where is this guy from?

[sellnbama]

Obama won't honor national prayer day today.I'm no bible pusher but you insult britain then bow to muslim king?Then he announced $17bill incuts to "budget"&did'nt tell you that's not even 1% of his ridiculous $3.6trill budget.Thats like a thousand steps backwards then 1/2step forward.You still went 9991/2 steps the wrong way!!!!!!When will these zombies who follow him into the whole he's digging wake up?Maybe you'll do a better background check from now on.Oh wait,I guess they could''ve read the two books he wrote on himself.My bad. 

[justin0419]

I'm sitting on my hands and keeping the comments about my "boss" to myself...

[sellnbama]

I can understand your position,I used to be that way until I realized the taxes I pay are their salaries.Too many have been silent for too long.Just hate to see our freedoms stolen while we sit back and watch,including freedom of speech.Thanks for reading and responding it shows your concern either way,as we all should be.Take care.

[Hoosier4life2005]

Obama won't honor national prayer day today.I'm no bible pusher but you insult britain then bow to muslim king?Then he announced $17bill incuts to "budget"&did'nt tell you that's not even 1% of his ridiculous $3.6trill budget.Thats like a thousand steps backwards then 1/2step forward.You still went 9991/2 steps the wrong way!!!!!!When will these zombies who follow him into the whole he's digging wake up?Maybe you'll do a better background check from now on.Oh wait,I guess they could''ve read the two books he wrote on himself.My bad. 

(As a CNN Liberal would respond...) Your just upset that your Party, the GOP is in shambles!  Where you were the last 8 years complaining about spending?  Your just intimitated by the confidence of King Obama! I mean.. President Obama.  We are all so lucky to have a man as great as him to lead us.  Even though to dont accept Obamas love, he will always care about you!  Hes fighting hard for the little man, dont you know that?  95% of Americans are going to get tax breaks because of his grace.  Hail Obama!

[PositiveOutlook]

The last eight years is a misnomer...  it's actually the previous six years... the Dem's have been in control of Congress (who controls the management, oversight and writing of the checks/money spent in the government and Bush was a lame duck at this point not able to get any of his initiatives through) since 2006, and the deficits have increased dramatically more under Dem rule since 2006 than under Rep rule from 2000-2006...  Although I fault both parties...

Remember it was 2/3 Dem's vs. 1/3 Rep that passed TARP, and it was ALL DEM's on the "Stimulus" fiasco (the one they never even read before passing it),  as well as the "ominbus" that Bush was going to veto because of the increases they wanted that Obama eventually signed anyway.  It was also the Dem's that just approved another 3.5 TRILLION dollar budget...

So while I fault both parties for spending... let's just not forget the history of it...

[PositiveOutlook]

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_05_07_Free_cars_for_poor_fuel_road_rage/srvc=home&position=also

I guess it's TV's next, cell phones, computers, apparently the skies the limit!...

[sellnbama]

Hoosier,
Good one,2 funny.Thanks for choosing cnn instead of msnbc,now that would be a hard act to follow.But I guess with GE paying your check from "stimulous"from king obama,I guess "acting" instead of reporting would work.You'd think if they were gonna buy a network it'd be fox with the babes they got instead of that butch rachell maddow, the leg tingling chris matthews.I do thank you for the comedy sir,it's good to ease the pain.   

[christopher w]

Why is nobody mentioning the war? Bush took us into this war over a personal vendetta and it is costing a billion dollars a day (according to some estimates) not to mention the cost in human lives and wounded?

Other than keep this country safe (which I am not downgrading; to me that is more important than anything) what did Bush/Cheney do that anyone can support?

As for the Tarp funds what were we supposed to do? Let the entire financial industry crash to the ground? It might be bad now, but it could have been so much worse. Where do you think these banks are getting the first quarter profits they are reporting?? From all of the refinances! Some of these banks are already starting to plan on repaying the money. I know this is a forum and its whole purpose is to throw out ideas and opinions, but it sure seems like there is a lot of negativity right now.

I am in the mortgage business. Trust me I have had MANY sleepless nights over the past 6-12 months and I am also sure that I will have plenty more to  come as we try to dig ourselves out of this hole. But one thing I can say for sure is that no matter how bad things may seem right now; they are a whole heck of a lot better than they would be if the govt. would have let the financial system crash.

[PositiveOutlook]

As part of history, Bush accomplished many things while in office, and most would get bored reading the list.  But, while not a defender of his fiscal policies beyond the tax cuts, any list posted would get ripped apart based on partisanship.  If you look at is dispassionately, he is due a lot of ridicule, AND a lot of praise...

With regards to TARP, BILLIONS of the money was literally WASTED, and BILLIONS went NOT to the people it was supposed to help (US citizens), but to FOREIGN governments and their citizens (i.e. - Dubai, China, etc.).  BILLIONS more went to the Auto industry.

It was supposed to be used to clear out the "toxic assets" and free up the credit market...  Once that bait and switch was accomplished, they are REFUSING to tell us where the money for this is going... 

Geithner is now talking about ANOTHER 2 TRILLION for the financial industry.      This is on top of the TRILLIONS that have already been committed to and does not include nationalized healthcare (remember, the $660 BILLION was only a "downpayment").  They are not going to be able to borrow all they need, as China is starting to back away, so they will HAVE to print it out of thing air.  There's only two ways to get this money back, taxation or inflation, both of which HURT the US economy.

