This is what you call a smoking gun, or smoldering brain, or something. How anyone could regard Bowles as a Very Serious Person is a mystery.

But it also shows that Obama made one of his dumbest, or most duplicitous unforced errors by putting this clown and his fellow clown in charge of reducing the debt. There are not enough words to describe the idiocy of it all.

I hope this video goes viral! every real democrat needs to know the truth about Erskine Bowles.

Erskine Bowles needs to be run out of the Democrat party!

Other Dems running for office need to fear the idea of being attack like Erskine Bowles was by the Left!

Must Read article below for real Democrats

“And sure enough, as Dean Baker points out, a gang of incredibly wealthy CEOs are planning to gut entitlements regardless of which candidate wins in 2012. It’s not just CEOs, of course, it’s also the usual gang of corrupt Democratic establishment folk”

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10692-obamas-second-term-agenda-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-or-medicaid

When Dean Baker says “the usual gang of corrupt Democratic establishment folk” he was talking about Dems like Erskine Bowles.

Why do you think the Bowles-Simpson “choice” by Obama was an “error”, Scarecrow?

Perhaps it was exactly what Obama wanted and intended to do?

At some point, the “pattern” of deliberate choices which Barack Obama has made, and the “floating” of Bowles for Treasury Secretary suggests that he INTENDS to continue making, cannot be ascribed to simple “error” or uniformed “mistake”.

Obama WANTS “credit” for being willing to “cut” Social Security and Medicare, for example.

Whom are we to imagine that he “wants” such “credit” to impress?

If Bowles is to be made “toxic”, then what are we to “make” of Obama?

This election is “supposed” to be, and is ballyhooed as being about “choices”, if so, then Obama’s “choices” MUST be a part of the discussion, the one that neither Obama nor Romney want to have … about Afghanistan, about the actual state of the economy, about criminal fraud, or about the quality of the environment.

How legitimate IS such an “election” given what ALL of us face. Indeed, how legitimate can ANY “government” which results from this “election” actually be, if it cannot or will not address the substantive issues and pressing needs of the day?

Frankly, Bowles AND Ryan are essentially superfluous distractions to the real dilemma faced by actual flesh and blood human beings. That is, we have REAL and challenging problems, many systemic and deliberately contrived, and some exacerbated by pastimes like speculation on food and other “commodities”, as well as a very serious “relationship problem” with the planet which permits and sustains our very existence.

What, if anything, are either Obama or Romney offering by way of meaningful and worthwhile solutions?

DW

President Obama heaps praise on Paul Ryan in 2010 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBT5wnDK7L0

And the basic idea would be that at some point we hold Medicare cost per recipient constant as a way of making sure that that doesn’t go way out of whack….

(snip)

Well, look, as I said before, this is an entirely legitimate proposal.

Erskine Bowles was yet another Bill Clinton gift to the Democratic Party. Bowles served as Clinton’s chief of staff. He’s also 0-for-2 as a candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina. Evidently Tar Heel State voters preferred a real Republican to the lite version.

We are witnessing the short comings of Corporate Govt.

The idea of Govt. by Corporations for Coporations ignores the human element.

Obama and Romney are ill equip to handle problems that impact the lives of human beings.

Obama and Romney are clueless when it comes to ideas on how to sustain life on the planet earth.

Obama, Erkine, Romney, Ryan, are all anti human, however, they are human?

All we can do is hope and pray that humans outside of the USA ignore DC and seek ideas to save the Human Race!

Govt by Corporations for Corporation is Anti Human Life on the Planet Earth.

Dean Baker’s article today accurately describes Obama as a moderate Conservative in the Eisenhower tradition of the GOP and I think he’s dead on in that description. People forget that BOTH parties asked Eisenhower to run back in 1953 and he chose to run as a Republican. He would have won as either that year. Obama has governed for the most part as a Conservative by any other standards then the ones that dominate the GOP today.

“there has been a new Bowles that has come forward…”

Yes. Just like the “new” Obama, he’s dispensing some verbal red meat tidbits to try motivate all of the progressives who are disgusted with Obama’s expending more energy and political capital on doing rehab on the republicans, than he ever did to further a progressive agenda.

Will it work?

Only if the mouseketeer “O” cheerleaders like the ones in that recent thread on here saying “We’re all probably going to have to vote for Obama” can convince a LOT of people that after nearly 4 years of selling us out, this time he means it.

Stay tuned.

Bill Clinton the devil that just want go away!

Erskine Bowles needs to be bash to no end!

