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here's an idea, cap salaries/bonuses at $1 million or else the rich/powerful will keep on pillaging - Bob Sonin

yep, here's where bailing out the banks failed spectacularly, they were supposed to turn around and re-lend that money, rather than putting it in "safe" investments. "Bubbling up" money through small biz through generous lines of credit may be the only other real option. - Warren

We keep hearing of bail outs for large business that are not fit to survive in the modern economic climate but there are a lot of small business who have made preparations to cope with this sort of thing and they are being overlooked. Now would be a good time to start investing in these well run smaller business so that they can pick up the slack when the poorly run larger businesses go bust. - John Cooper

Warren: I just talked with someone who said the bailout was controlled by banks' interests via their lobbies. He thinks we should have dramatically increased regulation in exchange for the cash. He says we have setup a bad precident where bank executives don't care about the consequences for taking on too much risk. - Robert Scoble

Small business are created in countries with a strong middle class and not too many countries have much of a middle class. - paul mooney

Really good post, Robert. More like this please! :) - Ian Betteridge from BuddyFeed

like monarchies, big businesses don''t realize that they are being obsoleted because they are ineffective at providing solutions .... the dying financial "system" should be a good sign of whats changing ... - Iggy Kin

Good for you I'm glad someone is finally talking about this. I travel to Central America a lot and I think they are underdeveloped partly because of there small businesses. They have really small shops and American companies but no medium sized businesses that are so important for the economy. In the US those businesses make up 1/2 of our GDP. Also for every $1 spent in corporate business 13 cents goes to the community compared to 43 cent in a small business. We have to do more to support those businesses! - Nelson de Witt

Robert, is free speech compatible with Chinese culture? (Not talking about the govt since 1949; I'm thinking of the centuries.) - Ontario Emperor

Ontario: it's very compatible with the culture. A lot more compatibile than you might imagine. As the people here get more educated they'll expect it. - Robert Scoble

/me passes Robert a glass of kool-aid :) - Steven Hodson

I have to agree with Steven, but then again...never discount extraordinary circumstances in life that seem unlikely. That's what I'll be thinking when I'm happily watching Obama being sworn in. - Mark Krynsky

What about the language barrier? - simonpure

Steven: it might be kool-aid but this is a VERY porous society. The firewall they setup? I get around it easily. And no one stopped to look at our six hard drives we were carrying in. We could have carried in a HUGE portion of the Internet. No one cares. This is a far more open society than most Americans understand. - Robert Scoble

simonpure: I can buy my Diet Coke here without speaking a word of English. :-) - Robert Scoble

@Robert have you see the depressing internet rental areas they have- rooms packed full of kids on old PCs- really depressing. I saw one in an old movie theater - anna sauce

Anna: yeah. But I also have seen the Shenzhen public library where there are hundreds of brand new PC's all used. - Robert Scoble

I've also seen very expensive cafes (where coffee was more than whiskey) and beautiful fully rigged PCs sitting vacant. Oh yeah, and earlier comment was seen in Beijing. - anna sauce

@Ontario: Why would centuries of autocratic rule in China have molded a culture inimical to free speech any more than centuries of autocratic rule in "the West"? - Chester

The Chinese are certainly changing, but China as a country doesn't seem to be changing so much. Just try reading out loud in a public place from any holy book. - Joe Silence

RefD: well, OK, but after seeing how right wing religious politics has turned our country into a bunch of anti-intellectuals I'm sort of OK with that. China wants to be competitive on the world stage and wants to keep its people away from the opiate of the masses. They already had real opium, so why try religion? That said, you watch, the government will allow religion in next 20 years big time. - Robert Scoble

China will allow religion when it lock-steps with their ambitions to be a world power. - Joe Silence

China already has had some expansion in freedom of religion. It will expand or contract these freedoms in accordance with the degree to which the regime views religions as a destabilizing force and/or a pole of power that supplants the regime in terms of the people's loyalty. And China does not have to *aspire* to be a world power. It already is. - Chester

China, Brazil and Chile are becoming mor properous by moving towards a Reganesque American philosophy; which we are moving away from. What does that say? - Robert Hafer

Robert: Reaganesque? I see the hand of government EVERYWHERE in China. How do you think all those big buildings got funded? - Robert Scoble

@RobertHafer: They Chinese have been struggling to develop a regulatory infrastructure and decrease the extent of statist intervention/control but not nearly enough to warrant bandying about The R Word. Like Robert S. says, the state has its hands in everything still, and will be far more involved in industrial policy than the U.S. state has ever been in ours. - Chester

