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How Obama Can Demonstrate Real Leadership on the Economic Crisis


Watching John McCain thundering against Wall Street greed is like tuning into to the old Lawrence Welk show to find him doing a polka version of a hard-core rap song ("A-one and a-two, motherfucker!").

Speaking yesterday outside an auto plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCain read his populist rhetoric -- "These workers here are the best in the world. They are the backbone and foundation of our economy." -- with a robotic cadence dripping with inauthenticity.

Wall Street is melting down, and McCain and the GOP have no credible response. When your erstwhile economic guru, Phil Gramm -- a man whose 1996 run for the presidency McCain chaired, and who appears to remain influential behind-the-McCain-campaign-scenes -- is Patient Zero of this killer economic epidemic, it's pretty hard to suddenly start channeling Upton Sinclair.

McCain is so clearly clueless on this issue, the current battle over who is best suited to deal with the financial crisis should be a rout. And, so far, Obama has shown not just an incomparably greater grasp of the situation and substantive policies to deal with it, but a real fire in the belly in going after McCain's vulnerable flank.

But for Obama to show the kind of transformational leadership the crisis demands, he needs to do what so many of his critics have chided him for not doing: take a stand that puts him at odds with the establishment of his own party. He did it in 2002 with the war in Iraq. He can do it in 2008 with the economy.

He needs to start by making sure that the economic advisers he turns to extend beyond those he had on a conference call on Monday -- Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Laura Tyson, and Paul Volcker. It's great to include graybeards who have been through crises before, but he needs to go beyond the two Treasury Secretaries who were complicit in the 1990s deregulation orgy that has led to so many of the problems we are now seeing. And he needs to make it clear that the Clinton-era Democrats who put the interests of Wall Street ahead of the interests of Main Street are not going to be the primary voices he listens to.

Rubin and Summers played a pivotal role in dismantling banking regulations like the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, FDR's pivotal banking legislation designed to constrain the power of Wall Street, and make the activities of the banking industry more transparent. It specifically kept commercial banks separate from their investment banking cousins -- and had long been the Moby Dick of the banking industry, the elusive prey the financial industry Captain Ahabs were determined to harpoon. Consequences be damned.

Phil Gramm, then chairman of the Senate banking committee, did the heavy lifting, and John McCain was an ardent supporter of the deregulation, but Rubin and the Clintonites were certainly up to their eyeballs in pushing legislation gutting so many of the regulations designed to bring accountability to our complex free market system. These bills included the the Financial Modernization Act, which obliterated Glass-Steagall; and the Commodity Futures Modernization act, which gave us unregulated trading of derivatives and the kind of credit default swaps that threaten our economy -- both signed into law by Bill Clinton.

Speaking at a large rally in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Obama declared: "we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis if we're heading in the same disastrous direction. We can't steer ourselves out of this crisis using the same old map, we can't steer ourselves out of the crisis if the new driver is getting directions from the old driver, and that's what this election is all about."

Bull's-eye. Now he needs to make sure the old drivers in his own party don't have their hands on the wheel -- or are the loudest of his backseat drivers -- as the nation navigates this rocky financial road and charts a new direction.


Arianna Huffington
Posted September 18, 2008 | 06:12 PM (EST)

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Spycam, che ne pensi del tuo rappresentante congressista Rangel? magari hai pure votato per lui...

http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/congres....2.821541.html


Obama tutto sommato non e' nemmeno malaccio ma la compagnia di liberal da sbarco che c'e' al congresso da Reid/Pelosi fino a Rangel e' quella che rischia di farvi perdere le elezioni..


Rangel e' presidente della commissione "House Ways and Means Committee" una sorta di commissione per le pari opportunita'.

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Ps. Spycam fammi la cortesia di non postare la Huffington... se continui prometto che vengo qui' ogni giorno a postarti le cose di worldnetdaily (piu' veritiere tra l'altro).

[Gordon Gekko (POL)]

forza OBAMA

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Usa: Obama torna in vantaggio nei sondaggi

WASHINGTON (18 settembre) - L'effetto Sarah Palin ha avuto una portata limitata. Secondo un sondaggio pubblicato dal New York Times e dalla Cbs, in America si è tornati alla situazione precedente alle convention e alle scelte dei vice presidenti. Barack Obama sarebbe, dunque, nuovamente in vantaggio di 5 punti su John McCain. 48 a 43 per il democratico.

