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Naktinis Nuorodos

Posted on February 12, 2013, 7:02 UTC, by MC, under 日本語.

Glenn Greenwald: “...Obama has embraced and expanded the core premises of the Bush/Cheney global war on terror that Democrats so vehemently claimed to find offensive, radical, a ‘shredding of the Constitution.’ And they are now supportive for one reason and one reason only: it’s a Democratic president whom they trust – Barack Obama specifically doing it — rather than a Republican president they distrust. That is the very definition of vapid, unprincipled partisan hackdom, and it matters for several reasons.“

J.D. Tuccille: “Just two months ago, with regards to the mortgage meltdown that government apologists have been eager to lay at the door of moustache-twirling Wall Street types, a research paper answered the question, ‘Did the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Lead to Risky Lending?’ with a resounding, ‘yes, it did.’ Now, Investors Business Daily tells us that, as the federal government encouraged ever-riskier loans with fewer and fewer safeguards, the most enthusiastic issuers of the mortgage-backed securities that ultimately crashed in spectacular form were (can you guess?) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

Michael Kazin: “…to believe that Obama has truly revived the great tradition of egalitarian reform is to neglect the distinction between two species of modern liberalism: that which promotes the equality of rights and that which works toward a greater equality of opportunity and wealth.”

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