I came across a pretty interesting newspaper article from the Chicago Tribune dated February 15, 2006.

The article is titled “Obama in ’08: O yes? Or o no?” by Eric Zorn.

The author quotes his own column from January 20, 2005 and gives pros and cons of Obama running for President. I found not only the article itself to be interesting but the comments section to be the best of all. The prism of time combined with no spin commentary gives a very accurate picture of the true feelings of the public toward Obama.

The fact that most people felt that Obama did not have experience and was too liberal to be elected came through very clearly.

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After reading the posting from Blackhedd entitled: “Financial Tsunami: Bill Gross whispers some frightening words“, I began thinking about the “perfect storm” in the financial markets related to the lack of credit.

To give a quick overview of a highly complex system, the credit markets work like this:

**People with money want to make more money

The people with money loan it to other people who need money

The people with money make more money by taking the risk of loaning it

The people who borrowed the money make money by USING the money to make more money…**

…and that is how Mommy money and Daddy money make Baby monies.

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