Let the woman do her damned job, asswipe.

It's just business.

Sincerely yours,

Americas bankers and their politicians

My brother, a brilliant scholar in his own right, loves to say, "Sarcasm is the retreat of the intellectually inadequate." Do you agree with him?

A performative poet of Hibernia
Rhymed himself into a hernia
He became quite adept
At this practice, except
For the occasional non-sequitur.

I think I'd classify his article as satire, not sarcasm.

How the hell would I know.

Franklin was trying to piss them off and send a message of support to American resistance. No idea if it worked.

lacking in intellect, an uneducated Colonial fool. But as we all know, the Crown had no sense of humor nor much intellect, otherwise we would still be singing 'Hail to the Queen' and Franklin would have been hung for treason.

Just goes to show, criticism matters only depending on the critic.

I went ahead and googled:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sarcasm+intelligence

Have a good day.

... than you did on this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2828927

It's a start.

according to one of the world's most famous literary masters of sarcasm.

You should introduce your brother to some of these people:

Oscar Wilde

Dorothy Parker

Shakespeare

G.K. Chesterton

Ambrose Bierce

Flannery O'Connor

“Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.” J. K. Rowling

Or maybe you were just being sarcastic with the 'brilliant scholar' part!

Sure. I'll tell him that somebody at DU thinks he should check out Shakespeare. Maybe you could suggest a title that he might read.



I'm a fucking genius.

Sid

...with the collaboration of Elliott Spitzer, at the time she was nominated. Anyone who knows her history knows she was the worst sort of nomination for this post. Awe-inspiringly awful. Geithner level awful.

Spitzer, having known White professionally for a couple of decades, would know White and her capabilities far more than any of those "anyones"?

nt

ideological purity and being above personal reproach keeps progressives (as exhibited on DU) politically irrelevent ... other then for a back and forth on anonymous bulletin boards.

it's two words: "Human Fraility."

Or, perhaps three" "Feet of clay."

Besides, his personal failings do not argue against his knowledge/estimation of someone else.

And so far, she's turning out exactly as expected by those of us who were skeptical in the extreme about her. Her prior history is one of being extremely cozy with the big banks. This decision the NYT is objecting to is in line with that.

claimed him to be an objective observer ... In fact, I said his having worked with White makes him a highly informed observer.

With that said ... I perfer to NOT judge performance on individual acts; but through accomplishments over time. It is far to early to judge her.

You don't get out much, do you? Either that, or you don't use the Web very well:

Sid

imho, brilliant on the part of the Admins to allow the Community to judge whether or not something is in line with the standards of the majority of members of this forum.

by a bad jury. This is one of those times.

Sid

people's comments, under the current system they can still be seen so it's acceptable as it is not censorship, just a message that something is not acceptable. Personal attacks have never been acceptable. So this jury simply followed through on that standard.

BS does not fool me either

How about Van Jones, the right wingers go ballistic at him.

a fight, just like Shirley Sherrod. No one in the WH had their backs. Nor did the ardent supporters who hung them out to dry upon command from the right wing. Van's head was one of the first offerings made to the Teapublicans.

disapproval of him, he was gone. No one fought for HIM in this administration. But when people across the country demanded that Republican Chair, nominated by Obama, of the Deficit Commission, Alan 'greedy old geezers on SS' Simpson, insulted Veterans and the Elderly, be fired for his behavior, and tens of thousands signed a petition asking this president to force HIM to resign, guess what? He's still there!

Can you name some Progressives appointed by Obama lately? Van Jones was one of the few and he didn't last very long. As always, this Administration didn't want to upset the Right Wing for some reason.

And that is the difference between the actual Progressive Wing of the party and the administration, we LOVE upsetting the Far Right, in fact when they are upset, we KNOW we are on the right track.

Hummmmm

Nor Bush and Cheney.

Obama will only be president for around 1000 more days or so.

But who's counting?

Besides those with numbered Swiss bank accounts, I mean.

Curious isn't it?

he could eat kittens on live TV and they'd be swooning

millions as a partner for a firm that represented Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman, Sachs, Deutsche, Chase, and AIG, among others? Think that fact that his firm has retained her firm has anything to do with Jamie Dimon coming out and saying that White is the "perfect choice" to run the S.E.C.? Think of all the things she knows but can’t act upon. Could she really turn around and target Morgan Stanley after being their lawyer for all those years?"

It makes one go Hmm.

When it is 170 degrees out, we can get a cool drink of fracking cocktail.

If you don't give a crap about the world you are leaving your children, you don't give a crap about anything but yourself.

The world is overpopulated and it is clear that the preferred method to "reduce" it is based on greed.