Nothing about Erskine Bowles says Democrat.

Every Dem running for office must be force to answer this simple question do you love FDR or Reagan?

We know Obama loves Reagan? “we found out Obama was not joking, when he said this”

and if they say they love Reagan more than FDR they need to be run straight out of the Dem Party.

It’s just dumb to pretend the Dems are on the peoples’ side. Strategic alliances with them when necessary, but. . . At least we’re not raising money for these a**holes here, as over at DKos.

David: “I’m not sure I even have to add words to this post.”

Dave: thanks for being nearly the only realist left here. I think a lot of us will add the words for you….

At this point fear-mongering about Romney will only cover for Obama with the most diligent reality-deniers among the “Obama sucks less!” cheerleaders.

Tweeted like a big dog. We want this spread far and wide.

While I’m at it, trial-ballooning a man whom has twice been rejected for the U.S. Senate in his home state, as a powerful cabinet member for your (putative) second term, is a pretty good yardstick for Obama’s point-shaving proclivities with the republicans.

Of course, David’s excellent presentation of this clip, shows just how committed Obama is to protecting the corporate status quo.

The question is, how many of us will be too digusted to turn out to help him try to get another term for more of the same?

I just sent it to 6 “liberal” friends…a couple of whose houses I am no longer welcome in, for asking them to list the differences between George Bush and Barack Obama, about 6 months ago.

“Evidently Tarheel voters preferred a real republican to the Lite version.”

Clack! 8 ball in the side pocket!

And we’re about to find out if that preference extends to the national electorate, or, if Mitt Romney’s program of self-character-assassination will allow Obama to eke out a win and give us the historic spectacle of his being the most lame duck, hamstrung, american preznint ever to be sworn in for a second term.

I am pleased to say that Sam Seder was on it last night (and I replied.) Just sorry I wasn ‘t first…oh heck, as llng as it buries The idea that Bowles should be considered for anything at all, or thathis ideas are valid, that ‘s all that matters. I O is scared away from him that ‘s a good result.

I made the grave mistake of flipping on MSNBC for the first time in 7 or 8 months last night just to see the giddiness of them. Schultz, Maddow, O’Donnell…it was a simply disgusting display and evident of the depths to which this country has sunk. Paul Ryan gives them something to pile on for the next 2 and a half months, they’re so, so excited at this development. The selection of Paul Ryan was ordered by the masters simply to make Bowles-Simpson look awesome for dems, that’s it, full stop.

No words at all. You bet. This guy defines idiocy.

Not saying anything about Obama’s preferences. I assume he did what he wanted to do, and I assume O was serious (or seriously confused) about the need for deficit reduction. The “unforced error,” as others have described it, is a refence to turning to this policy well before the economy was safely out of recession and before terrible levels of unemployment had been reversed.

Even if you there had been an admittedly conservative President (or you assume as I do that that more or less applies to O) that President would not have put the economy and his own reelection at serious risk by prematurely moving to deficit reduction while the economy was still shaky and unemployment was stuck at excessive levels. So irrespective of ideological preferences or confusion about the deficit, the “unforced” error was prematurely de-emphasizing your concerns about the economy, and framing the nation’s needs in ways that undercut your ability to do anything about unemployment. No smart administration would have done this to itself unless it was serious confused about the country’s conditions and the nature of its problems — and hence the tag, “unforced error.”

Just so, Scrambler.

Watching OUR media people (what there are, of them…) muster up for a level of outrageous goal-post moving to cover Obama’s feckless butt, that would do justice to republicans defending George Bush, is depressing beyond words.

Even considering the seemingly built-in “another safe candidate for Wall Street!” historical factor, this really is a grotesque parody of a presidential election, with the republicans tracking ever rightward, and with Obama faithfully following them, as he verbally twitches to the left….as if he will have either the spittle or the power to try to rescue some vestige of populist government, even if he wins.

The. Fix. Is. In.

I am sending this out to everyone I know!

with the tag line” Erskine Bowles is Obama point Person when it comes to Killing Social Security and Medicare”

But Mitt Romney has a Swiss bank account! ! !

This post wins the thread hands down. Now with Ryan on board the real theater of the next two and a half months can commence in full force and my misguided viewing of MSNBC last night verified this.

I think you have definitely laid out the problem. We could have a contest of Bowles v Ryan. WTF? That’s a choice? Two idiots debating how to steal our futures.

Making Bowles toxic is not a bad idea at all.

I like the way you think, D-Day.

