Our First President With an MBA

I forgot - who was the ghostwriter for that book?

Hippiechucker:
re: average grades

so, you 'know' he had 'average' grades, but you keep asking about 'why aren't his grades available'...
you 'know' through your secret methods what his grades are even tho' they're not available... cool.

any lotto tips ?

I keep wondering if things can get worst. Sadly, I think they can.

Jazzman,

It's funny that you would see me a sprouting a "theory".

How else would you get into the most elite school in the country with average grades, if not for affirmative action?

Obama and McCain Tax Proposals:

According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution,...

Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, ...

while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy.

hippiechucker
re: "Why aren't any of his Columbia grades available?"

you seem to be the chief conspiracy dewde....why don't you share all your secret info with us... tell us why Obama "most certainly did not earn his entry into Harvard."

Hoang LEE,
Are you serious? Or just cant accept the idea Mr Bush probably worked hard to get an MBA? Sure, his dad's being a congressman may have helped him get in Harvard, but if you think the profs there give a rip about his daddy, you are wrong my friend.
Oh wait, those famously conservative profs at Harvard prob gave him social promotion.

perumal11,
I wont rant about Obama's lack of experience. I just dont want a tax raising socialist-oriented fellow with no major accomplishments as my president.

What a mess Bush is leaving America. It just keeps getting worse. Shouldn't the Republicans be held accountable for the next two elections until all this mess is cleaned up?

Jazzman,
Obama most certainly did not earn his entry into Harvard. How could someone who graduated without any honors from Columbia get into Harvard?
Why aren't any of his Columbia grades available?

Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.

The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks. For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.

In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.

But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.

This financial crisis is due to government imposed bad lending practices.

Bush proposed the solution in 2003 but couldn't get the votes in congress because our idiotic repressentatives liked the idea of buying votes by giving away mortgages.

ayn:
Re: "so no more Harvard graduates for the White House."

Bush got in with daddies connections....

Obama earned it

dl:
re: 'Bush engineered a rescue plan'

Bush couldn't 'engineer' a trip to the bathroom.
'W' didn't do sqat, he was against doing anything but changed his 'mind' when he was told how serious things were..

McCain nor Palin will be able to hide behind their lies any longer. September 26th will expose McCain's lack of leadership on the foreign front as well as on the economic front. Refusing to meet with a NATO ally shows McCain's lack of diplomacy as well as his age. I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas. Come on 26th, D-Day for the Obama Campaign. Yes We Can!!!

If Americans have now gotten to the point where they actually THINK the solution to fixing the country's problems can be done by the "junior college" crowd I think it's safe to say we are all doomed.

If anyone should lay the question of experience and preparedness to be President to rest, it is Bush. He sounds great on paper--Harvard MBA, governor of a large state, lofty political heritage--but look where all that experience has got us today. And in his field no less! And yet there are people to continue to rail about Obama's lack of experience. It's judgment and intelligence, of course, and not experience that carry the day.
May we never have to entrust our country to McCain's and Palin's experience!

McCain-Palin '08 "Underwrite the mistakes of our political base and we will write-off your and your grandchildren's economic future."

HP Boston:

Has your ID been hijacked? The fact that Obama has more donations reflects that more employees like him. I think that you would find "American Copper Pipe" has more employees donating to Obama. More people like him.

Bush engineered a rescue plan while Obama waited days to meet with his advisers. Action vs. deer in headlights. Obama just can't seem to react to real-time events.

The shallow one - fiddling while Rome burns.

I think we now have enough knowledge and experience with GWB to know that was a load of BS.