Won’t You Come Home Bill Daley
Jan 20, 2011 Political
William Daley of Chicago is now part of team Obama. He is part of the Daley crime political family and is supposedly going to bring some business sense to the regime. Daley was part of the fat cats from Wall Street and made a fortune there (no doubt helping the home syndicate along the way).
Daley is reportedly selling $8.3 MILLION worth of JP Morgan stock now that he is part of the regime. He had to sell the interests in order to avoid any conflicts of interest. As if his time on Wall Street will somehow not matter regardless of what stock he holds.
I have not heard the left discussing how this man bilked taxpayers through his Wall Street dealings. I have not heard how he got rich by screwing people over and how he was part of the problem that Obama said was close to seeing people with pitchforks. How is it that none of the chattering class has mentioned any of this or questioned how a guy got so rich selling stock from a company that had to be bailed out by the US taxpayer.
What? It does not matter…
Well how come it mattered when Dick Cheney moved from Halliburton and had to do something with his stock? Why is it that the left went bonkers over Cheney and can’t help but mentioning Halliburton and how Cheney and the company got rich off the taxpayer (even though this is not true)?
I guess it only matters when the accused is a Republican.
The big difference here is that Cheney signed his stock over to charity. He and his wife signed an irrevocable document that donated the stock to a charity to be named later (and in 2006 they gave over 75% of their income to charity). To help liberals I picked their favorite source for this (from among many out there).
Does anyone think that Daley will do this?
Ah yes, and it is the evil Republicans who are greedy and only think of themselves.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: dick cheney, halliburton, jp morgan, stock, william daley
Al Gore Is Mistaken
May 15, 2009 Political
One would think the guy who claimed to invent the Internet would be able to use it to verify something before making a statement that is completely inaccurate. Politico reports that Gore was interviewed on CNN where he was critical of former VP Dick Cheney’s criticisms of Barack Obama. Gore stated that he waited two years before he was critical of George Bush:
“I waited two years after I left office to make statements that were critical,” Gore said during an interview on CNN, pointing out that his critiques were focused on “policy.”
George Bush took office in January 2001 so Gore would have had to remain silent until January 2003. A quick search of Google using the term “Gore criticizes Bush” yields a ton of results. A few of them are before January 2003 which means that Gore was either mistaken or untruthful. Regardless of which, he was careless because this information can be found very easily.
“But instead of embracing the bipartisan national consensus to improve our environment, the Bush administration has chosen to serve the special interests instead of the public interests and to subsidize the obsolete, failed approaches of the past instead of the exciting new solutions of the future.” The Berkeley Daily Planet 23 April 2002
Ten days after criticizing President Bush’s handling of Iraq, Al Gore offered a scathing assessment today of Mr. Bush’s stewardship of the American economy. Mr. Gore said Mr. Bush’s policies had created a “crisis of confidence in U.S. economic leadership throughout the world.” The New York Times 3 October 2002
Gore called for increasing the international security force in Afghanistan and broadening its mandate beyond Kabul, the capital, to the whole country. He urged Bush to pay greater attention to the views of NATO allies, and criticized him for pursuing a more unilateral foreign policy than President Clinton. CNN 13 February 2002
The second quote indicates that Gore criticized Bush ten days prior to this criticism. To be fair, the third quote is from an article in which Gore almost completely agrees with Bush’s positions on the war on terror and he praises Bush for some of the things he accomplished.
The fact remains, Al Gore was critical of George Bush earlier than the two years he claimed in the CNN interview. In his rush to smear Cheney and defend Obama, Gore made himself look like a fool. Not that the MSM would follow up on that and not that Gore needed this to look like a fool.
Perhaps it is Al Gore who has a fever…
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Tags: al gore, cnn, criticsm, dick cheney