Robert: yes, but the Chi-come used to manage everything; more free enterprise = more prosperity. Brazil pulled it's Government out of debt by lowering taxes. Both moves in the right direction. - Robert Hafer

@RobertHafer: Moving toward a market-driven economy is hardly the same thing as moving toward Reaganesque deregulation. If anything, they are beefing up regulation as a means of fostering a healthy market. Also: you might not want to use terms like "Chi-com" unless you *want* people to assume your opinion is colored by certain biases. - Chester

Chester: is China not run by Chinese Communist? I've used the rearm for years to speak of the government apart from the Chinese people. - Robert Hafer

@RobertHafer: It is run by the Chinese Communist Party, which one can refer to in shorthand as the "CCP". Perhaps it's just me, but "Chi-com" is something I see as a ideologically-tinted relic of Cold War years. - Chester

Most of the time when I try to talk about this here people just laugh. "There no way they are going to pass the US" I think we are going to be in for a big surprise unless we get our act together. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

Heh, yeah, Chi-com is an "imperialist" term. - Victor Ganata

Given China's Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions, I feel like a monotheistic religion doesn't stand a chance. - Victor Ganata

@Victor - China under Mao religion and intelectulism were both repressed. China today has to embrace the freedom to think differently, sounds like they are. That will lead to a variety of religions / philosophy - Robert Hafer

I'm not saying they wouldn't exist. There are already several million Christians in China as it stands. But they will never dominate. Religion is already allowed, they will just never be able to rival the state. - Victor Ganata

I would like to know what is really happening in Tibet. - Robert Hafer

I was going to comment more, but after I read the "right wing is responsible for anti-intellectuals" I had to stop. The liberal mindset is amazing. - Spencer

You're right, it needs clarification: the *religious* right wing is responsible for anti-intellectualism. - Victor Ganata

Robert, China isn't communist anymore. The ruling party here might have communist in their name, but what's going on here doesn't look like communism to me. Only someone who hasn't traveled would try to call China communist. As to Tibet, if Alaska wanted to leave the Nation would we let them? No. Spencer: I specifically said "religious right." It used to be that religious people didn't run the Republican party. Now they do and they are doing grave harm to our nation. - Robert Scoble

Jim Lerley: yes, we have wonderful religious freedom in the US and what has it gotten us? A population that is so out of it that we put up Palin as a potential leader. Yes, we have freedom to do all sorts of idiotic things, but is that really freedom if we throw our country in the toilet? - Robert Scoble

Robert, I think it all depends on what you mean by "communist." China, Vietnam, and Cuba have no resemblance whatsoever to the U.S.S.R., but they're still pretty ideologically far to the left. And what of the leaders in South America inspired by Marx? I don't think any of these nations have a desire to pursue a pure unregulated free-market economy. They're all mixed economies with both free markets and central planning. And it looks like the U.S. is starting to get on that boat, too. - Victor Ganata

Robert: Actually there are about 130M Christians in China. The CCP is the best thing to happen to the religion. Jesus was no longer seen as a westerner out to screw China. - Paul Denlinger

the government takes a strong stand against religions which try to organize large numbers of people. - Paul Denlinger

I actually can read that easier then regular text. - Uncle CW™

@Pete, yes...I didn't know about this until I got the email. I found it interesting. - Mark Krynsky

yessir - can read fine - Zee.

@krynsky: Yes. But only the first 140 char. ;-) - techPR

yeh are you sure only 55% of people can read that? cos this quote "This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole." sort of suggests to me that most people are capable of it. I was able to, at any rate, and so was everyone else who has commented so far ;-) - David Adam

yup - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@David...correct. I think that 55% figure is low and many have questioned it, but it was included in the original context of this "meme" so I left it there. - Mark Krynsky

I can read it. I've read that study before, and use it to marginalize the plethora of typos I generate - RAPatton

ah ok. yeh it seemed a tad low. still, its a pretty darn cool phenomenon/trick of the mind or however you want to call it. I love this sort of stuff about how the mind works - David Adam

No problems. Full speed here. 55% dfinteieyl smees lwo - Phil G

Good thing I'm dyslexic and this is how I read things anyway. haha - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

