The Palin Gamble

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?


The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

He believes people will vote against their own interests.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

Hold them accountable NOW! while it will still help.

Elect Obama Biden 2008

I certainly don't agree with alot of Palin's stances - I might have voted for Biden, if he had won the nomination. But, this hatred you and your ilk are showing, are not helping the new Messiah!

My goodness, bwlear - what is your problem? Seems you hate everyone that doesn't agree with you! That's not a "good thing".

This is not over until its over . Obama had fired up the young voters .......................PLEASE i BEG THE YOUNG PEOPLE GET OUT AND VOTE .LETS TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. THE POLLS AREN'T POLLING YOU LETS SHOW AMERICA WHAT WE WANT .........GET OUT AND VOTE

If Sara Palin has nothing to hide, then she should give interviews. I love how the McCain camp has shielded her from questions. This leaves me to thinking that she is not ready to lead. If she is fearful of reporters, how can she handle world affairs and conflicts like Russia and North Korea? Can anyone say W part 2?

I cannot understand the hoopla over Palin. She has not made good decisions regarding her family. I feel that having a 16/17 year old pregnant daughter is serious concerns that require her attention-not politics. To encourage a 17/18 to marry is detrimental to her daughter. (and like it or not, this is not Bristol's first relationship or should I say only relationship.) It would do well to find out what Palin is hiding. Proven fact, the child she is carrying is not Levi's, but belongs to a Black young man who the Palin's want covered up, and Bristol also, as it will prove her disloyalty. It will also expose Gov Palin's racism. If they are proud of their future grandparenthood, why hide the truth?

There is no gamble Eleanor. Dream on!!!!!! The real gamble is you foolish liberals that want to bet on Barack Hussein Osama.

Palin is better qualified to be President than Obama. What in the world is wrong with you Democrats? I am beginning to believer Michael Savage. You are all brain dead.

The republican trick is to keep the Obama/Biden campaign's hands tied because they do not want to be accused of sexism. That is the only reason they picked Sarah. But Sarah herself said she is a pitbull with lipstick. Good, because the world is run by pitbulls with ties! So, if Sarah is a pitbull with lipstick and she gets ripped by Biden, a pitbull in a tie, and her fans cry sexism, then Sarah is not fit to run this country let alone protect us from the pitbulls in ties that run the world! So when they cry sexism does that mean we need a man, a pitbull in a tie, to come to Sarah???s rescue because she is the victim of sexism, the damsel in distress? Let???s keep it real. World wide, internationally, the pitbull in lipstick will be the ???victim??? of sexism and the pitbulls in ties are not going to care less about her complaining about sexism. Get over it, it???s a trick that is not going to work. Give her hell Biden, just remember, she???s a pitbull with lipstick.

Keep dreaming democrat losers.

Looks like another mini-scandal for Sarah Palin. Here's the lede from a Washington Post investigation:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.

Hey Everyone - we could argue all day long about the tabloid stories and who's being picked on in the media and who's not - but utimately - this election is going to come down to the economy and asking yourselves if you are better off now than you were 8 years ago. And now that Sarah Palin has made it clear she intends to behave like a pit-bull with rabies combined with a mad-as-hell bucking bull (with listick), she's basically promising to play her part in 4 more years of partisan gridlock and fully supports Bush's policies 100% as does McCain. It's a real siimple choice and James Carville (who I don't always agree with) definately summed it up nicely:

"By every economic measure known to man, Democratic Presidents have out-performed Republican Presidents. And by the way if you believe the economy was better under George W Bush than Bill Clinton you???ve got a real clear choice here.

"If you think what America needs is a tax cut for people making over half-a-million dollars a year then vote for McCain. If you think middle-class people are struggling ??? that their incomes are going down and they need help ??? vote for Obama. It???s a very simple choice".

- CNN's Late Edition

Just read Mike Allen's piece (on Politico.com) about Charlie Gibson's upcoming "interview" with Sarah Palin. Good grief! Instead of an honest-to-goodness SUBSTANTIVE hard-hitting INTERVIEW it sounds more like Charlie will be doing a PUFF CELEBRITY PIECE EXTRAORDINAIRE ala Barbara Walters!! This is really pathetic. No hard-hitting Q&A. Disgraceful. Is the rest of the MSM going to let Rick Davis & Co. get away with this? Can you imagine if this were "STEVE PALIN" - a total newcomer to the national political scene - who had not uttered ONE SINGLE UNSCRIPTED WORD IN 11 DAYS since being chosen??? Would the MSM be so meek and frankly, cowardly? Or would they create such a hew and cry about "Steve's" avoidance of answering TOUGH ISSUES questions that "Steve" would feel compelled to hold a press conference, do the Sunday political shows, etc.??? ONLY the WONDERFUL ROGER SIMON of POLITICO has had the GUTS to say that if Palin cannot answer the really TOUGH ISSUES questions from the MSM RIGHT NOW she has no business running to be VP! How about it MSM??? Are you as BRAVE as ROGER SIMON??? Or are you COWARDS who are SHIRKING your journalistic duties?

I am beginning to think Palin is the one running for President. All I see is McCain standing by smiling and when he does speak its from notes word by word. And all that Palin does is act like a "cattie women" with her emptyminded remarks. Do they think American people can see what they are trying to do? Played the women card; You guys acted like Obama was trying to play the black card. The man is just black he isn't trying to play any certain card. I am 100% sure McCain would not have even asked a women to be his running mate if he wasn't so far down in the polls. I think the American people can see what he is up too.

She talks about being a hockey mom. What is that supposed to mean? All the field hockey moms at Chapin, Horace Mann, and Fieldston are NOTHING like her. Ugh. I hate her.

She's so pretty?

I just refuse to believe that as a whole the people of this country are that shallow. We are voting for the party and president who we believe will lend this country to a more prosperous and peaceful future, This is not a beauty contest because if it were John McCain would not have made it out of Arizona.

Anyway, she's not that pretty. She quite average to me, but she is interesting. She is trying to have it all. Most woman know that you can't have it all. There will be tradeoffs. If you work too hard your family will suffer, if you get too included with family life,school and the PTA your career suffers. Her record as Governor is horrible. She has put the state of Alaska $20 million dollars in debt, is being investigated for abuse of power, put the jet on eBay to generate some income, but the plane did not sell on eBay and she earned the nickname in government of "missing in act Palin" because she have personal issue that she had to attend to. You can see that her children have suffered. I doubt that they have a normal, calm or stable daily life. Children thrive best when they are raised with stability and routine. I doubt if her daughter had sex once and got pregnant. That child has probably been having sex since she was a young teen. That's what happens when children are left to raise themselves. Who do you suppose will take care of that new baby with down syndrome, the daughter. That's how they do in the hills.

Don't get confused, if Obama does not win it has nothing to do with how pretty Palin is, but how deep racism still runs. It boggled the mind that a family in Ohio where the father can't find work and the children don't have healthcare would vote for 4 more years of the same than to put faith in the hope of a better future because if comes in the recognition of a black man. They can't give black people that kind of qualification. They'd rather take their chances with McCain and Palin is all the excuse they needed.

Just my opinion.

John McCain can trot out his dotty 96-year-old mother as often as he likes. It doesn't change the fact that his father dropped dead at 70 and his grandfather died at 63 -- both from sudden heart attacks. McCain is 72. Maybe he's got the dotty mother genes -- but what if he's his father's son? Does ANYONE really think Sarah Palin is fit to be the President of the United States.