How can you write about 800 numbers and not mention Ron Paul?

This just shows how stupid a leader of the free world can be! I hope the next President can at least read off of a teleprompter better next year!

thats true, seriosly, how stupid and dumb do you have to be to not be able to read of a teleprompter correctly... that is one stupid president.

Anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that 800 numbers also circulate in an 888 format. Then again, anyone with an ounce of common or fiscal sense knows not to but in a sellers market and do so with a high risk mortage !!! For those of us who have amassed their cash the past several years.... We're going on a spending spree here soon and will have a blast making "high dollar renters" out of the rest of ya !!

All I have to say is DAHHHHHHHHHHH

Dear Nick,

He can't read and you can't spell. That's what an American education gets you.

We have all dialed and have given out the wrong number before, especially the 1-800 1-888 mistake. Dont chastise the Pres so much. He is human just like you and I and under a lot more pressure than you and I ever will be most likely.

Like Mr. Biden said... "this has got to be the most incompetent president in modern history."

This mistake was caused by the Federal Reserve System. We must return to the gold standard!

Billy-
Your compassion is heartwarming.
-Sally

It is sad that it took him his final year to attempt to do some good. His plan helps people who's loans are from 2005 to current! My bad loan is from 2004 and is adjusting every 6 months!!! Good lookin out Mr. Prez!

Maybe now he can see how important education is in the U.S. I'm surprised he dosen't force them to change the number so he wouldn't be wrong.

GW Bush. Best President ever.

He didn't sit on his hands like FDR did until 65 million people were killed....

Imagine the disgust all the qualified presidential candidates endure every time Bozo showcases his stupidity. This is truly an injustice, but a testament to America's gullibility.

GW Bush. Best President ever.

He didn't sit on his hands like FDR did until 65 million people were killed....

Posted by: lgander | December 6, 2007 06:08 PM

Hey George is that you?

Billy can't spell either

At least he is smarter then John Kerry, who by the way got worse grades at Yale then George W. did!!!!

TYpical whiners! The people who know how to make money are bailing out the idiots who put themselves into this position!
Once again, for the people who have done things right, are being asked to "help" the ones who do things wrong!

Doesn't shock me one little bit. The man is an imbecile. Not only cant he speak english, he also cannot read it correctly!His Grey matter is weak and feeble. Anyone who drinks to excess destroys part of the brain necessary so you are not an imbecile. Here we have the perfect example of the results of excesses. Just give him a bike, lead soldiers to play war,Cowboy boots and hat. This guy is the dope of the Century.

For the person who wrote Mr.B. is human like allof us. I RESENT BEING PUT IN THE SAME HUMAN BEING CATAGORY AS THIS SWINE, WHO IS NOTHING MORE THAN A DISHONEST MURDERER OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. THAT IS NOT WHAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE ABOUT

Its obvious the Democrat poloticians prey on the illiterate. So GWB may have read a 1-888 as 1-800. So we are going to say he's is dumb and cant read etc over that! You have got to be kidding. I stand behind my President and my country. And the fact that GWB did the best he could to take the fight to the terrorist countries instead of ours has my vote! I think most people say they love the USA but don't. Well go somewhere else and check it out. You will be back. Don't forget what we are all really involved in here. Did we forget 9-11?!

Ben - chill out! Bush is really a bad bad dude.

Lynn, I understand your feelings about that. I served in Veitnam and am still living with giult for murder. But you need to look at history a little more. You have the internet. Look up the Korean war, or better yet maybe you have a relative that was killed on 9-11? I doubt it.

your right geosinner. Interesting name. I will chill, but not so much that people like you will whine, not make good investments and get us all killed by the terrorists.

Foreclosure,
Do not blame the president for your mistake. Lenders are forced by the government to go out of their way to inform borrowers of the terms of the loan. You took a gamble, betting that the rates would continue to go down. Well, you lost that bet. Pres. Bush did not take out that loan in your name, nor did I. So step up, take responsibility, and bail yourself out. I should not be forced to pay for YOUR mistake with my tax dollars.

And for the rest of you, get over it, the president is human and does make mistakes. I think that it's great that we can all see he is just like the rest of us. We can not sit here and think that he has to be perfect, bash him when he makes a small mistake like misreading a teleprompter, and then demand that he fix our mistakes like not reading all of the disclosure statements for a mortgage. Sounds a little hypocritical to me.

