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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Plenipotentiary
Ken Feinberg is not the “independent third party” Obama promised would oversee the $20 billion BP escrow account.
During the Bush Administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft had to find someone to equitably distribute the proceeds from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. He settled on Ken Feinberg. Feinberg was capable, competent, and independent — he was, after all, a Democrat.
Fast-forward several years, and President Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office. He tells the American people that BP must escrow $20 billion in funds to pay victims’ claims, and that those claims will be “administered by an independent third party.”
The next day, the President appointed Ken Feinberg for the job.
Ken Feinberg is still competent and capable, and he did a fine job allocating funds under the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But he isn’t a third party, and he is far from independent.
Ken Feinberg is a pawn of the President and the Obama agenda. Not only does he constantly and consistently agree with the President (try to think of one time he has parted ways with our Chief Executive), he is a member of the Obama Administration. That is hardly an independent third party.
Worse than simply being a member of the administration, he is a czar in the administration — the pay czar who determines the amount of compensation executives deserve if their companies received TARP money (and quite frankly, that should be determined by an independent third party too, but at least we were never promised it would be).
Czars have almost unlimited power and are not subject to Congressional oversight like their cabinet-member counterparts.
That means the payment of claims under the new $20 billion escrow account will be another set of money that is controlled solely by the President. This is yet another instance of this President extending his reach. Another instance of upsetting the careful balance of powers our forefathers so prudently placed in our founding document.
Our democracy depends on a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.
When Feinberg was asked to oversee the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a Republican administration and a Republican Attorney General were asking someone from the other side of the aisle to supervise the fund. That is true independence. Feinberg was certainly not a member of the Bush administration and had no allegiance to it. The funds were paid out properly and fairly.
But can you imagine President Obama appointing a Republican to oversee the claims of oil spill victims? Never! But the least he could do is appoint someone who isn’t a high-ranking administration official.
The President promised us independence. He promised us a third party. The American people deserve to have the confidence that a system is put into place that is fair and equitable. And the people of the gulf deserve to be compensated by BP in a process that is unbiased and suffers from no political implications. But most of all, we deserve a President who keeps his promises — at least a single day after he makes them.
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Appleby| 6.17.10 @ 7:14AM
He is appointing someone he knows, that Rham told him to appoint. The man cannot think for himself.
Eric Cartman| 6.17.10 @ 10:18AM
Tar balls. Thats what Obama has between his legs.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:39PM
there you go again, focusing on male genitalia... why is that?
ENOUGH ROPE| 6.17.10 @ 11:32AM
OBAMA, THE SMILING COBRA
paul s s | 6.17.10 @ 4:04PM
ridiculous, the AS praises Feinberg, then insults him in the same breath - could it possibly, maybe that Fineberg's widely praised work with the multi billion dollar 9/11 fund just so happens to actually make him the best qualified person to deal with oil spill claims? of course not.. more proof that whatever Obama does he will be pilloried by his enemies - he could swim to the bottom of the gulf and seal the oil leak with his bare hands and he would be blamed for taking too long - if he set fire to an orphanage on christmas eve he would still be 10 times the POTUS than Dubya' ..
Nancy| 6.17.10 @ 4:33PM
The article does not smear Feinberg. The point is that Obama said he would appoint an independent third party to oversee the BP fund. Feinberg is not an independent third party. But what's new? Obama is a master at spin and lies.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:42PM
"Czars have almost unlimited power and are not subject to Congressional oversight like their cabinet-member counterparts." - that is point of being INDEPENDENT. There is no oversight. Try to keep up ..
So the President picks an eminently qualified and experienced professional and the right-wing denigrates him, even after he has proven his ability, independence and fairness. I suspect he could appoint Jesus Christ himself and you wouldn't be happy because he would be too soft and liberal, no?
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 9:57PM
Jesus whipped the money lenders out of the temple - doesn't sound like a liberal to me, and definitely hard on the Wall Street crowd. And bringing back the dead doesn't sound like the kind of thing a pro-choice kind of guy would do, so he sounds like a tea party guy after all.
Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:47AM
Funny. The Democrats are putting the screws to the Wall Street crowd over the objection of the Republicans, and you missed that - how? Jesus would be so much a Democrat - love, peace, let's all get along, help the poor, give away all your money, you are your brother's keeper - you think that sounds like a tea party conservative, do you? Really?
Watcher| 6.20.10 @ 9:47PM
methinks purpleguy is an seiu plant.
HELLo| 6.21.10 @ 7:28AM
He also said to help those who help themselves. We have TOO MANY people that are not willing to help themselves. And too many democrats who are willing to take money from producers and give to the parasites. This will NEVER work.
Nick| 6.18.10 @ 9:23AM
President Dither, or any liberal, wouldn't appoint Christ to anything, they would be trying to crucify Him again.
john vance| 6.18.10 @ 2:12PM
you have got to be joking, Obama would not even make a pimple on Bushes rear end.
He is the most usles potus we have ever had, he makes Carter look like a great potus!
Timothy L. Pennell| 6.17.10 @ 7:19AM
He's a LIAR. He's a CROOK, and a RACIST, and an ANTI-SEMITE. He HATES this Country. He HATES our Founding Fathers. And he HATES our Armed Forces.
His entire life, he's surrounded himself - BY CHOICE - with those kinda people. White Haters. Jew Haters. America Haters. COP KILLERS. BOMB THROWERS. "When I got to College, I SOUGHT OUT the Marxist Professors."
When are you people gonna WAKE UP? Why is everyone so afraid to tell the TRUTH?
Don't EVER forget WHO and WHAT this guy is. He was BORN Muslim. His FATHER was Muslim. His STEP FATHER was Muslim. His MOTHER converted to ISLAM. He grew up in KENYA and INDONESIA. He went to MUSLIM SCHOOLS. That's where they 'Teach" the children: "Barack. Look out! There's a JEW behind that rock. KILL HIM!" He knelt on his PRAYER RUG, facing MECCA, and prayed to ALLAH 5 times a day.
These are all FACTS. He LIES about who HE IS. So he'll LIE about anything. And he does. ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
AMENBRO| 6.17.10 @ 9:06AM
THANK YOU SIR. GOD BLESS you for having the TESTOSTERONE to tell it like it really is.
ISMS will no longer remove the tongues of the FREE.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:45PM
Hahaha ... Testosterone it is... go get laid and calm down. you need it.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:42PM
PURPLE HAID
Great8888 to hear from ya Brother
Keepin it POLISHED???
You are auto erotic I suppose.
Keep on " Skinin it Back" Bro
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:44PM
You shouldn't be so hard on yourself - I heard Glenn Beck say all this about YOU!
It's just as believable as all the rest, huh, Chuckles? BTW - did your mother have any children that lived?
Brian| 6.17.10 @ 7:25AM
Obama thinks we're stooopid.
ThreeBlindMice| 6.17.10 @ 1:15PM
From the looks of things we are stooopid.
How else would this nonstop knee-capping of our civics, our country, have been allowed to not only continue but esculate at a terrifyingly increasing rate?
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:45PM
Oops - you just proved it...
Melvin| 6.17.10 @ 7:41AM
This money is going to be skimmed off. The small people on the Gulf Coasts are going to receive a token amount while the majority of this will silently disappear into God who know what accounts. Unions, Environmentalists, ACCORN, Democrat National Committed.
This money is going to be used to fight us and take our freedom away.
We must fight now, why we still can.
Penrose| 6.17.10 @ 8:06AM
Are you suggesting this "escrow account" is a sludge fund?
Irish22| 6.17.10 @ 10:59AM
Most excellent! (Wish I had thought of that.)
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:46PM
I hope so.. just think how much good he can do for his friends...
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 10:01PM
Sludge fund? I thought it was about oil slicks and tar balls? I guess that qualifies as sludge - especially if you are from Chicago and there is an election coming up.
PCC| 6.17.10 @ 8:09AM
I am astonished that the federal government's unprecedented coercive behavior towards a private (albeit foreign-owned, as if that makes much of a difference) company is being countenanced across the board by both parties, virtually all pundits and commentators, and the general public.
I had hoped that BP would have told the Obama adminstration to "jam it, we'll see you in court, we do not accept the unilateral abrogation of our legal right to a $100 million liability cap, we will not let the US government dictate our dividend policy and, yes, we're setting up our own multi-billion dollar relief fund to be distributed by a person or persons we designate, such as the Gulf Coast governors".
