Former President George W. Bush is personally responsible for the current financial crisis and should give every penny of his family fortune to the American people as a result.
So proclaimed financial advisor Suze Orman in an article published Friday at WWD.
Ironically, the piece also pointed out that Orman didn't foresee the collapse of the financial services industry, and not only continued to recommend people buy real estate as the bubble was being pumped, but also purchased an expensive apartment in New York City close to the peak.
That's probably Bush's fault, too:
Sitting in a green room after her TV interviews, she lambasts everyone from Alan Greenspan to Larry Summers to the former president of the United States, who holds an especially dark place in her heart. “Commander in Chief?” she says of George W. Bush, with a mix of disbelief and scorn. “You blew up every single financial vessel we had and if you think you aren’t personally responsible, well, the blame starts at the top. There is no higher top than you, SIR! If I were you, I would feel so absolutely horrific that I would take every penny I had and distribute it to anybody and everybody to help them in whatever way I could. You owe the American people every penny of your fortune and your family’s fortune.”
Wow. It's all his fault. And this is a so-called financial expert?
Honestly, I wish the author would have asked Orman to name the pieces of legislation that were enacted since January 2001 which caused the financial crisis. That would have been a hoot.
Maybe more important, as she preaches personal financial responsibility, irrespective of government regulation or lack thereof -- and, of course, who was actually responsible for reducing such regulation -- how is a president to blame for malfeasance and negligence on the part of corporations here and abroad?
As she blamed Bush for banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies around the world buying into the credit default swap Ponzi scheme, she had nothing but scorn for those that fell prey to Madoff's:
Even the victims of Bernie Madoff don’t get off scot-free when Orman gets going. “You walked right into that financial concentration camp, my loves,” she says later in a regrettable metaphor, given that the world’s most famous concentration camp survivor, Elie Wiesel, was among Madoff’s bilked investors. “I mean, you didn’t have to give 100 percent of everything to him.”
Well, Suze, didn't all the folks at the world's troubled financial institutions walk voluntarily into that same concentration camp? Why the double standard?
But that wasn' the only interesting hypocrisy:
These days, Orman gives money to everything from breast cancer research to Democratic political candidates... [...]
Fair Isaacs’ credit model, known as a FICO score, is the most widely used in the United States and the arrangement between them and Orman has been a source of controversy in the financial press, since Orman promotes the importance of a good FICO score in her books at the same time she is earning money from the very company that sends that score to potential lenders.
Another source of controversy is Orman’s relationship with TD Ameritrade, with whom she has a business partnership. To convince viewers of her show to begin saving, Orman suggests going to Saveyourself.com (a Web site she set up) and placing $100 a month in a savings account with that firm. If you deposit $100 in each of the first 12 months, the bank will match you — up to $300. “It’s a savings rate of 30 percent,” Orman has said repeatedly. The trouble is, after the first $1,200, the interest rate drops to an ordinary one, making the offer more of a marketing ploy for the bank than anything else.
Recently, Orman has also come under fire for not anticipating the meltdown of the financial system and for being a sometime cheerleader of investing in real estate. For her part, Orman says, “I still believe that real estate purchased at the right time, when it made sense, is one of the best investments you will ever make. You cannot live on a stock certificate.”
Orman also pooh-poohs the notion that her own $3.6 million purchase of an apartment in the Plaza hotel at the height of the boom was less than sound. “If I wanted to sell that right now, I could,” she says, adding bullishly that she would “probably” break even on the purchase price, the building’s lawsuits and negative publicity aside. “I gutted it; I put money into it. I think somebody would come and see it and love it and buy it. People who have money, they don’t care.”
She does acknowledge she failed to see rampant corruption in the financial system but says it wasn’t completely her fault. “How do you call a market when the people that are running the banks and the brokerage firms are lying to you through their teeth?” Orman says. “How do you call anything? I was naïve enough that I just believed them all.”
So, add it all up, and the financial crisis was George W. Bush's fault, and her own inability to see it coming was the fault of the folks on Wall Street.
And yet this woman tries to teach others to have personal financial responsibility.
Now THAT's entertainment.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Farewell to Credibility
March 20, 2009 - 09:20 ET by HoosierEmWell, there goes the last shred of credibility she had. Seriously, these so-called "financial experts" who wholly blame this on George Bush are not experts.
