Comments on: Subprime Crooks

By: Jeff Cassidy

Jeff Cassidy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:11:52 +0000

I have traveled the world far and wide and settled down in a nice little condo with my wife in South Lansing. We both work for the Michigan Senate and do our best to provide a valuable service to Michigan taxpayers. She is a legislative analyst for the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency and I am the legislative director for State Senator John Pappageorge (R)-Troy. I realize that my status within the MI GOP may get me banned from this board, but I take pride in the fact that I did NOT vote for W. in the ’04 election, although I didn’t cast my ballot for Kerry either. Why is it that the choices we are given every four years seem to always be between a douchenozzle and a complete jackass? I can’t stand the fact that our presidential choices are packaged and marketed just like mainstream music and movies to appeal to the widest possible audiences. **Steps off of soapbox** Anyway, I enjoy your site. Keep it up. How goes the job hunt?

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:41:28 +0000

Jeff Cassidy! Nice to hear from you! Where has your life taken you?

By: Jeff Cassidy

Jeff Cassidy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:30:48 +0000

Jeff Cassidy, class of ’93, Clio Mustangs.

I took a certain measure of pride typing that, but upon reflection, I don’t think I have very much school spirit anymore, if I ever had any at all. The most spirit I have nowadays is…nope, no spirit. Wait a minute…Johnny Spirit!!! There we go.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:31:01 +0000

Well done! I’m very proud of you, Jeff. Thanks for keeping the dream alive.

This isn’t Jeff Cassidy from Clio, is it?

And I’m all for Donahue and anything he does. A fine point about Gore winning Tennessee, but I’ve come to understand that people who blame Nader for 2000 tend to think of him as the straw that broke the camel’s back. I’m sure Harmon knows that a million things went wrong with the election, that there were voting inconsistencies all over Florida, and I’m sure if pressed he would probably admit that Al Gore did not run a very good campaign or try very hard to appeal to the liberal voters. But somehow Nader’s role is always given more weight than Gore losing Tennessee or the fact that every third party candidate on the ballot in Florida received more votes than the difference between Bush & Gore or that Al Gore ran an uninspiring campaign or most importantly, the fact that half the country believed George Bush might make a competent president.

By: Jeff Cassidy

Jeff Cassidy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:27:22 +0000

*rallies*

By: Jeff Cassidy

Jeff Cassidy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:25:51 +0000

Jeffrey, in honor of your self revelatory introspection, I too would like to unburden myself and apologize to Jeff somebody who is the younger brother of Chris something. In sixth grade I found your glasses and took them outside and crushed them with my feet just to see what would happen. The guilt over this vandelous act has burdened me since that day and I sincerely apologize.

Interestingly enough, if Gore had simply won his home state this discussion would be moot.

And Jeff how can you not respect a guy who had Phil Donahue MC his traveling rally’s? That’s just good stuff.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:05:22 +0000

I’d recommend watching the documentary, I think it might give you a new perspective on how Nader ran his campaign and the actual impact he had on the election.

By: Harmon

Harmon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:39:17 +0000

I believe both he and Kerry won Travis County, the bastion of blue from whence my campaign contributions go out to places like Florida.

I have plenty of respect for Nader’s accomplishments outside of Presidential races. I just wish he’d run for an office that he could realistically win, rather than helping people like Bush.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:03:13 +0000

I’ll go to my grave believing that Nader had nothing to do with Bush becoming president. Check out the documentary Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man — it probably won’t change anyone’s mind, but it might give you a little more respect for the man and what he’s accomplished.

And I’m pretty sure that Gore won New York, the state I voted in … how did he do in Texas, again? I can’t remember …

By: Harmon

Harmon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:24:13 +0000

Oh, I’ve found that buying random people drinks (and explaining why you’re doing so) is an easy way to Pay It Forward. I can’t remember the story now, so this isn’t going to be very good, but I did that and then later heard from one of the drink recipients about how they paid it forward, and it felt really, really good.