You now hear murmurings of us "hitting the bottom", and if true (time will tell), it followed the same pattern as other recessions.  It certainly can't be because of the "stimulus" or "omnibus" bills, which are just beginning their role-outs...

I am starting to think that the argument that we are truly being undone from within has some merit...

[sellnbama]

Well said positiveoutlook,
Is'nt  it funny when all else fails blame bush,blame repubs.This is why this uprising is happening because people are soooooo sick of the blame game!!!!!!As usual I don't remember posting to be pro bush or repub.That's the usual assumption they take.Just tired of the lies and stealing of our children,grandchildren's future,wise up CHRISTOPHER,and get informed on the truth.Big govt only makes things alot worse,always has,always will.Also how long do you think this interjection of money can support our economy?  

[justin0419]

I can understand your position,I used to be that way until I realized the taxes I pay are their salaries.Too many have been silent for too long.Just hate to see our freedoms stolen while we sit back and watch,including freedom of speech.Thanks for reading and responding it shows your concern either way,as we all should be.Take care.

The average citizen can't be court-martialed for their comments like I can...  Don't think for a second that I like any of this. 

[sellnbama]

Not sure what u mean by "this" But I respect your position.Thanks for your service to the country.

[furnishedowner]

Christopher W. sounds like the voice of reason to me.

I just had a 3-hour drive and the only radio stations coming in were HATE RADIO. Talk about the blame game! Those vitriolic voices mocking "The Anointed One"--I would be embarrassed to call myself a Conservative or a Republican if I thought those hate-mongers spoke for me.

I used to think of Republicans as conservative, even thoughtful, mostly older business-owner types. But gentlemen and ladies. Not now. Now I think rabid, religious extremists, name-callers. People who have no interest in debating the merits of laws or in compromises. People who demonize those who don't think like them. Not a compassionate bunch. Don't wanna be like them at all.

We could maybe all learn something if there were a Larry King-type radio host. There would be guests who debated the issues, and maybe even cracked a joke or two. Jeesh. That was a long 3 hours.

Personally, I despised President Bush as possibly the worst president in our history. But I felt he had to throw down that TARP money and he did. Is it better to have a president who sits on his hands and does nothing? Or someone who tries to churn through the uncharted waters?

I was trying to think of other things that former Pres. Bush endorsed:
!. War in Iraq
2. War in Afghanistan
3. Waterboarding as a new American Sport
4. Our very own Gulag--Guatanamo
5. Phantom Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Prolific signing of Texas execution orders
7. Banning embryonic stem-cell research

I can't really think of anything else....I had hoped, that at the very least, as a former border-state governor, that he would have championed immigration reform. But he was busy with the above instead.

I plead for civility and honoring the title of president, the top elected official of all the people. Can't you all just say President Obama? How will we ever get anything done if Conservatives act like pitbulls?

Furnishedowner

[sellnbama]

Conservatives pit bulls?You really don't want to get started on how the liberals have attacked anyone who did'nt absolutly fold to them.I agree some conservatives are extreme but are you honestly saying there is'nt any of extreme's on liberal end?Also radio stations are in it for the money,they tried liberal radio,it flopped.Now they are booming with what hits home with most of americans.I'm not saying they are all calm & reserved,but apparently alot of people relate to the points they are making.I was'nt a pro bush either,but did this country get attacked after 9/11?ALso  there were 62mill that did'nt vote for "president obama" so to say all america chose him is far fetched.Good points you bring up,I agree w/ some.ALso once again I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN.   

[PositiveOutlook]

Furnishedowner,

There are many times you've posted and just referred to Bush or Reagan or Clinton, without the title President before it.  Now that the guy you supported is in the WH, you now want everyone else to fall in line and always refer to him as President.  Tell, you what, if you admit that you were wrong to do so for the previous Presidents, and from now on give all the previous Presidents the same courtesy, I will be happy to afford you the same courtesy as you request.

It comes as no surprise that you supported Bush signing TARP when it was Obama and the Dem's who not only pushed for it, but were the main supporters of it and have been in control of Congress' checkbook since 2006.  I am NOT convinced that TARP, "stimulus" and "ominbus" and the subsequent 3.5 TRILLION dollar budget were the right thing to do, and I don't believe there is any way to measure it just like the 150,000 "new jobs" that Obama referred to in his last address, that they could not provide any proof of.  It was just a number put out there, and the press didn't even question it...

How you can possibly say that ANY of those were the right thing to do WHEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN READ IT before passing it, which is what they are PAID TO DO.  The people who were saying we needed TARP (Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner), said it was for the "toxic assets", and then pulled the wool over everyone's eye's with the bait and switch...  WITH NO CONSEQUENCES OR ACCOUNTABILITY...

Why would you trust what they say now?     

With regards to "hate" radio, you've obviously never listened to Radio America (another failed liberal attempt at talk radio), or MSNBC or Bill Mahr, or the View, or, or, or...  talk about vitriolic... 

I have voted Rep, Dem and Ind, but I have never witnessed the con-job that was the Obama election... he was recklessly supported AND defended by the press, and not held up to any serious scrutiny on a vast array of issues (which is their job)...  and now that Obama's actually doing what "hate" radio was criticized for SAYING he would do, the press continues with their defense and obfuscation and general lack of professionalism...

BTW, hope you are feeling better...