tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8296478212377120068..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Whitewash Delayed is SOTU Spin DeniedKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-65054840381662223142012-01-25T04:46:05.472-05:002012-01-25T04:46:05.472-05:00Well done, Karen.
It makes me sick how Obama is ...Well done, Karen.<br /><br /> It makes me sick how Obama is working on behalf of the banks at the expense of the rest of us and has the audacity to give speeches suggesting he is on the side of the Middle and Working classes. I really dislike the Republican candidates and all they stand for but for Obama to lie through his teeth while undermining us is equally reprehensible. <br /><br />Of course, if the media would do its job and expose the truth about Obama's actions as opposed to what he says, the public might be able make responsible decisions when it comes to voting and taking part in our democracy. Thanks for being one of the few journalists getting the truth out there. <br /><br />You know, it seems like Obama has taken a leaf from the Bush/Cheney model of governing - say it over and over again with conviction and do whatever the hell you want.<br /><br />Jay is right - "We are living in a vast con in which most of us are the marks."Valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-27360427448808236242012-01-24T20:13:22.201-05:002012-01-24T20:13:22.201-05:00What constitutes a wasted vote? Choosing the less...What constitutes a wasted vote? Choosing the lesser of two evils.<br /><br />“And if this year’s election brings the wrong ideology to power, America’s nascent recovery might well be snuffed out.” – Paul Krugman, “Is Our Economy Healing?” NY Times, 1/22/12<br /><br />This is the trick of the Obamabots and team Obama. Threaten us with what will happen if we choose to vote differently than how we are told to vote. They insist we need to vote for Obama, because the Republican choices will be so much worse.<br /><br />Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report, “How To Waste Your Vote In 2012”<br /><br />“A vote is a terrible thing to waste, they say. But exactly when are votes wasted? Are they thrown away when cast for the least of multiple evils. Are they squandered when cast for what people really need and want, even if that means a Democrat might not win? Are they lost when people with few or no good choices stay home? Or have voters already been robbed when the menu is limited to corporate-funded Republicans vs. corporate-funded Democrats?”<br /><br />http://blackagendareport.com/content/how-waste-your-vote-2012<br /><br />“Your vote really is your voice, and in the modern era, every government on earth claims to rule with the consent of the people. This bestows upon the vote a unique kind of legal and symbolic power. The gap, however, between this legal, this symbolic power of the vote and any real ability to change things for the better is a vast one. The authorities rightly fear the people's voice, and so have contrived law and custom to ensure that we are seldom heard and almost never heeded.”<br /><br />“This imposition of false and meaningless choices is how, in these United States, our voices are suppressed, our votes wasted and made irrelevant, with the black vote rendered most irrelevant of all…<br /><br />“This is how the game is played. This is how the legal and symbolic authority of millions of our wasted votes is hijacked every election cycle, making possible wars we do not endorse, ratifying policies we never wanted, and pretending to believe promises we know, or should know will never be kept. This is what Eugene Debs referred to a century ago, when he declared he would rather cast a meaningful vote for what did want, and not get it, than a fake and hollow one for what he didn't want, and get that.<br /><br />“And so, a hundred years later, the game is still the game. If we want our votes to have any meaning, it's time to reject the fake choices between the two corporate parties. It's time to wise up, to grow up and like adults, to take a view longer than dessert, or the next two or three elections.”Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-33170861441162570762012-01-24T18:02:57.596-05:002012-01-24T18:02:57.596-05:00“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during ...“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.” - Otto von Bismarck<br /><br />Jay Carney previewing President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight: “The State of the Union will be about the central mission that we have as a country and his focus as president: Building a country and an economy where we reward hard work and responsibility, where everyone does their fair share, and where everyone is held accountable for what they do.”Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-43090698974625179082012-01-24T14:45:34.553-05:002012-01-24T14:45:34.553-05:00Whitewash delayed, indeed.
Like SOPA/PIPA and Key...Whitewash delayed, indeed.<br /><br />Like SOPA/PIPA and Keystone, we shouldn’t celebrate. According to those pushing this settlement, issues are “still be resolved” and “this is one step along the way” and a “deal will be announced” at some point.<br /><br />The key is how many state attorneys general will agree with it, or oppose it, and if public pressure against it is sustained.<br /><br />Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, has filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to obtain documents pertaining to foreclosure fraud by these large banks and detailing the secret settlement negotiations.<br /><br />“Foreclosure Fraud Reveals Structural & Legal Crisis,” Barry Ritholtz:<br />“The woes in the mortgage market are complex, deep and structural. This is more than just a few shortcuts taken by paralegals here and there — there are endemic structural problems within the US real estate and mortgage markets…We are not discussing economic problems of too many homes for sale and falling prices. What is being discussed here is a full blown crisis underlying home titles, foreclosure procedures, and securitized mortgages. The rampant, epidemic and systemic abuse of legal property protections is now reaching a crisis.”<br />http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/foreclosure-fraud-reveals-structural-legal-crisis/<br /><br />“Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights,” Barry Ritholtz<br />http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/why-foreclosure-fraud-is-so-dangerous-to-property-rights/<br /><br />“Another Bad Bank/Housing Deal Coming Our Way,” Barry Ritholtz:<br />http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/another-bad-bankhousing-deal-coming-our-way/Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-88818793944580795492012-01-24T14:18:07.368-05:002012-01-24T14:18:07.368-05:00These reports stun me anew each week. I refer to ...These reports stun me anew each week. I refer to the enormous white-collar crimes, the quiet pardons that follow and the phony deals officialdom designs to sell the package as is. We are living in a vast con in which most of us are the marks. The surreal is not merely a weird art form when you discover it is your life and the state of the nation.<br /><br />Whichever candidate eventually wins the Republican primary for the right, in the next round of debates, to trash Obama's record next fall will be the wrong person to do the trashing. Voters will still end up with a choice between two mud wrestlers. A write-in ballot, yes, but isn't that also surreal?<br /><br />If only a fraction of the millions of people who lost their homes as a result of bank fraud and chicanery would occupy the streets around the Capitol tonight, the lions of finance and their pets in government would not sleep in that jungle tonight.Jay - Ottawanoreply@blogger.com