Reason 247 to cast a vote for Barack
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03312008/news/worldnews/from_bad_to_verse_for_hill_104288.htm
3.30.2008
McCain = more of the same
From The Huffington Post entitled "McCain Guru Linked To Subprime Crisis"
The general co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today’s economic turmoil. “A regulatory structure set up for banks in the 1930s needed to change because the nature of business had changed,” the Illinois senator running for president said in a New York economic speech. “But by the time [it] was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework.” Gramm’s role in the swift and dramatic recent restructuring of the nation’s investment houses and practices didn’t stop there. According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006. During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages. For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS’s American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more than $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs. Now, some housing experts and economists see Gramm’s thinking in the recent housing proposal from McCain, the Republican Party’s presumed presidential nominee. Gramm is often a surrogate for the Arizona senator, particularly in meetings focused on the economy. And McCain has hinted he’d consider the former Texas senator for Treasury secretary in a McCain administration.
(For the entire article http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html)
"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated," McCain told the Wall Street Journal in late November.
The general co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today’s economic turmoil. “A regulatory structure set up for banks in the 1930s needed to change because the nature of business had changed,” the Illinois senator running for president said in a New York economic speech. “But by the time [it] was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework.” Gramm’s role in the swift and dramatic recent restructuring of the nation’s investment houses and practices didn’t stop there. According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006. During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages. For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS’s American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more than $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs. Now, some housing experts and economists see Gramm’s thinking in the recent housing proposal from McCain, the Republican Party’s presumed presidential nominee. Gramm is often a surrogate for the Arizona senator, particularly in meetings focused on the economy. And McCain has hinted he’d consider the former Texas senator for Treasury secretary in a McCain administration.
(For the entire article http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html)
"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated," McCain told the Wall Street Journal in late November.
3.23.2008
what you mean to me
in your eyes my future i see
holding your hand calms my mind
with you i know who i want to be
i never thought you i would find
when you're away i am sad
wrapped in your arms is where i prefer to be
at the sight of your face my heart is glad
no one but you knows the real me
i am made of more than yesterday
Why do I let the past define me? That thought has been circulating in my mind today. Days gone by cannot continue to control my life. I've been governed by it for years. Letting go isn't a matter of giving up. It is about walking away from familiarity. The realization that I don't need it to give me a temporary sense of self. I've said all there is to say about my irretrievable past. A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot really not let go what has already gone. It must be, therefore, that you are maintaining the illusion that it has not gone because you think it serves some purpose that you want fulfilled." I know this is a marathon, not a sprint. I have started over- and over, and over again. I am starting over once more.
3.13.2008
5
two thousand and three
my heart would agree
was a year i'll never forget
that i no longer regret
who i turned out to be
the life that i started to see
the decisions i made
the path that had been laid
a great distance i have travelled
fears slowly faded and unravelled
i am stronger than i thought
life lessons i have been taught
i've never felt more alive
years have passed, to be exact five
by jj
03.13.2008
A Change Would Do You Good
No, it's not what you are thinking. This isn't a post about that Sheryl Crow song. (Although I wouldn't mind hearing the Obama camp use the song at rallies) The following is an excerpt from an article I just read on The Huffington Post. It sums my feelings up for the Clinton campaign. Weeks ago I was a Hillary supporter, but she has gone far enough and slung too much mud. This country doesn't need another polarizing president dividing us. We need change.
Every day, one is struck by the (one-sided) viciousness in this fight. Six bloody weeks of it to go? Six weeks of coarsening opportunistic soulless nastiness. And the effect? Hillary Clinton's unfavorable rating amongst Obama supporters continues to rise according to the Wall Street Journal/MSNBC poll released tonight. The reverse is not true. And her coalition of white women and white blue-collar workers is unlikely to surge the way that young people and African-Americans are surging towards Obama. Those Americans -- the African-Americans who have been turned off by politics as usual and by total exclusion, the young who have been so disgusted by war-mongering and corruption so evident in the smug faces of those in power -- finally see in Obama something of the best in themselves, and something to aspire to: Idealism, dignity, hope, matched by strength and stoicism. Matched by a very keen sense of how to work the system.
Every day, one is struck by the (one-sided) viciousness in this fight. Six bloody weeks of it to go? Six weeks of coarsening opportunistic soulless nastiness. And the effect? Hillary Clinton's unfavorable rating amongst Obama supporters continues to rise according to the Wall Street Journal/MSNBC poll released tonight. The reverse is not true. And her coalition of white women and white blue-collar workers is unlikely to surge the way that young people and African-Americans are surging towards Obama. Those Americans -- the African-Americans who have been turned off by politics as usual and by total exclusion, the young who have been so disgusted by war-mongering and corruption so evident in the smug faces of those in power -- finally see in Obama something of the best in themselves, and something to aspire to: Idealism, dignity, hope, matched by strength and stoicism. Matched by a very keen sense of how to work the system.
3.12.2008
Never, never, never give up
This time around
You can be anyone
This time around
This love of ours
This time around
You can be anyone
Helen Stellar
Elizabethtown Soundtrack
These are words to live by.
3.08.2008
twenty four
it started with an eclipse
time to come to grips
nothing left to lose
moments from which to choose
lessons to be learned from
figuring out who to become
a new path on which to embark
escaping the shadows and the dark
consumed and wanting more
the year i turned twenty four
jj
03.08.08
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