Questo perché, sempre secondo il sondaggio, il candidato repubblicano alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti non riesce a far passare un immagine di cambiamento. Viene bensì considerato come un «repubblicano tipico» che erediterà le politiche, comprese quelle fallimentari, di George W. Bush.

Sembrava che la situazione si fosse ribaltata in favore dei repubblicani con la scelta, come vicepresidente, di Sarah Palin. Ma, per ora, la governatrice dell'Alaska non ha proprio convinto l'elettorato femminile, pur facendo registrare un certo aumento di favori tra le donne bianche di fede repubblicana. E ben sei elettori su dieci si dicono preoccupati della possibilità che, nel caso di una vittoria di McCain, questi non possa finire il mandato lasciando alla inesperta Palin la presidenza.

La convention. Un risultato importante McCain l'ha comunque raggiunto, con la convention e la scelta della super conservatrice governatrice dell'Alaska: ha suscitato l'entusiasmo tra la base repubblicana. Si dice entusiasta della scelta della Palin il 70 per cento dei repubblicani, dato praticamente doppio rispetto ai sondaggi pre convention. La scelta della Palin, quindi, al momento sembra aver solo aiutato McCain a rinsaldare intorno a sè le fila di un elettorato repubblicano che dall'inizio era apparso credere in lui solo come una sorta di male minore.

Obama presidente dei giovani, McCain degli over 65. risulta in testa, anche se di misura, tra gli indipendenti, il cui voto sarà cruciale a novembre, ed il senatore quarantenne ha 16 punti di vantaggio nel gruppo degli elettori tra i 18 ed i 44 anni. Speculare il vantaggio che l'ultrasettantenne ha tra gli elettori over 65. Quelli di mezza età, tra i 45 ed i 64, risultano ancora divisi. Per quasi la metà dell'elettorato americano McCain continuerà la politica di Bush. Dato, questo, piuttosto preoccupante per il senatore repubblicano.

Gli americani bocciano Bush. Sempre secondo il sondaggio, infatti, il 68 per cento degli americani disapprova il modo in cui il presidente sta portando avanti il proprio lavoro. Dato record per un presidente in carica da quando il New York Times ha cominciato a registrare il loro tasso di gradimento. Esprimendo forte preoccupazione e pessimismo per la situazione economica del paese di fronte alla crisi finanziaria che sta facendo tremare Wall Street, per l'81 per cento degli intervistati dal quotidiano gli Stati Uniti stanno andando in una direzione sbagliata.

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WOODY ALLEN: ''SAREBBE TERRIBILE PER GLI USA SE NON VINCESSE OBAMA'' (ASCA-AFP) - Saint-Sebastien (Spagna), 19 set - Woody Allen si unisce al coro dei sostenitori di Barack Obama che appartengono al mondo di Hollywood. Se il candidato democratico non dovesse vincere, ''sarebbe un'onta e un'umiliazione e sarebbe terribile per gli Stati Uniti'', ha detto l'attore e regista newyorchese parlando ai giornalisti nel corso del Festival internazionale del Cinema che si tiene a Saint-Sebastien, in Spagna. ''Sarebbe una cosa terribile se il popolo americano non si mobilitasse per votarlo. Lui rappresenta un grande passo avanti rispetto all'incompetenza e agli errori che abbiamo dovuto subire in questi anni''.

Anche Antonio Banderas, attore spagnolo emigrato ad Hollywood, ha espresso il suo appoggio al senatore dell'Illinois. ''Io non sono piu' americano, ma mia figlia lo e' ancora e se penso all'avvenire di mia figlia, ripongo la mia fiducia in Obama''.

Sono molte le stelle del cinema che fin qui hanno dichiarato pieno sostegno al candidato democratico. Fra gli altri George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Spike Lee, Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg, e Jodie Foster.

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Woody Allen? Dobbiamo proprio esaltare quello che pensa un pedofilo? (ha sposato sua figlia), o seguire chi e' sostenuto da tutte le pornostars?

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Permetti che io qui posto tutto quello che
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Tu postati Rush Limbo oppure Sean Hanity o
anche quella rincoglionita di Ann Coulter,,,,

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The Palin Doctrine: Why the Neocons Are So Excited


Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. Or will be -- because it's still currently under construction. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar.

According to London's Daily Telegraph, the architects of the Palin Doctrine are a group of people who have been singularly wrong about virtually everything in the last decade -- the neocons, who have been briefing Palin for weeks.

As predicted, the fact that she didn't know anything wasn't a bug, it was a feature. She's perfect for the neocons: likeable on the outside, a blank slate on the inside. To borrow from an old cliché, if Sarah Palin didn't exist, the neocons would have had to invent her.

In fact, this is how one former White House aide describes her: "She's bright and she's a blank page. She's going places and it's worth going there with her."

Of course, the place her neocon mentors hope she's going is the White House. Given their dismal track record, they're smart enough to figure that the American public wouldn't be too keen on letting them in the front door again, so they are trying to sneak in hidden behind Palin's skirt. The Trojan Moose approaches.

The Daily Telegraph details how the neocon talent scouts spotted their political Eliza Doolittle back in the summer of '07. The love connection began, appropriately enough, on a love boat:

"Sources in the McCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs. Palin was identified as a potential future leader of the neoconservative cause in June 2007. That was when the annual summer cruise organised by the right-of-centre Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Governor Palin."

So nice to meet you, Governor. And don't forget, cucumber sandwiches and preemptive invasions on the Lido Deck at four!

Not surprisingly, Palin's biggest fan is Bill Kristol, who describes her as the "specter of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism" that "is haunting the liberal elites."

Among her other Henry Higginses is neo-neocon Joe Lieberman, who is reportedly helping prep Palin for the big ball -- her debate with Joe Biden.

She's already passed her first test with flying colors: being willing to link 9/11 with Iraq, something not even the president is still willing to do. Last week, she told a group of Iraq-bound soldiers that they were going to "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."

By George (Bush), I think she's got it! Congratulations, Professor Kristol, your student is coming along just fine.

Of course, the neocons know they already have an ally at the top of the GOP ticket. McCain may have been a reformer on campaign finance, but when it comes to foreign policy, he has always been solidly in the neocon club. He loves to burnish his foreign policy bona fides by talking about how he wanted to fire Donald Rumsfeld months before Bush did. But he doesn't talk a lot about how, in the days immediately after 9/11, he was part of the neocon crowd itching to get into Iraq.

Just a few days after the attack, McCain was already talking about "some other countries" that helped Bin Laden. Countries like Syria, Iran, and...Iraq. And a few weeks later, during an October 18, 2001 appearance on David Letterman, McCain answered a question about how the war in Afghanistan was going by announcing that the invasion of Iraq would be "the second phase" of the war on terror (how prescient of him to know that Saddam wouldn't give up those nonexistent WMD). What's more, he tried to buttress the case for attacking Iraq by claiming that the recent spate of anthrax attacks "may have come from Iraq." Or Fort Detrick.

Six years later, demonstrating how little he's learned from the debacle in Iraq, McCain hired Randy Scheunemann, a neocon darling who helped form The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq in 2002, as his campaign's chief foreign policy advisor.

As TPMMuckraker noted in July, "Of all the hawkish Washington foreign-policy types pushing both before and after 9/11 for war with Iraq -- a war that an overwhelming majority of Americans now considers a mistake -- Scheunemann, though not a marquee name, was among the most energetic and influential. And in the invasion's aftermath, he consistently opposed steps that might have helped stabilize the country."

And now, according to the Daily Telegraph, Scheunemann is briefing Sarah Palin.

McCain's selection of Palin may have been reckless, but it was anything but random. The neocons' view of the world may be disastrous, dangerous, discredited, and deadly -- but it's far from dead. Their patron saint, Dick Cheney, the scowling embodiment of the Neocon Doctrine, had way too much baggage -- and way too low approval ratings -- to mount a run for the White House.

That's why the Palin pick was so brilliant. On the outside, she's exponentially more likable and talented at connecting with people than Cheney ever was. But on the inside, once she graduates from the neocon finishing school, she'll be a complete and total Dick. Cheney. With lipstick.