Politics | October 30, 2008 | 12 comments

Neo conservative - Francis Fukuyama endorses Obama

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/francis-fukuyama-endorses_n_139139.html

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I'm voting for Barack Obama this November for a very simple reason. It is hard to imagine a more disastrous presidency than that of George W. Bush. It was bad enough that he launched an unnecessary war and undermined the standing of the United States throughout the world in his first term. But in the waning days of his administration, he is presiding over a collapse of the American financial system and broader economy that will have consequences for years to come. As a general rule, democracies don't work well if voters do not hold political parties accountable for failure. While John McCain is trying desperately to pretend that he never had anything to do with the Republican Party, I think it would a travesty to reward the Republicans for failure on such a grand scale.
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12 comments // Neo conservative - Francis Fukuyama endorses Obama

  • jjsquared
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      jjsquared  

    • @pakazak

      No you are absolutely right you can't blame it on one organization. Another one is ACORN. They complained to banks that low-income families in their communities couldn't get loans. So the banks fell under the pressure and started handing out high-risk loans. ACORN kept wanting more and the banks eventually had to say listen, we can't keep doing this...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will never buy these high risks loans from us. So after resistance at the banks, ACORN went to congress. And because of the democratic lobbyists that had in place, they forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start approving such high-risk sub prime loans. Then everybody started doing it...and it all started with the CRA.

    • 3 years ago
  • jjsquared
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      jjsquared  

    • This guy has no idea what he's talking about. The republicans weren't responsible for the Mortgage crisis....the democrats were. Ever hear of the Community Reinvestment Act? Come on people, do your due diligence and don't just blindly follow this guy because he's not a republican. What he stands for is anti-american, and party affiliation aside...he doesn't deserve one american vote.

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  
    • jjsquared:

      sorry, i think i'm missing your point. about 1:04 into the video the "Capitalism to Socialism" logo is clear to read. is this an anti-obama piece? sure sounds and looks like it from the angry tone.....
      i don't get that from obama.
      and the Community Reinvestment Act requires the appropriate federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage regulated financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered, consistent with safe and sound operation.
      so which part of safe and sound operation isn't clear to the banks?
      Assistant professor of law Alan M. White noted that some abuses blamed on the CRA actually occurred because the Housing and Urban Development and Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight under the Bush administration allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fulfill their affordable housing goals by buying subprime mortgage-backed securities.
      so let's not get all goofy about dropping the blame in a single administration.

    • 3 years ago
  • zcameramann
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      zcameramann  

    • This may be the wrong place for this but, Governor Sarah Palin is condemning the man who spoke up for her and help launch her into the national spot-light. Now this campaign ad from when Sarah Palin was running for Governor of Alaska has surfaced, with a certain sudden urgency, featuring the VP candidate being endorsed by recent felon and Senator for Alaska, Ted Stevens. This woman is much more like a badger, who will just as likely turn on anything that would get in her way in politics.
      "We have a state that needs new management," opined the senator behind a blank screen. "These two people represent a new generation. They represent a new vision, new energy ... They represent the kind of people who ought to come on and take our places." Was he then referring to Palin and her Husband, that I am not sure about.
      Smiling under the spotlight, would-be Governor Sarah Palin cast an appreciative eye toward Sen. Stevens.
      "And it needs a new agenda for all of us to get behind," he continued. "Just think of this: When you go to vote, don't go to vote alone, and you'll help Sarah become the next Governor of Alaska." not the author, just like to see certain things, given a real chance to be read. But I did add and put my 2 cents in with it. Some people know me and will at least read
      for no other reason but to write and swear at me and I love it. Pease out !!!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • Pericles_Lewnes
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      Pericles_Lewnes  

    • asherp & Bret,

      You guys want everyone to jump to your conclusion. You know everything. You have truth by the balls and noone is listening to you.

      You roll around the boards complaining and indicting - not really looking at any gray areas, just the black and white.

      I am not going to jump to any conclusions about the future. Just because I inject a little relativity into a subject, you jump up screaming.

      You can call me a puppet if you like, but that only shows that you are weak, dismissive and prone to underestimate.

      You want to enrage, not engage. Of course, that is your right and I offer no advice and you wouldnt take any if I did.

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • JHC already.
      let's work with what we're going to have - Obama.
      let's get the american people that need help some help.
      if you don't have better ideas, if you don't want to work with the majority, if you don't want to vote, fine.
      then just get-the-hell out of the way.
      it's really a simple plan.
      stop bitchin', start pitchin'

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
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      asherp  

    • Obama continues the Neo-Con foreign policy.

      Neo-Con, Neo-Lib, it doesn't matter.

      Y'all are being hoodwinked if you think that we're going to get anything different in terms of foriegn policy or trade from Obama.

      Pro-first strike
      pro-NAFTA
      pro-WTO
      pro-IMF
      pro-war

    • 3 years ago
  • Pericles_Lewnes
  • asherp
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • i believe that what you're saying, current89, is that the drive to elect Obama is bigger than the divisiveness that the former administration used to leverage its way into power.
      i would so love to have a country where the vast majority of citizens feel like there is someone LEADING us to a better future for everyone.

    • 3 years ago
  • current89
  • Pericles_Lewnes
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      Pericles_Lewnes  

    • This is pretty fascinating. However, Fukuyama, who was a member or at least a proponent of The Project for a New American Century did declare the neo-con movement as dead (Comparing it to Leninism) in 2006 as sited at the end of the article. I am not sure you can classify him as a neo-con anymore. A former neo-con perhaps.

      It is hard to say where he falls in the political spectrum. He seems to think that social engineering is somewhat of an answer, but then I think he never had the correct question.

      He is an odd and interesting man and it will be interesting to watch where he goes from here politically, emotionally and ideologically.

    • 3 years ago
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