How does it feel
March 20, 2009 - 10:00 ET by cvgbuckeyeHoosierEm:
"There is a time and a season for everyting under the sun".
Well America, how do you like it? How does it feel to have this "Cabal" of liberals (Socialist and Marxist politicians, MSM, entertainment, teachers and profs, unions, domestic and international America haters, U N, uninformed youth, Rino's, atheists, minorities with persecution complexes and other black racists, baby killers, druggies and on and on and on) in headlock control over pratically everything in our great and proud nation?
America, how in the hell could you have done this? Even if by Devine Intervention, we are able to wrest America back out of their hands over the next 2 to 4 years; they will have inflicted damage upon America that will tale decades for us to heal. How did we ever let this happen to this great nation?
Well, in the end, "there is a time and a season for everything" and I really believe that our good will eventually triumph over the evil that they inflict.
We will not be able to do it ourselves. In the end, Devine intervention will be required. Most of the things that these people aspire to have NOTHING to do towards A Nation Founded Upon the Principles of God.
J
I learned to manage money from my dad
March 20, 2009 - 09:22 ET by katainkentHe taught me how to balance my checkbook. He taught me how to manage my credit card and he taught me the ins and outs of household budgeting.
People like this are out to do one thing. Sell their crap.
Suzy: Taking those waving
March 20, 2009 - 09:24 ET by WorriedSuzy:
Taking those waving hands of yours and stick em where the sun don't shine.
By the look on her face, I
March 20, 2009 - 15:23 ET by IndyAdamBy the look on her face, I think she may very well have had one of her hands in her "pleasure place" as she spewed her ignorant venom on the issue.
Don't stop there, Suze!
March 20, 2009 - 09:28 ET by Mike BrattonOr should we call you "MADAM!"?
Last week I had to have some dental work done--no doubt from grinding my teeth so much because of former President Bush. He owes me every penny of my dental bill!
And I'm having to spend more time cutting my grass--no doubt from former President Bush's failure to act on global warming. He needs to pay for a yard service to cut my lawn!
Oh, and I've noticed that the beef I've been purchasing is tougher than it used to be--no doubt President Bush, er, had something to do with that! He needs to come to my house and cut up my steak for me!
SIR!
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport...
Suzy's picture
March 20, 2009 - 09:32 ET by MillerTimeWarplost the erection. Thanks a bunch.
wouldnt have mattered. Suzie
March 20, 2009 - 10:00 ET by Kevroywouldnt have mattered. Suzie has a girlfriend. Not much interested in men.
Is this true? And
March 20, 2009 - 14:48 ET by lotrIs this true?
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
it's true.
March 21, 2009 - 07:38 ET by bktshe "came out" 2 years ago.
This woman is a gas bag. Nothing more than a bunch of moronic new age advice about "feeling good" about your money, blah blah blah.
She was hawking GE/Genworth Long Term Care insurance for awhile. So much for objectivity.
Ugh. Didn't know this
March 21, 2009 - 11:10 ET by lotrUgh. Didn't know this either. Smells like a lifestyle choice to me.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Another charlatan and scammer riding the wave
March 20, 2009 - 09:33 ET by c5thenThe FICO score should be changed to the "IDIOT" score. All it really measures is your ability to be bilked out of your hard earned money by the banks. If you are contientious and pay off your credit cards each month, your FICO score will be low. IF you are the typical american living 40% above your means and have a couple credit cards at or close to maxed out and are paying just a hair over the minimum payment, your FICO score will be high.
There is a reason why FICO and RICO are only different by one letter.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
www.loyaltoliberty.com
Please forgive me
March 20, 2009 - 09:42 ET by nolotrippenI think we have one of her books somewhere.
hey suzzie
March 20, 2009 - 09:43 ET by tomolson3hey suzzie smell your fingers!!, or better yet smell bawny franks fingers!!!!!
over the line
March 20, 2009 - 11:03 ET by SouthJersey1953Although I do not care for her, your comment was out of line and totally inappropriate for this site.
Inappropriate.......
March 20, 2009 - 11:47 ET by NavyBuckeyewhat are you talkinga bout...don't you know we can say anthing now..just ask O.B.A.M.A. (One Big Ass Mistake America)
inappropriate for this site yes...but damn it still made me laugh.
government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter” - Thomas Jefferson
Careful!
