Posted on 11/30/2008 6:26:31 PM PST by Perdogg
Let's recap my 2008 Predictions
National/Political:
>Rudy Guiliani/Haley Barbour will defeat Hillary Clinton/Bill Richardson in November 52-47-1
WRONG
>Republicans will take back the House; Net -2 in the Senate.
WRONG
>Bush will pardon Scooter Libby, Ramos and Campeon Christmas eve 2008.
TBD
World:
>The US will hit Iran nuclear program hard causing the regime to fall in Tehran.
WRONG
>Israel and Hezbollah will take the gloves off in 2008, by early spring.
WRONG
>Major upheavals in North Korea.
Upheavals, yes - Major, unknown
>OBL will be declared dead by 01/31/08.
WRONG
>Terrorist attack in Europe, probably italy.
WRONG
>More details will come to light over the 9-11 commission. Iraqi involvement will be requestioned.
WRONG
Sports:
>2008 NCAA Football: Georgia will be number 1 will play Oklahoma number 2 in 2009 for the BCS championship.
TBD - Most likely half wrong
>NFL: Dallas will defeat New England in the Super Bowl; Tony Romo will announce his engagement to Jessica Simpson (She will have a hot bun in the oven). Gibbs to retire; McNabb traded.
1/4 Right
>NCAA Basketball: UNC over Memphis State for NCAA Championship.
Half right
>MLB: The Cubs will not make the playoffs, but the Cardinals will defeat the Yankees, 4-3 in the world series.
WRONG
>Jimmy Johnson will win another NASCAR championship beating out Tony Stewart.
RIGHT!
Entertainment:
>Nude pictures of Hayden Panettiere will hit the internet. She will be fired from Heroes.
WRONG, unfortunately
>Britney Spears will come out of the closet and blame her repressed sexuality for her problems.
WRONG
>Lohan will announce both marriage and pregnancy in 2008
WRONG
>Anna Kournikova will pose nude for Playboy.
WRONG
>The "it" girl for 2008 will be Ashley Tisdale.
WRONG
Business Economy Dow will finish around 15,500 at the end of 2008. WRONG No recession WRONG The Dollar will make a come back. RIGHT Oil will finish the year at around $70.00 ppb after hitting $115 ppb in the late Spring. Mostly WRONG
Ave atque vale:
Margaret Thatcher - WRONG
Charleston Heston - RIGHT
July 4th will be celebrated as "Interdependence Day", a day for Americans to remember that "we're all in this together", encouraging us to unite behind the Government in support of the high-profile prosecutions above-mentioned.
FR will go "down" more and more frequently. One day it just won't come back up. There will not be a Third Quarter Freepathon, not for lack of supporters or funds, but for lack of a destination for donations.
I agree with your predictions. The Change the sheeple asked for won’t be the change they’re gonna get. Surprise, surprise!! GOP will still be in search of a leader with gonads; none to be found. Surprise, surprise!!
Your predictions regarding the economy are very optimistic; I hope you are right in view of: after the 1929 crash, the Dow Jones low wasn’t reached until 1933 and the 1929 DJ high wasn’t reached again until 25 years later. We had a Democrat New Dealer during most of that period as well, you may recall.
You may also recall that a relatively untested liberal guy became President in 1977 with 61 Democrats in the senate and a 67% majority in the house but, the economy went “to hell in a handbasket.”
After we got defeated in these 2008 elections I am not going to make political predictions and in particular elections predictions.
Stock market at 6500 on December 31, 2009. Obama’s approval rating below 33% by May 1, 2009. Britney Spears makes a fool of herself in public (yes I honestly expect it to happen). Al Qaida tests Obama in 2009(see Biden prediction).
lol, remind me to never, ever take gambling or investment advice from you.
WOW!!! I did not know that the democrats had such a huge majority in Congress when Carter was elected.
Obama’s first act as President will be to end the ban on U.S. government funding to foreign countries for aboriton (Mexico City Policy)
Technically, you were correct about ‘no recession’
A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative change to the GDP. By the end of 2008, we will have only one such quarter (a second one is likely).
Obama will disband local police in favor of his own hand picked Obama squads, declare himself the first US Emporer after a generated crisis, create a giant super space station that shoots a massive laser beam, and disband the senate giving control the the regional governors.
PREDICTIONS FOR 2009
Perdogg gets 4 right
About this time next year there will be a Predictions 2010 thread on Free Republic.
The stock market will be up and then down and up again.
A famous rock musician will die unexpectedly.
A rap artiste will be murdered!
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