Mink's (and the liberal left's) Double Standards

[The New Guy]

even stevie wonder can see the double standard being used with the chosen one here.

although i'm sure that the obama team is doing everything short of hiring hit men (the clintons would have already gone there) to take out anyone who may be able to tie obama to any of this blagovich turmoil, i believe that in due time we will begin to learn that there were connections.

let's take a page out of the left's playbook and hold court and convict obama before the evidence arrives just like they were fond of doing over the last 8 years.

[Mink]

Just so we make this crystal clear regarding double standards, does this mean I get to defend Obama like the Republicans defended Bush?

Secondly, shouldn't we wait until Obama is in office before you trash him and I get to justify whatever it is you are waiting to trash?

[The New Guy]

take your best shot. we've told you the next 4 years will be painful for you.

[Mink]

Wrong, the last 8 years were painful for me (and the country).

Have fun!

[jgaffney]

Dec 13, 2008 1:50:55 GMT -5 Mink said:

Wrong, the last 8 years were painful for me (and the country).

Are you talking about the sub-5% unemployment that only recently changed? Or, the 2-4% quarterly GDP growth that the country suffered through?

It's only been since mid-2007, when the Democrat-fostered subprime mortgage meltdown started to drag the economy down, that the constant bleatings from the Left of economic malaise finally started to occur. Yet, we have the circus of Henry Waxman and Barney Frank blaming Wall Street for the crisis that Congress created. Unbelievable.

[ferrous]

The question remains, as The Big Dog pointed out...

Can Obama rise from the pool of shit, that is the Chicago political machine, and still remain squeaky clean?

[subdjoe]

Dec 13, 2008 10:36:18 GMT -5 ferrous said:

The question remains, as The Big Dog pointed out...

Can Obama rise from the pool of shit, that is the Chicago political machine, and still remain squeaky clean?

I think he can. Remember how Ronnie seemed to have a teflon coating to which nothing would stick? I think The Obama is a lot like him that way, his gift for gab will shield him.

[moondog]

Dec 13, 2008 1:05:37 GMT -5 Mink said:

Just so we make this crystal clear regarding double standards, does this mean I get to defend Obama like the Republicans defended Bush?

Secondly, shouldn't we wait until Obama is in office before you trash him and I get to justify whatever it is you are waiting to trash?

It is my recollection that no one waited for Bush to get into office before they began debasing him.

[moondog]

Dec 13, 2008 1:50:55 GMT -5 Mink said:

Wrong, the last 8 years were painful for me (and the country).

Have fun!

If you can tell me what significant event happened on April 27, 1942 in regards to the President of the time signing laws, I will register as a Democrat. It is the single most painful event in the history of taxation, just to give you a hint.

[moondog]

Dec 13, 2008 13:02:17 GMT -5 subdjoe said:

Dec 13, 2008 10:36:18 GMT -5 ferrous said:

The question remains, as The Big Dog pointed out...

Can Obama rise from the pool of shit, that is the Chicago political machine, and still remain squeaky clean?

I think he can. Remember how Ronnie seemed to have a teflon coating to which nothing would stick? I think The Obama is a lot like him that way, his gift for gab will shield him.

Ronald Reagan almost single handedly undid all the damage done to this nation by one President some 48 years prior to his taking office.

[jgaffney]

Dec 15, 2008 15:12:52 GMT -5 @moondog said:

If you can tell me what significant event happened on April 27, 1942 in regards to the President of the time signing laws, I will register as a Democrat. It is the single most painful event in the history of taxation, just to give you a hint.

I'm certainly not going to encourage you to change your party affiliation, but are you referring to FDR's speech to Congress?

We must therefore adopt as one of our principal domestic objectives the stabilization of the cost of living, for this is essential to the fortification of our whole economic structure.

Relying on past and present experience, and leaving out masses of details which relate more to questions of method than to the objective itself, I list for the Congress the following points, which, taken together, may well be called our present national economic policy.

1. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must tax heavily, and in that process keep personal and corporate profits at a reasonable rate, the word "reasonable" being defined at a low level.

2. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must fix ceilings on the prices which consumers, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers pay for the things they buy; and ceilings on rents for dwellings in all areas affected by war industries.

3. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must stabilize the remuneration received by individuals for their work.

4. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must stabilize the prices received by growers for the products of their lands.

5. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must encourage all citizens to contribute to the cost of winning this war by purchasing War Bonds with their earnings instead of using those earnings to buy articles which are not essential.

6. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must ration all essential commodities of which there is a scarcity, so that they may be distributed fairly among consumers and not merely in accordance with financial ability to pay high prices for them.

7. To keep the cost of living from spiraling upward, we must discourage credit and installment buying, and encourage the paying off of debts, mortgages, and other obligations; for this promotes savings, retards excessive buying and adds to the amount available to the creditors for the purchase of War Bonds.

I know that you will appreciate that these seven principal points, each and every one of them, will contribute in substantial fashion to the great objective of keeping the cost of living down.

This speech is certainly a high point in FDR's socialist program for America. Which Democrat is willing to champion these ideas today?

[moondog]

Nope, though that speech was probably part of his attempt to pass what he wanted.