Forrest Cox

But it's absolutely irrelevant to this election that Barack Obama worked extensively with this organization during his vaunted time as a community organizer. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly a racist. - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors. - Forrest Cox

Blaming the mess on banks overleveraging is irresponsible. - Forrest Cox

I did not know Paulson was directly involved with the 2004 exemption ! This is inconceivable ! - Antoine Bertier

This man is evil. - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

""Until the day they put me in the ground, I will wonder." - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

Count me among that 59%. - Forrest Cox

If that's all it ends up being I'll be shocked. It's also important to take into account the long-term effect on the dollar as a reserve currency - the flight to quality we're currently witnessing, with the dollar representing "quality", seems bound to be short lived... - Forrest Cox

"The government's capriciousness is legion: Fannie (FNM Quote - Cramer on FNM - Stock Picks) and Freddie (FRE Quote - Cramer on FRE - Stock Picks) "are well capitalized," then they are seized. Bear is too big to fail at $300 billion in debt, Lehman is not too big to fail at $700 billion. Washington Mutual gets seized for bad loans, but Downey (DSL Quote - Cramer on DSL - Stock Picks) and BankUnited (BKUNA Quote - Cramer on BKUNA - Stock Picks) are allowed to keep playing with their toxic loans. And now that Wells Fargo (WFC Quote - Cramer on WFC - Stock Picks) and Citigroup (C Quote - Cramer on C - Stock Picks) want to pay more for Wachovia (WB Quote - Cramer on WB - Stock Picks) than the FDIC ever thought it was worth shows you that the FDIC is every bit as incompetent as the Fed and capricious as the Treasury. You did not need government assistance to sell WB. That's an outrage, especially given the Sept. 29 tax law change that allows Wells to take a huge tax deduction on all of Wachovia's bad mortgages " - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

useful legal stuff for startups... - Forrest Cox

Prediction: This won't matter one damned bit. The media will not cover the fact that Biden manages to seem competent on the issues because he can flat out lie about them while remaining perfectly composed. His performance last night was a disgrace - would only some of those who hate Sarah Palin so much take a harder look at their own VP candidate... - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

I don't hate Mrs. Winky. Darn it, I would take her as our babysitter. - ※Fu※

Proof or it didn't happen Peter. - JodyUnwired

"Biden is telling absurd lies about Afghanistan tonight. In particular, he's repeatedly claimed that "we've spent less in Afghanistan in seven years than we spend in a month in Iraq." He's made that claim, or claims to that effect, repeatedly. It is, to put it bluntly, a complete Goddamned lie. According to the Congressional Research Service, spending on the war in Afghanistan since 2001 has been $172 Billion. Spending in Iraq is, as the Democrats repeatedly mention, a little under $10 Billion a month. In other words, Biden's number is off by, oh, something like 2000%. Perhaps Obama's Sub-Committee ought to have held some hearings on Afghanistan after all." - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

"How much poverty has endured because individual entrepreneurs were shunned in favor of the likes of the $5 billion state-owned Ajaokuta Steel Mill in Nigeria, which never produced a bar of steel? Or because African governments spend their time preparing World Bank-required national Poverty Reduction Strategy Reports instead of freeing space for innovators? We will never know. But we do know that the free market has a long-run track record of creating prosperity -- even with the occasional crash. The Depression's deceptive intellectual legacy is that development flows from all-knowing states rather than creative individuals. Here's hoping that the backlash to today's crash will not spawn another round of bad economics for the poor." - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

The takeaways are very interesting... - Forrest Cox

Great piece. And important. - Forrest Cox

Well, I do think that Sarah's emergence has greatly diminished the odds that Hillary ever again competes seriously on the national electoral stage. But if the McPalin ticket loses this election, I seriously doubt that Sarah will be an ongoing national presence, either. - Forrest Cox

Right Barry, because it's deregulation that brought all of this about... Seriously, the fact that some highly intelligent people can actually blame the crises on deregulation is astounding. - Forrest Cox

Why not? Everyone else is getting in on the deal... - Forrest Cox

Gong show. Clown show. Either way I'd be ashamed were I an alum, and the fact that I grew up bleeding orange and blue doesn't help the way I'm feeling about this... - Forrest Cox

This is a pretty stunning turn, and will probably have an affect on some of the House GOPers who don't like the recent additions to the Senate bill. - Forrest Cox

Neat - One bank account almost bought then bought again ... What's another 13 Billion? - Charlie Anzman

My god I hope he's right... - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

"What struck me the most about the debate – and it probably helped having quintessential Obamaphiles in the room – was how Biden’s “gravitas” is derived almost entirely from the fact that he can lie with absolute passion and conviction." - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

Heh. Don't think it'll matter much, tho... - Forrest Cox

It certainly will be for Ford... - Forrest Cox

This POS needs to be run out of town... - Forrest Cox

Like her or no, the smear campaign being waged against Sarah Palin by the MSM, and perpetuated by just about every liberal moron with access to a journalist, is shameful to an extreme I've never before witnessed. The quicker these organizations go under, the better, for all of us... - Forrest Cox

Interesting - not to be cynical, but I thought SaaS was supposed to spell the death of professional services organizations... - Forrest Cox

...or one of the more visible social networking flameouts? - Forrest Cox

This is sillyness. - Forrest Cox

It's so important that the WSJ did this - and even more important that as many people as possible read what these people were saying. They have no business doing anything in the public square. Period. - Forrest Cox

"The moderator of Thursday's vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office that aims to "shed new light" on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other "emerging young African American politicians" who are "forging a bold new path to political power."" - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet

"Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history. The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife's committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer." - Forrest Cox via Bookmarklet