The Politco, a website that pretends to be bi-partisan, as long as you believe the middle of the political spectrum is to the right of say, Newt Gingrich... okay, I kid, they are better than perhaps the Drudge Report or Newsmax, but not that much better. I guess it would be fair to say they are "right leaning..." and that would be if only you were hanging on to the railing of the ship of state on the port side to begin with... such is the uneven playing field as it were.
Really, if it was something "earth-shattering," or even mildly surprising, good but less than an "October Surprise," do you think it would be telegraphed like this on a Wednesday night? When who the (redacted) knows what the news cycle will be tomorrow?? Given that the "markets," are behaving like unbalanced flakes with "The End is Near" signs around their unwashed necks, screaming and yelling on our street corners, and for some reason, we regular investors need to understand that they need "lots of calming (tm)"??
Of course that's econ-101-speak for, "please god don't ask for your money right now, okay?" Just might bust this Ponzi/Pyramid scheme ya know? Did you notice though, that you are, by default as a taxpayer, the permanent bag-holder in all of this?
In Mr. Roger's voice, "of course you didn't."
I'm betting we'll here about the grand McCain Plan that really is a pseudo-populist stunt along the lines of the "I'll pay off your House in 2009" and it will be just that, a stunt. Ya think? Nah. No way! You're pulling my prosthetic leg now aren't-cha?
No, really, it might be serious, come guys, gee whiz guys and gals... my eyes are rolling like the backspin of a John Daly-driven golf ball (especially when he was drunk).
Perhaps McCain is suspending his campaign again, but I doubt he'll be allowed to do something that transparently dumb again. It'll probably be some nonsense about how he's more of a Democrat than Obama, and that he wants to pay off every American citizen's outstanding mortgage (except for the old folks who've been suckered into "reverse mortgages") and maybe even their HELOCs, as long as you vote for him... because, wait for it... he's got a "secret plan," but he can't tell you if you vote for "that one!"
Ugh, and f'ing please. Unless he produces a box with Bin Laden's head in it, I'll be less than impressed. And still won't vote for the crazy, "I deserve the goddamn presidency" McCain. Now, if he paid off my mortgage... hmm... no, not even then. Scary huh? I care about my son's future and his place as a future voter and citizen of our great country... this fire-sale, mob-like bust out that has been going on for the last decade (or arguably, since the end of WWII) has to stop.
Thanks for letting us yahoo 360 readers know where you'd gone! I didn't exactly keep in touch, but I always enjoyed reading your posts.
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