55% IS most :). Good to know I have something in common with normal people. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I think the 55% is low, too. The point of the exercise is that it's not difficult to read. I've never known anyone who can't read it (and I've seen and shared that around for years). - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Read it, heck it looks like my typing before spell check! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I do find it weird that my reading isn't slowed down at all. I remember seeing that on slashdot many many years ago. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

9...one point off due to the mentioning about "our enemies". We don't want to hear about that right now. - Fleagle

that was a nod to the right-wing people. they like that stuff. - Jon Lee

10 - Inspirational, but still addresses the real problems that face America, even though a new president-elect is waiting in the wings. On the contrary, Fleagle, I think it's right for people to hear about the problems to help temper their hope and joy with the reality that there's still a lot of work to be done to get the country back on the right track. - Cheryl Jones

i give it a 3, typical political BS speech that doesn't mean anything. - Spencer

11 - Lon Cohen from twhirl

10. - Uncle CW™

the original "yes we can" speech was an 11. the 2004 DNC speech was a 10. the post-Rev. Wright race relations speech was also a 10. this was a 9. - Chris Hollander

liked the race relations speech, sold me on obama. can't wait for the inaugural... - Wilma Stoneflint

10 - Bryan

Truly one of the best political speeches I've ever heard. Right up there with EMK at the 1980 De. Convention. 10 - Jeff Jones

10 - He mentioned a puppy, that was just cool. It made him seem - unlike many politicians - human. I've heard other speeches he's given that are 10's too, like one on the dangers of religious indoctrination he gave at a church, which got many cheers despite the audience. - Will Higgins™

10 - History in the making. He has the ability to fill you with hope & joy - and I'm an Aussie girl. Congratulations America! - JanLawrence

9.5...only .5 lost because for some reason I liked his 2004 speech just that little bit more. - Zee.

Why? - Mona Nomura

is that to me Mona or Calacanis? - Zee.

10 times 10 - Jorge Escobar

10. I cried. - Neal Jansons

10 I couldn't imagine how to make that speech any better. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

Talk to Obama, Yes we can! http://tinyurl.com/5oqdzd - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

thats a lot of 10s! i think it was a 10 moment, but the speech was an 8 - Jason Calacanis

Speech was a 7/8 by Obama standards; the moment was a 10. - Paul Rodriguez

I haven't listened to it yet. What I read of McCain's makes me think I will like his speech a great deal. - ComicList

10 - great oratory. I'm now considering filing my application for citizenship! - Joe Buhler

9. It was a well rounded speech. Although, I'm not going to lie, The best part of Obama's speeches are the words: "Yes we can" - Adam Posey

10 - I can feel the intelligence level in the country rising! Did you see the looks of rapture in the audience? - Rebecca Briggs

That's a great ad. Makes me want to play some football! - Admiral Anika

Some of it looked pretty Shaolin Soccer-ish. - Andrew Leyden

Now I want to watch Shaolin Soccer... heh - Michael W. May

That looks a little doctored, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was real. People can do amazing things with a soccer ball - Pras Sarkar

but pretty effin' cool :) - Paulo Elias from twhirl

Shaolin Soccer! LOVED that movie. - Admiral Anika

really? shaolin soccer was good??? - Zee.

I loved that film - Michael W. May

dude that's so awesome :O - Jay

And that is what happens when you combine XMA with football. - xero

I just fired my personal trainer. - Derrick

sooo fake. Pretty cool though. - Alejandro

I don't think it's fake ... I think it took them a lot of takes, though. - Brandon

All of the best "parcours" comes from France donchaknow? - Vicky

I think it's real. Like someone else said, these are just variants of parkour tricks. - Kamilah Gill

No. Way. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

parkour footballers! cool! - Anna Lynn M.

I don't care if its fake its pretty damn cool. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

Can't speak for the rest, but the "long pass" stuff is very do-able if you've got good enough aim, timing and feet. - Jennifer Dittrich

JECHT SHOT! - Andy DeSoto

Yeah, I doubt its fake. It's actually more XMA (Extreme Martial Arts) stuff than Parkour. Parkour is flowing through the scenery, not standing around doing stunts. - xero

Loved the acrobatics! - Mitchell Tsai

It's for a computer game, created by EA, of course it's fake. ;-) But great nevertheless. - Kol Tregaskes

fake and awesome - cjmart

My understanding is they currently don't offer any kind of comment moderation, which leaves your stream open to a fair amount of spam... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Check this out -> http://friendfeed.com/kenmat :( - Mona Nomura

