Comments on: Update III: Where’s Obama’s Midas Touch? https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Danforth https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7986 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:04 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7986 The fact that Republican Party insiders picked Dede without a primary election shows the rotten cancer that has suffused the Republican Party itself. With this pick, they confessed their values to the world. The fact that voters repudiated this steaming pile that was served up to them is slightly encouraging.

If we can’t take over the Republican Party from the inside, our nation is lost. The two-faced Single Party is insinuated into the law nationwide and controls every election with the above-mentioned printed money.

The chances of taking back the Republican Party? About the same as a third party replacing it.

But we have to try.

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By: Jim https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7978 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:01:53 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7978 Forget the state Republicans. The national group gave Dede S about a million dollars! They would have looked like complete idiots if Hoffman would have won.

As it is, they obviously have huge egg on their face, and if Palin does anything to help the Republican party, it will be to drag it back to the right and towards Constitutional precepts.

There is much more anger out there than Washington or Fox even imagines. Look at how Ron Paul’s son is doing; he is trashing the opponent while the Republicans can’t understand why.

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By: EN https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7970 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:29:00 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7970 The warm and fuzzies that many are getting from the apparent shift in political preferences should be tempered with some reality. It was often said that “Democrats wanted to head toward the cliff at 65 MPH while the Republicans would only go 35 MPH”. Nice analogy but it makes no difference when you’ve already gone over. Any change in throttle speed, or the Feds status, will not affect the eventual outcome.

Did anyone notice the Indian central banks bought 200 metric tons of gold yesterday? They bought it with their “reserve” dollars. That’s a lot of gold and what it means to us was far more important then this election. The Gulf states hold a an unknown number of “trillions” in US paper. They want to get rid of it, but slowly so the dollar’s value isn’t destroyed completely before they can move. India has likely triggered a gold rush… or dollar dumping, if you prefer. One day soon Americans who speak Hindi and Mandarin may be able to peddle their bicycles to jobs at US call centers.

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7963 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:18:51 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7963 [… these people are printing money to fund their programs. Why would they give up the printing press!] Ilana Mercer

Strictly speaking, the abolishment of the Fed and fractional reserve banking is not necessary. All that is necessary is the repeal of legal tender laws. The market place would then crush the banking cartel. A couple of quotes from Ron Paul should show the importance:

‘ Legal tender laws disadvantage ordinary citizens by forcing them to use money that is vulnerable to vast depreciation. As Stephen T. Byington wrote in the September 1895 issue of the American Federationist: “No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money. Kick it out!” Similarly, the American Federation of Labor asked: “If money is good and would be preferred by the people, then why are legal tender laws necessary? And, if money is not good and would not be preferred by the people, then why in a democracy should they be forced to use it?” ‘

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‘ Tragically, the Supreme Court has failed to protect the American people from unconstitutional legal tender laws. Salmon Chase, who served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration, when he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, dissenting in Knox vs. Lee, summed up the argument against legal tender laws in twelve words: “The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.” [emphasis added.] ‘ from http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul118.html

I recommend the whole article and anything else Ron Paul has written on the subject (or any subject!).

Neither gold or silver is needed for sound banking. Just liberty and the usual laws against fraud and insolvency. Competition would do the rest.

Many would pick gold and silver for their inherent usefulness as money but, strictly speaking, this is not required, IMO.

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By: George Pal https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7961 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:10:58 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7961 Obama’s Midas touch failed in an Olympics bid, two gubernatorial races, and deliverence, in all likelihood, of a healthcare bill this year, as promised. This is all in keeping with his signal life long achievement of having never achieved anything and having been handed everything, including a presidency and a Nobel.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7960 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:43 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7960 The most notable thing I noticed about the Hoffman/Owens election was that Hoffman was a registered member of the Constitutional Party, the press downplayed his party affiliation and continued to do everything they could to make it a ‘hooray for the Liberals’ victory. Ignoring the greater story that a 3rd party candidate went head to head with the two “National Parties” and knocked one out of the race completely; to top it off, he took over forty-five percent of the vote compared to the combined Republican and Democratic forty-nine percent in an area coincided to be “Liberal.” The times, they are a ‘changing, hooray for our side.

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By: swiftfoxmark2 https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7959 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:20:57 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7959 I don’t understand why people consider Bob McDonnell a conservative. He’s not as far as I can tell because his campaign had nothing about cutting expenses and glut in Virginia. Right now we have about 25 rest stops that were shut down because the state cannot afford the half a million it costs to maintain each of them (for half a mil, you’d think the janitors would do a top-notch job). So instead of say, selling them off or cutting expenses in order to fund them again, they’re just sitting there. Wasted property usage.

There was no mention of that, just the usual roads and schools BS we always hear about. I did vote for him because I had two choices on the ballot and no viable write-in candidate. There is no perfect candidate, but you always need to pick the best option of the choices presented.

Creigh Deeds ran a horrible campaign, by the way. The cornerstone involved Bob McDonnell’s masters thesis from two decades ago. This is why he lost, although the Democrats in Congress didn’t really help him.

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By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7957 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:26:54 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7957 Hoffman is an open-borderite. See the discussion at VFR.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014662.html

And I have to hand it to Mr. Moon. The bubble he lives in must be made of some sort of tungsten alloy, probably assembled at Skunk Works. There is a purity to true fanaticism that is (almost) a thing of beauty.

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7955 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:08:30 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7955 Democrats, get a clue and take on the banking cartel. Jefferson did, Jackson did and Kennedy tried apparently. Beef up the Secret Service protection around Obama and take on the Fed. When will you ever have a better chance?

You can destroy the Republicans with this move since the Fed has never been less popular. You will win the undying (politically speaking) gratitude of the whole nation.

Do it Democrats!

[It doesn’t make sense, moon; these people are printing money to fund their programs. Why would they give up the printing press!]

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/wheres-obamas-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-7952 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:29:41 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16604#comment-7952 Deeds ran an inept campaign with no theme and floundered around about abortion while the economy was tanking. Obama wanted to throw Deeds “under the bus” but realized that doing so would only look worse – so he made a halfhearted appearance. Prominent black Virginians went Republican or stayed neutral.

In the 23rd, the “official” Republican – Dede S – endorsed the Democrat rather than allow a Conservative to win. This, in a nutshell, is the essence of the New York Republican Party – the party of Linsday, Javits, and Rockefeller back in the days I worked for the Conservative Party. They did more to trash Barry Goldwater than LBJ ever could.

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