In the latest installment of Barack Obama: What Once We Called Neocon, we learn that Goldman Sachs and The Hope For Change Administration are friendly.
President Obama said Friday he would nominate Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department.
Good news like this always comes out late on weekends. Imagine all the monoculture; it’s easy if you try.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 7:08 am #
Sama “alma matter” as Henry Paulson. Hmmmm.
Same as it ever was,
same asworse than it ever was…Meet the new boss,
same asworse than the old boss…Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 7:12 am #
The immorality of higher taxes…
This is more for Darleen’s post below, but going back to the well on Adam Smith works for both posts.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 8:08 am #
Change you can believe in…if you like devolution.
Some say Logan’s Run is our future, naw, I think this is far more likely.
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Comment by Bob Reed on 7/19 @ 8:27 am #
Sure, it’s always good to let a Fox loose in the henhouse…
Like I’ve commented before, isn’t it curious how Goldman Sachs seems not record astonishing profits, but also enjoy so much influence, regardless of who is in control of the government?
Absolute dollahz, corrupts absolutely…
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 8:34 am #
Give me land, lots of land, and the stary skies above,
Don’t chemically castrate me…
A metaphor for all of us?
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 8:38 am #
Of course it is worse in Iran,
Don’t let me die a virgin…
Good thing Obama wants to talk with the Iranians without preconditions.
A metaphor for all of us?
Comment by Carin on 7/19 @ 8:51 am #
We’re fucked.
Comment by serr8d on 7/19 @ 9:02 am #
Joe, there’s a solution to the Wild Mustang problem Mark Steyn didn’t mention (from your link @6)…
Remember Barbaro ?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/19 @ 9:03 am #
We’re fucked.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come would tend to agree with you, Carin.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 9:16 am #
Serr8d, Japs and Frogs have to eat too.
And ever bit helps the trade deficit.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 9:21 am #
As Carin says: “We’re fucked.”
Makes you want to scratch your own face.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 9:26 am #
A telling quote by one of Sullivan’s guest posters:
A metaphor for all of us? I guess you could say the same for the United States and the Obama Administration.
Comment by meya on 7/19 @ 9:37 am #
Obama hates capitalism. That’s why the titans of capitalism get no access to his cabinet.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 9:44 am #
Oh yeah, here is an other Goldman alumni who has the audacity to criticize his opponent in the New Jersey governor race over Mark Sanford (Cristi has no connections to Sanford, other than them both being republicans).
Comment by JHo on 7/19 @ 9:57 am #
A capitalism-hatin’ hyper-capitalist, meya!
Comment by Darleen on 7/19 @ 10:09 am #
meya
When a “capitalist” becomes a controlled member of the government and uses that position to enhance its business and limit its competition, s/he is no longer a capitalist, s/he is a textbook fascist.
ORRIN BOYLE!!!
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/19 @ 10:35 am #
Interesting thoughts on economic oligarchy over at Belmont Club with bonus cartoon of Obama attacking a naked white woman.
Comment by sdferr on 7/19 @ 10:36 am #
Just an aside, Bob Hormats ought to be in the State Department, more properly so than Obama ought to be President I think. I’ve expected to see him back there sooner than this, though he wasn’t placed during the Clinton admin. or didn’t want to go until now. Of all the Obama appointments, this is one of the better ones and not something to get all riled up about.
Comment by bubble n' squeak on 7/19 @ 10:39 am #
“Obama hates capitalism. That’s why the titans of capitalism get no access to his cabinet.”
In all the time I’ve lurked here I’ve never seen you say anything intelligent. Is trolling on blogs something you get paid for by someone? You don’t appear to enjoy it or work very hard at debating or being insightful. But i guess the prospect that you’re here as part of a job you hate is more attractive than the possibility that you really are this stupid, lonely and bored.
Comment by Joe on 7/19 @ 10:41 am #
Andrew Sullivan’s guest poster at the Daily Dish today: Claymation and violence go together like Palin and the Dish (and don’t miss the man-eating piano at the end):
And Salt Lick found this link at the Belmont Club.
Let’s get it on.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/19 @ 10:45 am #
I’m thinking meya could do with reading some Hayek.
