Comments on: Bush’s Wall Street Speech, Channeling Herbert Hoover

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:27:21 +0000

FROM THINK PROGRESS:

Rudd insisted that the best response should involve the broader G20 — which includes China — in order to harness China’s role as an emerging economic power and “to prevent the Chinese using the global crisis to make political points about the failure of Western capitalism.” But according to The Australian newspaper, Bush had no idea what the G20 was:

After the President explained the pressure from Europe for a G7-brokered action on supporting the credit sector and reforming regulation, Rudd immediately insisted the G20 was the solution.

Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: “What’s the G20?”

SOURCE – http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/17/rudd-bush-g20/

By: Zhu Bajie

Zhu Bajie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:02:33 +0000

Comparing the two is a slur on Hoover, who had genuine humanitarian achievements outside the presidency, most notably his relief work at the end of WW I. Bush has no achievements whatsoever.

Zhu Bajie

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:41:59 +0000

@Michael W: My name isn’t “richy,” Mikey. I’ve politely asked you to desist from such 12 yr old behavior and you somehow can’t seem to act more maturely than that. So your comments will be moderated in future & anything that rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason will earn you future permanent banning.

Oh & Mikey, I read Haaretz too and read the story to which you linked yesterday. I’ll wait to find out if the new left party is more than a flash in the pan before I write about it. Israeli political history is full of new parties which were going to be the “next big thing,” and fizzled instead.

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:06:35 +0000

Mr. Weinstein: LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL……..!

By: Norman Weinstein

Norman Weinstein — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:46:19 +0000

Please, Mr. Dickerson, do not consider me an alliteraphobe. Even though rhyme may not pay, alliteration can and often does, I’ll be the first to agree. And in the case of our putative president – I’ll never forgive my fellow Americans for succumbing in 2004 to the incumbency gifted him – possibilities for descriptive alliterations are legion, but though they may amuse they do not, alas, disguise the fact that we still have almost 10 weeks more to endure this interloper. However, here are a few contributions that might help avoid that trip to a shrink:

pallid, pusillanimous putz
spoiled, sparse spermatidal spendthrift
gauche, goofy goombah
amoral ass
wanton wannabe warrior

By: Michael W

Michael W — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:46:57 +0000

hey richy,

you should write on this:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037560.html

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:28:28 +0000

“This from a guy who’s just cooked up the largest single government intervention in the U.S. financial system in the country’s history.”

We might also add:
(1) massive Big Pharma profits from the 2003 expansion of Medicare;
(2) lucrative contracts for AT&T and Verizon to help the government spy on citizens;
(3) billions and billions showered on the military-industrial complex in the course of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
Various terms could be used to describe Bush economics – e.g., “mercantilist”, “crony capitalism”, or even “fascist” as Mussolini would have understood the term – “free market” is most definitely not one of them.

By: siburp

siburp — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:40:37 +0000

What can you expect from a man with his background? Too late to call him names, for he was voted in for the second term because of his brother in Florida and the Justice system gave Florida electoral votes to him. His Wall Street speech must be made to show his state of mind- neither here nor there.

Money put anywhere with security will be stolen by thieves. Without Law and Order, the beast in a man will dominate anytime- otherwise there is no need to build Churches, Mosque, synagogues, etc. Faith is the only source of strength which makes Malcolm X a better Human- so are we. Only the fear of GOD’S WRATH and CURSE makes us civilize. There must be sufficient regulations to stop unscrupulous traders from insider trading and other unfair practices in his effort for an upward mobility. No bonuses or gold handshakes should given to CEOS who failed to deliver.

Al Gore and his Democrats also gave it to him because they could not mobilize the voters to vote for them.

Then Bush got beaten by the “Ghost of Saddam” and the guile of Osama who believes in Allah. He could be boiling “hot lava” inside.

Obama will have to be smarter to deal with these adversaries if he is not going to end like Bush.