Olbermann Worst Person: Fox's Baier says Lincoln "left office"

[DeepModem Mom]

Run time: 02:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i96jpKxdqQ   Posted on YouTube: January 26, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 28, 2008 By DU Member: DeepModem Mom Views on DU: 2938

 

[Maat]

1. LOL (n/t)!

[babylonsister]

2. Thank you, 'Mom! I've been waiting for this one and couldn't find it! nt

[DeepModem Mom]

8. I happened on it, as usual, only after slogging through an ocean of Ron Paul videos.

:mad:

[oasis]

3. Fox news dumbasses are the "Worst Persons in the Universe".

:puke:

[bulloney]

4. I think there's a direct correlation between how conservative you are

and how ignorant you are on American history.

That's why conservatives, in their minds, think they have such an air-tight argument about how great Reagan was, when he didn't accomplish or stand for most of the stuff they attribute to him.

That's why they think the economic turmoil of the 1970s was all Jimmy Carter's fault. Never mind that inflation was so bad under Nixon and Ford before him that Nixon imposed price controls (remember the 90 day wage and price freeze in 1971?), or Ford unveiled his WIN campaign (Whip Inflation Now).

That's why you never hear conservatives equate the Great Depression with Republican economic policies. Never mind that the GP began under Hoover, a Republican, who was preceded by Calvin Coolidge, another Republican, who was preceded by Warren Harding, another Republican and considered by many historians as the worst president in history (soon to be replaced by the current dumbass occupying the White House).

I can go on and on, but you get the idea.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. I think you may be on to something there. And I've been thinking...

as I watch and listen to the GOP candidates, about how they -- they and conservatives in general -- tout themselves as the ones who love our country, who wave the flag. It's clear at least to me that we on our side are the ones who stand for the best our country is meant to be, and have done so back through our history.

The Presidents you mention represent a triumph of greed over what was best for the country. Lincoln, of course, was a Republican -- but wouldn't be sharing a debate stage with any of today's Republicans.

[CGowen]

10. It was Volcker, he had to save the empire

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3391
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The Carter dollar confidence crisis

This second phase, the post-gold era, fuelled by the manipulated 1973 oil shock and US pressure on Saudi Arabia and OPEC to price oil exclusively in dollars, Kissinger's “petro-dollar recycling,” rolled along without major trouble until early 1979 when the dollar faced a major foreign sell-off during the end of the Jimmy Carter Presidency. The American Century faced one of its greatest challenges at that juncture. German, Japanese even Saudi Arabian central banks began dumping US Treasury holdings in what was called a loss of “confidence” in Carter's world leadership role.

In August 1979, to restore world “confidence” in the dollar, President Jimmy Carter, himself a hand-picked protégé of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, was forced by the big New York banks, led by David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan, to accept Paul Volcker, a protégé of Rockefeller's from Chase Manhattan Bank, as new Chairman of the Federal Reserve with an open mandate to do what was necessary to save the dollar as reserve currency.

On taking office, Volcker bluntly announced, "the standard of living for the average American has to decline." He was Rockefeller's hand-picked choice to save the New York financial markets and the dollar at the expense of the nation's welfare.

The Volcker ‘shock therapy'

Volcker's shock therapy, begun in October 1979, lasted until August 1982. Interest rates shot through the roof to double digits. The US and world economies were plunged into a monster recession, the worst since World War II. Within a year, the prime rate had shot up to the unheard-of level of 21.5%, compared to an average of 7.6% for the fourteen previous years, a more than threefold rise in weeks. Official US unemployment peaked at 11%, while unofficially when those who simply had given up seeking work were counted, it was far higher

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[Diclotican]

5. Great with education who shows

:sarcasm:

Even I who are not a american KNOW that President Lincoln was not leaving office, but killed when IN office.. A little difference I guess between leaving office, and be killed when in office

It must be desperate times, when mr Bush want to be remember as a man like Lincon... He has tryed to be "showing himself" as Reagan, but the son of Reagan have told he is not to his fathers boots... And he was insulted by mr Bush wishing to be like Reagan (even that Reagan maybe was not that good as many think he was)

Mr Bush are in a league for himself, and thank for that.. We as a world have not survived another president that bad...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

[DeepModem Mom]

7. You are right, Diclotican -- Bush is no Lincoln, no Reagan, not even his father.

And, as you say, thank goodness he's one of a kind! Thanks, as always, for your post.

[Diclotican]

12. DeepModem Mom

DeepModem Mom

Than you, I try my best, even that I know it is little rusty, when it come to everything;). But I have to say, it is coming better and better now when I use it;) But when it come to mr Bush, we all should be very glad that is just one of him... As we know it now then.. I hope that enough american now have learned the hard way, that to elect a man who act as mr Bush, are not the smartest thing to do.. And I hope it is long to next time a man like mr Bush can stand up, and claim he want to restore honor to the highest office in US.. He has maybe not using cigar in different size, but he have destroyed the honor to US in more damaging cases than Clinton was doing when he was in office.. But the right wingers of the world, don't se it that way.. To waste billions of dollar on war you don't need, and then claim he is "Morally superior" to Clinton.. What hypocrats..:think:

Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

[jcla]

9. makes you think conservative = alheimers about history

Just as Raygun changed history to suit himself so do these conservative spin docs.
To say nothing of the "Shrub" go Diclotican! And Thanks Deepmodem Mom... needed my daily eyeroller as I don't watch Faux News.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Oh, me either -- when I even pass it with the remote, I click past it as fast as I can!

:)