George W. Bush: Expanding Minority Home Ownership
By Barry Ritholtz - July 10th, 2010, 11:00AM
Apparently, Barney Frank somehow hypnotized George W. Bush:
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President Calls for Expanding Minority Opportunities to Home Ownership
Remarks by the President on Homeownership, St. Paul AME Church, Atlanta, Georgia
White House, Office of the Press Secretary, June 17, 2002
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020617-2.html
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July 10th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Paging Peter Wallison, paging Peter Wallison. Please report to The Big Picture and pick up the white courtesy phone (so I can tell you what I think of you.)
July 10th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Ritholtz — I don’t think many readers here have any illusions about the broadness of the cluster-stoop; everyone’s fingerprints are on this.
Dead horse! And very little, if anything has changed in our zombie government: Staggering towards the next disaster.
July 10th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Well, yesterday was the Jon Stewart video about blaming it on Clinton and today it’s Barney Frank being hypnotized by George Bush. Your being redundant and boring, or maybe you’ve had too many beach martinis?
July 10th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
“Your being redundant and boring, or maybe you’ve had too many beach martinis?”
I’ll take that over being petulant, dismissive and congenitally dishonest, qualities for which the conservatards and Neanrdercons are well known.
As an FYI, these reminders will stop the day we don’t hear “the CRA was the responsible for the housing bubble”.
July 10th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Barry, either you do this to amuse yourself, by seeing how wild the comments get. Or you’ve convinced yourself that all of the economic problems are solely the responsibility of Republicans. (or both).
Either way, it’s tedious. Not that my single readership makes a crapload of difference, but the rest of the stuff is not interesting enough to overcome your forays into politics. Killing the RSS feed.
July 10th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Barry, thanks for setting the record straight. You provide a valuable service of providing truth and facts instead of opinions and biases.
July 11th, 2010 at 8:19 am
As Bruce Willis said:
“Welcome to the party, pal!”
Put this in the new chapter of your book, the one entitled “Ooops, about that CRA thingy…”
July 11th, 2010 at 10:16 am
“As an FYI, these reminders will stop the day we don’t hear “the CRA was the responsible for the housing bubble”.”
My comment was straightforward. It was about redundancy.
Who is “we”? You sound like a sheep who is part of a flock following a silly shepherd…bahhh. LOL.
P.S. Congress is broken. Both parties are to blame.
July 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
It seems to me that both Clinton and Bush tried to do a nice thing…get more poor people into homes….hardly anybody predicted the disasterous consequences…..our Nation tried out this experiment of low interest rates during economic contractions, little regulation, unbridled free market capitalism and it didnt work so well…….its back to the drawing board for us…..we still don’t know what to do…..stimulation or austerity…..this is a complicated world….
My beef is that there are too many liars and dishonest people out there….lets do our honest best, work hard, be generous to those we disagree with ….. be quick to see where others are right