This last Saturday moring, I was watching a press meeting at the White House. As I was listening to (sigh) our President, I heard him use a phrase that summed up his understanding of financial services and their role in the economy.

"It turns out that there's a lot of interlinks throughout the financial system. The system had grown to a point where a lot of people were dependent upon each other, and that the collapse of one part of the system wouldn't just affect a part of the financial markets; it would affect the average citizen -- and how."

Even as (sigh) our President was relaying this message, he was gesturing with his hands in what I would describe as fingers and hands trying to express meshed gears.

All I kept hearing was "It Turns out..." Like this was some big revelation to (sigh) our President. I could just envision someone making that same hand gesture when they briefed him ((sigh) our President).

you may read this for yourself at :President Bush and President Uribe of the Republic of Colombia Participate in Joint Press Availability

or watch the video at: Windows Media Player - President Bush and President Uribe of the Republic of Colombia Participate in Joint Press Availability

Good lord. INTERLINKATIVITY It's so special to be there at the birth of a new idea. Or perhaps the afterbirth.

I watched the same speechifiying and had the exact same thoughts ... what a fucking idiot. Of course, there are lots of people out there that will see this as a good excuse ... "how was anyone to know that this economy thing would turn out to be so important to our daily lives?"

You know, the more this election wears on, the more I admire Obama. I mean, he's been out there for coming up on 2 years, wading through this hip-deep ignorance, trying to frame and educate. He hasn't played on people's ignorance and fear, even when it might have helped. He hasn't lied.

I can hardly put up with a day of this stupidity without feeling depressed. And I've gotten so hypersensitized to Republican lies, that I often don't even get through a sentence these days, before spiking. Maybe it's just cause I'm too old, seen too much.

Anyway, I wish him luck and success.

Me too. He needs for us all to remain strong and steadfast in the midst of such a clusterf*ck. It is hard for me to stomach any of the RW swill being tossed around on a daily basis through this. These people are clueless, or vilely and utterly corrupt...or both.

I just heard that Obama is going to deliver today, according to his campaign, a 'major speech on the economy'. I'm all ears.

It's a mistake to think of George W. Bush as an idiot. He is far from that. He happens to be sufficiently clever and resourceful enough to have achieved the status of virtual emperor -- in spite of the fact that he is an under-educated, incurious, egotistical, sociopathic rich punk.

The idiots are those who have remained fooled by him for longer than thirty days after his first inauguration. Those individuals should have their voting rights revoked.

I think shrub got his degrees because of his pedigree, plain and simple. He's evil though, and sometimes evil trumps brains, plus he is surrounded by people smarter and more evil than him, so there's the scary combo.

And evil seems to be holding it's own in this campaign season....