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Are you daft? McCain's 'judgement' has us spending $10B/month looking for WMD? Does he even know what 'success' in Iraq means? Imagine if we spent $10B/month on schools: how powerful an economic force we would be with such an educated work force?

Our country cannot afford more spend-spend-spend of the Republicans! (yes, this makes the rich richer ...but read the news, every one else is getting poorer...)

Just to be 'Fair and Balanced'.... as of today 9/29/08 the S&P 500 is down about 12% from Luskin's great call on Palin's being the 'Savior of the Stock Market'
What a ticket that would be....Palin/Luskin.....BrainPower Inc. !!

oops. the correct word is 'presidential'

Obama had no clue who he should pick for VP. The DNC picked Joe Biden for him.
The DNC did not want Hillary for Pres., because they didn't want her husband in the WhiteHouse again. They didn't want to lose women voters that detested her because she put up with his womenizing prior to and during their stay in the WhiteHouse. So vote for the candidate you want in the WhiteHouse, be cool
and when the economy comes back up the candidate who wins the presential election will be credited with the recovery even if he had/has nothing to do with it... Thats the way it has always been.. LUCK...
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A Moose in the Headlights... did you see the CBS Palin interview? WOW.... This woman is simply a fool. One can easily see why they have kept her in 'wraps', and not allowed her to speak to the press.
Now I understand you republicans must make excuses for her... but to all Independent voters.... to all thinking people... You cannot in good conscience allow this person be one heartbeat from the Presidency.

Insightful analysis from someone who said on September 5th 'If there's more downside, it won't be much.' And the infallible Intrade still gives Clinton better than 3% odds of winning in 2008, with active trading.

Where are dear Sarah's Tax Returns?
Since 1976, every major-party presidential and vice-presidential candidate has provided that information to the public before this date except a) Bush 1 b) Bus!*t 2 c) Leiberman.
For someone who 'has nothing to hide', she's dodging her ethics investigation, refusing to speak to the press, and stiffing the public on her tax returns. Sounds like the usual wide-stanced-party to me.

It's always great to hear from the lowest common denominator McSame Palin voter!

Thanks for telling us all the facts about what your totally senile candidate and brain dead Barbie will do for America, since they are trying like hell to avoid all interviews that someone might actually ask them an unscrIpted question!! (Gasp... where ARE my flash cards?)

She shore is purdy, ain't she Franklin?!


Rich

It is so great to see the liberals dancing in circles.

Go Sarah. Go Sarah. What a gal!

You are cynical, hypocritical bigot. Anyone who actually believes what you say here is a mindless drone of the right.

This must be one of the most preposterous posts I have ever read. Firstly, Palin and especially MCCain have absolutely no understanding of the Financial Markets and how they operate. Has this guy forgotten that when Clinton left the White House the Economy was robust. In the last 8 years Bush and his cohorts have driven us to this brink. What will the GOP do that Bush hasnt done. Yes Obama says he will increase capital gains taxes, which will primarily effect day and program traders. People with 401K and IRA accounts will not be impacted by the increase. An increase in the CG Tax might encourage peole to stop treating Equity accounts as Short Term Savings. I would like to see Congress or whomever change the law regarding program trading.

Great last two comments. I'd like to add what a friend sent me last night (pasted below) it perfectly describes what would happen if Palin's family 'issues' were somehow transposed to the Obama family. It's a truly stunning reality check for those sucked into the Palin BS narrative, and IMO the REAL reason he is not up by 15 points in this race.

I'm reprinting and fowarding this to every person I can.

And before you give me some 'race card' crap, I'm a 55 YO white man in NH.


Digusted with McCain voters in NH...Rich


This is Your Nation on White Privilege


Sep 13, 2008 By Tim Wise

Tim Wise's ZSpace Page / ZSpace

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick...(Read more of this comment) to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.


White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f--kin' redneck,' like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll 'kick their f--kin a-s,' and talk about how you like to 'shoot sh-t' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.


White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.


White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're 'untested.'


White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.


White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a 'second look.'


White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.


White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.


White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a 'light' burden.


And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.



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Treat Richard Nixon as a Democrat? ... one little adjustment. If my aunt had yams, she'd be my uncle. That is some seriously desperate revisionism. But desperation seems to be the Republican campaign theme. Otherwise, why not extol McCain's virtues, rather than making up rumors about his adversary. If desperation were an indicator we could foresee the outcome of this election already.

