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To: Road Walker who wrote (422883)	10/6/2008 11:35:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576880

I can't believe it. The New Yorker has endorsed the most liberal man to ever run for the presidency? A terrorist sympathizer at that? Just unbelievable. Who would have thought it?

To: Road Walker who wrote (422883)	10/6/2008 11:43:27 AM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576880

Hear! Hear! And God bless America! We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

To: Road Walker who wrote (422883)	10/6/2008 11:46:56 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576880

I did not mean to be glib re. whether today was a buying op. It probably is for a short term rally. However, I see more downside unless central banks start cutting rates......and fast.

To: Road Walker who wrote (422883)	10/6/2008 12:18:11 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 1576880

He has made mistakes, to be sure. (His failure to accept McCain’s imaginative proposal for a series of unmediated joint appearances was among them.) It was never a mistake to avoid a long series of "town hall" joint appearances. The main reason the McCain campaign proposed such an arrangement was to restrict Obama's campaign appearances to only those venues where McCain agreed. It was wise of the Obama campaign to expand the venue far beyond McCain's comfort zone. TP