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The Last Ticket to Fantasyland Expires in Three Months

sarchibald-mcgreggor Wrote: Aug 09, 2012 4:26 AM

Developers.reators.mortgage lenders,..greedy one and all,royaly jacked this country,..and CONgress let it happen,,Country wide's CEO,got caught using sub prime loans,though he had already profited by his dealing's on the right coast,when hauled before CONgress,he'd already made deals with those who easily could have put him away for many years,but they let him and his 45 million dollar fine off the hook,if he told certain higher up's in Fannie & Freddie,..But, they didn't know he already had a deal w/BofA,..All 3 did not heed his warning's about how to play the game,& they got caught,..We are in a real funk,& you cannot blame this on Bush,..He spcifically told CONgress to keep Fannie & Freddie out of it,..The greedy DEMOCRAT'S refused

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The Last Ticket to Fantasyland Expires in Three Months

The presidential playbook generally calls for a successful candidate to swing to the middle when they are running unopposed for their party’s nomination.

But as we enter perhaps the final months of the Obama administration, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for anyone to make an appeal to the center, if indeed a center even exists in American politics anymore.

Obama has destroyed the political center in this country, and for that we can be thankful.

Because Obama’s policies have exposed the basic problem with the bipartisan approach favored by establishment Republicans and so-called Blue Dog Democrats.

Both of those centrist...