Is it just me or are others bothered by Obama comparing himself to Lincoln already? Pep rallies at the lincoln memorial, travelling by train along the same route that lincoln taveled. fuck fucking me, I'm sick of his presidency and it hasn't even started yet. I'm done, thanks for listening.
The market is will swing five points in either direction just due purely to public perception or the consumer confidence level. The media controls the people more then they will ever know. The next thing you are about to hear is that everyone is confident now.
Sure enough did a quick search and found this: Obama can save us, says America as polls show wave of optimism sweeping the nation http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...rica-polls-wave-optimism-sweeping-nation.html
Haha! Here is another. But here is the catch this is supposed to be a Great Depression like in the 30's and just terribly doom and gloomy. They cannot have the economy recover before Obama gets in office they have to milk this for what its worth. The idea hear is to write history as it is happening. Deregulation caused by a reckless Bush sunk the economy. (This in spite of the fact that "The Community Reinvestment Act" that caused the mortgage crisis was REGULATION and that the companies that brought down the whole ball of wax were government managed/regulated companies run by Obamas mentors Sallie and Freddie Mac) So that they can use the excuse to bring about more socialism and more regulation. Signs of credit market thaw begin to emerge updated 12:33 p.m. CT, Fri., Jan. 16, 2009 NEW YORK - Credit markets are beginning to thaw after months of a deep freeze. In a promising turn that could bolster the economy, companies are selling bonds at a pace not seen since last spring. At the same time, companies are finding it easier to issue commercial paper, the short-term loans necessary for quick access to cash. Global sales of new corporate debt jumped to $82 billion last week, the highest since $103 billion last May and nearly double the level seen right before the credit crisis intensified in September, according to data-tracker Dealogic. The thawing means companies such as Cablevision Holdings Corp. can raise money more easily for everything from payrolls to paying down debt, an important shift that ultimately will benefit consumers. If the trend continues, it would be the outcome that government officials have been seeking for months, as they pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system. More could be on the way. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech Tuesday at the London School of Economics, indicated additional steps will be taken to stabilize the financial system beyond the $800 billion stimulus package being crafted by President-elect Barack Obama. "History demonstrates conclusively that a modern economy cannot grow if its financial system is not operating effectively," Bernanke said. It's a fact of life for companies the size of Exxon-Mobil to the corner deli: They struggle if they can't borrow money. That's just what happened in the aftermath of the financial meltdown, as banks stopped lending and investors turned away from corporate debt. A credit freeze hits the economy hard because it forces companies to lay off workers because they can't make payrolls and to cut planned expansions. "There is a domino effect if companies can't borrow," said Len Blum, managing director at Westwood Capital. "The doughnut shop down the street from headquarters suffers because fewer people are coming in since there has been layoffs at the company." To be sure, danger still looms in the credit markets. Bank lending remains at a trickle and it will likely stay that way so long as financial companies contend with massive losses tied to their mortgage-related assets and other bad debt. Despite a taxpayer-funded bailout and moves by the Federal Reserve to loan more money to financial institutions, banks are still reluctant to lend. That's due, in part, to the fact many are still struggling. Citigroup Inc., which lost more than $20 billion between October 2007 and October 2008, is expected to report next week another loss of $10 billion more for the three months of 2008, according to analysts. The government has already lent the embattled bank $45 billion and agreed to absorb the losses on a huge pool of mortgages and other distressed assets. But other corners of the debt market are improving, which could put "a floor underneath the economy and sows the seeds for an economic recovery," said Tony Crescenzi, chief bond market analyst at Miller Tabak & Co. Some of the renewed appetite has been for debt backed by the government, including a $10 billion General Electric bond offering. That was backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s temporary guarantee program, which was set up last fall to help companies get financing.
The problem with Lincoln is he was a Republican. For all these years the approach with Lincoln has been two different approaches. The revisionist historians have tried to re-write history with Lincoln being among other things a depressed suicidal lunatic, a fag, and a believer in ghosts and witchcraft. The other approach was to say that the Republican party of then is actually the Democratic party of now. Obama does not have any real beliefs like Lincoln had he is just an opportunist. He can take advantage of the fact that so many have no real idea what Lincoln was about.
Katie Couric should have her plastic face ripped from her 50-year-older body. Sickening, to hear the commentary during the inauguration... Granted, I only witnessed a little over 30 minutes of it during my lunch hour, but that cheerleading bitch seemed to have an orgasm during every snippet of airtime she had describing the event. When she said something to the effect of how schoolchildren liked saying the word "Obama" because it was such an simple word, one that implied good and was easy to say... Um... Politics aside, let's just examine that from a strictly vernacular standpoint. Of the two words, which would be easier for a child to recite, "Obama" (three syllables) or "Bush" (one syllable)..? Not that Katie Couric is worth a damn, and I think that most level-headed people wouldn't even piss on the bitch if she were on fire, but how many fucking morons out there in the range of the antenna do you think actually heard this drivel and accepted it without thinking??? *Yes, folks - this true story's importance is exaggerated for it's metaphoric value.
It's funny... and it's true. I am not fucking kidding you when I tell you that there was a baby born in my own city named "Martin & Obama" (No fucking joke - that's the actual first name.)
