That's my response anytime Trader Jorge stoops to insulting a potential President of the United States with nonsense like Snobama. Not always gonna be a 4-figure donation, but it's going to add up the more TJ keeps it up.
I also sent an e-card to the Obama campaign on behalf of Trader_Jorge along with my donation in his honor: 10/19/08 DBT CRD 0456 077210 OBAMA FOR AMERICA #7356 1,200.00 Balance 1,907.96 10/17/08 DBT CRD 0011 041186 SONIC DRIVE IN #529 7.75 Balance 3,107.96 10/17/08 Check #4532 CHECK View Image 70.00 Balance 3,115.71
You could go back a lot more in Houston history and find the Houston Press, as well as the Post, two newspapers I miss very much. Growing up, we always took the Post and the Press. The Chronicle was the right-wing, conservative rag, and everyone knew it. Times have changed. Two great newspapers gone and the old conservative paper endorsing a Black liberal Democrat for President. A trip indeed.
It's not the one Deckard's referring to. The term "liberal" wasn't such a bogeyman then and ideas were not as dismissed outright because of ideology. What I found interesting when I picked up the paper this morning was the LBJ endorsement. Sure, he was a Texan but they went out of their way to mention that should he die he had an able running mate. In it's own way it hit me that they were pandering to the emotion after the JFK assasination and did so relunctantly.
As declan said, a different paper. Far different. An actual daily newspaper with a wide audience in its day. One that leaned liberal and progressive, back before those terms were demonized by a minority of this country that has gained an influence far out of proportion to its numbers.
No big deal. The Dallas Morning Puke endorsed McCain. So? This is not a swing state... that's where the endorsements seem to matter most.
Not a trip at all. When The Post folded, a lot of unemployed workers moved over to the Chronicle and now they're festering in the wounds like ants, much like the employees of Enron scrambled around and showed their economic prowess and ethics to other companies creating a much larger economic problem nowadays.
The regular employees at Enron weren't the problem. It was the CFO/CEO executives that were the problem.
The regular Enron employees weren't on the trading floor. And yes the lies and crimes committed by the executives at Enron did in fact have an effect on the trading floor... if that's what your asking about. I'm not exactly clear what you are saying here. Why would regular Enron employees have a huge effect on the trading floor?