March 21, 2009 - 09:08 ET by heldmywLone, self-appointed arbiters of taste and political correctness seem to be popping up all over this site. Why these little pimples imagine they have authority to sit in judgement is a mystery.
And, like zits, they don't respond well to being squeezed with ridicule.
But it is fun.
Interesting.
March 21, 2009 - 13:34 ET by Mike BrattonYour comment sounded just as much like you were being a "self-appointed arbiter of taste and political correctness" as the comment you referenced.
Thing of it is, coarse remarks about Orman's or Frank's sexual deviancies only give ammunition to people who want to discounts conservative sites in general, and NewsBusters in particular.
Issues, not personalities, please.
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport...
oh, brother.
March 20, 2009 - 09:44 ET by sawing battacrackpot.
how to discredit your career in 30 seconds. foolish, simplistic comment.
Small minds need an easy
March 20, 2009 - 09:46 ET by SmartypantsSmall minds need an easy figurehead as a target to direct their anger. For these people, GWB is an easy target. Ms. Ormon does not possess enough savvy to truly comprehend what caused the meltdown, so she's blaming the easy target. In this sense, she's no better than your average guy in the street. For years I've railed against her financial advice. She is a financial idiot but a shrewd marketer who made a name for herself. For instance, she adamantly insists that nobody should ever lease a car, and that you shouldn't take a loan to buy a car. This is absurd advice. I worked for ten years in the auto industry, a good portion of it was in the pricing department where we worked up leases and financing. Leasing can be one of the best deals for customers. The auto companies pay to promote cheap payments, and this often results in a deal that is more beneficial than buying a depreciating asset. For any "financial expert" to issue a blanket statement to the contrary is wrong.
The most successful war America has ever waged is quickly becoming President Obama's war on capitalism.
Hmm...
March 20, 2009 - 09:47 ET by Meredith1966Okay, Suze, we get it...you've just made yourself into another Bernie Madoff, selling snake oil and pocketing other people's money. How to explain you're being 'naive' and not seeing the coming disaster? Yeah, I'm taking advice from you.
Consider this, too, ma'am. The markets were bad in 2008 but didn't really go into the crapper until the last quarter, more or less, of 2008. What happened in the last quarter of 2008? Well, it became apparent that a thinly-veiled Socialist was about to be elected POTUS and then, in November, he was. What has happened since he took office in January? Further and bigger losses on Wall Street and in millions of people's 401k's and 457's. Do you think perhaps there is a correlation between Wall Street crashing and the coming to power of a person (and Congress) who are openly hostile to free market capitalism? Could you not see that coming? And now he and that Congress are in the process of spending us into massive debt (more than the hated W ever did), which will in short order lead to higher interest rates, hyperinflation, more unemployment, massive government regulation if not complete nationalization of broad swaths of industry and the financial markets, and further losses of personal capital. For my money, or what's left of it since the election of the Marxist in Chief, it's going to be worse than under your favorite punching bag, President Bush. Maybe in a couple of years I'll hear you say that President Obama should give his next book advance to the people of the United States, if we're not already the People's Republic of America by then and state-controlled television is controlling the content of your show.
"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge
Of course a lot of people
March 20, 2009 - 11:00 ET by CaligulaOf course a lot of people saw this coming, and they are on record...just not her. Just like alot of people (actually, myself included) saw the "dot com" bubble burst coming. But that one was easy. The MSM back in the late 90's fawning over recent college grads sitting on an office floor with pizza boxes strewn all over the place. No furniture, just some computers and announcing that they are gonna have an IPO and that the initial offering is gonna be $150 or $200 or whatever. But they haven't made a single dime yet. And this was repeated over and over and over again. Did she call that one? I don't know, but I bet she bitched about it too.
Suze
March 20, 2009 - 10:03 ET by iveseenitallI was flipping through the stations the other day and came upon this idiot Orman telling a group of women what victims they were and how they needed to stand up and take credit for everything they do. I watched for but a few minutes and began to get sick. As I picked up a vase to throw it I realized how many of them and how many t.v. sets I've broken in the last year. Thank God I calmed down.
Of course I also saw newsclips yesterday of the Clown- in -Chief on Leno. I wondered how he has the time to do this, write a children's book, and choose the Final Four in college basketball as the economy goes down the tube.