I weep for America's rapidly disappearing civic freedoms.
Jeff Perren | 6.17.10 @ 4:49PM
A minor correction. BP is not "foreign owned." It has been widely reported that 40% of the stock is owned by the British, 39% by Americans. (They never say about the other 21%, but never mind.)
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:50PM
It's business baby ... they have a huge Public Relations problem, and this is obviously having a good effect, as opposed to your pinheaded legal challenge response. This is anti-corporatism in action, pal. This IS what the government is supposed to do, not roll over to a bunch of well-monied corporations that have taken huge risks with millions of peoples lives and livelihoods. Hooray for our President! This is one huge victory and you know it -- that's why you're so po'd... Have a nice day!
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 10:03PM
If this is a victory, what is your idea of a defeat?
Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:42AM
Well, for defeat, let's try the inability to capture Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11 and Al Qaeda head, the hopeless cause in Afghanistan, the misadventure in Iraq after "Mission Accomplished" is announced, or how about a photo op in New Orleans and then ignoring the Katrina after-effects, toxic trailers and all. How about deregulating industries that subsequently bankrupt the country, change the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of Oil, or knock off a few dozen coal miners in the interest of saving a few bucks on safety. How about the recovery of only $500Millions from Exxon for the Exxon Valdez mess. Quite a list that can go on and on as examples of defeat, don't you agree? Quite different than a guarantee of $20 Billions for the victims of the tragedy.
ElGordo| 6.17.10 @ 8:12AM
Obama has created a 20 Billion Dollar slush fund for dems by coercing BP.
OilWrestler| 6.17.10 @ 1:19PM
For what reason would BP capitulate to the undocumented worker in chief...?
A go jump in the lake would have sufficed, no?
Instead we get this tyrant that has ASSumed control while not only we look on but with the approval of so many! Unbeliaveable.
Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:43AM
If you don't know by now, just remain clueless ... and go play nice.
Watcher| 6.20.10 @ 9:54PM
bp + obama = in this together! I don't for one second believe a corp that was a huge donor to bo's campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually find out that seiu thugs were responsible for the explosion. this entire occurrence just does not pass the smell test.
these folks are up to their lying mouths in this devestation. satan trains them well.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:51PM
Proof please .. talking out yer ass again?
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.17.10 @ 8:27AM
Mr. Ferguson,
Thank you. We will hear your thoughts on Rush today broadcast to some 20 million Americans by him alone. Then the local radio hosts across the country will pick up on your thoughts.
Melvin,
I forgot to mention in my other post about the value of your thoughts here. There is no question in my mind but that your brighter thoughts are included in Rush' et al "show preparation", not to mention seeing your thoughts reflected in subsequent columns here...and on several other conservative sites.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:53PM
Dittohead nation is a pitiful pile of people that can't think for themselves. Otherwise you could poke holes in everything Rush says. He says what you pansies want to hear and you worship at his fat feet. Divorced 3 times on #4 and a drug addict - that's a banner poster child for the conservative cause - Go Rush Loudmouth!
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 10:05PM
You can't fool me. admit it, you love the guy, you're just playing hard to get.
Melvin| 6.17.10 @ 9:42AM
Good morning Ken,
I see you sense my frustration. One back-dock conversation with my employer after I retired from the military he told me some good advice that I have to keep reminding myself of from time to time. "Melvin, your in the civilian world now, and you can't expect everyone to think like you."
Maybe this is one of those time, I don't know may be it is, maybe it isn't.
I do what I can with the weapons that I have, my mind and my ability to formulate my thoughts into written prose, but I am human and my emotions sometimes precede better judgment.
Sometimes I guess I just get to damn impatient and I rant. So be it, it is there for all to read and interpret.
Sometimes the shock or anger value will stimulate some into action, 0r rebuke, that is the beauty of us as Americans, this is still one thing that is left up to us to decide.
