Only the mind of an extremist could conceptualise a continuum that moves beyond "extremeist" and then come upon "Socialist".

BTW, is anybody ever going to ask this idiot how his position on withdrawal from Iraq compared to Obama's position squares with Bush's failure to reach a long term agreement with Iraq because THE IRAQUIS WANT A TIME TABLE FOR US TO GET OUT!

Posted at July 18, 2008 7:38 AM in response to McCain: Obama Is An Extremist, "I Don't Know" If He's A Socialist

You see, if you don't support us and the troops, well then you must be supporting the terrorists... who, by the way ARE supporting us. It's kinda like this big friendly circle, except for the killin'.

Posted at July 15, 2008 7:49 AM in response to White House Distances President From Homeland Security Adviser Who Tried To Trade Access For Cash

Beg to differ a little. I graduated 1970, and it was two years almost before I got a job in my field [chemistry, BTW]. So it wasn't that hot a market for quite a while.
Then to speak on the average wages back then, I have always thought it was skewed all out of proportion. Soon after I got my job I was listening to relatives talk about one of their kids getting a push-broom summer job where they worked for an auto company - union factory work. The kid was getting paid over 80% of what I got paid with my degree.
I think that era is an anomoly; low skill factory jobs in particular industries were getting paid way beyond their value as measured against other industries and professions. I do remember talking about how workers in the auto industry would be pricing themselves out of their jobs. Times since have trended back to more rational proportions.
I don't think it is unusual for a professional to spend more than a year to find the right job. Ahead of us, the economy is and will be much worse than now, and people should be paid a living wage; I am not arguing that.
Yes, wages for low skill jobs have been going down while degreed jobs have gone up. But I have not seen an explanation as to why a factory worker should get paid as well as a skilled worker, so perhaps this is a natural place to be.

Posted at July 2, 2008 11:17 AM in response to A Warning For Young Workers: The Up-Escalator May Be Broken

Who killed the electric car?

Posted at June 18, 2008 12:14 PM in response to Quinnipiac: Obama Ahead In Florida, Ohio And Pennsylvania

Ummm... first, "Some might think this is where the Trojan soldiers are hiding." .. I think you might mean Greek soldiers.

But secondly, the Bushies put us all into hock by essentially borrowing all that money to give those tax cuts. I think we can say all this more simply by saying that we want it back!

Posted at June 3, 2008 12:14 PM in response to Cult Cuts: Looking at Tax Policy from a Hysterical Perspective

The piece that stands out to me is the core theme of the Obama campaign: CHANGE.

He not only received most of his money so far with small donations, he has made a point of this fact as an argument that he will not be beholden to moneyed interests and lobbyests. Putting her on the ticket would give him a well deserved poke from the Repubs about how all his talk to date is just talk.

I think his best bet at this point to obtain unity is to offer her a promise as the first Supreme Court nominee.
But if that was public, I'm not sure how is would swing.
dc

Posted at May 23, 2008 11:49 AM in response to Hillary's Top Fundraising Official Says There's "Risk" Of Obama Loss If She Isn't Invited To Be Veep

First off, I voted for Mondale, so I'm a little prejudiced. As for this hero thing about Reagan, all I can say is that he was just another very plain intellect who was this affable guy everybody likes; kinda like right now. NOBODY comes down with a sudden case of alzheimer's. The early signs were there and talked about during the '84 campaign; the actual disease was not mentioned. Teflon; remember?

I remember back in the 70s predicting the demise of the SU based on information I could glean on industrial production and stories of people I met and read about. Something wrong with a country that has a viable space program, but has factories that output twenty tractors in a year. And tractors are another way of saying "food". Anybody that was interested in delving in beyond the politics of the day and into the lives of soviet citizens could have reached the same conclusion. I find the study you cite quite credible.

Posted at May 1, 2008 1:29 PM in response to Reagan or Mondale?

I've heard it said that "hope" is not a strategy.

Posted at March 17, 2008 8:22 PM in response to Total BS on Wall St.

For months, I've been watching, what I consider a counter-intuitive drop in treasury rates, caused by the advice: "Flee to quality". People have been warning that money market accounts could end up with losses, so go only for treasury backed bond accounts.

Now... with the dollar in free fall, the US in hock up to its ears, and the inflation that the Fed is adding to with its current methods, what do you think is going to happen to treasuries in the not too distant future???

Posted at March 17, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Total BS on Wall St.

Nice to note the guy that gets away before the collapse.
But, I see very few references to the $6-8 billion that will probably be set aside to provide "signing bonuses" to the current crop of managers at BS, supposedly necessary to help put things back together. Kinda like in those movies where the crew is wading thru the swamp, and of course they need some local swamp creature to "guide" them for a price.
THIS is a travesty.

Posted at March 17, 2008 10:39 AM in response to The Fed’s Forced Marriage of Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan