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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:33:28 +0000

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By: brian

brian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:08:15 +0000

Funny how all of these ‘responsible’ commenters were not around when Bush&co. run up the largest deficit in US history. While keeping the WARS (plural) off the books. And if one more person uses the tired meme that the housing bubble was caused by fair lending laws instead of the real cause, mortgage bundling securities trading I’ll implode. The taxpayers are the people who will pay for their excesses.

By: bradlf

bradlf — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:30:29 +0000

Out of a day of thousands of people attending a protest you end up with a 3 minute clip of a man who misspelled a word and wouldn’t tell you whom he voted for. Impressive. He also mentioned the pressure of some groups on banks to loan to people who shouldn’t have gotten the loan (i.e. couldn’t pay back the loan) — and is directly connected to the sub-prime mess. And for this he is accused of being a racist. Good investigative work.

By: Leo Romanovsky

Leo Romanovsky — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:41:21 +0000

Before I begin, let me mention that I voted for Obama and support the guy, so I’m not some right-wing goon out here to slander your blog. However, I think that this gentleman makes several valid points, in particular about the easy lending habits that existed for the last decade. Instead of automatically insulting his intelligence, and more importantly, assuming that all Democrats (think: Clinton administration) were angels, recognize just how big a hand they played in creating our current crisis.

Refusing to think and question our leadership is the same thing that Republicans did under Bush. Don’t make that same mistake. Brain-dead liberals like yourself give the rest of us a bad name. Stop being so damn snarky and condescending, it’s pathetic.

By: Chunky Style

Chunky Style — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:27:05 +0000

It is a fair and legitimate point that massive stimulus / bailout spending will have to be paid by someone at some time; why didn’t you have a ready answer for that? Seriously, if you’re going to an event where you know people are crabbing (in part) about a future tax burden, and the best you can come up with is that taxes will be paid by “taxpayers”, you’re not exactly a sterling example of how smart “our” team is.

(A somewhat better and certainly less circular answer than “taxpayers”: the wealthiest Americans are the ones who benefited most directly from the bailouts and will benefit most directly from stimulus, and they’re also the ones Obama is raising taxes on.)

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:06:22 +0000

You’re basically taking advantage of a sap with poor reasoning skills. He said nothing about disliking blacks until you implied that he had. Though he can’t spell and he can’t argue, he did come back at you towards the end of the video with enough bile to make you a bit flustered.

By: gobnaitx

gobnaitx — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:38:32 +0000

All those people getting money for nothing from the government and not working for it. Like, uh, you sir.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:26 +0000

Clueless…but with the PD as his primary source of info, how could more be expected?

By: Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:55:07 +0000

You really drew him out with that black people comment. Well played.