I just remember a time in this Country when we where really free from government intrusion and regulation and I know you do to Ken.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:54PM
Really, when was that exactly?
nick| 6.17.10 @ 6:01PM
Well it was probably before you were born.
buckeyeman| 6.17.10 @ 10:04AM
How do individuals rise so high in the corporate world without a set of testicles? I agree that the BP execs should have told Barry to take a hike and that they were setting up their own fund. This fund will be a disaster. The 911 fund was totally different. Now they will be paying every slug with a failing business who ever even drove through Louisiana. Worst of all is the precedent of Obamathug strongarming ( sorry, that was "informing") private companies into doing his bidding. And almost no one, even in the so-called conservative arm of the media has complained.
Purpleguy| 6.17.10 @ 5:58PM
And, if he hadn't done something, you ingrates would be whining that he's ineffectual or some such crap. Be glad he had the cajones to ask ... I wouldn't call that coercion - I saw no evidence of coercion on the BP executive's face or their mannerisms in Congressional Hearings.
Why are you not glad to hold a bad actor to account? BP is responsible and is stepping up to their responsibilities ... and you think that is bad? They should say fuck the Gulf? Really?
What's wrong with being conservative and holding people responsible for their actions and making sure they pay restitution for their bad actions?
Louis Jenkins| 6.17.10 @ 10:10AM
To Mr. Pennell:
That is about as correct as can be. The Pretender n Chief is an antithesis to everything that is American. Hang in there, the bum's time for being rendered useless (although he's already that)is drawing nigh. Oh, and bye the way, where's the Birth Certificate at?
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.17.10 @ 11:23AM
Louis, HEH,
TO HELL WITH HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
Where are ANY documents about his life as an after-birth
(pun intended)
Shiva Davey| 6.17.10 @ 11:14AM
This is to the general public who is leaving all these comments.
Question: Don't you all think that fixing the problem is more important that all these personal stupid comments? if you all want to be part of the solution be supportive of what the leaders are doing, can't you all read, IT'S THE WORST IN US HISTORY.
Times like these is when local and foreign governments should partner up, it solves the problem and brings local and foreign governments closer, is it not peace that we all PREACH?
And where Mr.Obama is concerned, at least he always has a pleasant smile on his face, and that's a good thing. A SMILE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY.
Don't you all want some one healthy in office?
I know i do.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.17.10 @ 11:26AM
Shiva,
I ask again. Are you just stuck on stupid...or are you an unrepentant communist?
Anthony| 6.17.10 @ 11:47AM
Ken, this poor woman is neither. Unfortunately, Shiva is on the longest acid trip in the history of Woodstock Nation.
I always thought those smiley face people were secretly tripping away.
Ray| 6.17.10 @ 4:11PM
How is appoint a czar to administer this "fund" fixing the problem of liability compensations, something that is SUPPOSED to be the function of the court, or a court approved independent mediator?
Obama want's to be able his own "mediator'," a member of his own CABINET, to handle ALL of the liability claims process, without going through the legal process of a court reviewed and approved mediation, something that is, as far as I know, unprecedented in American history.
This is not even remotely similar to what Bush did with the Katrina funds. Those funds were for reimbursement for damages that occurred by a natural disaster. They were FEDERAL funds that were approved by Congress. There was no liability issues , like with the BP situation.
Obama doesn't have the authority to appoint his own "litigator" in this issue. Only the parties involved, those who are filing liability claims, the claimants, and BP, the defendant, can make those decisions, and they need the Court to approve it.
Obama is attempting to BYPASS the Judaical branch altogether. That's unconstitutional! That's not "name calling. " That's reality!
Nancy| 6.17.10 @ 4:44PM
Well, Shiva, you just keep smiling with your head in the sand. Some of us struggle with smiling when our country is being destroyed. Some of us care that this socialist in the white house is destroying our freedoms, our economy, and our very existance.
Perhaps instead of writing your mindless drivel here, you might read some of the facts. It's so bad that many on the left are trashing Obama.
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 10:10PM
If the doctor is away then who is going to take care of you when you are sick? Wise up, lady - smiling helps nobody. Buy a Colt .45 and a box of dum dum bullets and forget about this touchy feely BS
watcher| 6.20.10 @ 9:58PM
what a load of bull-crap. lies roll from their mouths with the greatest of ease. the truly duped.
