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If you have been paying attention to both the economic news and the election news then you will appreciate this You Tube video that showed up in my email box earlier today. It speaks for itself… Watch it:
And then be sure to pass it along to friends and family!
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Leadership has to be one of the key issues we face today as voters. Certainly most DemDaily readers are supporting Obama. There are some that do not. Here is the except of a very interesting Time magazine article about leadership and the reaction of the American Public. I just heard Chis Matthews say that what [...]
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Gawddamn.
After nearly two weeks of screwing the pooch, from a communications point of view, all the reporters today are using the ‘Recovery Plan’ language because the Leadership, as demonstrated by Senator Kerry this morning, in Congress is doing the same thing.
It’s about time since this is all an effort to help the economy and banking [...]
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Grab a good strong cup of coffee this morning and ask yourself if you really feel confident with the current state of the economy or for that matter, the current leadership in America? Take a couple of swigs and ask yourself, who you think will bring change to Washington, D.C. and America. You know the [...]
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The NY Times reports today that although the “first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting,” a second, far larger group of potential loan defaults is looming, because now, even “homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers.”
The percentage of mortgages in arrears in the category of loans one [...]
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Now that Barack Obama is back in the U.S., after his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe, he’s ready to start focusing on the “top issue for American voters — the faltering U.S. economy.”
That’s welcome news, because every one I speak to from friends to business associates are all concerned with economic issues. As [...]
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Many Americans have dug a hole so deep thanks to corporate bankers and our government’s propensity to bail them out before helping the little people that are losing their homes, that it could be a long while before we’ve seen the end of our collective economic nightmare. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science [...]
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Al Gore gave an impassioned speech today in Washington, “laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.” Watch a clip from Al Gore’s speech here:
In his speech, Gore put forth a challenge to citzens and politicians in [...]
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I was only 7 years old when President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to think of the possibilities of space and launched the nation onto a journey reaching to the Moon. He stated:
“Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves [...]
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The headlines say it all:
New RNC Ads Go After Obama on Energy
$3 million ad targets Obama on energy
Watch the ad here:
Oh, the irony… As if John McCain would do better by America on energy and gas prices. I can’t help but LMAO…
Via Marc Ambinder:
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Earlier this evening I sat outside with a neighbor discussing a wealth of topics including the news that Starbucks will be cutting “up to 12,000 jobs” and closing “600 stores.”
It’s a sign of the times to come as consumers continue to cut back on even the littlest of extravagances to make sure they put gas [...]
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