by Sixstrings » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 01:10:04
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'S')o a jackass wingnut made that big banner professionally to exploit the encampment of local homeless people and the sign lasted less than a day. I wonder if they threatened to come kick his ass?
Scratch one of the anti-Obama stories, and all too often you find some despicable wingnut trying to pull a hoax, and sure enough there's a smug scumbag behind this one.
Clearly the sign was put up by jubilant Republicans who certainly never put up "Bushville" signs, and it's not like republicans have ever been champions of the dispossessed so yeah there's a heaping dose of hypocrisy there.
Having said that, they did a good thing -- this really is all Obama's fault now. He's not who we thought he was. After he won, he got rid of his working-class minded economic team and literally packed his White House with Goldman Sachs bankers. It's like the Twilight Zone, I actually wonder if a McCain whitehouse might have been less Wall Street oriented.

EDIT: The lesson I've finally learned here is that politicians serve corporate interests, and you can never, ever, believe what they say. This explains a lot of things.. like why Joe Biden was behind bankruptcy reform (all the credit card companies in Delaware) and why Joe Lieberman is anti-healthcare reform (all the healthcare company headquarters in Connecticut).
This same crap is played out over and over again in every democracy that doesn't have strong socialist / populist activism (I'm thinking of France). I was watching a documentary about the Argentine financial crisis the other day, my God it was the same exact stuff. Even some of the same companies behind all the corruption -- Citi, Bank of America, etc. The private corporate debts being passed off to the public debt, all what we're seeing here now in America.