That term, unforced error, doesn’t quite carry the import of O’s idiotic choices. First deficit reduction and secondly this idiot. I could expand on each but I’m pretty sure you get the idea. The lesser of two evils is really getting dragged around here. Who,again, is supposed to be the lesser and why?

As for me, I’m anxiously awaiting a full bore debate coming up highlighting the two candidates opposing views on NDAA.

“How legitimate is such an election given what all of us face?”

And that’s the problem for stringing this out indefinitely. The trickle-down economic model simply does not work for most americans.

A huge part of changing tough economic times is getting the people to believe that things ARE changing for the better. With two candidates committed to a republican agenda, differing only in small degrees, or, as the Clip of Simpson shows, not differing at all, there is no reason for optimism. And I think most people know it.

I’ll go out on a small limb here and predict that the voter turnout in this election will be one of the lowest ever, percentage-wise.

This ” unforced error” could lose O the election. And you know what? Maybe it should. How many idiotic things does this guy have to do to lose support? I think DWB spelled this out pretty well.

Ann Romney has a walk-in shoe closet and likes expensive horses!

Thassit. We can have a herring-dragging-for-Obama contest. :o)

BTW, did anyone else see that when Michelle Obama met Queen Elizabeth at the opening festivities of the Olympics, she was wearing a blouse that cost $6500? I wonder if any of our hard-charging mousketeers-for-Obama will want to talk about that?

A treasury sec who can’t do arithmetic? Oh freaking great.

Are there really democrats running in this election? How can you tell? If you take away the D or R tag most could not tell. Both are looking to cut the safety nets FDR must be rolling around in his grave.

I agree with you!

We will soon see current candidates switching parties, to get elected.

these current politicians can act conservatives one day and act liberal the next day at the drop of hat, and still maintain their hatred of FDR.

Mr Hope a Dope “OBAMA” is one of the best.

Only Mr. Hope a Dope OBAMA can love a devil like Erskine Bowles and say he love the middle class

“I always thought I was OK with arithmetic. This guy can run circles around me.” Um, did Bowles just call himself a moron?

Yes He Did! Bowles just put himself in the Sarah Palin camp!

Taking bets, will Rachel, Ed, show this Erskine Bowles clip? probably not

They say it is hard to find people that are dumber than Ryan and Palin, we have found one here! and his name is Erskine Bowles

“Erskine says Paul Ryan can run circles around me, the sad thing is my 8 year old son is better at math than Paul Ryan!”

My perspective, Scarecrow, is that I am in no way, not in the slightest, convinced that Obama IS seriously concerned “…about the country’s condition and the nature of its problems.”

And that is precisely my point.

Were Obama seriously concerned with these things, then why would he surround himself with some of the very people responsible FOR some of those problems?

Why would he not, after years of making “errors”, seek the counsel of others?

I think it a disservice to reason to postulate that he simply does not, honestly, know any better … it is quite apparent that Obama does not CARE to seriously address the conditions and problems of the nation.

The very fact that Barack Obama will NOT even discuss those conditions and problems, before, during, or likely, after, THIS election suggests that what one of his supporter on Book Salon said, in essence … if Obama cannot see advantage for himself, then he will not take any actions which could conceivably benefit millions.

To the banking fraud, Obama’s comment was, that while it was immoral, it was not illegal … while about Bradley Manning, Obama declared him “guilty” long before there was any trail or conviction. These two things, along with Obama’s assertion of the power to kill anyone at anytime and any where he so chooses, without due process of law, suggest a “leader” well in command of his intentions and of his “expectations”.

Obama IS engaged where he wishes to be engaged and totally absent whenever and where ever he does not wish to trouble himself.

Those are his choices, and he is not a poor defenseless puppet or manipulated “front-man”, he is deliberately and intentionally pursuing the agenda which he best feels serves himself and the interests he serves, which are not those of the people nor of the nation.

At some point, we must conclude that Obama is not making honest errors of judgment.

Life is not a ball-game, and to continue to believe that the “errors”, which you consider “unforced” and I term “deliberate” … are somehow “honest” … is to engage in semantic and intellectual evasion, to the dire cost and extreme detriment of humanity, of reason, of understanding, and of justice.

To expect anything different to these “errors” in future, to suggest to others that Obama has seen the light, with no evidence to support these claims is to join in the destruction of those four “things”.

Shortly after Obama revealed his true nature, I suggested that he was a “pusillanimous fabulist”, a “perspective” I’ve found not the slightest need of reassessing …

He is glib, he is dangerous, and he doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about anything but himself, his lucrative “future”, and pleasing those who favor he must curry to achieve his “ends”.

