[FormerACLUmember]

On a positive note, an unexpected (but still very possible) McCain win would be associated with record setting stock market gains beginning the day after Election Day.

[Tallguy]

But... but... I thought they loved Obama overseas & hoped he’d win?! You’re saying that foreign markets don’t agree? /sarcasm

[Carley]

Heard some CNBC shill insist that Wall St. is too busy with the market to think about politics.

[cvq3842]

I tend to agree that it's a factor. I am somewhat involved in the financial services industry and I can see that people are moving their money. the odd thing is that it feeds on itself. the more stocks drop, the more people turn to Democrats to "fix" the economy.

[Biggirl]

Goes to show that the markets are conservitive.

[DonaldC]

The polling data has been wrong the past two elections and I believe it is very possible they are wrong again.

[PLD]

Stick this on your bulletin board. George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine. A little over one year ago: 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high; 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; 3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%. 4) the DOW JONES hit a record high—14,000 5) American’s were buying new cars,taking cruises, vacations overseas, living large!... But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes—we got ‘CHANGE’ all right. In the PAST YEAR: 1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ; 2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!; 3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a10% increase); 4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS and prices still dropping; 5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure. 6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another low~~ $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS. YES, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE...AND WE SURE GOT IT! REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS. AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Stop and think about that for a moment NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!! JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?

Pass this around!!

[arthurus]

I think the collapse is in the mill and irreversible. McCain is pushing collapse just as hard as Hussein. He is arguably the final influence that was necessary to pass the Weimar Bill that has grown to almost $2 trillion now. He will not return us to Adam Smith economics any faster than Hussein will. One problem with military men is that they tend to believe the Keynesian principle that the economy is really controlled by smart men in the government who pull all the strings and push all the levers.

[unspun]

The Post American World of Barack Obama

The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria

...connecting the dots to show Barack Obama's long-standing,
continuously developing, anti-American alliances...

Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Listen to this Interview of James Simpson, by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.

On Barack Obama's Marxist connections in Chicago

Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of [Marxist] Socialist 'New Party' In 1996

On Alice Palmer, the South Side's Marxist State Senator, Who Hand Picked Barack Obama to Succeed Her

More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:

Barack Obama campaigning with taxpayers' money for Raila Odinga, Marxist & pro-Islamist, despotic leader in Kenya

Barack Obama & Khalid Al-Mansour (old Black Panther comrade of Ayers & Dohrn and likely of Alice Palmer) who raised funds to get Obama into Harvard

And then there are... Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Pritzkers, and the "loose lips" of Charles Schumer and Harry Reid (and Henry Paulson is not above suspicion, with his control-freak power play and Goldman Sachs cronyism).

Get these articles and pictures out to everyone you know (or anything better that comes up) -- voters, media, officials and staff of both parties, everyone. We have time if we act now.

[prolifefirst]

No way.

I hate all Democrates, but there is no way that this is a factor in what is going on.

[HawaiianGecko]

A person needs to keep in mind that foreign capital is fleeing the American stock market because of the threat of an Obama presidency. His economic policies simply choke off any reason to invest in America. As I've mentioned earlier, his tax policy to raise federal income tax and capital gains tax investors, will simply drive money into China, India, Russia and Dubai. Obama has also promised to buy 2012 votes by spending another $1.5 trillion during his first term.

He plans to fight a global war on poverty where he will tax Americans and send the money to the UN to spend worldwide. This has already been introduced by Obama in legislation http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/

Regulation already costs America between $810 billion and $1.7 trillion per year, ( http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/cost/regulate/regulate.htm  ) or about $10,000 in lost output for every U.S. household. Hell, just Google "foreign capital leaving U.S. markets" to find a plethora of articles explaining why.

Add to all of that this man's protectionist policies, (that Brokaw managed to steer clear of last night) which many economists believe contributed mightily to the Great Depression and you can bet your bottom dollar that change is coming but it's not the change we need.

[LadyPilgrim]

I do not doubt this one iota.

The only people who refuse to admit zero hussein is a muslim is the msm.....they are keeping this hidden....and then.....
the ones he has deceived into thinking he is someone he’s not.

The world already knows this all too well.

That’s why there will be votes cast this election that the number is going to be astounding to the msm and the dnc.

For instance...

http://www.democratsformccain.com/

and....

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=34403

God Bless America!!!

McCain/Palin 2008

[Joe 6-pack]

Obama’s brother may need to move to a smaller hut.

[bvw]

This is true too -- about Bambi, the muslimific black-christian -- if elected what value stocks or bonds? Only those which are put under care of the Bambi-Politiboro and Bambi-KGB and Bambi-WorkKorps, or even those few golden properties that make it into the oversight household court of Obamb-Il-Duce and Michelle-zeebel. How exalted that will be for one of us peons!

About John McBipart -- some independent private ownership might be kept out of full federal oversight.

Yet it's amazing how quickly we've just become America, the National Commune. Sort of like France during the troubles Dickens wrote about.

[1Old Pro]

The Dow is moving back up, now that the polls show Mccain closing the gap and basically in a dead heat.

As it becomes more apparent that the undecideds will break for McCain the market will continue to move up, which will draw even more support for him.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

This has to be one of the most misinformed posts about a serious subject I have ever seen on FreeRepbublic. Complete idiocy.

We are experiencing a massive credit collapse on the heels of a massive credit bubble decades in the making with a severe ramping up over the past decade. If Obama had never been born, this would be happening. If Ronald Reagan II were being elected president, this would be happening.

Get informed. Go study up on the liquidity crisis, credit bubble, housing, subprime mortgages, credit derivative swaps, mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, the Glass-Steagal Act, etc.

Posts like this are tripe and do nothing to improve the knowledge base of the world. If you teach your children this is due to Obama, they will never learn to avoid a repeat of this mistake. If you teach them the true nature of credit bubble, then maybe we can avoid such mistakes in the future.

Obama is dangerous enough being the radical communist he is, we don’t need to pin this entire crisis on him. Lets stick to real information and not create these bogey men.

On an unrelated note, I’m very glad you woke up to see the ACLU for what they are and dumped them. That’s a great start.

[Jet Jaguar]

This was an organized effort by Biden, Frank, Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, Dodd, Rockefeller, and others.

They control the congress and can call for hearings, or not call for hearings if they choose.

They choose not to call for hearings because they would be exposed.