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I firmly believe that anybody who wants the job of President of The United States should be automatically disqualified as certifiably insane. Anybody who wants a job that requires tolerating 300,000,000 job seekers, whingers, yokels, grifters, lobbyists, Dan Schorr-wannabes, Bob Woodward-wannabes, and 299,999,999 Monday morning quarterbacks is nutty as a fruitcake.

I particularly distrust anybody who's wanted the job since they were twelve (or nine or ten or eight or thirteen)- that fact alone reveals an overriding desire for power. While it is perfectly okay and semi-normal for a juvenile or an adolescent to think they might one day become President, a person who makes it their life's goal at that age is not to be trusted for the simple reason that they haven't the foggiest idea in hell what it's all about; they have merely fixated upon an individual they perceive as autonomous and omnipotent. This country went off the deep end the day it became possible to make a living as a professional politician.

Mencken's suggested solution is elegant, efficient, practicable and has the added benefit of being a billion times less expensive (and, god knows, quieter) than the current circus of buffoonery: choose the first 535 names out of the telephone book as Representatives and Senators. The 536th name would be forced to be your President. Mencken maintained (and I agree) that we'd end up in precisely the same place we are now.


 
Here's mine.

OK, so they're cats. But they're cute apolitical cats...

I was going to lay odds on how long it would take until politics hit this thread, but I see I'm already too late. :rolleyes:
 
I solved the political problem very easily. i placed everyone who started a political thread on ignore. Talk about rose colored glasses. The only problem is now I'm talking to myself :rolleyes:
 
TxRad said:
I solved the political problem very easily. i placed everyone who started a political thread on ignore. Talk about rose colored glasses. The only problem is now I'm talking to myself :rolleyes:
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Hey Tx.
:)

Thanks Charley.
:rose:
 
TxRad said:
I solved the political problem very easily. i placed everyone who started a political thread on ignore. Talk about rose colored glasses. The only problem is now I'm talking to myself :rolleyes:
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So, since I have only posted on the political threads, you can still see me?:D
 
If I may paraphrase myself from elsewhere:

I dream to live long enough (or a soon-to-come generation behind me lives long enough) to see the day when, ordinary citizens asked about their president, they have to pause a moment to remember just who their president is.
"Honey? What's the name of our president? Oh! Yeah! Whatsisname."
A president who does little and doesn't leave too much of him/herself behind.
 
Can somebody please hack trisails account and disable his size/colour buttons.
 
Fannie & Freddie: Buying friends in D.C.
The two mortgage finance companies doled out $174-million over the past 10 years to Washington lobbyists, report says.
By Allan Chernoff, CNN senior correspondent
Last Updated: September 9, 2008: 8:44 AM EDT
Special Report

NEW YORK (CNN) -- When it came to buying influence in Washington, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were among Corporate America's biggest spenders.

The two mortgage giants paid $174 million to lobbyists over the past ten years to ensure the political climate would remain friendly to growing the mortgage business - even as the housing bubble began showing signs of bursting, according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group.

"They tied up almost every lobbying firm in Washington, whether they used them or not, over the past several years," said Joshua Rosner, a financial analyst with Graham Fisher & Co. and long-time critic of both companies.

Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500) spent over $94.8-million on lobbyists since 1998, making it the nation's 12th-largest lobbying client, while Fannie Mae (FNM, Fortune 500) bought $79.5-million of influence, the 20th biggest spender, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

"They wanted to fend off regulation of their enterprises," said Massie Ritsch of the Center.

Until recent months, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac largely succeeded in that effort - functioning with relatively little oversight as they aggressively grew their portfolio of mortgages to try to increase earnings.

Campaign contributions bought influence as well, including donations to the presidential candidates.

Sen. Barack Obama is the No. 3 recipient of Fannie and Freddie campaign dollars, having collected $123,000 from the companies since he first ran for the Senate in 2004, according to the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics.

The former chief executive of Fannie Mae, James Johnson, was the original head of Obama's vice presidential search team. Johnson resigned from Obama's campaign amid controversy over discounted home loans he had received.

Sen. John McCain has received $19,000 from the two companies in the past ten years.

His campaign manager, Rick Davis, formerly led the Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy group for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's mortgage businesses.

"We had the Keating Five," said Rosner, referring to McCain and four other senators who had supported the head of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association nearly 20 years ago.

"This is closer to the Keating 535," added Rosner referring to all members of Congress. "Those legislators who have cost shareholders, preferred shareholders and taxpayers potentially hundreds of billions of dollars, I think we ought to hold them accountable."

Regulators, in taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are suspending the companies' efforts to buy influence.

"All political activities, including all lobbying, will be halted immediately," said James Lockhart, head of the new Federal Housing Finance Agency that will oversee the companies.

While Fannie and Freddie are now in a government conservatorship, it will remain for Congress to decide the companies' ultimate fate.

One of the few critics of Fannie and Freddie, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., called Monday for the mortgage companies to be restructured and lose their government backing.

"For years, these two mortgage giants have used taxpayer guarantees to gain enormous profits and lobby Congress to look the other way while they failed homeowners," said DeMint.

"These mortgage giants must be broken up and forced to survive in the marketplace without taxpayer guarantees," he added. "Allowing them to survive into the future with explicit government backing will only bring more harm to American homeowners and greater debt to American taxpayers."

First Published: September 9, 2008: 8:42 AM EDT
 
trysail said:

I firmly believe that anybody who wants the job of President of The United States should be automatically disqualified as certifiably insane. Anybody who wants a job that requires tolerating 300,000,000 job seekers, whingers, yokels, grifters, lobbyists, Dan Schorr-wannabes, Bob Woodward-wannabes, and 299,999,999 Monday morning quarterbacks is nutty as a fruitcake.


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The whole army green 25 point font 'I am too macho for chicks but not dicks 'HOO AH!' thing is a bit much for this thread, don't ya think?
 
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