DW

That’s why he suggested that a liberal Democrat may have been the one to leak this to FOX. Makes sense to me.

I’m getting the feeling that many in the institutional Democratic Party have realized that they have to get OFA’s hooks out of them. Now that it’s obvious that Obama’s going to win and won’t need their help, they are increasingly going to go their own way and rebuild the party infrastructure he and his like-minded friends have devastated. Just yesterday, the news came out that the DNC is going to divest from Bank of America and pick a union-owned firm, Amalgamated Bank, for their banking needs — even as OFA still holds to BOA.

Let’s keep it simple. Repeat after me, “Erskine Bowles: Obama’s Paul Ryan.” Again: “Erskine Bowles: Obama’s Paul Ryan”. By Jove, I think you’ve got it!

Thanks for the heads up David.

Perhaps if Romney and Ryan lose, Obama can appoint Ryan as Erskine Bowles’ replacement on the next catfood commission or maybe as next Treasury Secretary. Why bother with the ersatz Ryan when the real thing will be available.

Obama voluntarily picked Bowles for the catfood commission. Bowles loves Paul per this video. It turns out that Obama should hence have preempted Romney and pick Paul as the Democrtic VP candidate.

For the Democratic party, it’s all about getting the centrists. The lefties are taken for granted and as such also don’t need to be pleased. In contrast, for the GOP, it is all about appeasing the base. I really wish, that I was a GOP voter as I long for the day when the Democratic party takes its base seriously.

Further, unlike the GOP base, the Democratic base never makes any threats to the Democratic nominees. I also long for the the day when the Democratic base takes the Democratic party to task.

When may we expect to see some evidence, concrete and verifiable, that your “feeling” has any substance in fact, PW?

Until such evidence actually surfaces, your “feeling” is no more than wishful thinking and, if you keep it to yourself, one thing, but if you broadcast it as “reason” to continue to support a Democratic party which, for years, has actively acted against the best interests of the people and the nation, then you are engaged in propagandizing your faint hope as fact and seeking to sway others based on nothing at all.

“My gut tells me …” is something which George Bush the Younger might say.

When you’ve the evidence, then you may, properly, share your convictions until that time, you must consider that the rest of us must wonder at the purpose of your wondering, out loud.

Right now, the Dims no more deserve to survive as a “major” political party than do the Thugs, in my opinion, and that IS based upon actual evidence, in BOTH cases.

DW

Smart Democrats should start distancing themselves from OBAMA ASAP.

Why? Obama is very toxic

ObamaCare will be a disaster! no Democrat seeking a career in DC wants to be on the record defending ObamaCare.

Obama constant attacks on Social Security and Medicare are going to backfire in a big way!!! “Obama is not as slick as Clinton. Obama can not afford to become the black president that killed the New Deal.

“Every GOPer should flip the scipt on OBAMA right now, and yell about how OBAMA wants to kill Social Security and Medicare, and this Erskine Bowles clip will help them. The idea of the black guy killing the new deal will not go over well in the USA”

Progressives, Liberals, and Unions hate Obama, I mean they really hate OBAMA.

Obama is praying that the Intelligent Left, holds their noses and votes for him in november.”this is election is going to be very tight, and OBAMA will need every vote he can find! there is great chance the USA economy will be worse by Nov 2012 and it is not good now”

However, Dems seeking the white house in 2016, know the dem electorate of 2016 will be a lot more liberal than it is today, and they will not be to kind to blue dogs.

the idea of having the Wall Street of the South host the Dem Convention was very stupid! to say the least.

Unfortunately, I don’t think ANYTHING will make Bowles toxic enough. Obama will just use all of this to justify his selection of Bowles as another example of his [always-successful] “bi-partisanship.”

I happened to catch Michelle Obama on Jay Leno last night. Other than her tiresome & relentless “I hope that was a whole wheat muffin in your Egg McMuffin” patter, she looked pretty good: intelligent, witty, personable.

I keep wondering why SHE doesn’t hit him upside the head and tell him how stupid he and his right-wing policies are.

I also long for the the day when the Democratic base takes the Democratic party to task.

Well, as someone who for 40+ years has been a member of the base, I’m trying to do my small part [even as I depart]. But like tanbark, I’ve got a lot of now-former friends who barely speak to me, since I’ve been attempting to “educate” them s to Obama’s shortcomings. On those rare occasions that I comment at Huffington Post, I’m called all sorts of vile names, the least of which being “Republican.”

