I wonder how long the Media will foam at the mouth for this empty suit?

…real leadership. lol

This manboy hasn't done anything reflective of "leadership" in his life. Get real. His team is too busy making excuses and dropping expectations for the upcoming term.

Survey: Obama Most Admired Man By Far

That's so funny. You're really taking into account this survey which always shows the President to be most admired.

It'd be shocking if he wasn't in this position.

69,456,897 did.

Hey, good morning Winged Dickhead avatar guy!

How's it going?

If you've been following Dino's(Dinah) comments over the past few days, you've seen him reveal himself. He's shown us that he believes manipulated data over actual events. He's shown us he's anti-American, he's admitted to being an admirer of Hugo Chavez and other enemies of the United States, and now has shown us that he is anti-semitic, anti-Israel and is pro Haamas. He sure is a revealing guy(swish)and I for one appreciate is openess in showing ALL of us his true colors.
But, I sure wish he'd change his tampon already….that smell travels over the web.

My, my A Citizen! Such an ambitious attempt at character assasination!

Could it be because you can't refute my posts on the CRA, Freddie & Fannie? Maybe if you depended on more than the opinions of a Morgan Stanley VP who lost $3.6 BILLION on subprime loans (made from institutions NOT subject to the CRA) and instead did a little research into what experts have dtermined based on actual DATA, you'd learn something.

Defeat is hard. But you must learn to deal with it like an adult.

Sorry, brainstem, the data wasn't manipulated, it just didn't support your "blame the poor" mindset.

Another example of conservatives blaming the less powerful.

Any more quotes/opinions from investment banks that lost $$BILLIONS on non-CRA loans?

LOL, loser!

In either case, you're still wrong.

Those "actual events" are opinions of a Morgan Stanley VP.

I prefer to believe the CEO of BofA, the Chief of the Fed and studies about the actual bad loans themselves rather than a guy looking someone to pin the blame for his $3.6 BILLION loss on.

If you can provide data on how many, a percentage or other hard facts on the CRA's impact on the economic crisis, we can talk. Until then you have nothing to stand on.

With incentives in place, banks poured billions in loans into poor communities, often "no doc", "no income", requiring no money down and no verification of income. Worse still was the cronyism: Fannie and Freddie became home to out-of work-politicians, mostly Clinton Democrats. 384 politicians got big campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. Over $200 million had been spent on lobbying and political activities. During the 1990's Fannie and Freddie enjoyed a subsidy of as musch as $182 Billion, most of it going to principals and shareholders, not poor borrowers as claimed.

Did it work? Minorities made up 49% of the 12.5 million new homeowners but many of those loans have gone bad and the minority homeownership rates are shrinking fast.

1999: New Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, became alarmed at Fannie and Freddie's excesses. Congress held hearings the ensuing year but nothing was done because Fannie and Freddie had donated millions to key congressmen and radical groups, ensuring no meaningful changes would take place. "We manage our political risk with the same intensity that we manage our credit and interest rate risks," Fannie CEO Franklin Raines, a former Clinton official and current Barack Obama advisor, bragged to investors in 1999.

2000: Secretary Summers sent Undersecretary Gary Gensler to Congress seeking an end to the "special status". Democrats raised a ruckus as did Fannie and Freddie, headed by politically connected CEO's who knew how to reward and punish. "We think that the statements evidence a contempt for the nation's housing and mortgage markets" Freddie spokesperson Sharon McHale said. It was the last chance during the Clinton era for reform.

2001: Republicans try repeatedly to bring fiscal sanity to Fannie and Freddie but Democrats blocked any attempt at reform; especially Rep. Barney Frank and Sen.Chris Dodd who now run key banking committees and were huge beneficiaries of campaign contributions from the mortgage giants.

2003: Bush proposes what the NY Times called "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago". Even after discovering a scheme by Fannie and Freddie to overstate earnings by $10.6 billion to boost their bonuses, the Democrats killed reform.

2005: Then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan warns Congress: "We are placing the total financial system at substantial risk". Sen. McCain, with two others, sponsored a Fannie/Freddie reform bill and said, "If congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole". Sen. Harry Reid accused the GOP ;of trying to "cripple the ability of Fannie and Freddie to carry out their mission of expanding homeownership" The bill went nowhere.

2007: By now Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee over HALF of the $12 trillion US mortgage market. The mortgage giants, whose executive suites were top-heavy with former Democratic officials, had been working with Wall St. to repackage the bad loans and sell them to investors. As the housing market fell in '07, subprime mortgage portfolios suffered major losses. The crisis was on, though it was 15 years in the making.

2008: McCain has repeatedly called for reforming the behemoths, Bush urged reform 17 times. Still the media have repeated Democrats' talking points about this being a "Republican" disaster. A few Republicans are complicit but Fannie and Freddie were created by Democrats, regulated by Democrats, largely run by Democrats and protected by Democrats. That's why taxpayers are now being asked for $700 billion!!

If the liberals were right, I'd agree. They're not, so I don't.
Yes Chief, communism is evil. Just look at Dino's(Dinah) comments and the positions he takes on issues.

It was a blog…kind of like this one. Where I can say anything I want. Not journalism. Not reflective of you Rob but reflective of my own personal opinions.

This post is reaching and you make yourself sound stupid as hell.

Someone show that idiot how to wear a hat correctly.

Wow! Reuters thinks they are "uber-cool" for using the phrase "uber-cool!" Someone has been playing on the Urban Dictionary site, again. I think they should bring back some words like "jinkies!" And "groovy." Ialso think this reporter his using his TigerBeat Mag for meat-beating. Yikes! Obama should ditch the backwards ballcap, it looks too juvenile, ghetto, and frankly out of style. Too Poindexter. Plus, it does nothing for the Dumbos.