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Originally posted by InnerTruths
Clinton gets impeached for being a man whore to women.
Obama is a whore to BIG CORPS but will stay in power...because no one cares.
I don't understand why more people were outraged by Clinton than about this Obamanation of an oil spill.
Originally posted by kinda kurious
You'll get no argument from me. I am known around these parts as a staunch Obama defender. Make that former. I have renounced his administration as a result of the Gulf catastrophe. (I'm pro-environment and anti-war.)
I'm not jumping over to the neocon / birther / TPM clan though, just refusing to continue to stick up for what I consider to be gross negligence. Yeah, me and James Carville. I've got slighly more hair.
I live in Florida (native) and although it hasn't arrived on our beaches yet, it is inevitable. I've already lost tourism related projects in my business.
Great thread albeit disgusting.
[edit on 25-5-2010 by kinda kurious]
Originally posted by Prove_It_NOW
Bush = Oil, Military Industrial Complex, War, Drug Trade, Energy, Bailouts for Banks, No solution to Illegal Immigration, sweeping powers, fraud, Wall Street
Obama= Oil, Military Industrial Complex, War, Drug Trade, Carbon Tax Scam, Bailouts for Banks, No solution to Illegal Immigration, sweeping powers, fraud, Wall Street Insiders
[edit on 25-5-2010 by Prove_It_NOW]
In 1835, Jackson managed to reduce the federal debt to only $33,733.05, the lowest it had been since the first fiscal year of 1791.[26] President Jackson is the only president in United States history to have paid off the national debt. However, this accomplishment was short lived. A severe depression from 1837 to 1844 caused a tenfold increase in national debt within its first year.
The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message (written by George Bancroft), the bank needed to be abolished because:
* It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution.
* It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
* It served mainly to make the rich richer.
* It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
* It favored northeastern states over southern and western states.
Following Jefferson, Jackson supported an "agricultural republic" and felt the Bank improved the fortunes of an "elite circle" of commercial and industrial entrepreneurs at the expense of farmers and laborers. After a titanic struggle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its 1832 re-charter by Congress and by withdrawing U.S. funds in 1833.
Originally posted by kinda kurious
I have renounced his administration as a result of the Gulf catastrophe. (I'm pro-environment and anti-war.)
[edit on 25-5-2010 by kinda kurious]
Originally posted by stanats
Another teabagger post and another throng of teabagging cheerleaders posting in response, hohum;
Turns out your evidence ain't so indisputable
mediamatters.org...
Originally posted by Prove_It_NOW
It took you TILL THIS EVENT to oppose Obama????? Holy latecomers Batman!
Coded $284,930,288 (73%)
Uncoded $103,353,467 (27%)
Total $388,283,755
Female 42.2% 140068 $145,907,470
Male 57.8% 179638 $199,743,442
Total $345,650,912
Individual contributions $656,357,572 88% (Notice above comparatively)
PAC contributions $1,830 0%
Candidate self-financing $0 0%
Federal Funds $0 0%
Other $88,626,223 12%
Obama declined public financing and the spending limits that came with it, making him the first major-party candidate since the system was created to reject taxpayers' money for the general election.
We know less about people who stayed at $200 or below because $201 is the trigger for FEC disclosure. Obama's staff says that more than 3 million people contributed to his campaign. We cannot verify this number independently but we consider it to be plausible. Since about $156 million of Obama's funds as of Oct. 15 had come from donors whose contributions had not broken the $200 disclosure threshold (see Table 1), accepting the staff's statement (and subtracting the number of disclosed donors) would mean that an estimated 2.5 million undisclosed donors gave a cumulative average of about $62 each. This figure is consistent with the amount CFI has calculated for the typical undisclosed donor in past elections and is also consistent with survey research. Obama's innovation would not be in the amount he raised from each small donor, but in the number of such people he was able to reach. His 2.5 million small donors would be in the same general range as CFI's published estimate for the number of small donors who gave to all candidates combined in 2004 (anywhere from 2.0 to 2.8 million).