Recommend if you think Geithner is the best man to clean up the financial chicken coop..

[Fumesucker]

Just wanted to give an opportunity for those who are unrecommending the Geithner bashing thread to laud their hero in a positive manner.

Let's see where DU really and truly stands, eh?

This is my first ever "rec this" thread and quite possibly my last so please cut me a little slack.

[lamp_shade]

1. K&"R"

[Horse with no Name]

2. Only if you believe a fox can watch over the henhouse n/t

[Cant trust em]

3. I will neither wreck nor unwreck this thread.

[Fumesucker]

8. That's what I like..

Someone who takes a firm stand. ;)

[Cant trust em]

9. I don't think he's the best man, but I don't think he's a total fuck up either

I know that this is probably a little more nuance than DU can handle.

[Fumesucker]

10. I think he knows exactly what he is doing..

Helping out his pals in the financial world.

Far from being a fuckup, that would imply he is stupid and does not know what he's doing.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. I didn't unrec that thread because I love Geithner.

I unreced it because it was a stupid thread, just like every other "rec this" thread.

[notesdev]

5. Muhahaha

we have "unrecommend" now

[Fumesucker]

7. You noticed?

You certainly have a firm grasp of the blatantly obvious. ;)

[notesdev]

12. Yep

which is why I know that Geithner works for Goldman Sachs, not for you

[Fumesucker]

16. Well.. *I* know who he works for..

But there seem to be a substantial minority on DU who are somewhat less clear on Geithner's allegiance..

[DJ13]

6. K&U

[slipslidingaway]

11. From the SMW thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3962519&mesg_id=3962558

[Fumesucker]

18. I'm about to have a conniption fit..

ROFL, from the thread you linked to:


Fucking Liar! If my employee said something so completely untrue - he would be fired before he started his next sentence.

[slipslidingaway]

22. Friday evening chuckle...

do these people ever listen to themselves??? They just expect us to believe.

'Geithner says derivatives blindsided the gov't'

[LuvNewcastle]

13. If I don't care for Geithner, I should

give the thread an unrec. Right?:think:

[Fumesucker]

15. ROFL... Yes...

I basically posted this to show the silliness of the whole rec/unrec flamewar..

It's just my lighthearted way of poking a little fun and maybe making a small point at the same time.

[Jazzgirl]

14. Let me be one of the next to unrec this thread.

:evilgrin:

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. I wouldn't trust Timmy the Keebler Elf to clean up a REAL chicken coop

..with an automated shovel.

[Fumesucker]

19. I thought it was Kookinich who was the "Keebler Elf"..

:evilgrin:

;)

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Kucinich is a good Democrat who wants to save this country.

Timmy the Keebler elf is a Bilderberger piece of shit tool of the "Federal Reserve" (which is neither) and a Goldmine Sucks vampire.

[Fumesucker]

25. Reminds me of the joke about the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenberg..

One is a giant Nazi gasbag, the other is just a dirigible.

[Orangepeel]

21. I don't think "(un)rec this thread if you agree with me!" threads are "great"

so I unrecced both threads. I'd rec a thoughtful discussion of Geithner's strengths and weaknesses, regardless of the direction it leaned.

[Fumesucker]

23. It's just an easy way of getting a sense of how people are leaning..

On a given issue..

And actually I had my tongue pretty far in my cheek when I wrote the OP, enough so that I looked like a chipmunk with a big nut.

[leftofthedial]

24. Geithner is the soul of the problem

and no part of any possible solution.

[Fumesucker]

26. "It Takes a Thief"

Used to be one of my favorite shows when I was a teenager..

Who better than the chief Fox to figure out how to protect the hen house?

I kid, I kid...