As people in our nation have lost their life savings, are forced to work when they should be retired, are watching as their "represenatives" in Congress squander away America's future through incompetence and corruption, the circus continues.
It is so sad to witness the fall of the great experiment which was America. History repeats itself. Ignorance and apathy rule the day. The question now is whether or not it is too late to rescue this nation from the enemies within, as well as those without.
P.S. Go out and buy a wheelbarrow. You are going to need it to get that loaf of bread in the near future. Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Have you ever heard Orman
March 20, 2009 - 09:58 ET by KevroyHave you ever heard Orman tell how she made her first big money? She was a waitress at a bar whose clientle was rich brokers. She whined to one of them every day about how hard it was to make ends meet. They gave her 50k to invest. I know, that happens all the time, right? She invested it and lost it. So they told her to sue, she did and got some of it back. Then went out and re-invested it.
Other peoples money. That's how libs do it.
I recognized this woman as a
March 20, 2009 - 10:00 ET by d1carterI recognized this woman as a train wreck waiting to happen a long time ago. This economy has a way of weeding out the scam artists and snake oil salesmen.
Tar and feathers
March 20, 2009 - 10:16 ET by iveseenitallDicarter:
Right on. In the early days of this nation people like Orman, Algore, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Ophra, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Barry and Joe, et,al. were saoked in tar, covered in feathers, and run out of town on a tree log. Hummm....
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
I have never liked this
March 20, 2009 - 10:06 ET by marpelI have never liked this woman. She's like a Liberal Dr. Laura on crack...All she is is another Jim Cramer except w/ a bigger d***!
Couldn't keep her mouth shut.
March 20, 2009 - 10:09 ET by awffp1890So Suze just couldn't keep quiet and had to give us her political commentary. Is this coming from the same lady who preaches to us to have a high FICO score, and yet receives money from the same people that develop that score? Here is what your FICO score really is according to Dave Ramsey:
The FICO score is comprised of five elements:
Based on these five elements, Ramsey calls the FICO score an "I love debt score."
If you want good common sense practical advice, check out Dave Ramsey. He holds one very important person responsible for your financial situation, YOU.
"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity. But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning
Clinton caused it....
March 20, 2009 - 10:22 ET by jackie3It was the last session, the last bill of the last Clinton congress that caused it. Clinton also caused the media monoply wenow have. Thank's slick willie.
Alexander Hamilton: "We are a Republican government. Real liberty is
never found in the despotism or in the extremes of a Democracy."
Why just Bush?
March 20, 2009 - 10:23 ET by SouthernRootsAs Pelosi (and others) keep pointing out, Congress is co-equal with the Executive in running this country.
Where was Congress in heading off this financial problem? If they want to penalize people for taking bonuses for poor job performance, why is Congress exempt?
They are all for taxing the rich, capping executive pay and bonuses, why not restrict all Congress people to an overall total wealth of, say, $500,000 - $1,000,000. Everything else above that should be given back to the government.
Under this plan, Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Clinton, Obama - we could gin up almost a billion dollars from these people alone. That more than offsets the AIG retention (not performance) bonuses.
Bush must have had a great economy. Under the Clinton economy, the Clinton's could barely make ends meet. Under the Bush economy, the Clinton's become multi-millionaires. Obama wasn't wealthy under Clinton, but became a millionaire under the Bush economy.
Sure, they had something people wanted, but that's the point. People had the extra discretionary money to pay for it.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)
So Suze owes me for all her crappy advice?
March 20, 2009 - 10:34 ET by Lord ErondSounds fair.
"To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men" -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You have got to be kidding...
March 20, 2009 - 10:35 ET by Franklins_LockeIf you are going to blame a politician, at least blame the right ones. What about Frank and Dodd. If you want to blame companies, blame the right ones, Freddie and Fannie. At least be honest, but asking a Lib is futile.
http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/
Everytine UNC-TV does their
March 20, 2009 - 10:42 ET by ricklailEverytine UNC-TV does their fund raisers they use her. I wrote and told them that if they would shed her I would consider donating.
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses is not good for the coach. Knute Rockne
Enough is enough! Liberals
March 20, 2009 - 10:48 ET by Clear thinkerEnough is enough! Liberals think they are oh so cute with their stupid little ideas and it's time they woke up to reality. Since Queen Pelosi took her throne 2 years ago, and the liberal dems have had their way, and of course their Messiah coming to power, THEY HAVE DAMN NEAR DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY! I DARE ANY LIBERAL TO TRY TO MAKE A COUNTER-ARGUMENT TO MY FACE.
