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Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal
Anonymous writes "Ars Technica has discovered that one of the Obama transition team members advising on the digital TV transition has a conflict of interest that would benefit WiMAX carrier Clearwire over Verizon. 'Barack Obama's call to delay the DTV transition would affect not only millions of analog TV viewers, but also powerful companies with a vested interest in the changeover date — including at least one with an executive on Obama's transition team.'"
Corollary: attribute everything to malice if the actions were taken by a Republican!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
(1) This is Not the first time Obama's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Recall he also appointed a RIAA lawyer to his team, and one of his men had to resign due to scandal in Arizona(?). So there are multiple reasons.
(2) Another motivation, and I freely admit this, will be to demonstrate that Obama's really no better than previous politicians. He's not the Messiah as many of his voters seem to view him, and not really any better than the previous Democratic presidents Clinton or Carter or LBJ. This obvious fact is slowly but surely being revealed day-by-day.
(3) I wish Obama the best of luck as president, but that's all he is. Just a man. Not infallible and certainly not above the law. He's still just an employee of the People and bound by the People's Constitution.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
As a rabid right-winger
How do you think you actually benefit from the biggest of big government, fascism, and Nazi policies?
I'm honestly curious how somebody could describe themselves as a rabid right winger. It's bizarre, the right wing gives the examples of the most hated and disgusting systems in the history of the world from theocracy and feudalism to the Nazis with not one single positive example of a right wing government that you could point at.
Do you really think you'll be the king rather than a peasant? Do you think you'll get to be pope?
I mean, Classical Liberalism is the center, that has America to point to as the crown jewel of that philosophy. The extremes of the left are obviously bad, but moderate left wing policies have lead to many decent societies like most of modern Europe. But the right by its very definition has nothing going for it unless you're part of the select elite group that gets all of the benefit of the system by design, and even then the guillotine eventually awaits once the vast majority of the people get sick of being the slaves of the elite, so it's not even a good long term strategy for them.
So I ask you quite seriously, why would you describe yourself as a rabid follower of a system that has never led to anything but massive failure?
Do you just not understand what the right wing is? Do you just hate Jews/Blacks/Gays/$HATED_GROUP so much that you're willing to piss away your future as long as you can keep them down? Do you just love to see your and everyone else's money pissed away to enrich a few already rich scumbags?
I'm just at a loss to understand how somebody could bring themselves to describe themselves with such a disgusting and insulting term....usually it's the kind of epithet you'd throw at some hated enemy rather than take upon oneself.
So, why would you do that?