That’s a catch 22, he can always claim he would have fought it differently or better. Channeling John Kerry on that topic as well, got him on the podium for the best speech opportunity of the ’04 convention.

If we put Obama in on right wing policy clothed in left wing rhetoric, it will drive voters back to the GOP. If the policies fail they’ll claim it was the fault of Obama, not the platform. If they even reach a normative level it would call for further “reform” that retains us in robber baron levels of inequity and unregulated graft. If they fail abysmally it will pointed the way of Democrats in charge. Every pick faces this challenge, but his is the one most likely to have serious burnback on the consequences of how he framed the run for office.

Our market is over valued. Bottom line estimates of 20%, I say it’s much more, spread out over a series of items, enough so to scare Buffet out of many market sectors in 2005. The money from inflated value is then sent into investments for this market, compounding shortcomings in the future, and weighted abroad in securities bundles, which is one reason world markets are consistently plummeting right now. The countries also buy into our debt, so when things bad here they’ll get bad there as well.

It used to be that you could hedge currencies and ride out bad time with sell offs in a sector or exchange by using a separate strong area’s gains to buy up when things cross a certain threshold. The boom years had this effect. Our Dow and NASDAQ could both gain, or just one, almost every day, provided the SPR was maintained to help fuel a domestic boom or counter minor valleys on the ride to the top.

Then it became more of an item that as America’s stocks declined the multinationals gained elsewhere, the EU had a currency to buy in with, and China had volume to but with from the low end hedged currency.

We’re in no man’s land, and enough shabby value was put into each slice of pie that market drag will occur to levels not anticipated. Only our currency value and several key investment yields may soon flip, which could be catastrophic because no normative correction measures could be used since we’ve pushed back with uncommonly low interest rates and high debt levels and there’s inadequate incoming revenue stream to counter.

Obama’s operating under the generous assumption of policy and rhetoric comparisons that do not match the numbers. That leaves most of us with no room but to assume he’s in favor of how the war was fought. He rarely spoke against items of policy and his votes for spending matched. Had he wanted to be consistent he could have voted ‘present’ for that item, he’s far more inconsistent than that.

MLK III to Edwards: Keep Fighting!

And get your self on a list you might not care to be on? LOL