No Taxation Without Representation
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I listened to her a couple
March 20, 2009 - 10:52 ET by celatorI listened to her a couple of times. A complete waste of time. Her financial "advice" is not worth a dime.
The Government cannot give to anybody anything which the government does not first take from somebody else. Dr. Adrian Rogers
Even if her advice didn't
March 20, 2009 - 15:37 ET by SickofLibsEven if her advice didn't suck (which it does), that annoying wallpaper-peeling voice and those spastic facial expressions did it for me years ago.
Progressive left says that Clinton is to blame, Suze
March 20, 2009 - 11:00 ET by Gary HallCome on Suze Orman - do a little more reading.. OK?
From the left:
And for balance - from the right:
Now that, my friends, is consensus opinion.
At one time, I liked...
March 20, 2009 - 11:05 ET by jawebster1this woman, but the more I learn about her, the less I like her. Too bad she didn't stick to finances instead of sticking her head into politics where at least half of the people are not going to agree with her liberal views. I won't be watching her CNBC show on weekends again. One less viewer Suzie! I take very dim views of people who overly criticize George Bush. He made mistakes sure, but he was honest, decent and did what he thought was right, regardless of the polls and compared to what we have now, he was a resounding success as a President. The way things are going now, we will soon all look back on the Bush years as the good old days! Jim Webster
same here
March 20, 2009 - 12:41 ET by lotrMake that 3 less viewers -- my spouse and I won't be watching her anymore either.
At one point, I really appreciated her strong fiscal conservativism and her promotion of living within your means -- much of her shows are dedicated to this. In fact, I had just assumed that she must be a conservative. But then I noticed slowly a certain political preachiness creeping into her shows. She started advising women to not trust men they were going to marry, things that had nothing to do with finance per se, but more social-liberal and feminsta talking points.
Now this is the straw that broke the camel's back, as we do not tolerate Bush bashing by anyone in the media. Regardless of one's politics, I see it as a cowardly, despicable act.
Furthermore, as a financial "expert," she is not being intellectually honest, for the policies that led to the housing bubble (and indeed the bubble itself) began during the Clinton Adminstration. If one wants to point fingers at a president, one must include Clinton. Plus, in retrospect, I've come to learn that anyone who knows anything about economics should've known years in advance that the housing boom was in fact a bubble, and according the Noel's article, she was clueless. So this leads me to question her credibility as an "expert" as well.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Don't worry Suzy I'm sure the Mancow still loves you.
March 20, 2009 - 11:10 ET by CTWhat a classless maroooon.
SUZE!
March 20, 2009 - 12:28 ET by blazermaniacSuze owes all of America an apology for being on television. What a waste she is!
Yo Suze
March 20, 2009 - 11:24 ET by StarAZSpeaking of "family fortunes," has anyone seen where Himself's assets are being kept in blind trust? They used to make Cheney disclose this every half an hour...From the O-Man, nothing.
They're right there...
March 20, 2009 - 18:28 ET by Chaitealoverin the safe deposit box next to his Harvard transcripts and birth certificate.
Chai
“...Bury me on my face,” said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, “Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.”
Call me a nut, but I prefer
March 20, 2009 - 12:15 ET by SickofLibsCall me a nut, but I prefer my financial advisor to at least have a college degree.
And didn't her mother tell her not to open jars with her teeth?
I know her advice is stinks,
March 20, 2009 - 12:48 ET by billbI know her advice stinks, but can she really be that stupid ???
It is better to remain
March 20, 2009 - 12:52 ET by billbIt is better to remain silent and have people assume you are stupid, than to speak and remove all doubt!
CU Next Tuesday, Orman...
March 20, 2009 - 13:09 ET by MotherYou're another one on my list of pathetic, waste-of timers.
Blow your load where it will only count...
...on your sad, lonely, 100% silk sheets.
Girl, you are SCARY. You make *MY* 'nads' shrivel.
MORONS
March 20, 2009 - 13:36 ET by UgottaBkiddinMeI imagine this witch thinks she could do a better job as POTUS? "Oh, no, no, I don't want the job. It's easier to sit back and critique somebody elses performance....He should of done this, he should of done that, what was he thinking when he did such and such...."
