those who say the candidates are the same aren’t paying attention and really don’t know all that much about american politics. nadar? seriously? didn’t we learn our lesson the first time around?

The only people who can “reason with” obamessiah are the corpoRATe lobbyists who are on his staff and will join him in the oval office. These corpoRATe lobbyists have given him huge bribes, ur um “campaign contributions” through a back door so he can claim he “doesn’t take lobbyist money.” We are being sold a bill of goods!

I hope you will at least take a quick look at the page this link leads to. See how obamessiah and the reverend mcPain have the same agenda on all the important issues:

http://votenader.org/issues

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

We also need discuss what is in our best interest concerning what should be done. Loading the 4 page disaster of a bailout with pork is not a step in the right direction!

Glad you brought up the depression. There is a major cause of this disaster that has a link to depression era sensibility, lost to us in 1999:

BOTH the dirty dems and filthy repubs are to blame for this disaster. BOTH set the economic wreaking ball of DEREGULATION swinging. The rebubs deregulatory fervor is quite well known, but the dems are just as guilty:

In 1999 the gramm-leach-bliley Act was passed. It repealed the old Glass-Steagall Act, passed in the Great Depression, which prohibited a commercial bank from being in the investment and insurance business. President bill clinton signed it into law.

Before gramm-leach-bliley was passed, clinton sent his economic point man, robert rubin to capital hill to push for it’s passage. rubin and lawrence summers at clinton’s Treasury were the financial deregulation guys on the clinton team. gramm-leach-bliley made it legal for all the thieving that caused this subprime mortgage disaster to happen! Under the old Glass-Steagall Act, none of this would have taken place!

robert rubin personally benefited from the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. After leaving his clinton Treasury position, he co-directed the newly merged investment/commercial banking conglomerate Citigroup. Under Glass-Steagall, the former commercial bank Citicorp and the former investment banking firm Travelers would not have been allowed to merge.

robert rubin is now a member of the obamessiah team. He is one of obamessiah’s major ECONOMIC ADVISERS! gramm for whom the gramm-leach-bliley is named is one of the reverend mcPain’s major ECONOMIC ADVISERS! If that ain’t letting the foxes in the chicken coop I don’t know what is!

I for one do not want any more of these corpoRATe retreads like rubin on the white house staff! I won’t be voting for either obamessiah or the reverend mcPain!

The only thing worse then the dirty dems and filthy repubs working against each other, is when they work together! That’s when we the taxpayers really get robbed!

In an effort to calm the fear, I remind people that the “mortgage crisis” that started this whole thing is more myth then reality. Fully 95% of all mortgages in the USA are paid in full and on time. It is only 5% of the mortgages that were the problem. This would not have been a big deal if mega monster companies like WaMu and countrywide had not held so many of them, and idiot wall street banks didn’t turn them into now worthless paper! From what I see this bailout is just the dirty dems and filthy repubs lining the pockets of their rich buddies, using this “crisis” as an excuse!

Even if something need be done, it can be done fast and cheap by treasury dept. using the power that FDR used in the great depression to shore up mortgages. Back then treasury simply renegotiated the problem loans and ordered the banks that held them to lower the interest and increase the number of years to pay them back. Cost to taxpayers for this plan? $0.00

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer