I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I have certainly never seen any organization as ripe with corruption as this bunch. They are so reflexively dishonest that it must affect their thinking. If one is does not assume that truth is better than a lie, then how is one going to think straight about anything?
Binge, borrow and bomb Republicans - personal narcissism encouraged in the service of fascism. What a world, what a world.
Cubans would love to have all the "lemons" made after Castro took power.
The poor guy better get ready to be dragged through the mud!
These principles are also presumably why the worst quality politicians get elected (excepting Clenis(TM) of course)
Yes, and the American people like him. Someone shoot me.
Well, thats all liberal academic biased socialized claptrap by hate americans subsidized by our tax dollars. Kill them all. Do I get a tax cut now?
Anyone who trusts W would buy a used car from Nixon.
Another egghead who hates America and doesn't relate to the common man the way Our Commander in Chief does. Why do they hate America so much?
Yeah, Akerlof's only 61 years old. How dare he call Bush the worst president in American history?! Even that old broad in the press corps isn't 200 years old.
I guess Reagan gets a pass because of the Alzheimers thing.
The poor guy's brain said "see ya" half way through his first term.
Here is the fun part: He gets a second term! How smart are moron Americans?
Otherwise I'd call it a tie. Reagan, Bush share the top spot.
These principles are also presumably why the worst quality politicians get elected (excepting Clenis(TM) of course)
It doesn't take Bobbi Fleckman to know which way the wind blows.
Obviously a Krugman wannabe.
Hadenough- Do you remember those Reagan appearances when he looked (and acted!) like one of Mr. Rogers' puppets?
northsylvania - "Do you remember those Reagan appearances when he looked (and acted!) like one of Mr. Roger's puppets?"
LOL I remember, and he did, he looked just like one of those extremely low tech puppets.
And the deathless Tony Coelho comment on his first debate with Mondale, "He did everything except drool." hahahahahahahaha
Oh yeah!
It's just about exactly the same guys pulling Jr.s strings.
They picked Bush for prez. because he was/is an empty suite.
hadenough - I think since Nixon, the party got spooked and have been electing empty suits pretty much ever since. I think the idea is to have the party operate the puppet. I think the party may have lost control of this set of advisors, and of itself. The Republicans are in trouble, since the far right kook contingent of the party has taken over.
Ronald Reagan = Enigma
Why does Reagan hate America?
June 1952 (from a commencement address at Williams Woods College, one of the oldest surviving speeches of Reagan's)
"I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land. It was set here and the price of admission was very simple: the means of selection was very simple as to how this land should be populated. Any place in the world and any person from those places; any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here."
--Ronald Reagan
Luckie Duckies?!?!
March 31, 1976 (from his "To Restore America" speech, which included one of many references to his experiences during the Depression)
"No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a market for that job skill. Back in those dark depression days I saw my father on a Christmas eve open what he thought was a Christmas greeting from his boss. Instead, it was the blue slip telling him he no longer had a job. The memory of him sitting there holding that slip of paper and then saying in a half whisper, 'That's quite a Christmas present,' it will stay with me as long as I live."
--Ronald Reagan
what a lying old sack of shit - you can tell that depression story is right out of MGM.
I think they elect empty suits in order to hang onto the presidency when their corruption is exposed. Reagan was dumber than a sack of buckwheat and you really couldn't believe that he was anything except indirectly responsible for the cascades of corruption that poured over this country during his two terms. I only mean by that, that he wasn't the one thinking the schemes up and suggesting who to hire to carry them out ala Nixon. Though, as president, he bears the responsibility for what he encouraged to happen. With Reagan at the helm, they could feel fairly safe that even if Walsh really did hit paydirt, it was going to be damned hard to convince anyone Reagan did it. We all knew he was waaaaay too stupid. They hold onto a presidency and remain in good shape for 88 even though they were the most corrupt adminstration of the twentieth century.
I think they were hoping for a repeat with Shrub. He's even dumber than Reagan and can't speak nearly as well - Reagan understood basic grammar. This is the problem for them, he's mean. You can't believe he isn't pulling the levers. You just know he loves pulling the levers.
It's weird - Bush is like the worst aspects of Reagan and Nixon in one human body. It's a sad day to be an American.
I think they took advantage of Reagan just like they are doing to Bush.
Bush was a twenty year drunk. His mind is gone. Reagan had a disease.
That works out perfectly for the cabal.
"It was noticeable that there was something wrong there, but we figured it was just the natural aging process."
--Former White House physician Burton Lee, on whether Ronald Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his second term, in USA Today
- I think since Nixon, the party got spooked and have been electing empty suits pretty much ever since
Hey now, whoa. You wouldn't think that, say, Arnold Schwartzenegger's an empty suit would you?
After seeing those infamous photos of Ahnuld in a birthday suit, I would say that he's hung like an organ-grinder's monkey.
But even at that, it dwarfs his brain.
Now I know why all the used cars I buy suck - and now I know why Bush is the worst President ever. I feel so much better knowing this. Thank you Noble Dude.
As you know my wife was in the last administration, and she did very well. She is probably much better suited for public service.
Hmmm, I suspect we're about to discover that the good professor's wife is actually a CIA agent.
The poor guy better get ready to be dragged through the mud!
At least his wife isn't an undercover CIA operative.
I hope.
"him sitting there holding that slip of paper and then saying in a half whisper, 'That's quite a Christmas present,'"
... so me and the Dead End Kids went down and roughed up some punks from the neighborhood an' took their money, and stole some bikes an' stuff and took them to old Thompson the fence.
But that wasn't enough money to get through Christmas, so Darla and Spanky and us, we put on a talent show. And it was swell.
aWol's tax cut just caused my gov't pension to increase by $30/month.
Next January that will be eaten up by
a certain rise in medical insurance. Let's see; $30 x 6 months = $180! Wheeee!
I don't suppose we could get Matt Groening to do an ad for the 2004 election--maybe a 10-second spot with the Comic Book Guy and your headline?
The article about Akerlof was pretty interesting. Could be one of the best stories ever from the Islamic Republic News Agency.
But, but . . . I want to know what Der Spiegel thinks of Ann Coulter. Otherwise I just can't take them seriously as a news organization.
"The poor guy better get ready to be dragged through the mud!"
Nobel prize winners aren't afraid of anybody - they are the 800 lb gorillas of academia - they can get a teaching/research post anywhere worldwide.
And at Berkeley they get the most coveted of all prizes. A reserved on-campus parking spot.
(A true story: Normally when you win a Nobel the University offers to build your own lab or institute. Which put Cal in kind of a quandry when Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet then teaching at Berkeley won the Nobel for literature. He already had a fountain pen, which was all the equipment he needed. When they asked what he wanted he said a "reserved parking spot". They gave him one and then all the rest of the Nobel prize winners at Cal demanded one. Which if you have ever been to Berkeley you will recognize as a substantial percentage of available on-campus parking).
In the rarified air of acclaimed academia, I'm sure a reserved parking place at Berkeley is a true indication that you are the real deal. In the much more populous SCRW, a Nobel Prize winner isn't necessarily an "800 lb golrilla" but more like somebody who won that same egghead prize that I hear about every so often, you know, the one that Jimmie Carter won.
And, especially since the award was won, in this case, in economics. Like, what's that all about anyway?
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