Wow, I clicked on that feed and I think I heard the internet crying. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Mona - What a rabbit hole. - Russellreno

Oh noes! He broke the Internet's not a truck! it's a series of Oh noes! He broke the internet's not a truck!.... - Richard pancakhaus Walker from twhirl

Mona, it is not because of the service (Storytlr) it's because of this user. He have 5 RSS feeds that are streaming same content from he's other services here. (good that he's not on my friends list) NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD GO THROUGH Friendfeed twice! - Orli Yakuel

Ping.fm, FF -> Twitter, misc. aggregating sites RULE but users need to exercise common courtesy to their followers. Let the most courteous people win! ;) @Orli: We posted at the same time... I wanted people to see that first before stating that point. :) I just signed up and like it (a lot) - Mona Nomura

It kind of reminds me of Squidoo. Squidoo for argiated content. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

That looks like Tumblr - Sweyn Venderbush from twhirl

I think perhaps FF's destiny is to be an editorial system. Or is it a bookmark tool? I use it that way mostly because it has the ability to save a picture along with a text clip. - Dave Winer

I do like the idea of sending stuff to Twitter manually. - Chris Nixon

That is a really interesting idea, having FriendFeed with the ability to "retweet" something. You got my vote. - Rob Diana

It gets even more interesting with an open architecture for pushing stuff to blogs, email, SMS, etc. Twitter isn't the only interesting destination. - Dave Winer

I too would like to control what comments (and content) go to Twitter on a case by case basis. Friendfeed + Twitter = Future Merger partners. And soon imhuo (in my humble uninformed opinion). - Wayne Schulz

Twitter --> FF makes sense, as FF is aggregating my activity. FF --> Twitter feels funny. RSS posts into Twitter feel similarly wrong. Don't like Twitter as newsfeed aggregator. - Marko Bon

How do you turn this functionality on? - Peter Ghosh

Under your account settings. - Roberto Bonini

I kind of like the new feauture so far. For me its a way of increasing my Tweets. I don't comment to much so I don't feel like its being spammy but I would like to see some more control of how and what gets posted. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

I've turned ff2twitter on / experimental though, I'd definitely vote for more flexibility, too - schilke

I am trying the Friendfeed-to-Twitter repost feature now - Stowe Boyd

I could concur just based on my friends. - Admiral Anika

Is that because the anorexic ones are stuck-up snobs? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Some of them are having more homosexual sex, too. - B. Hatin

Go K. - Derrick

Mmmmmmm, women with curves ... - Steven Perez

Hm. I have stuff to say but I need to suss it out first, so instead I'll just say go 'head, big girls. - cecily

Hmmmm! - Robert Scoble

In my head, I hear Missy Elliott singing, "Get Ur Freak On". - Derrick

Yep....yeah buddy. Go "big girl" what you gon' do? Rawr - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Maryam is losing weight. That is not a good sign! She asks "who do these people study?" we are having a good laugh about this. - Robert Scoble

Women with curves are more willing to get wild too. - Uncle CW™

Cecily, I too had stuff to say. I kept typing and deleting my comment. This is a big subject and throughout my life, I've seen my skinnier friends always fall back on, "She's fat, but I'm the single one?" Blah. - Admiral Anika

Thats because they have no restraint, no sense of holding back. They eat what they want, they fuck what they want, no limits. - William Stewart

I think that's a huge and not particularly accurate generalization, William... but whatever. - Fa La La La Lindsay

An interesting theory, Mr. Stewart. - B. Hatin

There's just one problem with your theory, William. It's wrong. - Steven Perez

Yeah...I can't agree with William's assessment here... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

lies - Philip Ryan Johnson

See, I had a lot of propositions, but I didn't exactly have the most sex. One of the reasons I got propositioned so much is because I think the perception is out there (like William's - blech) that bigger women have bigger appetites in every way, PLUS we're so glad to get attention from anyone that we're easy. Can't tell you how many times I heard "You're not cute enough to turn anybody down" whenever I said no to unwanted sexual advances. - cecily

Looks like I came back home just in time! William - I disagree with your statement in many ways. I'm coming to the realization that my perspective on all things BBW may be different simply because I was not always overweight, but now that I am, I realize that a lot of what people say, think and feel towards overweight women is a direct reflection of what we say, feel and think about ourselves. Perceptions are changing as our attitudes change, and it's good to see that people are beginning to realize we... - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

are more than just the skin we are in, we are living, breathing, sexual beings and want the same things out of life as everyone else. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

fuller figure ladies are more cuddly and infinitely more sexy. - Rob Brammeld

fat chicks need lovin too. Nothing wrong with that. At least they are gettin some. - Don Martelli

