Oh stop! We're talking about multibillionaires. Soros/DNC/Media Matters is as "left" as the Koch Bros and Murdoch. You obsess over methods of people with the same goals.

And Japan? Need we remind them what happened the last time they opposed the Good ol' USA? It would be best for everybody if 'all the ships sailed in the same direction'.

The rise of European nationalism....

It's the economy, stupid

We've been through this before.

It will keep the greasy fingers off.

But we aren't "broke" and socialism has not proven to be a failure. It is only under attack by those who feel threatened by the abundance of our output. So they create scarcity through war and theft. You're still living in a fantasy that this is about anything more than wealth/power/sex. "Respect"? Please! From whom? His financiers? That's funny! Respect has yet to win an election. Stop trying to apply your moral indignation to a business that has no morals. "Respect" is measured in dollars. And there the man is a picture of success. The patriarchy is very pleased with his performance so far, and he can cruise through the fourth quarter. He is a good liar. Everybody, including you, is drawn to the things they want to hear. He meets his quotas, like those before him and those who will succeed him for the foreseeable future, as long as the public rewards them. If you want truth tellers in office, you will have to seek them out and conscript them, chain them to the chair and hang the sword over their heads. No person who wants the job is ever going to make it without lying.

Not at all. Just playing the same game you do on Wilson.

Your pj media and teabagger sites and talk radio are the same thing and regurgitate the same stories. And your infatuation with specific politicians while ignoring who writes the checks is more than obvious.

Does it matter? The US is the only one with the muscle to back it up. This is business. Don't be looking for any "morality" in that.

It's been all neo-libs since Reagan/Thatcher. It's strictly business. Purely amoral, impersonal, natural business. There is nothing to read into it. That is its purpose.

What do you think would happen if he told the truth? And try to wrap your head around asking what would happen to any politician who attempts to tell the truth? When are you going to accept that this a game of sycophants and that you really are unseen? Unless you have an ability to draw a crowd? Then, you're either an asset or an enemy.

Consider it as shorthand for 'obsessive infatuation'. You all definitely suffer from it (It's easy to imagine you see the aura and hear the choir any time the name comes up), as does anybody who continues to think that Reagan and Obama are any different from any other politician. And here, you are simply rebroadcasting tidbits from FOX while ignoring the real corruption of concentrated wealth that provides the driving force.

Same difference... People have their eyes on the actors, not the directors and producers who sign the checks.

Goal or not, it doesn't stop it from happening.

For one thing, the core is much thicker than the atmosphere. And we haven't even dug through the crust. The core is a little farther away.

Well, if you were a door to door nuclear power plant and machine gun salesman, you might disagree.