You can hear a pin drop during the McCain speech....

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Wish I had a business as successful as Winfrey's. Richest self-made woman billionaire in the world.

Finally, a smart, intellectual president. As one of the lifelong Republican women that helped vote Obama into office, I'm thrilled and excited and damn glad he won.

Quick, someone call Caribou Barbie, tell her Sarkozy is on the phone and has a position in the French government she can fill ...

PS - one of my GOP friends swears he's gonna just load up the guns and hide in the bunker for the next four years ....

Being a billionaire doesnt make your politics and views kosher with everyone. see George Soros or Jerry Jones

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Being a billionaire doesnt make your politics and views kosher with everyone. see George Soros or Jerry Jones

No, but it probably makes you not "anti-business"

Seriously, you want in on the GOP bunker?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

No, but it probably makes you not "anti-business"

Seriously, you want in on the GOP bunker?

Billionaires are isolated from policies that effect businesses and hence they sometimes have extreme views from the guilt they feel from their own fortune.

Unlike some I refuse to believe the most liberal member of Congress is suddenly going to move to the center especially with majorities in the House and Senate. Because he IS smart I may be correct in guessing that he has outsmarted many that believe the hype. "Redistribute the wealth" is not a term that he has backdown from or is afraid to say. That one line in itself should say it all about where we are headed.

[Riot]

Billionaires are isolated from policies that effect businesses and hence they sometimes have extreme views from the guilt they feel from their own fortune.

Who confided this to you, Donald The Trump? I would guess the average billionaire would be quite able to lobby to form that policy (see GOP, 2000-2008)

Yes, I absolutely grant the average billionaire would be, I suspect, rather isolated from the financial storms average folks have to weather daily (in BERK- B shares I trust)

Unlike some I refuse to believe the most liberal member of Congress is suddenly going to move to the center especially with majorities in the House and Senate. Because he IS smart I may be correct in guessing that he has outsmarted many that believe the hype. "Redistribute the wealth" is not a term that he has backdown from or is afraid to say. That one line in itself should say it all about where we are headed

I do not like that line either. However, there is no money for campaign promises. There is financial chaos and government debt. Promises are one thing, reality another. I'll wait and see where we end up.

Originally Posted by Riot

I do not like that line either. However, there is no money for campaign promises. There is financial chaos and government debt. Promises are one thing, reality another. I'll wait and see where we end up.

Obama is not stupid.
There is no way health care, heavy taxes, and many
other things that might be possible in a healthy economy
will come to fruition in the form first dreamed about.

Reality is one thing this guy gets. And he has shown
a history of being a guy who sits back and listens, and
then makes diplomatic realistic decisions. But it still is unclear
how much can actually be accomplished with so many mistakes
to clean up.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Who confided this to you, Donald The Trump? I would guess the average billionaire would be quite able to lobby to form that policy (see GOP, 2000-2008)

Yes, I absolutely grant the average billionaire would be, I suspect, rather isolated from the financial storms average folks have to weather daily (in BERK- B shares I trust)



I do not like that line either. However, there is no money for campaign promises. There is financial chaos and government debt. Promises are one thing, reality another. I'll wait and see where we end up.

Actually I was listening to a very wealthy man talk about it sometime ago and have never forgot it.

Do you really think that the influence of the mega rich started in 2000?

So you voted for a guy who made promises that are in your view are unlikely to actually happen?

[Riot]

Do you really think that the influence of the mega rich started in 2000?

Not, not at all. Why?

So you voted for a guy who made promises that are in your view are unlikely to actually happen?

I voted for the guy I thought had exceptional intelligence and thoughtfulness, and will be most able to deal with the various disasters we are going through and yet may occur in the next four years. This guy has ice water in his veins when needed.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Not, not at all. Why?



I voted for the guy I thought had exceptional intelligence and thoughtfulness, and will be most able to deal with the various disasters we are going through and yet may occur in the next four years. This guy has ice water in his veins when needed.

(GOP 2000-2008)

When has he needed ice water in his veins? Did he play in the World Series of Poker or something we dont know about?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Actually I was listening to a very wealthy man talk about it sometime ago and have never forgot it.

Do you really think that the influence of the mega rich started in 2000?

So you voted for a guy who made promises that are in your view are unlikely to actually happen?

LOL...

Oh Chuck...did you ever rely on campaign promises from ANY politician? Read my lips...

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

LOL...

Oh Chuck...did you ever rely on campaign promises from ANY politician? Read my lips...

Damon Thayer!!! He lives up to his promises! the rest suck