For this Democratic party I marched and worked and donated for all that long time? I don’t think so.

Obama and his lack of action led to Occupy Wall Street.

I have worked with a lot of black candidates trying to get them elected and re-elected, this is not an easy task at all.

The one lesson I learned is this, Black Candidates must do what they say they are going to do, no exceptions, if they don’t they probably will not get re-elected.

PW is right, Obama generates hate from Left. “Few people thought that Dems would take to street and up pops OWS.

I always tell people the Elite will hate the day they put OBAMA in the White House.

“Obama biggest contribution his second term may be helping AFRICOM, keep the Chinese from taking over Africa. The CIA probably does not like the idea of Romney and Ryan helping them with this mission.

Keep in mind the CIA always attacks from the inside out, this is what the intelligent left has to do to take back parts of the Dem Party.

the game is to rig for 3rd parties to have a chance, plus none of this is new, the Rich always over Reach, this is a story old as time itself.

The military probably needs Obama face to kill more brown people around the world.

Back to the mistake the elites made OBAMA generates enormous hate from the right and left.

the current GOP would enjoy watching the USA burn, if it met OBAMA failed.
OBAMA’s Grand Bargain smack down by the GOP showed the Elites that Obama skin color is a huge problem! The Elites could not believe Obama Grand Bargain got smacked down by their PARTY?

Racism does not just dwell on the right, it dwells on the left also, Obama attacks on FDR,JFK, MLK, LBJ, etc. are not going over very well.

A huge part of changing tough economic times is getting the people to believe that things ARE changing for the better. With two candidates committed to a republican agenda, differing only in small degrees, or, as the Clip of Simpson shows, not differing at all, there is no reason for optimism. And I think most people know it.

It is amazing to see how little the Democrats actually do in the way of articulating their political ideals. They moved one of their accounts to a union bank during an election fight. Is that supposed to mean something? Is there some kind of political vision there? Organized labor good, puppies also good. Is that all the democrats want to say about unions and labor? Do they want to try and explain what role they think unions should play in the US economy? Nope. Okay, well I guess we can look forward to the next debate on the Pledge of Allegiance because you know that’s what the GOP wants to talk about.

I suspect that Obama, the CIA, and the US Africa Command are going to watch Pax Americana in the Horn turn to dust. Ethiopia will soon no longer do our military dirty work and Kenya may well explode into something “uncontainable”, jedimsnbcko.

You have some of the sensibility of Black Agenda Reports, I note …. and applaud.

You speak of black candidates and Michael Nutter comes immediately to mind … and his insistence that the homeless NOT be fed in the City of Brotherly Love …

Indeed, he “represents” far too many of the black “leadership” which are trampling all over the rights and well-being of all people, embracing party “expediency” and self-promotion above “public service” just like the white members of the political class, which includes the media, btw.

One is VERY hard put to name a single “Democrat” who has any courage when the going gets “rough” or any who provide and consistent evidence of a functioning moral compass … if you’ve someone in mind that does not fit this “size”, then I’d be more than pleased to know who it might be?

BOTH legacy parties are in the pocket of the elite and the primary function of “pubic service”, today, is simply to gain access to that revolving door and the expected rewards on the other side.

Ole Bill Clinton has “made” eighty million dollars since leaving public office … and Obama expects to “outshine” that by a considerable margin, one imagines.

DW

The buck doesn’t stop with O since he signed the executive order that relieved himself of responsibility or accountability for any of his actions.
If a policy of his is popular he’ll take credit, but all bad choices are the result of the decisions made by someone else.

What is the net worth of Bill Clinton?

Answer:

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Bill Clinton’s Net Worth: $200 Million

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/presidents/bill-clinton-net-worth/

Hillary Clinton’s Net Worth: $34.9 Million

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_net_worth_of_Bill_Clinton#ixzz23Y0TNJwH

and as for Foreskine Bowels……pft!!!!

But O is incapable of making idiotic choices because he’s just so intelligent and educated that he’s playing “eleventy dimensional chess”. Actually, he’s just following the instructions of his corporate handlers and sacrificing the rest of us to Mammon.

Scarecrow, Bowles is serious about increasing his family fortune. A Democrat he ain’t.

The Democratic party has betrayed its principles and abandoned its base. It’s past time for the base to jettison the Democratic party.

How much of Clinton’s net worth was stolen from the earthquake relief funding for the Haitian people?

Thank you, sadly, my information now stands corrected.