Comment by Rusty on 7/19 @ 12:07 pm #
#20
maya’s not stupid, just vigorously backward. She seems to take pride in it.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/19 @ 12:16 pm #
my obama supporting friend/ who i asked-y u voting for him
and the reply was-cuz he’s smart[?)
said that she was pissed cuz of all the goldman/wall street/
connections and such
i mean- she was-lied to!
and the dirtrag media did such a good job
cuz my friend is kinda up on things
but she never heard of michelles no show 350,000 job…
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/19 @ 1:01 pm #
a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSwWy4E6I04&feature=related”>Interesting rant where analyst Max Keiser calls Goldman Sachs “scum,” alleges they’re causing more damage to America than Al Queda, and says they should be on trial in the Hague.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/19 @ 1:02 pm #
Or maybe this. Interesting rant where analyst Max Keiser calls Goldman Sachs “scum,” alleges they’re causing more damage to America than Al Queda, and says they should be on trial in the Hague.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/19 @ 2:01 pm #
“Comment by meya on 7/19 @ 9:37 am #
Obama hates capitalism. That’s why the titans of capitalism get no access to his cabinet.”
There’s a difference between capitalism and fascism, meya.
I guess you were out sick the day that got covered in high school.
Comment by Josh on 7/19 @ 2:20 pm #
Gee willikers, O’Brain, I thought liberalism was fascism?
Now, I find out it’s Goldman Sachs dudes in the State Department! Wow, I guess that definition changes every time we need a new reason to get hacked off.
But, while you’re doing the old ranting coot thing, could you also explain to meya how Democrats are all really secessionists and and in favor of slavery and secession? After that, you can explain how you morphed into 2009 with your 1870’s politics.
“Tell us again, grandpa n, why do you hate Grover Cleveland? Is it because he has a “D” after his name?”
Jets and sharks, jets and sharks and while you draw silly partisan boundaries and think of new ways to transfer wealth to the morons who stoke the flames, Goldman, owner of consecutive administrations, laughs its way to Hamptons.
Comment by SBP on 7/19 @ 2:33 pm #
Politico decides to stop blowing Obama (or at least take his cock out of their mouth for a few minutes).
Screechbots show up in force.
SFAG, “josh”, et al — you’d better get over there. Your Personal Lord and Savior NEEDS you.
Comment by SBP on 7/19 @ 2:42 pm #
I love the way the one moonbat over there is blaming everything on “Republican obstructionism”.
Ah, yes. If only the Republicans didn’t have control of the Presidency and both Houses of Congress.
Oh, wait.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/19 @ 2:56 pm #
was not the rethugghead party
started for the slavery?
i could be wrong
but this u know..
democrats are racist..
check ur local inner city
Comment by SBP on 7/19 @ 3:50 pm #
What part of “I’m not interested in having a conversation with you” didn’t you understand, SFAG?
Comment by SDN on 7/19 @ 6:34 pm #
Josh, liberalism is fascism. It involves leaving businesses nominally in private hands while killing them with overregulation. What we’re seeing now with O! is edging closer to Communism, where the state owns the business outright.
Comment by Josh on 7/20 @ 10:29 am #
Gee, gosh willikers to you, Mr. SDN, how can one be fascist and Communist, since, according to their adherents, those two belief systems are diametrically opposed? Also, how does hiring an investment banker, the apogee of libertarian, free market ideology imply one is a Communist. I would have thought, as meya pointed out, that that kind of in-breeding between muscular capitalist and the State Department would make you happy.
It’s weird to think Hitler, Stalin, Franco, and Mussolini didn’t know who they hated. They were all just the same and didn’t know it! Wow.
Oh, and SBP, you’re kind of a dick, aren’t you? Is there ever a time when you post something that doesn’t involve snarling invective? Wait, hold your response…we get. Markov generator of silly hate, maybe.
Comment by Carin on 7/20 @ 10:38 am #
Gee, gosh willikers to you, Mr. SDN, how can one be fascist and Communist, since, according to their adherents, those two belief systems are diametrically opposed?
Not so, Josh. They don’t exist on any sort of linear scale in which to be on opposite sides. They’re more like cousins.
Also, how does hiring an investment banker, the apogee of libertarian, free market ideology imply one is a Communist.
What? You don’t really get it, do you? A Capitalist doesn’t want to be involved with government. They want government to leave them the fuck alone.
That they get in bed together suggests something sundry. I’m sure you would completely understand if the president doing the co-mingling were a Republican. Then you’d be all up in arms. Try to imagine it for a moment. Maybe there will be a flash of light or something.
It’s weird to think Hitler, Stalin, Franco, and Mussolini didn’t know who they hated. They were all just the same and didn’t know it! Wow.
It’s ironic that folks with such COMPLETELY TOTALLY DIFFERENT ideologies used frighteningly similar methods to achieve their goals. I wonder why that is?
