Posted on 10/11/2008 7:24:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For McCain to win this election (which he still can) the furor over the stock market will have to calm down so that popular attention can focus on Barack Obama. For all of the deluge of media that has engulfed the American people, they can only keep one subject on their mind. All media has only one focus at a time. And, if you are in the spotlight, you are almost certain to self-destruct.
Follow this election cycle. Between the summer of 2007 and the end of February of 2008, all focus was on Hillary Clinton’s ups and downs. And Obama defeated her decisively. Then in March and April of 2008, Obama was in the focus and Rev Wright and the surrounding controversy propelled Hillary to victory. Then during the summer of 2008, all eyes were on Obama and he gained. In September, McCain was on the griddle. At first his selection of Sarah Palin let him move ahead. But then his “suspension” of his campaign and subsequent complicity in the bailout package cost him his lead and moved Obama to an advantage just short of double digits.
Now the attention should logically shift to Obama. He is way ahead and McCain is nowhere to be seen. Few give McCain any chance and the debate is over whether the race is over already. This is, of course, the ideal environment for a McCain surge. All attention would normally focus on the Democrat. But it isn’t. Every American checks the market before they check the polls. The ongoing anxiety over the stock market is not only giving more and more people reason to hate the Republicans of Wall Street and their allies in Washington, but it is keeping us from focusing on Obama.
If ever the market stabilizes, Americans will be fascinated by the Ayers-Obama ties and the relationship between Farrakhan and the Democratic nominee. The increasing evidence that ACORN is committing voter fraud, registering people over and over again in anticipation of stuffing the ballot box on election day. As ACORN gets raided by the FBI, it will hurt Obama. He was general counsel to its Illinois affiliate and Obama channeled millions to the radical group when he got control over the money William Ayers got from the Annenberg Foundation.
All of these ties are damning for Obama and will reinforce the doubts that Rev. Wright first put in our minds. They will lead people to question Obama’s values and his fitness for the presidency. A man whose spiritual advisor is Rev Wright, whose financial backer is Rezco, and whose first major employer was William Ayers might not be a good choice for president. But for these associations to loom large enough in our consciousness to impact our vote, the market has to settle down so we can hear the campaign over its din.
if mccain could focus the meltdown on barney frank, chris dodd, et al,
then he might have a chance.
Only a heavy duty recreational drug user could blame this financial mess on McCain. He was the Paul Revere sounding the alarm and was shut up by the boys like Obama, Dodd, Schumer and the fag.
Why does anyone listen to the “toe sucker”?
Obama could not answer this because his party's platform and he himself is for mass legalization of these invaders. Further, McCain could drive some wedges, albeit not dramatic, into the African-American vote. African Americans across the board are generally fed up with Illegal Immigration. The Conservative base would also continue to be kept in the loop and motivated.
There you have it. This is how McCain gets to swoop up massive segments of the Undecideds.
Do YOU want him to do this?
Do YOU want him to win the election?
Does HE want to win the election?
I have said all along that this was planned (cloward piven) to set this bombs at Fannie & Freddie through ACORN/CRA lawsuits. Soros knew and so did his other hedge fund buddies.
SEC’s Chris Cox STILL has not reinstituted the uptick rule on shorting. If the market stabilizes and maybe moves back up to 9000 or 9500 it will be much easier.
Obama has a lot of baggage and is VERY beatable. Lots of Hillary voters hate her. Any Repub in their right mind will be fighting alligators and crawling across glass to vote against Obama on election day.
I think Obama’s core ACORN group of supporters will have fairly strong intensity on election day. Other Democrats will be lukewarm or voting McCain. Repubs intensity should be off the charts.
I know a lot of people will probably laugh at this, but by November the 4th, the Dow may be over 10,000 again.
This whole thing has been overplayed. The hysteria by market players will calm down at some point, sanity will return and this market is going to take off.
I believe it’s way undervalued right now.
Remember back a few months ago. Some folks were convinced we’d never see a barrel of oil under $120 again. Everyone was predicting $200 plus.
It ain’t over till it’s over...
“Why does anyone listen to the “toe sucker”?”
I agree. IF the polls show a single up tick towards McCain he will say that Obama can’t win.
Heck, after learning that Obama had Morris working on the Odinga “campaign” in Kenya, who cares what Morris thinks about anything? Why do Freepers even care about this man?
Possibly too indirect. Dodd and Frank are the keys but it has to be Obama. It looks like an attack on Democrats. Has to be on Obama.
One key is Obama’s economic advisors are the people who wrecked Fannie & Freddie, caused this GLOBAL financial implosion and ran out of the smoldering Fannie & Freddie before the fire got going with close to $400 million in compensation.
“I know a lot of people will probably laugh at this, but by November the 4th, the Dow may be over 10,000 again.”
I’d love to see at least a dead cat bounce for two reasons:
-It would help McPalin
-It would be a good time to move some of my diminishing assets around some.
It’s not the DOW that’s the problem it’s the DOS. (Democrat Over Sampling).
I don’t agree. I think that Sarah is the positive force in this election. If everyone would quit trying to use her for some stupid strategy and let her be herself, she would bring it home.
Obama will not only legalize the illegals (5 million mortgages blew up held by illegals for a cost of at least $100 billion)...
...OBama is going to open the borders up to Islamic countries especially the virulent and violent Somalis. 1 million Somalis will destroy this country in 4 years. They are violent and incredibly aggressive.
Well, anyone who thinks Obama can fix this economic meltdown with his Marxist solutions is a nutjob. I don’t see how on EARTH anyone who looks so empty-headed and talks so slickly can possibly inspire confidence in his economic wisdom. He has never had a real job and has never run anything, and his advisers are a gang of crooks, Communists, Muslims, and racists.
Is this the guy you would put in charge of a trillion dollar economy? Him and his marxist advisers? Not that McCain inspires much confidence, either, but at least he wouldn’t wreck the economy deliberately.
Anyway, even assuming that people would be that stupid, although no one knows what’s going to happen next week, I think that we’re about due for a turnaround on Monday or Tuesday, and a pretty good bounce in the markets that should see us through the election.
I don’t know this, or I’d be a lot richer than I am; but I suspect it. The only thing that might kill it is if the G-7 conference in Washington breaks up in recrimination and Paulson pulls another October surprise for his buddy Obama.
Of course, if the markets recover, no doubt Obama and his slaves in the media will give him the credit for that, too.
The market closed closed around 500 points over it’s lows on Friday. It also closed about 500 points under it’s highs. It held it’s own fairly well.
You can’t beat some of the discount value that is on the table right now, just waiting for someone with a backbone to show up.
The message should be: look what has happened to our economy and our financial markets since the Dems took over Wall Street. We our facing a worsening financial crisis and the last person we need in the White House is Malcolm X aka Barrack Hussein Obama.
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