the boneheads on this site will say the poll is bogus because it wasn't done by fox news ;D
Blacken : What specifically did Bush do to ruin the economy?
Blacken is a sheep who doesn't have an original thought. He will answer with a video showing a liberal spewing Obama talking points.
Repeatedly, Bush talked about how the economy was in trouble. Arriving in office following the longest continuous economic upturn in generations, President Bush seized on a stock market that had faltered some in the uncertainty following the 2000 Presidential election.The bad economy, he talked about. Again and again. The bad economy.You know what happened as a result? First, people held off on hiring and purchases to see if the President's bleak prediction would come true. When this happened, Less hiring and corporate spending created a measurable slowdown in the economy, which led people to say, "Hey, maybe the President is right," and tighten up even more. Each report grew worse and worse due to this, and a nation that was being told to expect the worst slowly came to believe it.So, to put it simply, President Bush's constant talk about the economy being bad led it to be so. two wars didn't help. Is that right 333386?
that got things going then you had the Housing bubble, Inflation,
Subprime lending, Oil prices
tax cuts during a time of war and a floundering economy
AGAIN, PLEASE NAME ME THE SPECIFIC POLICY THAT BUSH ENACTED THAT LED TO THE ECONOMY CRASHING IN 2008.
No, you're either attempting deception or just trying to show Blacken as an idiot (which isn't hard to do). The problem was Bush's INACTION over a period of years.
Yes, it was his inaction along with a corrupt congress both GOP/DEM who refused to reign in spending and do any oversight on Fannie Freddy. There are many articles on this and GWB, while not blameless, is not completely at fault either. Putting this all on him alone is for the intellectually lazy who dont want to read what actually occurred.
Again, you need to watch The Warning to see where this mess was hatched. it was not with GWB. Yes, he let the problem grow to insane measure, but he did not create it.
It was Clinton, Rubin, Geithner, Greenspan, Phil Grahm, and Larry Summers all who led to the repeal of Glass Steagal and created the derivatives market where Fannie and Freddy were allowed to buy up crap mortgages, etc.
So, to put it simply, President Bush's constant talk about the economy being bad led it to be so.
Wow......just....wow.....
Just think, by this logic, all Obama has to do it say the economy's good and BINGO!
That is why I asked him that question. It reveals the understanding and education of your typical obama voter.
Repeatedly, Bush talked about how the economy was in trouble. Arriving in office following the longest continuous economic upturn in generations, President Bush seized on a stock market that had faltered some in the uncertainty following the 2000 Presidential election.The bad economy, he talked about. Again and again. The bad economy.You know what happened as a result? First, people held off on hiring and purchases to see if the President's bleak prediction would come true. When this happened, Less hiring and corporate spending created a measurable slowdown in the economy, which led people to say, "Hey, maybe the President is right," and tighten up even more. Each report grew worse and worse due to this, and a nation that was being told to expect the worst slowly came to believe it.So, to put it simply, President Bush's constant talk about the economy being bad led it to be so. two wars didn't help. Is that right 333386?
OWNING OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be fair, Blacken did add the last sentence: "Is that right 333386?" ;D
He will never live this down.
Great find James! ! ! !
How did you find that?
This is not his first time of trying to pass off someone's work, as his own.
Great find! Lets see if he acknowledges his academic theft ala Joe Biden?
BUMP FOR RESPONSE FROM BLACKEN!
It seems Blacken has left the building.....
No he hasnt!
He is posting on other threads!
Come on Blacken - man up and admit you plagerized your response!
It seems Blackens Integrity has left the building.....
Bro - when you get 99% of your material from DU, you have no integrity.
Keep this thread going until he responds.
Oh yeah!
Mons was first. Blacken will be next.
I like KC. Even though I dont agree with him, KC never plagerizes.
Blacken is finished after your owning.
Blacken:
Do you admit to plagerism like Joe Biden or not?
YES OR NO ?
Give him a minute to find an answer! ;D
Hahahaha...that's true. The same douchebage mocking Palin for writing on her palm is out stealing other people's works. lol
REVENGE OF THE NERDS :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
LMFAO hahahaha ;D
It's ok buddy, I'm sure it's tough not being able to think for yourself. Just remember to put your football helmet on before you go outside and everything will be alright.