Granted 1800 to 1888 is a slight mistake, but we elect presidents who should lead the country in the right direction. He didnt even lead homeowners to the right number. So yes I will 'whine' about this idiot who makes us all look bad, including you Ben.

He is having a nuke-you-lar meltdown, guys. He cannot even pretend to do anything right.

GW Bush. Best President ever.

He didn't sit on his hands like FDR did until 65 million people were killed....

Posted by: lgander | December 6, 2007 06:08 PM

UGH - Baa Baa

Georgie and his little black sheep :o{
WORST CREW EVER!

Hey Ben, KNOCK KNOCK, anyone at home there??? I'm thinking not. Iraq had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11, dont'cha read boy????

And Iran doesn't have any weapons, either - READ the NIE, then tell your "wonderful" illiterate Preznitwit to do the same!

Ben it's your Preznitwit who's helping create more terrorists. Ever tried reading different blogs from Iraq or news from overseas that isn't Murdoch news?

Every time an arab dies, one of his relatives (or more) become a terrorist. Bush made many more of them hate us, and far more than they did before even. There is hardly a home in Iraq that hasn't lost a family member since Bush invaded. Yeah, what would YOU DO if THEY had done the same here???? Well most folks want revenge and you have BUSH to thank for that.

If he'd been after the terrorists all of our soldiers would have been in Afghanistan, period! It's a lie to say otherwise.

Grow up spiritually if nothing else. God is not for war and he doesn't talk to Bush! What an insult.

Travis, mistakes is not what I call what he and his minions have done here. Get over yourself! He has lied and schemed and most of you damned well know it, you just do not care!

Pathetic.

---MF----

So now, after seven years of raping the American lower and middle class population, we finally do something to assist the peasants. How noble.

We should know that somewhere in this seemingly noble act lies a payoff for someone so close to President Bush that they have repeatedly put money into his wallet without visibly removing it from our pocket.

We will surely know the rest of the story some day...a day too late.

So Lynn, since Clinton provided over the military that was involved in the Balkans and thousands of people died, does that mean you don't want to be included with that other murderous lying (under oath no less) swine? All politically powerful persons lie and spin to convince their largely ignorant, uneducated and stupid constituencies to support their programs and goals. Wake up and become the fully cognizant cynic a lifetime of education and experience brings.

lgander wrote:
"GW Bush. Best President ever.

He didn't sit on his hands like FDR did until 65 million people were killed...."
***********************************

Your equating Bush's War with WW II merely exposing the depths of your ignorance of the matter. The two conflicts are in NO WAY similar.

did you ever stop to think that is the number somebody told him or put in the prompter that he didn't actually say the wrong number as an accident. DUH!!! and for all the bloggers and people who comment, I have seen horrible grammar, spelling and total misuse of certain words, so none of you should be throwing stones. As to the idiot in 2004 complaining about your mortgage, what the hell have you been doing for three years. why didn't you refinance 2 years ago when rates were rock bottom?

Travis wrote:
"...And for the rest of you, get over it, the president is human and does make mistakes. I think that it's great that we can all see he is just like the rest of us...."
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Mistakes???? Are you kidding? This nitwit has done more to harm this country than ANY president in history. We are not talking mistakes. We are talking about him lying to the world in order to start his war in Iraq. We are talking about him, recently, lying to the world again in an attempt to start another war in Iran.

Violating International treaties, federal laws and the US Constitution; trampling on civil and human rights; placing the US government along side the Spanish Inquisition, Japan in WW II, the Khmer Rouge, Sadaam Hussein and all the other regimes that tortured their prisoners; administering the Dept of Justice for the benefit of the Republican party.

These are not mistakes. These are "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" (in the Constitutional sense).

He's doing a heckofa job! And that's not disassembling!

Of course, if any other President had made this mistake, it would be a minor note. The reason it makes the news when this President does it, of course, is his history of bumbling, fumbling, fumfing, getting it wrong again and again and again, both in minor and major ways. So this latest mistake is just another one, symbolizing and reminding us of all the others.

Good, that's what the idiots who got themselves into loans they couldn't afford should get...nobody on the other end of the line to help them out! Unfortunately, it is the people who make sound financial decisions and do things the right way that continually have to bail these people out. What happened to the idea of personal responsibility? And the fact that the Post actually makes fun of this yet again shows their true colors. The comments from the kool-aid drinking libs to the article are even more pathetic...calling GWB an idiot for saying it...anyone consider that he read what someone else incorrectly wrote on a teleprompter? Unlike you people, he IS the President of the USA and I don't think he has the time to verify that the phone number he was given is correct. Get a life!