And choosing a crazed soccer mom, with a severe hankering for a new cold war, as second-in-command to an old codger teetering on the brink, shouldn't make anyone more comfortable.

At least when the economy gets the kill shot from McCain/Palin we'll have the comedic stylings of DL to sooth our misery!

Are you kidding me? You seem encouraged that this election 'seems to be so much about personality.' Haven't Republicans learned anything from the George W. Bush fiasco? He won the majority of his votes based on his manufactured 'good ol' boy' personality, and look where we are now. The economy is in shambles along with everything else he has touched (or ignored, as he most likely did in this case).

And now here's Sarah Palin, displaying the same folksy 'personality' that Bush did, and so many voters are falling for it again! Apparently McCain became so desperate for attention that he and his campaign managers felt compelled to bring in a running mate with 'personality'--and even more importantly to them, one who could provide a 'first,' i.e., potential 'first female VP,' to counter the 'first black president' status that Obama can provide--regardless of Palin's lack of worthy qualifications for this country's vice presidential post.

The whole thing is condescending t...(Read more of this comment)o American voters. But there are always those people who merely want to be entertained, who are not interested in thinking about important issues such as the economy, foreign relations, terrorism, education, etc. Those are obviously the people being targeted by the Republicans in this campaign just as they were in the Bush campaigns.

As for those who who have considered the important issues but didn't get involved until Sarah Palin was selected, obviously McCain's position was, and still is, too weak to enqage them on its own merits. They should remember that Palin's position--what little is known of it--is as weak as McCain's, and that Palin is not the one running for president. A vote for Palin is a vote for McCain—a disastrous vote. Please remember that if you voted for Bush.

So how can people continue to watch Governor Palin and her fascinating family once McCain loses the race? We should all encourage the governor to get her own TV reality show. It will be a much more fitting and entertaining venue for a politician with so much 'personality.' Even I would find it entertaining.

And if you still like George W. Bush's personality, he could also be encouraged to get his own reality show after leaving office. Just don't expect me to watch it, no matter how ridiculous he gets.

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Smart Money really pays you to write? Seriously??

I have'nt heard fewer specifics since the flash card reading McCain/Palin jr. high school rally. What an incredible line of 'reasoning'...that a teetering, increasingly feeble McCain, who has been one the major players in the deregulation frenzy, along with top economic advisor Phil 'Foreclosure' Graham are somehow going to change directions and save us.

Right..and I've got a bridge in Alaska I did/did'nt support for you too.

And for the most ludicrous of your contentions, that republicans are better for ANY part of the US economy, I'd advise readers to google 'republican democratic presidents economy' and read who is best in the 20 or so categories (GDP, inflation, unemployment, etc, etc)

Most cover 1953-2001, we'll spot you the disastrous Bush/republican congress led years. Ohh...right, and if Tricky d!*k was only a democrat, incredible line of logic!

When A...(Read more of this comment)mericans learn what this Alaskan RNC nightmare creation really is, unless you are a head in the sand partisan, you won't like anything you'll discover. Her administration's increasingly tax and pork sucking state and viciously partisan style is, and has been, a complete disaster.



Digusted in NH, Rich
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New York Times '...Governor Palin hired at least five schoolmates for official positions at salaries that far exceeded their private sector wages.
One of these, a former real estate agent, was made director of the State Division of Agriculture after citing her childhood love of cows as a qualification for the job...'

Yeah... you've sure got a real winner here !

Err ... may God have mercy on your soul. Oh, c'mon - you know what I meant.

UGH. Congratulations; this article has succeeded in making me refuse to read smartmoney.com articles ever again. Yes, raising cap gains is perhaps foolish and irritating to those of us who actually care about market gains. I don't agree with this ONE suggestion Obama has put forth, but to spin disagreement with this into 'Palin could be the savior of stock market' is just plain ignorant.

This hockey mom isn't going to do anything but get the sunday socialites to the polling booth to once again vote on their 'social issues' to the detriment of this country. No more war hawks, no more free market zealots, no more dictator executives. My USA has had enough. God bless America, God bless our troops, and God bless your soul for publishing this tripe.

Sarah, Sarah. What a breath of fresh air. She could really help America.
The others have had their chance. Go Sarah!!

You are such a partisan dolt. I find it hard to believe they actually pay you for this gibberish. You and the nonsense you peddle are the real scam. If you are going to write please write about something that is relevant; or better yet go back to Disneyland.

