Obama received $103,000 from AIG

[madformx5]

I have to say that I am suprised this guy is smart enough to keep his car running.

[madformx5]

The Dems are all outraged about AIG giving out bonuses after the Government bailed them out with 165 Billion dollars, but not a word about the 103k AIG gave Obama when he was a Senator.

Nice investment for AIG - give 103k, get back 165 billion.

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/346030.asp

Oddly enough, the MSM is somehow not reporting this story for some strange and unknown reason, nor is Jon Stewart getting his panties bunched over it either.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/topr...?id=D000000123

I live in a state that is full of conspiracy theorist like you. It must be a conspiracy if a black Democrat can get elected president in a white man's country. (Not to mention he beat an old white man to get there) All of you guys are just just full of soar grapes because John McCain didn't win just like you were when President George H.W. Bush was defeated by President Clinton in 1992. You guys cant stand it when you loose, and you did loose. None of the Republican parties gerrymandering, voter suppression compaigns, or disputed elections of the last fifteen years stopped President Obama from getting elected. To bad Norm Coleman former R-MN Senator or almost all other Republicans have not found it in himself to be as gracious or as magnanimus as Former Vice-President Al Gore was in the aftermath of the 2000 Presidential election.

AIG probably gave money to every Senator and Representative in the entire United States Congress or at leats all who would accept it. The way you tell it President Obama must have had his own little slush fund set up by AIG. I bet none of the members of you beloved Republican Party turned any of AIG's money down or are giving it back to them now. The AIG executives are getting 165 million in bonuses and because of a bill being introduced by Chuck Schumer D-NY all of those bonuses are probably going to be taxed at a rate of 100 percent if they do not forfiet them. President Bush's administration is the group who pushed for AIG and all of the banks to get their Stimulus money with no strings attached. 135 billion of the dollars that AIG received got to them before President Obama took office. The government just release 30 billion to them.

As I remember when President Clinton left office gas was around a dollar a gallon in Oklahoma, unemployment was around two percent, and we had a huge budget surplus. Now let us look foward almost eight years to Jan. 20, 2009 at 11:59:59 a.m. Gas in Texas was around one dollar and forty cents but it had just come down, the national unemployment was over six percent and rising, our huge budget surplus was turned into a trillion dollar dept and also rising, and for almost six years we had been involve in a war that we were lied to, to get is in that costs our country billions of dollars and over four thousand of our bravest soldiers. The cherry on the top of the cake is that for six of the last eight years the Republican party had be in complete control of the government. One time before the 2006 elections the Democrats in the Senate talked of filibustering to stop the extremist Republican agenda and the Republicans threatened to change the rules of the Senate and abolish the filibuster.


If you want to talk about companies who have politicans in their hip pockets let talk about oil and energy companies with the previous administration. How did you like paying five dollars a gallon for gas. Ever notice how the price of gas miraculously started coming down as the election got closer. Why are you not talking about all the money they made (or stole from the American people) in the last few years. I bet they gave a few of those dollars to the Republicans too.

A few years ago did you enjoy paying electric rates in California to energy companies who were gouging you? Those energy companies heavily support Rupublicans. The Republicans in Texas have for many years been pushing to build "Clean Coal" plants because the coal industry has had state Republicans in their hip pockets for years. Clean Coal is one of the reasons you can hardly see the skylines of Dallas or Fort Worth even on clear days.

You and all the people like you just go right on thinking that everything in this country is a left-wing conspiracy. The majority of the voters in this country last November proved they don't believe people like you anymore.

[Danny]

Am I the official r3v clown?

I thought that was Trey.

[speedhop]

Josh, lets keep the sarcasm out of this thread.

This is a serious thread, vital to national enlightenment.

Must feel pretty good to be the official r3v clown...you're gonna die clown.

http://clownnosedecap.ytmnd.com/

[Danny]

Josh, lets keep the sarcasm out of this thread.

This is a serious thread, vital to national enlightenment.

[Stephen]

Glad you could help us see that Josh.

Otherwise we were just going to sit here

[Jand3rson]

Oh trust me Danny, I know.

