Just saying.

I think that all Obama’s personal characteristic show him to be a narcissist–as Ani points out. Narcissists absolutely can’t accept that they are guilty about anything. McCain and Palin have to calmy and clearly line out his “guilt.” Give dates, times, quotations, behavior. Have a list of these examples of guilt ready on all issues and in regard to all associations. Imply the guilt, for example, that shows with his lack of transparency in regard to birth records, etc. If you want to see anger and bitterness, it will come from a narcissist who has been accused of being guilty.

For anyone who wants to see the Ohio state flag and how it looks behind Senator Obama:

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/57197-obama-economic-rescue-plan-for-middle-class

And does that flag remind anyone else of the tv show Jericho?

McCain has no one.

What Susan who runs the blog isn’t what I think.

I actually generally am in agreement with Larry, so that’s not a good example.

Uppity….I’m not in agreement, but I “get” it.

In short, this is a democracy. There is NO single message McCain can or should send.

that’s egocentric thinking.

He needs to be himself…….and let all of us, who differ, come together.

Patience: The polls are tightening in spite of the fact that the MSM/Obama campaign wants us to believe issues like Ayers are of no interest. I believe the polls of last week combined with the aura of inevitability scared people.

The polls are tightening. However, all Senators McCain and Obama are doing is trading the undecideds back and forth. Today’s polls show that the undecideds who are angry, not buying into Senator Obama’s hope and change stick and are voting for Senator McCain. Next Monday their anger may decide hope and change is the answer.

Senator McCain has to grab their anger, give them something more than hope. If he does that, he’ll have the undecided and the moderate Democrats voting for him on election day. He can’t go into a dead heat on election day with just the undecided vote to win this election. If he does, he’ll most likely join Senator Kerry and Vice President Gore. Senator McCain has to show he understands our anger, he feels it too and our collective anger movement is going to change the path we’re on and clean up every mess we’ve gotten into. If he doesn’t, Senator Obama’s hope and change movement may carry the day.

This is a year where we’ve gotten to see how the candidates apply skills.

I’m very impressed with John and Sarah.

I’m not impressed with Biden and Obama.

I’m delighted.

Whether it translates into a win? We’ll see.

I personally think John is beating him.

HE’S FROM THE INCUMBANT PARTY!!!

Anyone, after last week, who gets back to within 4 points in a major poll?

That’s a winning strategy in this enviornment.

Now, we just need a good old-fashioned international security incident.

*just kidding*

McCain needs to add emotion that breathes and lives, that we can feel. They’ve got to work with him over the next week to get that emotion out of him. It’s there. Deep inside. He has to tap into it.

LOL*

That’ll frost the middle class but good.

Very interesting. I like Rendell. He’s a kick.

The investment bank exemption on capital to debt ratio has played a big part. The big five didn’t have the capital to weather a storm.

Also playing a major role in the crisis are the “insurance policies” that were sold on Wall Street along with the mortgage securities. Investors weren’t eager to buy the mortgage securities and Wall Street had to make them attractive. The answer was to sell “insurance policies” with them, if the mortgages defaulted, the buyers of the mortgage securities didn’t lose money.

If a company sells an insurance policy, under the insurance regulations, the company has to have capital in reserve to pay off the policy if a claim is filed. That would have cut into the profits Wall Street was experiencing. The solution was to sell the policies along with the mortgage securities but instead of calling them insurance policies, they were called Credit Default Swap Trades. With the new names, the insurance policies didn’t fall under the regulation of insurance laws.

AIG sold $450 billion in Credit Default Swap Trades, it was a booming business. The division selling the swaps had employees (including lower level ones) making an average of a million dollars an year. Mortgages began defaulting, claims were filed. AIG didn’t have the capital to pay the policies off. AIG went running to Washington.

No one knows how many Credit Default Swap Trades were sold because the market isn’t regulated. They’re not sold just for mortgage securities but can be sold to insure any loan or bond where the buyer or any party for that matter wants to limit the risk. One article I read estimated there might be $60 trillion in swaps out there.

CRA had good intentions. It helped minorities who were denied mortgages not because of their ability to pay but on skin color to invest in a home. Along came ACORN with it’s own agenda. Then Fannie, Freddie and Wall Street. Then the insurance industry. Add in the rest we have yet to discover, add all the ingredients over thirty years, mix it well, let it simmer for a few years and we have a catastrophic economic meltdown on the global level.

Definition of a Credit Default Swap Trade:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creditdefaultswap.asp

Explanations of how the Credit Default Swap market works:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/29/magazines/fortune/varchaver_derivatives.fortune/

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2008/0606.html

An year ago, the Credit Default Swap market was doing a booming business:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a6rWlv5K5sH8&refer=home

The DTCC in recent days has been busy trying to mitigate how involved the Credit Default Swaps are with the current economic meltdown:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081011005030&newsLang=en

It wasn’t one thing that led to this mess. It was a mixture that led to a feeding frenzy binge that our government turned a blind eye to.

They did do some good things. They also did a few bad things, and their presence tended to intimidate.

It was kind of like a healthier (but not completely healthy) version of a gang. Kids got something to belong to, and the net effect of their belonging to it was not as bad as if they belonged to a gang.

http://www.johnmccain.com

Go to “Contact” at the bottom of the home page.

McCain is going up in the polls because Obama voters are having buyer’s remorse. Acorn has a lot to do with this. If Obama is doing so well then why does he need to register dead people?

Sorry if it offends you but people are angry and they will vote for the man who taps into that anger.