Repeatedly, Bush talked about how the economy was in trouble. Arriving in office following the longest continuous economic upturn in generations, President Bush seized on a stock market that had faltered some in the uncertainty following the 2000 Presidential election.The bad economy, he talked about. Again and again. The bad economy.You know what happened as a result? First, people held off on hiring and purchases to see if the President's bleak prediction would come true. When this happened, Less hiring and corporate spending created a measurable slowdown in the economy, which led people to say, "Hey, maybe the President is right," and tighten up even more. Each report grew worse and worse due to this, and a nation that was being told to expect the worst slowly came to believe it.So, to put it simply, President Bush's constant talk about the economy being bad led it to be so. two wars didn't help. Is that right 333386?
James- by far this is your best EVER! ! !
FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
CAN I JUST SAY 10 HAIL MARYS AND BE FORGIVEN ;D
No. You have to commit to not bashing Palin for doing the same thing you have done.
last time i looked i wasn't running for pres.,that being said i would bet I'm more honest then all the pres. in my lifetime
i think you will be surprised on palin, she will be in the debates :o
How many other posts have you plagerized?
Some kids play Dungeons and Dragons, other go online and play World of Warcraft. Conservatives, apparently, play courtroom, and indict the President of the United States samson you are beginning to be a fucking joke on this site,then you wonder why people don't take you serious,i wouldn't be surprised in your next post you say you can see Russia from your porch
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=319629.msg4543054#msg4543054
The genius speaks!
Someone duct tape this idiots lips shut. Cut that mike! Erase the answers written on her hand! Turn off the friggin cameras already!She quits everything she starts. Why won't she quit making stupid statements?Iran has made it perfectly clear. ANY attack on Iran and they will try to wipe Israel off the map.
This pee-brain numb-skull wants World War 111 to break out for sure. Will Somebody Please take the microphone away from this woman. She's an embarrassment to the entire human race. She is showing that not only does she know the difference between Iran and Iraq now but also that we would have a 3rd war on our hands if we had a, :gulp:, Palin presidency.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=319291.msg4536140#msg4536140
Crib Notes? This potential presidential candidate and "movement" leader was using crib notes to answer basic questions? This would mean:
A) That she knew the questions beforehand and the whole thing was a farce. (Likely.)
B) That she still couldn't answer the previously agreed-upon questions without a little extra help.If true, this is supremely rich coming immediately after a speech in which Palin took a shot at President Obama for using a teleprompter to read his prepared speeches. You can bet that the President wasn't reading scribbles off his extremities while he sparred with Republicans and Democrats in an unscripted format in his recent Q&As.Palin, on the other hand, seems to need a cheat-sheet just to get through a contrived lovefest with a smitten interviewer and an adoring audience.GREAT LEADER FOR THE TEA PARTY Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy AND REPUB PRES CANDIDATE
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=319227.msg4535597#msg4535597
Beck and Limbaugh feed into the need for their listeners to feel superior. the anger of White men who feel put upon by women and minorities who are trying to get America to live up to the promise of truly equal opportunity. They aren't really that good or charismatic. It is just pretty easy to recruit people who are ignorant. People who bought into the idea that being White means you are superior. They feel threatened because they see that even without equal opportunity, women and minorities are able to succeed and crack that ceiling. It scares the shit out of them and pisses them off. Beck and Limbaugh tap into that of White is right and the problem with America is minorities. Both the hosts and their listeners are disgusting, but not hard to figure out.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=319173.msg4534311#msg4534311
The First Amendment is about freedom of speech. It's not about freedom to spend unlimited amounts of money. It's that difference that makes our political system a democracy ruled by the people, rather than ruled by money or those who have the most money,its going lead to a lot more spending by corporations and special interest. oh by the way i like how you praise the ACLU when they agree with you, you fucking hypocrite this is going to take elections out of the hands of the voters and put it in the hands of corps. and special interest groups, but your probably to stupid to realise that
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=318609.msg4524437#msg4524437
The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible.
Other important founding fathers who espoused Deism were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, James Madison, and James Monroe.
