Monday, July 09, 2007

George Packer's Blog

George Packer now has a blog, Interesting Times, at The New Yorker's website.

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Unknown said...

Ponzi-Town: Mr. Packer's essay on Florida's real estate debacle is to a large extent a revisionist lie. Any one interested in understanding the full story, not the story put out by Frontline or the left wing media, ought to visit Business week online: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.html. The Business Week article illuminates how President Clinton, the Democrats and some Republicans relaxed mortgage lending rules to spur low income (spelt minority) home ownership. Now, liberals - who are most liberal with what they portray as the truth - are blaming the Bush family for the conflagration Democrats started! This is one in many disgusting liberal behaviors. Another? As Obama Inc. dismantle our anti-terror network they will - if we are attacked again - blame President Bush!

Wed Feb 25, 08:05:00 PM CST
dcat said...

Ulysses --
What a cavalcade of inanities and half-truths you put forward here. First off, the argument you put forward from the Business Week article is perfectly fine, though you represent it dishonestly. The article concludes that Clinton deserves a share of the blame, which no reasonable person is denying. Arguing with strawmen is stupid. Please do it elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the economy went sour under Bush in his last years, and the housing crisis was a large, though not the sole, reason for that collapse. The idea that asserting that the economy went sour under Bush is somehow a liberal fiction is patently absurd. More to the point, it is simply false.
In what ways has Obama "dismantled our anti-terror network"? And who was president on 9/11 again? I forget.

dcat

Wed Feb 25, 09:20:00 PM CST
dcat said...

Oh -- and arguments about the "left wing media" are fatuous. For every supposedly left-wing source you can name, I can name a right wing source. Who cares? If a source comes from right or left, what does that have to do with the merits of the argument? I am more interested in good arguments than where they come from. You clearly are not. That is just one of the things that I suspect separates us.

dcat

Wed Feb 25, 09:22:00 PM CST

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