FTN wrote:Watching Cramer re-run now. He's almost in tears.

Wachovia closed at 1.90 today.

CEO was on the show 2 weeks ago and outlined his entire plan illustrating how safe the company was.

Wachovia was trading at 19.37 on 9/8/08

30.60 on 5/2/08

38.09 on 2/1/08

44.28 on 11/14/07

50.64 on 9/28/07

incredible.

jamiethekiller wrote:50 dollar loss in a year? holy crap.

FTN wrote:kind of funny that I closed my Wachovia account today.

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people
are more than concerned about Palin.

The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

jamiethekiller wrote:did this little gem go un-noticed today?

538

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people
are more than concerned about Palin.

The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

This site is a parody. The answers are computer generated based on probabilities calculated from Sarah Palin's actual speech. We think it is hilarious.

The Markov chain generated answers are surprising close to her actual answers. Don't believe me? See below.

Actual Palin Interview Response

COURIC:Why isn't it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy? Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That's why I say, I like ever American I'm speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout.

But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy - Helping the - Oh, it's got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. And trade we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

Woody wrote:McCain should just be embarrassed. I think Emmitt Smith would be a better VP choice. "The only way we can interpolate Oksana Been Trodden from Iraqistan is to masturbate the ball down the feel!"

dajafi wrote:

VoxOrion wrote:

Woody wrote:Is it true that this is all the Democrats' fault because they forced these companies to have to give loans to poor minorities that didn't otherwise deserve them? This is what some of my racist republican friends are saying, while drunk.

I've read by less drunk and racist authors that this is part of it, but they then go in and say that the banks went ape-$#@! once they got used to being able to do it and the blame can't really be laid squarely on one or the other chicken and egg eh Woody?

Without much knowledge of the details, I could buy that this describes some chunk of the "bad risk" lending that did so much to put us in this mess.