Pete | 6.17.10 @ 11:18AM
Where is the MSM in simple reporting of the truth in these matters and pull our the president's covers? Or does a tingle still run up their collective legs when they look at this destructive ideologue? The question is rhetorical, of course.
Anthony| 6.17.10 @ 11:41AM
Another Obama extorted slush fund, so that the Marxist-in-Chief can reward his friends and buy votes, in a region of the country that doesn't quite cotton to him.
Can't you see Obama passing out checks to closed down Gulf shrimpers with his Forest Gump hat on, and all with BP's money?
Yep, stupid is as stupid does. Not only can't BP plug the damn hole, it can't even take credit for reparations with its own G.. damned money. Obamamama gets to do it.
How do these lefties get away with this crap!!!!!
JP| 6.17.10 @ 12:10PM
Just think of the audacity. Obama has created a political slush fund on the backs of English retirees! What genius! What audacity!
My Girl Friday| 6.17.10 @ 12:38PM
Since BP is 40% owned by U.S. Investors, perhaps we should look at the names of those major U.S. investors who may have swayed BP/Britain to set up the Slush Fund with Obama. Perhaps they too were/are large contributors to Obama's Regime.
DatsunMark| 6.17.10 @ 2:43PM
Who does BP write the check to...? Democratic National Committee?
Here's how you stop the oil leak: Contain-Control-Cap. Where's John Wayne when we need him?
Christopher Holland| 6.17.10 @ 10:15PM
Red Adair was the guy who put out burning oil wells. John Wayne played a character based on him in a movie called 'The Hell Fighters'.
Marc Jeric| 6.17.10 @ 3:01PM
Abu Hussein al-Nairobi (or whatever Kenyan hellhole that Muslim was born in) got himself a slush fund of $20 billion, just in time for the 2010 midterm elections, in addition to the $8.7 billion from his stimulus bill reserved for ACORN thugs and their planned voter fraud. We are in for it, people - the United Soviet Socialist States of America.
Flee| 6.17.10 @ 3:49PM
Another fine example of income redistribution. Why didn't BP just say no to this admin and say they will administer the claims in their own fair and unbiased manner? There is no way a new czar can be apolitical when he is beholden to Obumma from the start. The claims should be legitimately reviewed for payment not doled out by a crony of our fearless leader.
Northern Rebel| 6.17.10 @ 3:55PM
My fellow patriots who converse here, have said everything I could have come up with, in this post.
Keep one thing in mind:
The old mafia dons of the 20th century would be drooling with envy, at what Maobama has accomplished, in two short years.
It's what they dreamed of when they got Joe Kennedy's kid elected! The reason JFK only got 1000 days, is because the men who got him elected didn't get a Barak Obama type administration.
P.S. On a personal note:
Old Tex:
I will be E-Mailing you very soon! You'll have no trouble recognizing me.
vote counter| 6.17.10 @ 4:49PM
We should be compiling a list of those who put Obama in office - and their reasons:
First it was "it was time we had a black man"
Then it was "We needed a change."
Now, Shiva Davey supplies another really good reason:
He has a pleasant smile.
The vapid Ms. Davey would like us to play "Follow the Leader."
How about we play Musical Chairs instead and when the music stops Obama finds no place to plunk his raggedy-ass self?
Melvin, I admire your thoughts but I wish you had finished that last one. "Now is the time to fight back". I think we have become too polite for the only effective way.
This is not an effective way, but if I were a shrimper's wife and Obama walked up to me in a vacant restaurant - made so by no tourists - and if Obama offered his hand, I would have declined and we would have had another Joe the Plumber moment. Instead of the obsequious bow to the Leader, I would have said " I don't know what you are being served for dinner on AF One as you fly back to the White House, which is maintained by our taxes, but I have no grocery money for next week. You come down here and take a look and every time that plane revs its engines it costs tax payers money and you accomplish nothing and you return to a life of luxury. You don't feel our pain. Instead you guarantee unemployment for those of us who depend on oil for a living -0 by your damn fool moratorium. I hope you feel your own pain in the most personal way in 2112. And I hope I have given you a painful moment now."
If people had any real guts, and stopped "respecting the presidency", when it is undeserved, they could make it impossible for him to appear in public. Instead they seem to want to go home and carefully store the Teeshirt the president touched!!!
