Yes, he did. You can see it here at about the 1:53:00 mark.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1205470

Ok you got me. I’d like to be able to offer a really good excuse along the lines of “splint”, “splinch” … or maybe, “I’m a touch typist whose keyboard is out of alignment” … but I’m not, it isn’t and it was the vodka. Vodka and schadenfreud are a great combination.

… rather than ‘what can I do to fix the problem, no matter what it takes’.

“I give it about another 3 months for the wheels to come of or for POTUS to moderate. I’m not holding out for moderation… “

Even those who voted him are starting to have second thoughts…
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196634.php

But it’s probably already too late,….
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/cnbcs-cramer-on-obama-its-amateur-hour.html
…and if my guess is correct, we ain’t seen nuthin yet!

Why would I say that? Well, because I think he isn’t making “honest mistakes.” He probably knows exactly what he’s doing,…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

I don’t mean this to judgmental at all, but when someone can consider leaving his country, that means he has no patriotism, no love of his country or sense of a national identity. I submit that may be what got us into this mess to begin with. But then, the Leftist school, news and entertainment systems have been undermining that aspect of our world view for at least the last generation, so it should be no surprise that at the first sign of national trouble one’s first thought is of where one can go to escape it.

with the USA heading towards socialism

“God has a sense of humor,” said protester Rhody Streeter, of Louisville, Ky., referring to the weather.”

A sillier statement has rarely been uttered.

You know much more about investing than I ever will, but I may know some things about the Brazilian economy that you do not know (news that doesn’t make it out of the country). We may want to have that beer sooner rather than later.

Your on! You’ve got my number & email. Pick it. (Gordon B. is nice in Palo Alto…)

FWIW, I’m largely in the PBR Petrobras oils and CZZ (sugarcane, land, alcool – bought for about the price of the cash they had in the bank at the time). And some metals / miners. The “Drop it on your foot it hurts” paradigm… But facts on the ground are always valuable. My biggest concern is some socialist taking over and nationalizing things and running the money out of the country and … oh wait, wrong country ;-)

Hmmm With Ford stock at $1.88 I wonder if the Ford Foundation could buy out the whole company?… Just thinkin… Profile says Ford market cap now $4.37 B and web search says Ford Foundation has an endowment of $13 B so I suppose they could… if they wanted to… Then they could run it as a charity for all the Ford retirees! By George, I think I have a solution!

You know much more about investing than I ever will, but I may know some things about the Brazilian economy that you do not know (news that doesn’t make it out of the country). We may want to have that beer sooner rather than later.

I would only point out that the name stood for National State Socialist… and now that we are a socialist economy it’s not surprising that their would be similarities in the socialist rhetoric.

Oddly enough, my neighbor (aeronautic engineer – masters) & spouse are planning to move to South America (somewhere near the equator, I forget where). My Mercedes mechanic ( from Germany ) is talking about selling his business and heading to Brazil with his Brazilian wife. My spouses childhood friend moved to Chile a few years back.

So I’m now thinking “Argentina, Chile, Brazil, ???” Leaning toward Chile due to the Mediterranean climate and wines… I’m OK with Spanish (it was my first second language ;-) and can sort of read Portuguese (close enough to Spanish, French, Esperanto, etc. to make good guesses) but the sounds are still hard for me to track. Then there are the French and English speaking islands and former colonies. Decisions decisions…

Folks with money and skills looking to get out of Dodge…

So Adolfo, you live down that way… You have any suggestions? (No, I don’t mean “stay home” ;-) Any ideas where all us US Expatriots (to be) would be most at ease? (My money is already invested in Brazil, so I’m not worried about the dollar any more…) Anybody down there need experienced computer programers or project managers? Professional teachers with US credentials and poor/accented Spanish? Retired guy with ‘accounts’?

I give it about another 3 months for the wheels to come of or for POTUS to moderate. I’m not holding out for moderation…

The good news is that at the present rate he will be saddled with a very republican house in 2 years. The bad news is that it will take 2 years…

“manacker – any chance you could post the cites for your contradictions…. Thanks”

Contradiction #1:
IPCC projects global warming at a rate of 0.2C per decade in the early 21st century; so far the first 8 years of the 21st century have shown cooling at an average rate of around 0.1C per decade. Oops!
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/annual.land_and_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual
ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/monthly_time_series/rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_1.txt

Contradiction #2:
IPCC states that the rate of sea level rise has increased in the latter part of the 20th century, switching from tide gauge records to satellite altimetry; the tide gauge record shows a slight decrease in sea level rise in the second half of the 20th century, as compared to the first half. Hmm…
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006GL028492.shtml

Contradiction #3:
IPCC states that changes in solar irradiance since 1750 are estimated to cause a radiative forcing of only 0.12 W/m^2, equivalent to a net warming of around 0.02C; several studies by solar scientists conclude that the 20th century warming caused by the unusually high level of solar activity is around 0.35C. Ouch!
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/bradley/lean1995.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/334163/Phenomenological-solar-contribution-to-the-19002000-global-surface-warming
http://cc.oulu.fi/~usoskin/personal/nature02995.pdf
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/solanki2004/solanki2004.html
http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/g_warming/solar.html
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/wdcc1/papers/grlcover.html.
http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap02/sunspots.html
http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr/1/c001p161.pdf
http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt760405/PDF/2005MmSAI..76..969G.pdf
http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-14-3-e4&ct=1
(I’ve got more, but that should do)

Contradiction #4:
IPCC states that the warmth of the last half century is unusual in at least the previous 1,300 years, ignoring overwhelming physical and historical evidence of a warmer global Medieval Warm Period. Huh?
http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2003/23/c023p089.pdf
http://www.ncasi.org/publications/Detail.aspx?id=3025
(plus many historical references from all over the civilized world at the time, in addition to many reports of physical evidence disci=overed under receding glaciers)

Contradiction #5:
IPCC claims that the satellite temperature record has shown a faster rate of tropospheric warming than that at the surface, confirming the anthropogenic cause of warming; both the satellite and radiosonde record show less warming than the surface record. Oops!
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter3.pdf
(See links to satellite and surface temperature records cited in #1 above)

Contradiction #6:
IPCC models all assume a strongly positive feedback from clouds with warming, resulting in 1.3C of the total assumed 2xCO2 climate sensitivity of 3.2C; actual physical observations show a strongly negative net feedback from clouds of around the same order of magnitude; correcting the 2xCO2 climate sensitivity for this factor brings it to around 0.6 to 0.8C, rather than 3.2C. Ouch!
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter8.pdf
http://blog.acton.org/uploads/Spencer_07GRL.pdf

Contradiction #7:
IPCC staes confidently that the upward distortion of the surface temperature record due to the urban heat island effect has a negligible influence of less than 0.006C per decade; many studies from all over the world show that the UHI influence is thirty to fifty times as great as claimed by IPCC. Oh, oh!
(Correction: UHI is not “thirty to fifty times as great as claimed by IPCC” but rather around five to ten times.)
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/nvst.html
http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_Part3_UrbanHeat.htm
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1742-2140/2/4/S04
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AGUFM.U51A..03T
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16189789
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/china-climate.htm
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1175%2F2007JCLI1348.1&ct=1
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=470710
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-21/temperature.htm
http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/atm/Vol18-4/ATM18404.pdf
http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_Part3_UrbanHeat.htm
(There are more, but this should suffice)

Ahhh, I overlooked that information before. Now this is the reason for the person onstage wearing a peculiar combination of hemp crocheted hat AND a tie… However, there was not much of dress clothes around, but the more of thick parkas.

Werlcome to socialism America

Tonyb