{"id":7381,"date":"2009-03-08T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2009-03-08T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:29:30","slug":"no-mr-president-i-wont-stand-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7381\/no-mr-president-i-wont-stand-down\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Mr. President. I Won’t Stand Down."},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried so hard to keep an open mind about this Obama guy.\u00a0 The optimism of our people on Inauguration Day was infectious.\u00a0 The snappy patter of the “three words” video<\/a> had my toes tapping and heart filled with optimism.\u00a0 Alas, the honeymoon is over.\u00a0 I now stand firm in my belief that President Obama has “The American Experiment”\u00a0 in his cross hairs with a bunker-busting Marxist bomb as the payload.<\/p>\n

Obama’s defeatist attitude as President, which is markedly different than his optimistic attitude as a candidate, is permeating society as we know it.\u00a0 Witness Tom Vanderwell’s observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…we are now in a situation where the government does own some of the banking industry and the debate should now be about the how and not the whether or not.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fairness to Tom, he’s the messenger and not the message but I, for one, am not willing to model the American banking system after the 1982 Mexican coup<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m getting out my tin-foil hat <\/a>and screaming from the street corners that nationalising<\/em> (sic) the banks is unacceptable.\u00a0 My comment to Tom:<\/p>\n

Actually, it should be about the how not. How quickly can we break up these outdated institutions and get them in the hands of local, productive entrepreneurs?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you might have guessed, Tom’s in complete agreement with me:<\/p>\n

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Absolutely. My point was that essentially we\u2019re already nationalizing them, let\u2019s focus on what we have to do to get them reshaped into the type of institutions that will actually work\u2026.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s not just the banks.\u00a0 Wall Street had a small rally this past Friday morning.\u00a0 The unemployment report came out and while the figures were gruesome, the Street expected this mess and shrugged it off until…<\/p>\n

The leader of the (still<\/em>) Free (but holding<\/em>) World said that this is the worst news since the Great Depression.\u00a0 His comment struck fear in the hearts of every trader at a post and prompted a 200 point reversal in DJIA fortune.\u00a0 By the way, with the Dow under 7000, 200 points matters;\u00a0 it’s a 3% swing.\u00a0 Fortunately, those same scared traders ignored our Boy-Leader and focused on the fundamentals of the market; Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried so hard to keep an open mind about this Obama guy.\u00a0 The optimism of our people on Inauguration Day was infectious.\u00a0 The snappy patter of the “three words” video had my toes tapping and heart filled with optimism.\u00a0 Alas, the honeymoon is over.\u00a0 I now stand firm in my belief that President Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13891,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13891\/a-new-year-and-the-looting-of-the-american-people-continues-unabated\/","url_meta":{"origin":7381,"position":0},"title":"A new year and the looting of the American people continues unabated.","author":"Tom Johnson","date":"January 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"BofA Settles GSE Buyback Requests for Pennies on the Dollar According to this MND article, Obama appointee, FHFA acting director Edward DeMarco just handed Ally bank, formerly GMAC Bank and Bank of America potentially a total $300 billion windfall. 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