From: assimilate on

On 22-Nov-2009, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> You are unqualified to pass judgment on his economic policies.

How so? Economics isn't rocket science

--
bill-o
From: assimilate on

On 22-Nov-2009, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote:

> His bosses are the same as Bush's bosses. Follow the money.

No Howard, Obama's bosses are the unions. Bush, not so much

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bill-o
From: assimilate on

On 22-Nov-2009, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote:

> We've all heard of Theodore's Big Stick Diplomacy starting with "Talk
> Softly and Carry a Big Stick".
>
> Talk and action are not the same thing.

Yes and Obama seems to be all talk. Bush tended more towards Teddy's policy.

--
bill-o
From: Carbon on
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:53:22 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> On 22-Nov-2009, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> You are unqualified to pass judgment on his economic policies.
>
> How so? Economics isn't rocket science

Neither is rocket science, once you know how it works. Bert was trying
to argue that the country is in worse shape than it would have been if
Bush and Obama had not bailed out the banking industry. This, quite
obviously, is a complicated subject. While I guess the certainty you and
Bert share is nice, it's not the same thing as knowing the truth.
From: Howard Brazee on
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:08:52 -0500, BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:

>> >Alexander the Great
>> >The Roman Empire
>> >Attila the Hun
>> >The Byzantine Empire
>> >Genghis Kahn
>> >...
>> All your heroes, right Bert?
>
>Genghis Kahn is one man to be admired.

Genghis Kahn was able to bring peace to the Mongols by uniting them
into a great war machine and conquering others instead. That peace
has lasted, but those conquered and killed suffered greatly. And his
descendents in places such as Afghanistan can be seen suffering in the
novel "The Kite Runner".

Still, he did not talk foreign countries into anything, it was his big
stick that he used.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
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