Fundamentalist Christians are currently working overtime to convince the American public that the founding fathers intended to establish this country on "biblical principles," but history simply does not support their view. The men mentioned above and others who were instrumental in the founding of our nation were in no sense Bible-believing Christians. Thomas Jefferson, in fact, was fiercely anti-cleric. In a letter to Horatio Spafford in 1814, Jefferson said, "In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes" (George Seldes, The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey Citadel Press, 1983, p. 371). In a letter to Mrs. Harrison Smith, he wrote, "It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. By the same test the world must judge me. But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest" (August 6, 1816).
Jefferson was just as suspicious of the traditional belief that the Bible is "the inspired word of God." He rewrote the story of Jesus as told in the New Testament and compiled his own gospel version known as The Jefferson Bible, which eliminated all miracles attributed to Jesus and ended with his burial. The Jeffersonian gospel account contained no resurrection, a twist to the life of Jesus that was considered scandalous to Christians but perfectly sensible to Jefferson's Deistic mind. In a letter to John Adams, he wrote, "To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise" (August 15, 1820). In saying this, Jefferson was merely expressing the widely held Deistic view of his time, which rejected the mysticism of the Bible and relied on natural law and human reason to explain why the world is as it is. Writing to Adams again, Jefferson said, "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" (April 11, 1823). These were hardly the words of a devout Bible-believer.
Jefferson didn't just reject the Christian belief that the Bible was "the inspired word of God"; he rejected the Christian system too. In Notes on the State of Virginia, he said of this religion, "There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites" (quoted by newspaper columnist William Edelen, "Politics and Religious Illiteracy," Truth Seeker, Vol. 121, No. 3, p. 33). Anyone today who would make a statement like this or others we have quoted from Jefferson's writings would be instantly branded an infidel, yet modern Bible fundamentalists are frantically trying to cast Jefferson in the mold of a Bible believing Christian. They do so, of course, because Jefferson was just too important in the formation of our nation to leave him out if Bible fundamentalists hope to sell their "Christian-nation" claim to the public. Hence, they try to rewrite history to make it appear that men like Thomas Jefferson had intended to build our nation on "biblical principles." The irony of this situation is that the Christian leaders of Jefferson's time knew where he stood on "biblical principles," and they fought desperately, but unsuccessfully, to prevent his election to the presidency. Saul K. Padover's biography related the bitterness of the opposition that the clergy mounted against Jefferson in the campaign of 1800
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=315050.msg4516994#msg4516994
lol...damn. Do you have an original thoughts blacken?
evidently not.
February 12th
More Americans blame the Bush administration for the nation's economic troubles than the Obama administration, according to a new poll.
(CNN) - More than a year after President George W. Bush left office, more Americans continue to blame his administration over any other entity for the nation's economic woes, according to a new poll.
In a New York Times/CBS News survey out Friday, 31 percent of Americans said the Bush administration is at fault for the current state of the economy while only 7 percent pointed their finger at President Obama and his team.
An additional 23 percent said the fault lies with Wall Street institutions while 13 percent assign the blame to Congress. Nearly 10 percent said the blame lies with all of them.
In a CNN/Opinion Research poll released last November, the public appeared split on who should be blamed if economic conditions don't approve: 47 percent said Bush and congressional Republicans while 45 percent said Obama and congressional Democrats.
"The public still tends to blame the Republicans for current economic conditions," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "But looking forward is another matter. Americans think the GOP is responsible for getting us into this mess, but they think both parties are responsible for getting us out of it."
The poll, conducted February 5-10, interviewed 1,084 Americans and carries a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
W fuked this country over and Americans know it!
I stopped reading after "CNN".
You should read this entire thread and the beatdown James administered to Blacken!
Oh shit..I just did :o
Remind me not piss James off!!
Oh shit..I just did Shocked
Remind me not piss James off!!
LOL!!!
Yeah, blacken is done for at least a month or two after this.
Does that mean he will plagiarize behind a new alias for "at least month or two" ? ;D
James- this is your best day ever on this site!
Where is Billy today ?
He is missing a good laugh.
Dont worry - this thread will be around for awhile.
It has made a good laugh, for a monday at least.
I think it should also tell everyone to ignore anything he posts.
Well...this certainly explains his penchant for endlessly posting YouTube clips. He can't think on his own and has to have others do it for him. Kinda feel some pity....nah, I guess I don't.
At least he’s broadened the scope of his cut & paste abilities beyond youtube.
Where is Blacken today ?
Where is Blacken today ?