The Next US President: McCain or Obama?

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obama ko mga brads

[diatabz]

lol... i don't understand why A LOT of people have seen Palin's performance as "beyond expectations". it's easy to view her as that when the expectation bar has been set so low.

Wahehehehe... Basically its impossible for her to suck even more when she gave her all on the Gibson and Couric interviews.

[EZRA]

lol... i don't understand why A LOT of people have seen Palin's performance as "beyond expectations". it's easy to view her as that when the expectation bar has been set so low. i credit Biden for not attacking Palin directly instead, focused on McCain's failed policies.

I totally agree with you. One thing that bothered me about BIDEN is that his forehad REFUSES to move. How much BOTOX was injected into them - one can only wonder.

[chad_tukes]

Wahehehehe... Basically its impossible for her to suck even more when she gave her all on the Gibson and Couric interviews.

yeah, she definitely messed that one up. have you seen SNL last Saturday? lol

I totally agree with you. One thing that bothered me about BIDEN is that his forehad REFUSES to move. How much BOTOX was injected into them - one can only wonder.

hehehe... the man's been around for 35 years. i can understand. haha.

[Rance]

SNL Biden-Palin Debate -> Saturday Night Live - VP Debate Open: Palin / Biden - Video - NBC.com ROLFLOL :P

[brad]

naglagot ko sa republican.

republican ta ko as of last monday .
the day they block the 700 billion bailout package to help the us economy
which was reinstated and eventually pass friday .
the blockage on mondays vote really hurt the market which result in the dow to close negative -777 and succeding days and one week monday later the dow hit -800 in a days trading and will probaly close at negative -450

so i will not vote for the republicans.
somebody has to be blame just like in the workplace if you dont deliver you will be terminated.

i wanna terminate mcain if i can.

so obama nako.

[EZRA]

Somehow I don't get what you mean. You blame the Republicans (who mostly voted NAY for the 2nd bailout draft) for last Monday's stock market crash. ... So who are you blaming for last Friday's plunge- The 400 point plunge right after the bill was passed? How about the weekend aftermath? Where markets all over the world basically went downhill. How about today? When DOW went below 10,000 for the first time in 4 years. How about the Brazil stock market which had to close their session twice - or Norway, Russia, Ireland, Germany, Canda, etc whose markets went down at least 10% .. these all happened after the passing of the "save wall street" bill. Who are you gonna blame those for.. again, the Republicans?

If you want to blame someone.. blame Hank Paulson - who came up with the stupid bill - Ben Bernanke for backing him up - and George Bush for signing the cursed thing.... and about OBAMA, he was FOR the bailout bill right after the first draft was presented.

[brad]

the blame should be on the people bought a house that they wouldnt be able to afford to make monthly payments
the blame should be put on those morgage companys who made low predatory teaser rates for 5 years then jump up to a higher rates in later years

THESE TOXIC MORGAGE DEBTS ARE THE REASONS COMPANIES BALANCE SHEETS ARE SPOILED. STOCK VALUE GOES DOWN. THE COMPANIES VALUE GOES DOWN, THEY COULDNT ENOUGHT FINACING MONEY BECAUSE THEIR VALUE HAVE DECREASED.

the blame should be on the SEC , paulson ,bernanke for not making the ban on shorting financial stocks earlier that eventualy help the death of lehman, aig ,wamu, bear stearnes, etc , one of the many reason the company is down. shorting financial companies in bad economic condition speed ups the decline in value of stock.

george bush failed to tell his partymates to stick together and vote on the 700 bailout package. and get it passed immediated thus investore like me wouldnt have to suffer an extra week of decline in financial value in my portfolio.

Those people in government are sleeping like a baby and have awaiken to late when the pot is already burned.


that one week of delay from last monday to this monday have set me back down to 20% or one fifth in value in a week. It was one week of hell for all investor. hopefuly i hope this bailout will seal the leaky pipes in the us financial stocks.

My pocket have already sufferd a lot and im gonna sitck with OBAMA .
and give his peolpe a chance to run the government.

[EZRA]

But why ban short-selling? Look at what happened to the market right after short selling was banned. That's what happens when transparency is not enforced and the markets are not regulated. If there adequate transparency, short-sellers wouldn't pounce on these companies. But no - their balance sheets are kept in the shadows and their stocks are over-valued.

George Bush told the country a few months ago how strong our financial status is... which was of course a terrible lie. We have been on the decline since last year yet Bush, Bernanke, and Paulson kept on rambling about how solid the country is financially.
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As far as your portfolio... why would you stay bullish when the market is predictably bearish?? If you have long calls - it would be so foolish to be holding them throughout this current situation. I've been up in my positions betting on inverse ITF's and laying PUTS ever since they banned short selling.

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The people are part of the blame - getting houses that are beyond their reach... and the banks who approved all these loans. Approving 2nd mortgages/refinancing on properties with loaners forfeiting payments. That's all been covered in the news, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and a repeat topic in C-Span.

But the question that you failed to answer is - WHY blame the republicans for the week-long stock market plunge?
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It's still all up in the air.. Obama or McCain - I want to see them revise their tax policies after the bailout.

[brad]

Im a stock and mutual fund person. and i have 25% cash which i am tempted to use but i will never touch that regarldless how cheap the stock seams to be.
Bottom or not that 25 percent will not be touch.

I dont do others because feel confident looking at companys balance sheet when i make my decision.
Buty i also invest based on momentum not just value.

Last year 2007 i was up in what i would consider a semi bear market

In 2008 ,i have been in and out of this bear market.
hoping to time it properly like other traders but the charts are not working.

I am so lucky , I have no financials. I have no banks, brokarage and insurance company.

Tommorow, Tuesday theres gonna be a big report from europe. If it is bad . Hopefully, hope that euro investment will transfer to US to pump the US economy which has a nice icing to the cake with that $700 billion bailout package.

OBAMA / MCCAIN . I have to blame someone. But hope people do researce and vote which is good for them.

I think Mccain, might win in the last minute because america has a majority of white voters.

But I just gota give my one vote to obama.

In my opinion ,US is still the best for investments .
Mistsubishi just bought 25% of JP morgan recently. (check)

hope the crisis is fix. we are already in our 14 or 15 month of decline.