Hi I'm Sarah Palin.....ask me about dinosaurs....then ask me about bailing out AIG...my rowboat has a big hole in it so I've had a lot of experience in these matters...

Oh, BTW John Caldwell, If and when BO is elected please send in all you guns! You won't need those dogs to go hunting. About the only thing BO hasn't voted 'present' on is gun control! He is a dedicated gun banner from the start. He supported the D.C. gun ban (Chicago has one just as bad.) In fact there wasn't a gun law he didn't like. He proposed a state bill to ban gun stores within a 5 mile radius of a school or park. Check you map of Florida, That would eliminate virtually all guns stores.

LC, CPA

Thanks for the analysis. I agree totally.

As an aside, It's amazing to watch the hard left with their panties in a wad!

Now, a few days later, the polls are starting to reflect the reality. The bloom is off Oboma's rose! The empty suit, forgot to dress and is now the emperor with no cloths!

The only thing left for BO to do is to play the race crowd and complain that McCain doesn't know how to Email or text. How Pathetic! Hey, idiots McCain sustained injuries from his daily torturing at the hands of Hanoi's finest Leftists that he can't type or raise his hands above his shoulders. (Only Jane Fonda was missing.)

Keep up the vitriol against Sarah Palin, it means more votes for her. The general election is coming into play. Amazing!

LC, CPA

If your reasoning for saying that Sarah Palin will be the savior for the stock market is based on treating d!*k Nixon as a Democrat, then that's the real scam.
Any analysis that's that fragile is just no good.

'W' is responsible for the $500 billion (to date) Iraq war, but the Fanny/Freddie bailout will cost taxpayers anywhere from $800 billion to $5 trillion.

Let's recall...who privatized Fannie in 1968 creating a private company with a line of credit through the U.S. Treasury and no public oversight? Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat from Texas.

I don't see how Palin saves anything, but I also don't accept that Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans. Both sides helped create this mess.

WSC
San Diego

http://hnn.us/articles/1849.html

This is a Republican made mess. So typical to try to act as if they had no part in this....SPIN, SPIN, BULL!!

Now you think Palin/McCain is the answer? OH MY GOD...what idiots you think we are.

9/15/2008
Dow drops 508 points....Lehman goes belly-up...Merril bites the dust....Yeah that Luskin guy is a real prophet...'Stocks didn't have a snowball's chance in hell until McCain tapped the Alaska governor.'
Get a grip people... this is a Bush-made mess....a republican-made mess....a McCain-by-lock-step-supporting-Bush made mess. Adding a totally cluless lady from Alaska to the equation only makes the manure pile taller

'Ask me about dinosaurs... then ask me how to fix the financial crisis'

d!*k Nixon's a Democrat?

Sure, and if you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

You know the answer. Four. It has four legs no matter what you call its tail, and Nixon was a Republican. Also, didn't the deficit and debt rise more (astronomically more) under 'W' than any other president, and what is 'W'?' Yeh, I know, a putz, but also (or, maybe the same category) a Republican.

Nice try, but no cigar!

I KEEP HEARING THE PALIN McCAIN TICKET. WHICH ONE GETS TO LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? THAT OLD MAN WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONTROL THIS LADY.

HERE IS A FUNNY VIDEO FROM JON STEWART.

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/jon-stewart-ann.html

John Caldwell
Florida

LUSKIN

Let me introduce you to the real Sarah Palin.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sssh-alaskans-say-palin-racist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean-and-notes-anonymous-sources

John Caldwell
Florida

jc

Luskin and Kudlow are two dogs taught by the Republicans to hunt. I wish I had two good dogs like that pair when I hunt birds. Palin is an opportunist and will be proven as such over the next two months. Her reason for the war in Iraq is because God made us do it. One of her quotes. I thought it was Bush and Cheney. She is being kept under wraps until she learns what a naked short or an uptick rule is but Luskin says she will turn this market around. Why is she not on the Sunday talk shows following up her great speech at the convention. Because she is a performer (Hollywood type) and can give a magnificent performance if given a good scrIpt. Come on guys, perhaps Obama is not our greatest candidate, but remember back to the two choices we had in 2004.

John Caldwell
Florida

Thanks for such clear-headed, unbiased analysis.

Jeff Smith, CFP
St. Louis, MO