So many of you are sitting in judgement of others and their mistakes from home loans to an incorrect phone number. Will the person that is perfect please run for office? So nobody is upset or angry at him or her? I am far from perfect and I have served my country in war and peace, and no matter what the reason for the war/conflict someone will always say it was wrong. I could be wrong and I hope I am not but: don't you think it might be more productive to find a president that wants to serve our people and not themselves or some corporate goal. They say that politics makes strange bed fellows, hmm so does life, every day we make good choices and bad choices from relationships to financial investments, both can have results that we did not plan/think would happen. Hopefully we live through them and learn not to do that again. How about all of you ? What have you learned from this story?

Maybe they could have it be a 1-900- number for a buck a minute and Larry Craig could answer the phones.

Lew, stop raping history

haha funny.

Issue of personal responsibility is a mute point. The reason the mortgage crisis is such big news, besides the trillions of dollars at stack, is that a large number of the loans given out by the industry were irresponsible.

A loan giver wants to make commission by selling as many loans to as many people as possible. So they will change the numbers so that the person can get a loan: inflate income numbers, use introductory low rates that are adjustable, as well as other financial tricks just so a person walks out the door with a loan that he may or may not be able to afford.

So sure there is a measure of personal responsibility that people should have, but you cant expect people to read the fine print because it doesnt make any sense, I read it and was like I have no idea what I just read. So the industry wide effort to hand out unrealistic and irresponsible loans like candy is more to blame than hopeful home owners. So that is why there is a need for government interference.

Bush has tried to help these people and in the process looks like an idiot, which is no surprise.

Frank Dog, stop raping my mortgage

1-800-OOPS doesn't have enough numbers

A mute point? I assume you meant "moot."

People didn't miss the fine print! They just thought they would refinance at a fixed rate before their ARM adjusted.

Bailing these people out is socialism, pure and simple. It is keeping the cost of housing artifically high, which sucks for those of us who were smart enough to see a declining market and are waiting to buy.

And forcing the market to stay low is only shiving the problem off to the next administration.

It's convenient to blame the mortgage industry for making loans to people who never should not have gotten them. What about our federal tax code that rewards home ownership through the mortgage interest deduction? What about the realtors who steered people to houses that were too expensive so they could get a higher commission? What about the municipalities that further inflated home values with artificially high assessments to put additional property tax revenues into their coffers?

Nowhere do we see anyone blaming the idiots who got themselves in this mess in the first place by biting off more than they could chew. As much as I would love to leave them to stew in this mess of their own creation, consider the implications on financial markets. Whether you know it or not, your retirement assets are invested in bank stocks, index funds (e.g., S&P 500), retail stocks (e.g., Home Depot), mortgage backed securities and dozens of other places you probably don't realize. A total financial system meltdown is in no one's best interest.

Do you realize that virtually every school system in the country is funded from property tax revenues, so falling property values ultimately leads to diminished school funding, which is never a good thing. Sometimes for the greater societal good, we have to protect people from their own stupidity. It would be pretty difficult to lay this one exclusively at the President's feet.

after seven years of raping the American lower and middle class population, shouldn't there be a baby boom?

iamright, you are so right! I am amazed at the bad grammar and in particular the spelling mistakes of some of the contributors to this forum. As someone who lives 3000 miles to the east of the U.S. I freely admit that I've admired your country for years, but it is incomprehensible to me how you ever put such a moron as G. Dubya in the White House.

Frank, you should look up Jimmy Carter, you'll soil yourself

This Pres. who was selected by the Supreme Ct. is an embarassment to the American people. He might as well give out the wrong number because only a small group of people will qualify. He and his cronies care for Corporations only, he will not bail out the American People, he will eventually bail out the American Corporation who steered us into bad loans so they can maximize their profits to our peril. Remember after 911, he gave out monies to the airlines and insurance companies for their losses and the majority of the Americans got the middle of a doughnut, the whole.

Shame on the Americans that voted for Bush. Gov of Texas? What a resume. One more year, many more scandels to come....

Ben from Long Island, great posting until that Freudian slip in the last line!

Well my catch phrase has always been...ONLY IN AMERICA..Don King borrowed it from me.

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