This is an archive. The site existed from 2005-2010, at which point we shut it down. Sorry! There are plenty of other more current sites out there.

And why are the posts a couple of years old, pertaining to events over two years ago?

I wish to participate on the blog because politics are indeed important to Connecticut voters, especially when so many residents are suffering financially.

I would appreciate a response.

Thank you,
The Barefoot Accountant
Connecticut Politics

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“My earliest political memory is casting a vote for Bill Clinton in my elementary school’s mock Presidential election. I fancied myself a Democrat. A friend, who thought himself a Republican, told me that I ought to have voted for Dole. “Bill Clinton is going to fire my grandfather,” he said. This didn’t make sense to me then.”

Well Mr. Talbot this doesnt make sense to me now!

In 1996, we were in the first grade. We did not have a mock Presidential election in our class. I would not have said that Clinton is going to fire my grandfather because one has been dead for 25 years and the other retired in the late 1970′s!

We had the mock election in the 5th grade during the Bush-Gore Race! Don’t you remember Adam? You did create a great false example though!

If Im not mistaken, I still have a picture of you and I sharing a smile on the eve of the 2001 town elections, where Republicans swept in our great small town. I remember that night at the GOP headquarters, it will always be a childhood memory of mine.

As always I hope all is well, just be sure to stick to the facts when posting in an open forum. Also thank you for calling me an up and coming member of the National College Republicans!

“Rosner, the Wall Street analyst who foresaw the crash, says that the Fed’s ideological dominance of the journals hampered his attempt to warn his colleagues about what was to come. Rosner wrote a strikingly prescient paper in 2001 arguing that relaxed lending standards and other factors would lead to a boom in housing prices over the next several years, but that the growth would be highly susceptible to an economic disruption because it was fundamentally unsound.

“He expanded on those ideas over the next few years, connecting the dots and concluding that the coming housing collapse would wreak havoc on the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) and mortgage backed securities (MBS) markets, which would have a ripple effect on the rest of the economy. That, of course, is exactly what happened and it took the Fed and the economics field completely by surprise.”

Please mail to Se. Chris Dodd.

“Hooker, I generally agree with you, but boy did you take this topic completely off track.”

“Staying on message isn’t as fun or impressive as debating tangents, but it’s a hundred times more effective.”

I certainly remember having a few discussions with you a year or so ago where we distinctly disagreed, but managed to stay on topic. I didn’t care so much that we would come to agreement as much as I enjoyed the intellectual debate with you. In the process some of your comments gave me things to reflect on, things I otherwise would not have. I hope mine did for you as well.

Your comments in post #78 above are a breath of fresh air. I am increasingly finding it harder and harder to join into a conversation at this site when I find that the original topic has long ago been forgotten or ignored, a victim of the same old boring partisan nonsense that is pulling our entire country down. I am also not impressed by those who type a small novel to demonstrate just how much they know about anything but the thread topic each post. Frankly after a few hundred words, I just give up.

So I guess to make my comment about this whole idea of our President addressing our kids, and if for some is not letting them hear him speak to them in school OK? …….My thought…….. SO WHAT???

Our public school systems can use all the help they can get, and honestly who is a better role model, some athlete on steroids, or some rock star on drugs? Agree with him or not he is our President.

FYI, I typically vote Republican and I still, whole heartedly approve of this message. Al

Staying on message isn’t as fun or impressive as debating tangents, but it’s a hundred times more effective.