The ‘good bounce from the Palin selection’ we got in the mass media after the Republican Convention was also extremely telling regarding the functional incapacity of the media collectivley. She as at least as terrible a nominee on the day she was announced as now, but the media took a long step back and waited to be told how to play this. They are so Republican spun it’s beyond a disgrace.

McCain’s only possible chance at a win is to turn out the Republican base en masse, and in that regard his choice of someone _like_ Palin was a necessary, and even sensible move from the campaign perspective. That he chose Palin to play the role is . . . madness. And all this is before the VP debates, unless McCain finds some way to get _those_ canceled. I have no liking for Biden, and he is a classic gasbag who adds zilich to his ticket in terms of net votes (though is reassuring to insiders and the movers and shakers, yes), but he can debate without drooling and reading the wrong cue card.

Palin will cost McCain mid-single digits at the ballot box, at least, before she is shipped back to the Subarctic for the deserved obscurity that was her destingy before McCain’s Folly. As such, she will be the most damaging choice for VP nominee since Eagleton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63YULBCg0U

The woman is patently unqualified and appears to be unable to think on her feet.

She has been pulled off line by the Republicans. She was missing in action in the post-debate rebuttals last night, for instance, while Biden was front and center.

I am not an Obama fan, but the choice of Palin is simply scandalous and for me makes the election choice a no-brainer. Even some Republicans are calling for her to step down.

You have outdone yourself. “Symbolic IQ”. I love it.

http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/modules/habervideo/video.asp?CatID=0&VideoSearch=&NewsType=

He says that although he is almost eighty, his choice of an inexperienced, under-educated Mom (who should be changing diapers) for Vice President was made for purposes of National Security.

Furthermore, should he be given an opportunity to die in office, he wants to keep America safe and thus entrust Palin and her symbolic IQ with the keys to American nukes and The Treasury (among other things un-named). Apparently, Miss Palin, as a symbolic model, represents a wide range spectrum of American IQs, ranging from clinically brain-dead people in mental institutions to those that are now working on The Bailout Plan for Wall Street CEOs.

While this wonderful whale is reaching for the sky, breaching the surface of water for air, maybe it takes in a massive gulp of air to blow of stress and release negative energy built up from the grind under the sea — where narcissism collides with evolution …

See, see, I feel like I'm trying to swim around an oil spill, I wanted to shoot for the narcissism ego thing and try in some way to send a message about restraint — but to feed into this just doesn't work! The negative feedback crap just acts like a vortex which takes all down a deep empty well; why, why, why would we want to go there and risk being caught in hell?

Matt I love you baby, you remind me of my Mom and people that often piss me off and I know you need love, you need what everyone needs, so I'm with you on that front. Dude, how can Doc help?

FYI: The male genitals are retracted into cavities of the body during swimming, so as to be streamlined and reduce drag.

>> See…something went wrong, like some toxic spill … I don't get this???

Salmon’s article on the TED spread left so much ground uncovered that it was not very helpful for me.

We all agree that banks are freely borrowing from the Fed and that they are HOARDING that money and not even loaning to other banks. Given the size of the Fed funds and ED markets, this is unsustainable.

He also does not mention the logical consequence of this failure of banks to lend to each other, namely that they are ALSO cutting drastically back on their lending to their blue chip customers.

And he also fails to address the dramatic effects that the DELIVERY FAILURES in the Treasury RP market are having on risk premia.

Because of these enormous omissions in his analysis of what some of these elevated spreads signify, it fall short, in my view.

Matt Dubuque
mdubuque@yahoo.com

http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/eco/game/game-toc.html