opinion piece written as a factual article by the guy who insisted that granting marital rights to gay couples destroyed heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia?
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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | 11  
A Wall Street Journal opinion columnist --- might as well have shown us something from Fox News. 

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For the same reason that you'd want a known illegal drug user and terrorist associate to be President. 

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Please leave Bush out of this.
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