Here's a theory: overweight women feel insecure about themselves, so they try to compensate by having more sex. - Daniel Miessler

how do they define "overweight"? cuz i am overweight and yet i'm not gettin' it so much. EDIT: this comment made me snort: "hahaha, count on the Beavers to do a sex study." - tiffany

Ain't nothing wrong with a woman with some meat on her bones. Gives you something to hold onto. I prefer that to the alternative. - Give 'Em DBizness

Simone Weil once said, "The beautiful woman, looking in the mirror, may very well believe that the image is herself. The ugly woman knows it is not." An alternate hypothesis for you: perhaps an overweight woman does not settle for the superficial, and having found a real and true relationship, gets plenty of real and true hot sweaty monkey love? - Ladybug Heather

(btw, real and true hot sweat monkey love ftw. I had to say that, because the phrase "real and true hot sweaty monkey love" is underused.) - Ladybug Heather

I agree with the author. I'm not sure why this study was done but it is interesting. - Nelson de Witt

For example, my parents have trips coming up next week and the week after, and they are waiting to see how the election turns out before committing. They're afraid of violence on November 5th. - Mark Trapp

I'm not worried at all about that scenario happening anymore. It's going to be a landslide. - Robert Scoble

Do I wonder? Lately I've taken to waking up in the middle of the night worrying about a McCain-Palin presidency. - Carla Thompson

I don't want to call it for either candidate, yet with was polls and vote tallies are looking like now, if McCain wins by more than 3pts. I call shenanigans just like in '04. - Admiral Anika

facepalm worldwide - Rodfather

http://www.gallup.com/poll... Faboo: for McCain to have won he needed to put out some new ideas -- he spent the past week floundering. This thing is going to turn into a landslide because Obama simply is the better candidate. Economist even said so yesterday. Amazing. - Robert Scoble

Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 28-30 shows him with an eight percentage point lead over John McCain among traditional likely voters -- 51% to 43% -- his largest margin to date using this historical Gallup Poll voter model. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I wouldn't count on it being a landslide. Why is Obama campaigning in Iowa this weekend? - Steve Olson

I've thought about that. I think there would be riots. Time will tell. - Jim Goldstein

Yep, he never really bothered to unlink himself from GW. By chaining himself to the failed policies of the last 8 years, he doomed his chances of becoming president. As Kerry learned in 2004, you can't just say "I'm for change! I'm for change! I'm not the other guy!" you have to prove it with your policies. McCain failed to do that. - Alex Scoble

I try not think about it...its kind of scarry - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

Steve: he's been all over the map lately. Might even visit Arizona, which is totally amazing if it happens. - Robert Scoble

I will be personally taking parts in the riots.. - Harish V

Very true, Mark -- I'm not prepared at all for McCain to win, it would be quite a shock - Jorge Escobar

not even possible. If Obama is living next Tuesday he will be elected the next president of the U.S. - Thomas Hawk

i don't buy that people are vested Obama will win, seems like the Obama forces are fighting to the bitter end. impressive to see the dems fighting so hard, long overdue. - adolfo foronda

Thomas, I love positivity like that but I just pulled up my handy dandy Slate iPhone app and yesterday's national poll shows Obama up by 5.5% - 49.7 to McCain's 44.2. That's awfully slim for my taste. I want to predict a landslide but... I'm friggin nervous. - Carla Thompson

An important quote for your ponderance, just to keep us on our toes. From the Slate app: "Of 20 new statewide polls, 15 show a shift in McCain's direction... Two polls are seeing shifts toward McCain in Florida, though both polls still show Obama ahead." Never discount what old white people will do when they're alone in that voting booth. - Carla Thompson

Which poll are you referring to Carla? There's a huge number of polls and a large variance to boot. But 5.5 sounds close to what fivethirtyeight.com is reporting (5.6). Still McCain has to gain over 1% between today and Tuesday to have even a hope of winning. By the way, the popular vote isn't necessarily the best metric either. Likely number of electoral votes is a much better way to judge how they are doing, in my humble opinion. - Alex Scoble

If McCain gets ALL of the battleground states, Obama will still be elected. He'd have to take at least 2 states on the fence, too - Jim Reverend

