{"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&#8217;t Stand Down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<a title=\"three words\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY\"> &#8220;three words&#8221; 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 &#8220;The American Experiment&#8221;\u00a0 in his cross hairs with a bunker-busting Marxist bomb as the payload.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s defeatist attitude as President, which is markedly different than his optimistic attitude as a candidate, is permeating society as we know it.\u00a0 <a title=\"tom vanderwell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7372\">Witness Tom Vanderwell&#8217;s observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8230;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<p>In fairness to Tom, he&#8217;s the messenger and not the message but I, for one, am not willing to model the American banking system after the <a title=\"mexican bank nationalization\" href=\"http:\/\/lanic.utexas.edu\/cswht\/paper6.html\">1982 Mexican coup<\/a>.\u00a0 <a title=\"tin-foil hat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5435\">I&#8217;m getting out my tin-foil hat <\/a>and screaming from the street corners that <em>nationalising<\/em> (sic) the banks is unacceptable.\u00a0 My comment to Tom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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 How quickly can we break up these outdated institutions and get them in the hands of local, productive entrepreneurs?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<p>As you might have guessed, Tom&#8217;s in complete agreement with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>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.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the (<em>still<\/em>) Free (<em>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&#8217;s a 3% swing.\u00a0 Fortunately, those same scared traders ignored our Boy-Leader and focused on the fundamentals of the market; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7381\/no-mr-president-i-wont-stand-down\/#more-7381\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;three words&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"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":5764,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5764\/quick-summary-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":7381,"position":0},"title":"Quick Summary of the Day&#8230;..","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"November 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, here's a quick summary of the day: 3 Banks got taken over by the FDIC.\u00a0\u00a0 The biggest one was Downey Federal, a huge \"Option Arm\" lender. 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