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    Default from the 'tin foil hat' crowd ...

    ... while there is certainly no definitive proof to back up any of this, a number of alternative media stories, professional investor bulletin boards etc. appear to be making the following case ...

    - some 'big money players' made a judgement early last week that the Obama landslide election poll results are bullshit, and that McCain still has a reasonable chance to win the upcoming election

    - in conjunction with the FED rate cut, these 'big money players' have been putting big money back into the US stock markets all week long, resulting in an almost 15% recovery in market indexes this past week alone

    - the same 'big money players' have applied pressure to some mainstream news outlets (perhaps via threatened actions affecting future ad revenue) to start covering Obama-negative news stories. Among these has been the Aunt Zeituni the illegal alien collecting welfare and public housing benefits in Boston story, resurrection of Obama's 'reinstating the draft' proposal (a.k.a. a civilian national security force), the LA Times Obama-Khalidi tape etc.

    - there has also been a fresh 'push' to publicize the IRS / Dep't of Justice probe of 'anonymous' Swiss bank accounts held by uber rich Americans ... with criminal defense lawyers in California and New York now seeing a wave of multimillionaire local clients who are concerned that their offshore millions will not only be discovered and taxed, but that they may be prosecuted as well. Given that actual progress in 'cracking' the Swiss bank secrecy has been next to zero, republicizing this investigation is being deemed as a deterrent to uber rich Americans in regard to 'exporting' their money out of the USA.

    At any rate, the point being made by the 'tin foil hat' crowd is that the 'big money players' have been putting all of their 'chips on the table'. Between now and tuesday's election, stock market performance should clearly show whether or not their efforts have been successful. If Obama's poll lead turns out to be real, the 'big money players' will very probably start selling off big time in preparation for moving much of their investments out of America before Obama can increase taxes on those investments.

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    I think there are going to be a lot of disillusionment with Obama four years from now.

    This is gonna be great entertainment.

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    So for us "small money players" we should be pulling our cash out while the market is up and then reinvest after the price comes back down after the election. Sounds reasonable to me.

    The McCain campaign has to keep saying that they feel a win is possible. Just like Clinton had to say that during the primaries. They need to keep the money coming in to pay campaign debt and work toward down ballot candidate promotion to prevent further attrition.

    I have conservative friends and family that live in Arizona who refused to vote for McCain. They either voted for Barr or Paul. That is fascinating that McCain's core constituency is not voting for him. They had all voted for McCain in his last senate race, too. They are fearful about the potential of Palin being left in charge. McCain shot himself in the foot with that VP choice.


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    Default Re: from the 'tin foil hat' crowd ...

    I think there are going to be a lot of disillusionment with Obama four years from now.

    This is gonna be great entertainment.
    Well I suppose you can categorize it as 'entertainment' if you aren't personally dependent on the future of local economies throughout the USA !!!


    So for us "small money players" we should be pulling our cash out while the market is up and then reinvest after the price comes back down after the election. Sounds reasonable to me.
    This was the 'tin foil hat' observation behind my point ... almost. The markets have been propped up this past week via the selective purchase of futures etc. for the specific purpose of allowing 'big money investors' to get out of US markets with mitigated losses. The difference of course, according to the 'tin foil hat' crowd at least, is that they won't be buying back in to US markets after the election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol View Post
    I think there are going to be a lot of disillusionment with Obama four years from now.

    This is gonna be great entertainment.
    It is upon us to push him. This has been the ongoing meme in democratic circles. That once the election is over, then the real work to get important changes made must begin in earnest. The majority of democrats are legitimately concerned about an all talk, no action Presidency. Reagan's first term was a huge problem for him, and he was wildly unpopular half way through his first term.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol View Post
    I think there are going to be a lot of disillusionment with Obama four years from now.

    This is gonna be great entertainment.
    I'll argue that the bar has been set astonishingly low by GWB, any improvement at all, anywhere, will have to be seen as improvement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard_Head View Post
    I'll argue that the bar has been set astonishingly low by GWB, any improvement at all, anywhere, will have to be seen as improvement.
    Sad but true.

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