Robert Scheer - Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment

["Mad" Miles]

Truthdig - Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment‏

From: Will Shonbrum (Sent by email to me, "Mad" Miles)

I think it's this simple: If Obama doesn't radically change course - quickly end the wars & cease foreign policy imperialism, launch a massive jobs program toward green energy, and truly end mortgage defaults with a program that actually works - he'll be a one-term president. And when that happens we'll go from bad to worse; much worse. WS

Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment

Posted on Jul 6, 2010

By Robert Scheer

It’s not working. Time for the president to concede that the economy is at best stagnating and at worst about to take another steep nose dive. I don’t know if we are headed for another Great Depression, as Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman dared suggest recently, but it is amply clear that the Obama strategy, inherited from George W. Bush, of bailing out Wall Street in the forlorn hope that it would repair the economic damage the fat cats inflicted on the rest of us has not worked.

The housing market remains in dire shape, and with it the nest eggs of Americans who are responding by squelching their appetite for consumption. The Wall Street hustlers were made whole, but not so the people whose home mortgages the banks are foreclosing, or businesses and their customers looking for the credit that the banks had promised to free up.

The president conceded last week that our economy is 8 million jobs in the hole despite his bailout and stimulus program. With deficits running wild, heartless Republicans get to claim that six months more of unemployment insurance to 1.7 million out-of-work people whose benefits have ended is more than we can afford.

Of course it’s not. (Snip)

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Please sit down. Take a deep breath. I am going to ask you to recall
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Let us now, just for a paragraph or three, recall the sad and soiled era
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well as he did.

Do you agree with this estimation? ... (snip)

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