Let’s ponder this.
Comment by B Moe on 7/20 @ 10:43 am #
Progressivism tends to fascism, real liberalism is in opposition to either. Please don’t contribute to the continued misuse of a good word and concept.
Comment by B Moe on 7/20 @ 10:45 am #
That is because you are basically a fool, Josh, who has no idea what any of the words you are using really mean.
Comment by Carin on 7/20 @ 10:48 am #
I think Josh should try to work the word “paradigm” into his comments. I always think that makes folks look smarter.
Comment by SDN on 7/20 @ 11:35 am #
Sorry, B Moe, it’s almost a reflex….
One of these four is not like the others…..
Josh conveniently leaves out the whole Hitler invading Russia episode. And of course, the fact that Fascists / Nazis and Communists were fighting each other in the streets during the 20s and early 30s, in both Germany and Italy.
Facts are so inconvenient…..
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/20 @ 12:48 pm #
It’s not every day you read a comment so completely and utterly retarded as #35. Josh, if you are not aware of the socialist origins of fascism, you have no business here. Go and read a book, you are an embarrassment to your education system. You think SBP is only full of snarling invective? I wager a penny to a pound of pig droppings that the first time you post something coherent, logical and well-reasoned, SBP will happily engage you. He is under no such obligation at present.
Comment by B Moe on 7/20 @ 2:31 pm #
Understood. I blame Limbaugh.
Comment by Josh on 7/20 @ 10:19 pm #
SDN, you tool, if you can’t understand sarcasm, maybe you should shut up. I’m not the one arguing Fascism, a movement of the right, is the same as Socialism or Communism. You tools, at the behest of Lucianne Goldberg’s nepotism, are. Frankly, it’s more embarrassing than the usual trope of exaggerations about Obama.
Oh, and B Moe, Jets and Sharks. No, he wouldn’t, since, according to him, there is no left wing argument worth responding to.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/20 @ 10:39 pm #
josh, you have absolutely no idea of history or how it relates to political science do you? Outside of the talking points issued by Axelrod of course.
Let me give you a clue. Nazi’s were national Socialists and were fascists by definition. Just because they scrapped in the streets and on the battlefield with the communists doesn’t make them any less socialist or fascist. The same is true with Mussolini and the Italians…
And socialist are a movement of the political left; again, regardless of how they struggled with other elements of the political left (the communists) for control…
You really need to have your facts straight, and not simply resort to ad homs or bot-like-talking-point-repetitions…
That’s not how we roll…
Comment by SBP on 7/20 @ 10:48 pm #
“josh”: according to their adherents, those two belief systems are diametrically opposed?
Because their “adherents” are liars.
Bob: Just because they scrapped in the streets and on the battlefield with the communists doesn’t make them any less socialist or fascist.
Right. Trotsky and Lenin didn’t get along. Neither did Stalin and Mao.
I guess according to “josh” that would mean that they had COMPLETELY OPPOSITE IDEOLOGIES.
You’re an ignoramus, “josh”. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.
Comment by SBP on 7/20 @ 10:50 pm #
I’m not the one arguing Fascism, a movement of the right
I’d bet money that you can’t come up with a coherent and consistent definition of “right” and “left”.
I prefer to draw the line between freedom and slavery.
You’re on the slavery side, “josh”. Sorry to break the news to you.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/21 @ 2:02 am #
You tools, at the behest of Lucianne Goldberg’s nepotism, are.
Josh puts forward the lie that Liberal Fascism creates a meme that fascism and socialism have common origins. This tells us two things:
1) Josh hasn’t read the book, and therefore hasn’t a clue as to Jonah Goldberg’s source material
2) Josh hasn’t read many books at all on the subject
Josh, here’s a tip. Why don’t you start here.
Chapter 2, page 27 of the paperback edition would be good. As you can see, it was published in 1944, and predates Liberal Fascism by a good few years. $19.99 and you could be on your way to knowing what the fuck you were talking about. Books, Josh. Love them. Read them. You cretin.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/21 @ 2:46 am #
I’m sorry, I must apologise for that last intemperate remark. I realise that cretins everywhere will be distressed by the comparison, and to them I offer my unreserved apologies.
Comment by B Moe on 7/21 @ 7:31 am #
Does anybody know what the fuck that is supposed to mean?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:22 am #
The Jets are in gear,
Our cylinders are clickin’!
The Sharks’ll steer clear
‘Cause ev’ry Puerto Rican’s a lousy chicken!