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friedback on thom thoms contradiction.
from his 11/22/08 nyt oped:
So, I have a confession and a suggestion. The confession: I go into restaurants these days, look around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this urge to go from table to table and say: “You don’t know me, but I have to tell you that you shouldn’t be here. You should be saving your money. You should be home eating tuna fish. This financial crisis is so far from over. We are just at the end of the beginning. Please, wrap up that steak in a doggy bag and go home.”right. its ok for him to eat out. just not the little people. today on the radio he called us to spend (for your country a la bush). when confronted with the contradiction by a viewer he allowed "bush forgot to say when to stop." (racking up credit debt.)
tortured words
land shark
big media nate
clinton noise bs
ayersmail
atwaterboarding
not very happy with this. its one thing to be magnanimous in victory and to recognize the need for building majorities, its another to support incompetent backstabbers.
"At some point, I gave up waiting for the end. There was no scandal or reversal, I assumed, that could sink the system.
Then came Meredith Whitney with news. Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for Oppenheimer Securities who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure. On that day, she predicted that Citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that it would need to slash its dividend or go bust. It’s never entirely clear on any given day what causes what in the stock market, but it was pretty obvious that on October 31, Meredith Whitney caused the market in financial stocks to crash. By the end of the trading day, a woman whom basically no one had ever heard of had shaved $369 billion off the value of financial firms in the market. Four days later, Citigroup’s C.E.O., Chuck Prince, resigned."