Political Update with Al Hunt & Mark Halperin

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An update on politics with Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Mark Halperin of TIME

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    1. Ricardo_Amaral  05/25/2012 07:29 AM Report

      “Goldman Sachs” and its illegal practice regarding Naked Short Selling...

      http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=3f92fed8de8c21b86277ebed981455d9&threadid=195957&perpa ge=6&pagenumber=61

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    2. Ricardo_Amaral  05/25/2012 04:45 AM Report

      The Crumbling of America

      http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17addf1d1204233094e781ba046f4031&threadid=222491&perpa ge=6&pagenumber=20

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    3. Ricardo_Amaral  05/24/2012 11:28 AM Report

      Larry Edelson: US vs. China – May 11, 2012

      The Great Betrayal of 2012

      http://youtu.be/n8g_Ok6LIpI

      This warning issued by Larry Edelson is alarming to say the least, and even more so considering Mr. Edelson's credibility. We must take head. It has happened in the past with other great nations and kingdoms and it is going to happen to America. We have just lost an economic war to the new world super power: CHINA

      *****

      Larry Edelson: Uncommon Wisdom Daily

      http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/experts/larry-edelson

      Frequently quoted in international press, including Forbes, Bloomberg, CBS MarketWatch and more, Mr. Edelson travels extensively through Asia each year, bringing his followers first-hand analysis and accounts of the vibrant emerging economies.

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    4. rtb  05/24/2012 07:36 AM Report

      Halperin's bias against the President is well known which disqualifies him from a balanced discussion.

    5. Ricardo_Amaral  05/24/2012 02:33 AM Report

      May 24, 2012 - SouthAmerica: Here is more information about "Goldman Sachs the Pillage People" and their networks of thieves.

      Goldman Sachs is it a Cancer or just a Parasite of the US financial system?

      http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=14ff2ca0bcbda0c523ec7952d6274ae6&threadid=195957&perpa ge=6&pagenumber=61

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    6. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2012 02:16 AM Report

      "On May 17, 2012, unable to conduct a successful ballot, Americans Elect announced that "The primary process for the Americans Elect nomination has come to an end," and it would instead focus on other election-related issues.[13]"

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_Elect

      Sad, I would have liked someone who didn't graduate from Harvard as an option.

      Ron Paul sure has a loyal following: http://www.americanselect.org/candidates/draft

    7. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2012 01:54 AM Report

      How can anyone say they are not better off than four years ago?

      I was in a country swirling in the toilet bowl. We were just about to be flushed when suddenly we were pulled out (much like Neo in the Matrix after the red pill and the painful truth of reality).

      Obama might want to use that on college campuses.

    8. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2012 01:47 AM Report

      Guys, let us not forget the Architect Karl Rove and his trigger points: God, Guns and Gays.

      We are already on the Gays and Obama pulled that trigger.

      Now being a Mormon means you are NOT a Christian in the Baptist world. So Mitt has pulled that trigger by default.

      So we have Gays and God at one each.

      Who will pull the trigger on Guns?

      (Every pun that is possible is intended.)

    9. tabs  05/23/2012 06:57 PM Report

      Now Comes Part 2:

      It is not that one opposes Barrack Obama for having a "social conscience." It is because Barrack Obama can not see beyond his "social conscience" because it is all muddled together with the emotions that he continually pushes away by remaining in his detached intellectual reverie. This does not make him the "Great President" that he and his acolytes among the media and American people touted him as being but that of an ordinary, myopic functionary. In other words Barrack Obama can not see beyond himself.

    10. tarryd  05/23/2012 06:51 PM Report

      Just watched this clip. Not sure what to make of it but both Halperin and Hunt made it clear they believe the President will loose to Mitt Romney. Halperin does not surprise me. He is usually the one who paints a dark one sided picture of things. Al Hunt did surprise me. Usually he is much more evenhanded in his analysis.

      I listened carefully. They both seemed to be saying Romney's experience at Bain and billionaire money would win the day; that the young, Hispanics and blacks would not show up at the polls. A more pessimistic picture could not have been painted. I found this rather odd since we have five months to go before election day.

      Obama may well loose but I do wonder what will happen to the numbers when we get to September and October and the debates start. Mitt fumbles and bumbles in these debates as we have seen and often trips himself up. He has a lot of very unpopular issues that he will have to wiggle around. That may impact the "economy only" cool aide so many have drunk,. Obama is not Rick Perry or Newt. He is smooth and thinks well on his feet.

      A billion dollars in private advertising may be overkill.... it may well reach a saturation point and backfire. Gas prices are dropping, jobs growth improving. So, I dunno, the pundits may be right, but I think it is far to early to write Obama off.

    11. doodahdollychawly  05/23/2012 06:12 PM Report

      I will vote for Obama; because like what someone recently said, "the republican rhetoric is worse than the democrat rhetoric".

      It's the lesser of 2 evils; AND

    12. tabs  05/23/2012 05:46 PM Report

      Obama always laments that his problem is that he just doesn't communicate his ideas well enough.....

      President Obama has a Rose Bird mentality this go around. Obama keeps on bringing up divisive issues that lose as many voters as he brings in. The idea is to bring in as many people under your tent as possible. Let us just look at the latest pronouncement by Obama of being for Gay Marriage. It potentially gains the Gay vote, Liberal urbanites and perhaps some better educated youth vote. It loses Catholics, Blacks, Hispanics, Reagan Democrats and it unites the former opposed to Romney being Mormon Evangelicals into being behind him. This is the Obama road to victory? It sounds more like a petulant child who does not get his way saying "I will show you...by telling you what I really think."

    13. HarryR  05/23/2012 04:53 PM Report

      By analyzing past elections, the public's perception of the economy in the Spring dominates their economic perceptions in the Fall, not what the economy is actually doing. This undergirds Halperin's analysis. The President's "problem" with youth and Hispanics is their lack of enthusiasm compared to 2008, they are expected to turn out for Obama overwhelmingly in November, he just needs them to turn out as they did the last go around. What might be a plus for Obama is that the public's perception of what his administration has accomplished is significantly different than what has been done. So effectively getting the facts out should help him. The problem is their inability to get the facts out in the first place doesn't bode well for his team to perform an effective redo.

    14. frankelee  05/23/2012 01:31 PM Report

      I like these guys, but there as committed to reporting the horse race with as little true insight as possible as any other political pundit. Romney has so far looked like a total lightweight. It's impossible to say how things like economics and global politics will effect things this far out, but media simplifications about it really have no predictive power.

    15. REMant  05/23/2012 11:33 AM Report

      At this stage in elections the ppl who vote, vote party, not candidate. The question is how many decide not to vote. Polls will always show a tight race; they will not show in most instances how really popular the candidates are. At the moment the president has a problem with youth, married women, Catholics and Hispanics.