Comments on: Hillary Clinton

By: Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:43:58 +0000

“He should wind his neck in.”

Heh.

This has gone on my old-phrases-recently-remembered-and-soon-to-be-used list.

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:38:37 +0000

It’s none of Obamamessiah’s goddamn business whether or where Tesco open a store. He should wind his neck in.

By: john b

john b — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:21:06 +0000

look at what Obama’s trying to pull on Tesco’s affiliate in the LA area and tell me the improvement.

You mean, writing Tesco a letter asking them to open more stores in poor areas? Oh Noes, It’s Teh Communists – doubtless he’ll be sending Terry Leahy to the gulag next…

By: billadams

billadams — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:57:07 +0000

Most of those foreclosures are speculators who got in on the housing boom a little late.

By: Donavon Pfeiffer

Donavon Pfeiffer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:43:36 +0000

Sure she’ll lose. But look at what Obama’s trying to pull on Tesco’s affiliate in the LA area and tell me the improvement.

By: Johnathan Pearce

Johnathan Pearce — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:46:58 +0000

I think she is toast. But then I have always been an optimist.

By: Andrew Duffin

Andrew Duffin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:33:59 +0000

I am beginning to allow myself to think that she might be beaten.

I don’t really care if the egregious Obama is just as bad – as well he may be – in terms of politics.

“Anybody, but anybody except that unspeakable woman” just about sums up my view.

By: llamas

llamas — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:04:32 +0000

She wants to freeze interest rates for 5 years? Well, even the most dim-witted cash-out California refinancer can surely figure that, with the major lenders offering various approaches to get back from the brink, including lower interest rates, Senator Clinton’s idea don’t look so hot.

Actually, it would be nice, in a schadenfreude sort of a way, if she did manage to get these policies enacted in California (and, incidentally, these are matters of state law and therefore not capable of being altered by Federal action, but of course, the sort of people who would be swayed by this sort of rhetoric are too stupid to know that) because a 5-year freeze on mortgage interest rates for people in trouble would likely make such a complete and utter dog’s breakfast of the California residential real-estate market that maybe enough California voters would stop drinking the Democrat Kool-Aid for long enough to actually elect someone with half-an-ounce of sense.

llater,

llamas

By: BlacquesJacquesShellacques

BlacquesJacquesShellacques — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:37:36 +0000

Take cheer me hearties and hoist the black flag.

Every economically bassackwards government scheme like this generates opportunities. If this passes, I’m off to California, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, to get me some of these properties.

We had a bust here (Calgary) in the eighties and we had home owner protection legislation of a mild sort. Residential mortgages became “non-recourse”; the lender could get the land only, and even then only after the usual lengthy foreclosure proceedings.

In the meantime the residential owner, not being entirely insane, dumped the property for a few bucks to ‘investors’.

The ‘investors’ either rescued the property by fixing it and renting it economically with a view to the long term or rented it short term then stripped it bare. Appliances, furnaces, piping, wiring, light fixtures, windows, carpets, hardwood, all gone for cash.

I don’t know exactly what the opportunities will be from this lunatic scheme, but I know they will be there.

By: Bob B

Bob B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:33 +0000

From this in the FT last December, anyone might think Karl Rove wants Obama to beat Hillary Clinton in the primaries. But why on earth would that be?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dee0a6e8-a109-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html

By: Bob B

Bob B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:05:28 +0000

Yeah – all that celestial choir stuff is so much more appealing.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:56 +0000

“with the seriousness that it is presenting” “we can try to work out keeping people in their homes”. They probably sound better in her mother tongue.

By: MikeinAppalachia

MikeinAppalachia — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:59:48 +0000

One can only hope so. But her opponent for the party nomination is hinting at very similiar ideas (using the term loosely).

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:58:09 +0000

95,000 people in California would vote for her.