Also election poll results typically tighten the closer you get to the election. - Alex Scoble

I think their would be rioting in some areas (hell, people riot for football games, win or lose). Living in DC we've already discussed evacuation plans for a riot or worse (assassination would see the city burn like '68). Just another disaster on our prep sheet of terrorist attacks, biological warfare, dirty bombs, etc. Great to live in the Nations Capitol sometimes... - Andrew Leyden

Lessee, the Florida polls were from CNN/Time and Quinnipiac. But yeah, you do make an important point about electoral votes, Alex. I mean, Spooky. Current estimate from my iPhone app (God I love this thing) is 311 Obama, 142 McBush. - Carla Thompson

There are a lot of people out there that see a landslide, but I just don't. I hope/think Obama will win, but he's not far enough ahead in the polls for me to be super confident that he will. I'm personally more vested in this election than any before it, as I think a lot of people are. If Obama loses, it will be a huge upset. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

There will be a lot of stunned people, my friends...and then they'll get progressively more depressed as they realize that palin is literally a heartbeat away from the big chair. senator obama won't tell you that. i will. - .LAG liked that

Obama is campaigning like he is behind, because I think he knows all sorts of strange crap is bound to happen, and that complacency ain't gonna win a presidential election, and because he has the money to do so. This is a guy who keeps all his bases covered. And I could very well ask, why the hell is McCain having to campaign in *Arizona*?!?! - Victor Ganata

Polls, schmolls - most of the national polls are meaningless, the margin is never quoted and almost always varies from one poll to another - statistically speaking I suspect there has been little change between the candidates in weeks. The only polls that are worth considering are at state level, independent/media and frequent (i.e. same poll/same questions/same target group/same time of day, etc. etc) - which few are. So is Obama's lead slipping - who knows! - Warrick Taylor

My prediction: if there's an upset, it's going to the Supreme Court. If McCain *still* wins it, there's going to be violence. Three times is too much. - Victor Ganata

fivethirtyeight.com takes state polls and national polls into account and weighs state polls as more accurate than national polls. It's about as accurate of a measure of where the candidates stand as you are likely to find. The fact that it hasn't budged much in McCain's direction for almost a month, speaks volumes. - Alex Scoble

@Robert - McCain only leads by 2 points in AZ - Obama could win this state -- but if McCain wins, we will know there has been widespread fraud (just like 2004) - William Harryman

It truly astounds me that there are still people who hold on to this fantasy that George W. Bush, criminal mastermind, "stole" the last two elections. - Joey Gibson

@victor... interesting: "three times is too much." people may start to wonder what's the point of voting at all. - .LAG liked that

Joey: you surprised by that? More than 20% of Americans believe he's a Muslim. So those two misbeliefs counter each other. - Robert Scoble

wigs lot's and lots of wigs that is all - Zehnchu

Norwood: I didn't count on the economy tanking and Palin turning out to be worse than I expected. I thought McCain and Palin would capture the imagery. Instead the economy knocked them off their game and put Obama in. - Robert Scoble

@Joey, Ohio was "stolen" in 2004, but not by Bush, he ain't that bright - William Harryman

It doesn't matter whether Bush stole the elections or not, any more than it matters whether OJ actually killed Nicole or not. Clearly, what matters is the perception, and there are a lot of aggrieved people out there. You never know which straw will finally break the camel's back. I'm predicting this hypothetical straw would. - Victor Ganata

If McCain wins, we'll all move to Canada. Get ready @shey! - Mike Reynolds

"what will happen if McCain pulls an upset and wins?" 200 million Americans will say in unison, "ARE YOU F$#@!#G KIDDING ME?" and swear in Barack Obama on January 20. ;) - John Craft

the power of PR. sadly, the majority of americans will think that it's out of demand versus out of a skilled, crafty publicity effort. just like with the movies.... - Patricia

And "Dewey Defeats Truman" was the headline in a paper once too...it's not over til it's over. - Andrew Leyden

@Patricia why couldn't it be both. Sure all that money can get you air time but if a movie/canidate ends up sucking demand goes down pretty quick. - Nelson de Witt from twhirl

Ah, it isn't just me then. - John Jarvis

Guys, get this recording done ;-) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I have that book but I haven't figured out a way to make time to finish reading it. Maybe I should watch the video. - Andrew Leyden

Great show Robert. - Orli Yakuel