Someone has to open people's eyes.

[Danny]

Josh, in case you didn't know.

Internets is serious business.

[Jand3rson]

Maybe if there was a direct deduction on people's paychecks, something like "Government Bailout Tax - $78.26" every two weeks you might start caring.

But because the cost is being hidden with smoke and mirrors, I guess that makes it OK

Who do you think is paying for all these bailouts?

Again, you claim to know so much about how much I care. It's so utterly important to get your point across, that it doesn't matter what you have to say to other people that might question it. You need to prove that you're right so badly, that you blind yourself to what other people's feelings on the matter might be if they differ at all from yours.

I'm really not disagreeing with you all that much. If you weren't so bullheaded in trying to make your point, you'd probably see that. But you've already made up your mind that I'm defending America's new super hero, and that I don't care about what's happening or what happens.

So please, continue with your tirade. I won't get in the way anymore. You can just kick me to the side with the rest of the people that questioned your logic, and are chasing after your begging for forgiveness and to PLEASE take them with you on your crusade to expose the truth. But I'll stick with the group that knows that in the end, all you're going to really going to do is run to the end of your chain and bark.

For one, I'm posting on internet boards and opening people's eyes instead of being apathetic and saying "so what?"

I'm sorry, I can't post anymore because I'm laughing too damn hard that ludicrous statment you just made. Is your online watchdog crew going to expose the truth and blow the lid off of this scandal?

[Stephen]

I really think its too early for the apocalypse and hellfire.

[E30 Cabrio]

Which makes perfect sense, because I'm the guy sitting next to him telling him what he's doing is alright. I'm the members of his appointed cabinet. I'm the senate and the house, voting to pass all of the ridiculous shit he puts forth. Government at that level has absolutely NOTHING to do with you, me, or anyone else that thinks that being a registered voter creates change. Except for all the people that got swindled by that word.

Tell me, what exactly are you planning to do about it, since you're not one of these "enablers" you so righteously claim I am?

For one, I'm posting on internet boards and opening people's eyes instead of being apathetic and saying "so what?"

What if everyone acted the way you did?

And what if everyone was outraged as I am?

Think about that before acting so helpless.

[speedhop]

And what, praytell, would you have me, or rather us, do?

I voted for the other guy. I'm told my whole life that my vote makes a difference. Made a pretty big one, clearly. I DID what was in my power to do.

Maybe this is the difference the general public should be fighting for...?

Instead of fighting over the decisions of a specific president (not that it doesn't deserve a diatribe here or there) we should be fighting for our rights as citizens of the free world rather than giving our vote away to some lost cause. It actually sickens me to think of where we are now.

[E30 Cabrio]

Next in line for a bailout - the newspapers.

The same newspapers that give about 80% of their campaign contributions to the Dems.

No problem there though.

What's another few hundred Billion of our tax dollars going to an entity that supports the party that controls Congress and the Presidency?

No conflict of interest there.

Maybe if there was a direct deduction on people's paychecks, something like "Government Bailout Tax - $78.26" every two weeks you might start caring.

But because the cost is being hidden with smoke and mirrors, I guess that makes it OK

Who do you think is paying for all these bailouts?

And who is getting money from these companies that are being bailed out?

We're paying for it, while the politicians who are giving these companies our tax dollars, then feign outrage over bonuses, are themselves benefiting financially.

It's like one big money laundering scam.

[Jand3rson]

Which makes perfect sense, because I'm the guy sitting next to him telling him what he's doing is alright. I'm the members of his appointed cabinet. I'm the senate and the house, voting to pass all of the ridiculous shit he puts forth. Government at that level has absolutely NOTHING to do with you, me, or anyone else that thinks that being a registered voter creates change. Except for all the people that got swindled by that word.

Tell me, what exactly are you planning to do about it, since you're not one of these "enablers" you so righteously claim I am?

[E30 Cabrio]

Your inability to separate the concepts of "don't care" and "have no control over the situation" are what get me.

If you want to be an enabler to reckless and corrupt government, that's your choice,