He is not the King - he is just a shuck and jive community organizer that David Axelrod found and sold to the country. And here's the painful part of that. There were just enough buyers of this slick package of absolutely nothing but hot air.
While it is not fighting back, but it would have been on Fox News that night.
Going mealy-mouthed in his presence implies approval., implies allegiance. And yet they all do it.
nick| 6.17.10 @ 6:09PM
Excellent post - why do any of us still give respect to any of these things - the elites who plunder this once great country - they have not earned any respect - they live in their echo chamber and only destroy.
Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:51AM
"There were just enough buyers of this slick package of absolutely nothing but hot air. " --- a near landslide 53-47% is hardly "just enough", now is it? Face it, you're a sore loser and everything else you say springs from that.
y| 6.21.10 @ 11:58PM
Purpleguy,
I am glad for your sane and intelligent voice...thank you!
Deborah| 6.17.10 @ 6:41PM
I am so confused. Bambi keeps saying one thing and doing almost the complete opposite.
Glad I found this site, because after the offal office speech I kept thinking is Feinberg really "a third party"? Could this be someone else with the same last name? Because he is a czar does that automatically make him a third party??
Eighteen months of confusion. I feel like another 2.5 years and I won't have any brain cells left.
Somehow I think this is what the Dims are hoping for.
sniper fire| 6.17.10 @ 7:52PM
lou lou and a couple of others complained back there that names they did not recognize were invading this blog area.
I didn't know we were confined to one name - I thought those who did - margie, for instance - were suffering" by-line" deficiency in another life and needed to see her name at least 25 times a night in order to feel she had made her point about Marxists.
What a concept, though, to be reading not for content, but selectively, according to who is offering the thought or opinion. This has elevated preaching to the choir to new heights.
In fact, what a thin compliment to a writer - to be agreed with today because someone liked what you wrote last week.
Antipurplegay| 6.18.10 @ 11:04PM
Hey Purplegay just go away! Were tired of your dribble.
vote counter| 6.18.10 @ 11:45PM
Purplegay - (hey, "anti-", you stole my line! But welcme to it)
Your math and your English usage would land you in the bottom 0.1 percentile of the US, if that.
LANDSLIDE is when LBJ buries Goldwater.
LANDSLIDE is when Reagan plows the peanut farmer under.
The difference between 57% and 43% is 14%.
Sounds like the same plurality Clinton claimed as a majority.
Throw out the ACORN votes - which we can't, and aren't you thrilled? - and re-count. Stunning loss.
Who took your GED for you? Get your money back!
Northern Rebel| 6.19.10 @ 4:38AM
Hey SNIPE:
Don't count me among those who resent new voices in our ongoing debate about the future of are nation.
It is crucial that all are heard here, and kudos to AmSpec, for giving us this forum.
So, Welcome!
I love hearing from people who disagree with me, because that exposes everyone who reads here to vapid people like yourself, who wander off the issues at hand, and troll down the road to personal attacks, rather than face up to the fact that you have no sustaining argument to back your inane views.
Thanks for being an example of everything that we need to combat to preserve our great nation.
Your posts are very instructive.
Snipe| 6.20.10 @ 12:08AM
That's me - put here on this earth to allow others to feel superior! As for straying from the subject - - scrolling through comments here, one would need to leave ten miles of bread crumbs to find the way back to "the subject"
Vapid is my middle name. Verbosity is my first.
john dubose| 6.20.10 @ 8:43AM
Honoring the letter and spirit of the constitution is
WAY !! more important than the oil spill. It appears to me that our PRES has violated it.
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shiva davey| 8.12.10 @ 3:22PM
Well Nancy, don't believe everything you read, and my face is not in the sand, and i don't ever wait for anyone to change things for me, i try to keep a smile and think as positive as i can, those problems you talk about did not start in our lifetime, it's just that the foundation was built bad.
Shiva Davey| 8.12.10 @ 3:28PM
Hey Anthony, do you think that it's a sad thing that Ken missed out on Woodstock?
Shiva Davey| 8.12.10 @ 3:33PM
Why would you want to change follow the leader, it's been so for so many,many years, i think than people enjoy it.