I apologize, Bill, didn’t mean ta slight ya.

Guess all them “election bills” that had Bill and Hillary out begging for spare change must have all gone away?

Hillary’s gonna have to get crackin’, however, if she wants to outdo the Bill she’s stuck with …

Ah, well … life is tough up there, towards the “top”, sure enuff.

DW

You are on a roll today,my man. Was it something Erskine said? Hard to argue against you. Sorry this was meant for DRb, but same seems to apply to you as well.

Any honest discussion of what Obama does must be premised by the understanding that his choices are designed to exclusively serve the interests of the 1%. Only then does it all make perfect sense.

I agree with you.

I doubt if FDR wanted to go all Liberal in the Great Depression, but he knew the moment demanded it.

Obama and the current group of politicians are hoping that things get better magically? If Obama and his buddies were driving the Titantic everyone would have drown, because they would have ignored the big hole in the ship, and kept going down.

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize the current USA govt. structure will not be able to tackle the problems of the future.

the problems we have now, will be nothing to the ones coming, and Wall Street and DC will not be able to ignore them.

Perhaps she’s comfortable with O’s policies and becoming more comfortable all the time. She may be a better actor than you give her credit for, considering that she profits from this as well.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

The same happens to me. I too get called out a teapartier etc. when I try to educate the public about the Real Obama. The reality is that the Democratic base is so naive and s_upid that it literally deserves the step-motherly treatment that Obama does out to them.

I would like to think you’re kidding; No, I had not seen that!

wow !! I almost forgot that the sell out yuppie scum I voted FOR hired Geithner and Summers in Nov. 2008, re-upped Bernanke, and let Joe-mentum / Max / Kent rip off the entire country for AHIP-care …

not.

I’d facebook this, except, my friends and family have tuned me out – the Rand Ryan Paul Mitt Newt Palin Perry Whatever LOTE show has them in full grips.

rmm.

Hmm. Not much to add. I agree Obama would have made a great moderate Republican in the era when such creatures could exist…see Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.

OTOH, I think part of why O made bad choices and likely does believe the deficit is a BAAAAAD thing is that he is young enough to have been miseducated by the Freshwater Economics (see Chicago School) that puts deficits first and has gone far toward making otherwise bright folks believe that Keynes was all wrong. I kinda think he believes this. Of course, I could be wrong. Doesn’t much matter.

Just as I don’t give a flip how much Michelle’s blouse cost. I’m willing to mock Ann Romney’s dressage horse (even though I’ve always loved the Lippizaners, which are, I think, dressage horses to the max), because she plainly wants to screw me and everybody who isn’t rich.
I still think Michelle doesn’t really want to do that (maybe I’m wrong). Therefore, she’s got the money, she’s meeting the Queen of England, and when else should you cut loose and buy the most expensive clothes you’ve ever bought? Hell, I would if I could. I’d be happy to buy a Theory suit for $1000 if I had the $1000 to spend. Call me superficial. I like pretty clothes.

As I said, you can afford it and you’re not trying to make me poorer, go for it. There’s the difference.

“…and you’re not trying to make me poorer…

So you’re equally at ease with Ann Romney’s channelling Imelda Marcos, and with Michelle Obama wearing a blouse that costs more than what some americans spend on food in a year?

Are you a progressive democrat, or a country-club republican?

Just askin’… :o)

Bev. Not kidding.

If I were rich as Croesus (and my wife…) we would not be wearing clothes that cost incredible amounts of money. It’s too easy to find perfectly good, and stylish, duds, that are far more reasonably priced.

Spending that kind of money on clothing bespeaks some pretty sorry values, and a fragile ego, to go along with it.

If I could do photoshoppe, I’d be putting up pics of Mohandas Ghandi in a Gucci suit, having a conversation with Mary Todd Lincoln, in some kind of $20,000 dress…juxtaposed with photos of the dead at Gettysburg, or maybe, from drone attacks in rural Afghanistan.

That’s the name of the game, seabos:

It’s the “We suck less!” show. It’s all there is, this time around.

I doubt this will hurt Bowles at all. By the time Obama appoints him as Secretary of the Treasury, the election will be over, Ryan will be defeated (if we assume Obama will be in a position to make appointments, logically he must have won re-election) and Bowles’s having praised Ryan would only be a blip on the radar.

Obama can be “reaching across the aisle” (to give the Rs another handjob) and bring America together by putting “responsible” fiscal policy over partisan divides. He’s so forward-thinking, bringing us together. Hail, the Obama!