And sure it's hyperboyle - why so sensitive?

You're a big fucking cry-baby, Myers. Waaaah waaah, he said something I don't like so I'll call names and cry.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you big fucking baby."

I read the JBF daily, way more than I actually post, and I was disappointed by this post since I valued Mike O'Briens's posts on any topic.  Michael Myers is challenging your posts, and not name calling yet you criticize him for name calling and then you particpate in name calling and obsenities.  Your candiate is leading the polls and all is good in that area, so why dirty yourself with such immature antics?  I don't always agree with Michael Myers opinions on subject matters but I value his posts as very informative and accurate and I dont' recall him name calling with people he doens't agree with.  Maybe you were having a bad day that day and I'll chalk it up to an over reaction.  

Now seriously, Scott, may I ask you a question?

Are you open to change your point of view while you debate, or is just about "wining", having the last word, the last whatever?

Because, man, I don't understand (really) how someone might consider another term for the Republican party on the white house. whoever gets it, McCain, the Mormon guy, the one who not believe in evolution or even Sarah "pitt-bull" Palin. There is a basic assumption, a fundamental belief in the Republican party, which is deregulation.

The unregulated financial markets end up producing this mess. But they don't even consider change their approach. So, how do you expect a different result with more of the same medicine, that is madness. It is like the story "who stole my cheese". They will sit down and will refuse to accept the solution, even if that will cause their death.

Bad regulation is as bad as deregulation. Just about the financial crisis, the whole point is about derivatives. I am an internal auditor and an accountant (I have a Bachelor in accounting and a Brazilian equivalent to CPA), and those CDS - Credit Default Swaps are in the CORE of the financial crisis. Those instruments are responsible for the liquidity crisis and they are responsible for breaking the companies.

This all comes back to the Greenspan period at the Federal Reserve. I can write several pages about how we came to this, but, let's be clear on just one thing. Deregulation is at the core of the Republican party beliefs.

John McCain is a great politician, is playing dirty against Obama, but that is what he believes he have left. Ok, Understandable. Regratable, but understandable. Now, even though he is a great politician, he knows nothing about economy, that is not his arena. Look at his economic advisors, and you will see that, unless he is planning to change it all after getting in the office, he is being advised by the same people who drove US in this mess. Obama seems to be more academic, and the economic group of the Democratic party is different. Another thought, if McCain dies, Sarah Palin will be just a pupet in the hands of the same people that put US in this mess, again, I rather have an Obama (which seems nice, but is just a bet) than a Sarah Palin playing around with the hawks that have been dominating US for the past 8 years.

Seriously, though, your posts are something I've come to look for on many threads, this one most of all.

Right back at you, Al and Talley and I have an open relationship, so we're cool. LOL

Do you think that Republicans are in charge of printing the ballots?

I believe it depends on what party is in charge of the city, also it could have been the printer that hated Obama.

No.  Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.  That's like saying a rapist is an ex-rapist or a serial killer is an ex-serial killer.

Scott this is not even close to the same, to label him as such, is completely wrong.

Sorry.  Had things to do in the real world so couldn't camp the boards.  :P

Dang it Scott stop looking down on me because I live in a town with nothing to do except watch corn grow and keep an eye on an evil squirrel that lives in the tree in our back yard, I think it is going to try to eat our brains, seriously look at this thing.

McCain and Palin have gone so negative, they have their supporters shouting out racial epithets and "Kill Him". After promising to run a new kind of campaign. One of respect. Get real.

I don't mind heated politics, but what McCain/Palin is doing, they are demonizing Obama And when you have those in the crowd screaming "Kill him" and "Terrorist" , you are campaigning hate. I really fear for Obama's life. I called McCains Senate office and told them how I feel and I encourage everyone else to do the same, this hate talk should not be tolerated. Here is McCains Number 1-202-224-2235

I know my English is better than your Portuguese, so I must not bother my mistakes

We had a foriegn exchange student from Brazil and Portguese is a really tough language to learn. Marcio I bet you know the meteric system too. Scott you will lose the battle of smarts, I am afraid we Americans can be pretty stupid.

Thom Price, you said it right.

Any reasonable person knows for a fact that Obama is a bet on the unknown. He can be a great president or another Jimmy Carter, who knows.

The point is, when you put another party in the white house, you change the economic team, the ones who run the show (even though Clinton kept Greenspan in the Federal Reserve). I assume that between the two, it is more likely that Obama will ask for a change in those policies more than McCain.