Opinions are just like @**holes.....either you have one or you are one...
Wisdom from on low!
March 20, 2009 - 13:52 ET by pocomocoYet another recently “out-of-the-closet” lesbian treating
America
to her profundity.
Or maybe she's really Keith Olbermann in drag.
revisionist history
March 20, 2009 - 13:55 ET by sam12663I am sick of all these Monday morning quarterbacks criticizing Bush. This econ -witch was an unknown nobody who became a popular and RICH personality during George Bush's term. Since she gave poor advice of her own, and didn't see this economic crisis looming, perhaps she should give back some of her personal fortune. These psuedo personalities should keep their mouths shut and fade away.
President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
Not only is this person
March 20, 2009 - 14:04 ET by mattmNot only is this person clueless, she's getting paid by the taxpayers. Let Pure B.S. know how you feel.
Orman, Queen of PBS Pablum
March 20, 2009 - 14:09 ET by GothampcI guess when Obama was a Senator, his voting "Present" all over the place had nothing to do with what's going on today.
Remember when McCain suspended his POTUS campaign to return to Washington and petulant child Obama just said "Call me, I'll be there if you need me"? I guess that has nothing to do with the current financial situation either.
By the look on her face, I
March 20, 2009 - 15:22 ET by IndyAdamBy the look on her face, I think she may very well have had one of her hands in her "pleasure place" as she spewed her ignorant venom on the issue.
I'm just ...
March 20, 2009 - 15:50 ET by SentryDanI'm just curious as to how much research these blockheads do before the spew their crap. And this applies all the way up and down the chain, both the government and private sector.
Only people who have agendas put out this kind of BS. I have said it before and I will say it again. The blame lies mainly with the congress. The congress write the bills (including the money bills), the president can pass or reject them. If he passes or signs the bill it becomes the law. However, if he rejects or vetoes the bill it heads back to congress to be reworked (we hope); and if the congress feels the bill is ok as written then they can pass the bill over the president's veto (provided they get the required number of votes); or they can rework it and resubmit it to the president with the hope he will sign the reworked version; or the congress can just let the bill die.
But to say that this mess is all President Bush's fault is really stretching it. These Obama suckups had better realize that since Obama took office, he is totally responsibe along with the congress for what happens now and that includes everything since he took office. None of what is happening now is President Bush's fault.
Furthermore, for the last 2 years the dems have controlled congress. Things weren't bad until they took over. However, there's enough blame to go around, but notice none of these slugs have the guts to admit they screwed up. May God help us all.
Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.
She now joins Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, David Frum...
March 20, 2009 - 17:11 ET by CKA in Red State USA...and who's know who else as shedding "conservative" image and sucking up to the liberal/leftist punditocracy.
Guess that's Bush's fault too.
Anyone have an address..
March 20, 2009 - 17:15 ET by MightyMouth...where I can return one of Suze's books I bought a few years ago? Should only take about 15 minutes to run through the shreader.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
We WILL find a cure for BDS
March 20, 2009 - 23:22 ET by RogerCfromSDWe WILL find a cure for BDS in our lifetime. Simply donate to the Liberal Jackasses Afflicted with BDS Fund.
A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.
To prove to you that you
March 21, 2009 - 07:41 ET by ConservativeRexTo prove to you that you can make money in this economy, please forward all of the money you were going to spend because of anything Orman (ironic last name don't you think) may have said. I digress. Please send all your money that you really wanted to invest with her, to me. I will make really really sure it's safe.
It is long past due that any and everybody stops blaming President Bush. I know liberals won't, but they don't count anyway.
This is Barry's show now. Remind liberals of that the instant one says.."well Bush..." stop 'em dead in their track.
orman
March 21, 2009 - 10:28 ET by jessieHJessie R. Hamby Just another flake on the take.
Does Blame Start at the Top?
March 21, 2009 - 11:14 ET by SRPwrdFunny how these people believe that trickle down destruction is real, but trickle down economics is just a dream.
"two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century" - PreBO
QVC pusher
March 21, 2009 - 14:50 ET by Kat Outta the BagSuze Orman...isn't she the lesbian who sells her crap on QVC? Not that there's anything wrong with selling crap on QVC...
Save me...save me from tomorrow. I don't want to sail with this ship of fools.
~World Party