.... Posted September 20, 2008. Obama needs to put himself at odds with the Dem establishment: He did it with Iraq in 2002, and he can do it in 2008 with the economy. Watching John McCain thundering against Wall Street greed is like tuning into to the old Lawrence Welk show to find him doing a polka version of a hard-core rap song ("A-one and a-two, motherfucker!"). Speaking yesterday outside an auto plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...

... as hushed as a church. The thing to be 100%% blamed for what is happening now is 'greed'. The nature of Greed is to imbalance. It wants 'too much'. It upsets equilibrium and worst of all it is not a driven by reason but ...out of place it looked. The complexities of how and why the level and type of greed that has crept into the banking system to cause such a mess.. I do not think...

...see 2nd tier economies teeter on the brink, Mexico among them. Indeed so. I have noticed for many years that most Americans do not understand that we either learn from history or we perish from lack of foresight. The greed and corruption of Wall Street and friends in the Bush administration has taken a trillion or more out of the pockets of the middle class. This led to the bankruptcy and foreclosures we now see, but already ...

... some disparate, interconnected, complex models, with lots of variables. Human greed and stupidity can explain it all - but that doesn't explain what needs to change. Politics and Religion - Greed and Stupidity. Men and Women compliment each other. I think they should be...their extinction. If a few survive, maybe they will learn. MALE greed and stupidity is based on the notion that if a man can exploit...

... a poltician , who voted with G W Bush 86%% of the time , from within a party that is purged and vetted and now, sadly, only purveyors of: misinformation unbridled greed censorship militarism deficits bribery extortion retribution theocracy racism corporatism imperialism cronyism incompetence to benefit very few and the military-industrial complex ( the most conservative supporters of Israel are in there). ...

..., are now traitors to this great nation's constitution and Bill of Rights. Spoliers of a society evolved by progressives and carefully crafted centuries of policies to develop opportunity for all. The New Republican Party, proven purveyors of: misinformation unbridled greed censorship militarism deficits bribery extortion retribution theocracy racism corporatism imperialism cronyism incompetence

... Byzantium. Who shed unprofitable provinces to barbarism and anarchy and redirected critical resources to the great power centers. We already see failed states and see 2nd tier economies teeter on the brink, Mexico among them. The greed and corruption of Wall Street and friends in the Bush administration has taken a trillion or more out of the pockets of the middle class. This led to the bankruptcy and foreclosures we now see, but ...

... their savings while McCain's wife made a million in profit from her deal with Charles Keating, the banker for whom McCain lobbied. Even on Tuesday, while McCain suddenly was thundering against the "unbridled corruption and greed that caused the crisis on Wall Street," he still did not urge anything more stringent than convening a national commission. Barack Obama has been way ahead of McCain in grasping the severity of the problem and ...

...'re trying to come up with a single cause to explain some disparate, interconnected, complex models, with lots of variables. Human greed and stupidity can explain it all - but that doesn't explain what needs to change. Politics and Religion - Greed and Stupidity. Men and Women compliment each other. I think they should be able to work together and play together - there'...

... combined with strong humanism may guide us to a better world of fairness, the alleviation of poverty, of global sharing and caring, to justice and peace. Do I think this is feasible? Not that much: Power, greed, racism, and power politics are superstrong human and societal forces (for injustice, wars, killing, irrationality, waste, destruction, hate, intolerance, etc.). But it may show the direction of hope which we can then analyze ...