About that job interview: You call this Competence? Why we're swimming in soup...

[Skwmom]

Clinton keeps saying she's engaging in a job interview for the presidency. Most people, with a resume like the Clintons wouldn't stand a chance.

First there was the stupidity over NAFTA and China trade. In a debate, she was asked about Perot's reference to a giant sucking sound - American jobs being sucked away under those agreements - and feigned ignorance, making some comments about charts. Many people pointed out how these agreements would lead to worldwide abuse of workers and loss of American jobs but it hardly took a genius to make this observation.

Now the current crisis. There's an interesting diary at dailykos. The foundation for the current financial crisis was set in motion by Bill Clinton in 1999 with the Financial Services Modernization Act. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/17/111317/927 . This is one of the most interesting referenced articles. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/nov1999/bank-n01.shtml

I remember when this was initially being talked about. After the S&L debacle (caused by deregulation) I remember thinking - Are these people out of their minds? The last thing this industry needs is further deregulation.

Clinton now says we are in the soup. Well it's not just the Republicans who helped put us there. The hand the Clintons played in the current crisis needs to be hammered home to an unaware American Public. America cannot handle 4 more years of such incompetence.

The Clintons are competent is nothing more than a myth. Of course they might just be willing to do anything for power or money.
Too stupid, or too blinded by power or greed. Does it really matter which one?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The nightmare of 8 years of peace & prosperity ended in 2001.

You don't know what you are talking about. kos is so god damn crazed about this Obama thing that he has picked up where Newt Gingrich never dared to go.

[Skwmom]

2. I do know what I'm talking about. The chickens have come home to roost.

And it's not just the Republicans who are to blame.

There's nothing quite so sad as those who refuse to see. But then again, there are the Bush supporters who think he walks on water.

On edit: Don't you think you might be so darn crazy about the Clintons that you refuse to face the truth about them?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. You sound like one of them.

[Skwmom]

5. Oh yes, anyone who doesn't view the Clintons through 9 inch thick rose colored glasses

must be a Republican. Great logic that is.

I think the Clintons are terrified with having the "competency" cloak debunked. And well they should be b/c without it they have nothing.

[truedelphi]

9. I remember being upset when these banking de-regs

Fell into place.

Insurance became banking. Mortgage financial patterns could be bundled together and used as a financial package for some other financial gamble.

And the consumer had about as much of a chance to know whether a deal was good or bad as a snowflake in hell.

It became the beginning of an era - open an envelope sent to your home. You have been approved for a 0% interest, $5,000 limit credit card.

Only by reading the really small print do you find out that if your credit isn't what they are pretending, your interest can be 22.5%.
Plus your limit can be 500 bucks - 59 bucks needed for membership, 59 bucks for enrollment and application fees, and then 22.5 on the remaining funds.

If that's what they did to credit card customers I can easily see why/ how people got scammed into the sub prime loans.

[Skwmom]

11. I love how the debtors are being blamed for the sub prime crisis while

predatory lenders are left off the hook. Of course, the loss of American jobs is b/c Americans are hooked on cheap Chinese goods. It's not the fault of a system that has switched from valuing work to valuing investment.

[elixir]

10. And while you're at it, why don't you blame 9/11 and Iraq on the Clintons

[Skwmom]

12. What an argument. But under the Constitution ONLY CONGRESS can declare War

(which was the purpose of the IWR).

[Johnny__Motown]

7. any facts to back up that statement?

Didn't think so

[Skwmom]

13. The Clinton M.O. Repeat it often enough and people will take it as gospel.

I have thirty five years of experience.
I have thirty five years of experience.
I have thirty five years of experience.
I have thirty five years of experience.
I have thirty five years of experience.

I have met the commander-in-chief threshold.
I have met the commander-in-chief threshold.
I have met the commander-in-chief threshold.
I have met the commander-in-chief threshold.
I have met the commander-in-chief threshold.

I have been victimized by the media.
I have been victimized by the media.
I have been victimized by the media.
I have been victimized by the media.
I have been victimized by the media.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. freeper?

Lets start with the budget surplus & go from there.

[JimGinPA]

15. "8 years of peace & prosperity " - Now There's A Fairy Tail For Ya...

Bubba was a great politician, but not a very good president or leader.

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. A quick Obama rewrite of history!

[JimGinPA]

17. No, Just Unbiased Recollection

[uponit7771]

4. None of her supporters want to answer in regards to the Iran vote either. Her resume doesn't look...

...good to me.

[Skwmom]

6. They are either too stupid or too blinded by power and greed.

Either way, the country can't take another 4 years of this type of leadership.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Roly Poly Fish Heads Floating In The Soup...