Comments on: Is Obama Fixing to Own Some Banks? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163107 Leen Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:16:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163107 <p>“people under her command had been sold down the river”</p> <p>Karpinski is clearly pissed</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9_foi0vRs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9_foi0vRs</a></p> <p>Bad apples…Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Feith, Cambone</p> “people under her command had been sold down the river”

Karpinski is clearly pissed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9_foi0vRs

Bad apples…Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Feith, Cambone

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163096 Loo Hoo. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:24:59 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163096 <p>Very strange. When I voted yesterday, things looked great. </p> <p>I wouldn’t worry about the birth certificate thingy though.</p> Very strange. When I voted yesterday, things looked great.

I wouldn’t worry about the birth certificate thingy though.

]]> By: prostratedragon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163095 prostratedragon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:23:23 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163095 <blockquote><p>Add that up with the McClatchy reporters tonight, fact-based and extremely knowledgeable, and you have a very different situation from a mere month ago.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/02/cheney-no-evidence-iraq/" rel="nofollow">As in, say, last Friday or so?</a> Suddenly a Cheneywatch site seems like a marvelously useful tool. Is there one?</p>

Add that up with the McClatchy reporters tonight, fact-based and extremely knowledgeable, and you have a very different situation from a mere month ago.

As in, say, last Friday or so? Suddenly a Cheneywatch site seems like a marvelously useful tool. Is there one?

]]> By: bobschacht http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163094 bobschacht Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:06:17 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163094 <p>My “idea” to <a href="http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/4086-4049" rel="nofollow">Investigate and prosecute war crimes</a> has actually gotten more “thumbs down” votes than “thumbs up” votes in the past day or two. The totals now are 102 up, 45 down, with the negatives growing from about 25% a day ago to 31% today. It is almost as if someone is pushing this “idea” to the wingnuts, telling them to “go and vote down”. This is an amazing and sad spectacle. </p> <p>This same website’s main page is now beset with controversy because a small number of very determined wingnuts want to pursue questions about Obama’s citizenship and birth certificate. There have been 9 “ideas” relating to Obama’s birth certificate posted in the past 2 hours, one with a net of 18 votes (20 up minus 2 down). Evidently the Right is bombing this website tonight.</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> My “idea” to Investigate and prosecute war crimes has actually gotten more “thumbs down” votes than “thumbs up” votes in the past day or two. The totals now are 102 up, 45 down, with the negatives growing from about 25% a day ago to 31% today. It is almost as if someone is pushing this “idea” to the wingnuts, telling them to “go and vote down”. This is an amazing and sad spectacle.

This same website’s main page is now beset with controversy because a small number of very determined wingnuts want to pursue questions about Obama’s citizenship and birth certificate. There have been 9 “ideas” relating to Obama’s birth certificate posted in the past 2 hours, one with a net of 18 votes (20 up minus 2 down). Evidently the Right is bombing this website tonight.

Bob in HI

]]> By: ezdidit http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163091 ezdidit Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:53:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163091 <p>Between outright federalization and receivership, there’s a middle ground. I will know it when I see it - <strong>just like porn or anti-abortion terrorists.</strong></p> Between outright federalization and receivership, there’s a middle ground. I will know it when I see it – just like porn or anti-abortion terrorists.

]]> By: freepatriot http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163090 freepatriot Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:25:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163090 <blockquote><p>Wingnuts are going to be claiming vindication, as they were yammering about 183 being the number of “pours” or some BS like that. It is still BS. Even at the de minimus, it is forty some odd waterboard sessions</p></blockquote> <p>183 pours = 183 acts of torture</p> <p>claim vindication over THAT</p> <p>what is 5 years times 183 ???</p> <p>let’s hope for consecutive sentencing</p>

Wingnuts are going to be claiming vindication, as they were yammering about 183 being the number of “pours” or some BS like that. It is still BS. Even at the de minimus, it is forty some odd waterboard sessions

183 pours = 183 acts of torture

claim vindication over THAT

what is 5 years times 183 ???

let’s hope for consecutive sentencing

]]> By: bobschacht http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163089 bobschacht Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:58:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163089 <p>w00t! EW scores again!</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> w00t! EW scores again!

Bob in HI

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163087 readerOfTeaLeaves Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:48:51 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163087 <p>Wow…!</p> <p>And it was maybe a month ago that Karpinski (on Olbermann) conveyed serious heartache and a sense of betrayal about how the people under her command had been sold down the river. And just yesterday, retired Gen Sanchez said he thinks something like a ‘Truth Commission’ to get to the bottom of how the troops were [abandoned on the field] would be useful as a way to help people think about what went wrong so it does not occur again.</p> <p>And then this news in the WaPo confirming Marcy’s conjecture about Cheney’s involvement in briefing Congress.<br /> Interesting convergence of people speaking out and leaking now.</p> <p>Add that up with the McClatchy reporters tonight, fact-based and extremely knowledgeable, and you have a very different situation from a mere month ago.</p> Wow…!

And it was maybe a month ago that Karpinski (on Olbermann) conveyed serious heartache and a sense of betrayal about how the people under her command had been sold down the river. And just yesterday, retired Gen Sanchez said he thinks something like a ‘Truth Commission’ to get to the bottom of how the troops were [abandoned on the field] would be useful as a way to help people think about what went wrong so it does not occur again.

And then this news in the WaPo confirming Marcy’s conjecture about Cheney’s involvement in briefing Congress.
Interesting convergence of people speaking out and leaking now.

Add that up with the McClatchy reporters tonight, fact-based and extremely knowledgeable, and you have a very different situation from a mere month ago.

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163086 Loo Hoo. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:37:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163086 <p>Explains why he’s coming at it full bore, though. No way he could keep it hidden in war crimes trials.</p> Explains why he’s coming at it full bore, though. No way he could keep it hidden in war crimes trials.

]]> By: tryggth http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163085 tryggth Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:13:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/02/is-obama-fixing-to-own-some-banks/#comment-163085 <p>Imagine how bad Cheney must feel. Heading up all those briefings and apparently none of the briefees could remember who the balding, wheezing old fart was.</p> Imagine how bad Cheney must feel. Heading up all those briefings and apparently none of the briefees could remember who the balding, wheezing old fart was.

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