If Nominated I Will Not Run. Or Bowl.

Joe Scarborough sets the bar a bit too high for my Presidential aspirations:

"You know Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man." He added, "You get 150, you're a man, or a good woman," to which Geist replied, "Out of my president, I want a 150, at least."

A 150 bowling score is well within my reach but I can't guarantee you I will be able to walk in off of the street (and away from my surely hectic campaign) and roll a 150 first time out.  Do I get a practice round?

That said, Obama's score (37 after seven frames) is pretty brutal, as is his "form".  Guess they don't teach bowling in those madrasses.

But I agree with Harold Ford - Obama looks like he could make himself useful in a touch football game.  And a guy who could rain threes even before the shot had been adopted by the NBA, the NCAA, or the local high schools must be an early pick in any basketball game. 

So let's have the Open All-Stupid Competition; nominees include:

(a) the Obama staffer who put a bowling alley on the agenda and a bowling ball in Barack's hand;

(b) the newsies who went on endlessly about this;

(c) the blogger who picked up on it...

BEST BACK-SPIN:  Obama strategist David Axelrod explained to Scarborough that this incident was especially embarrassing because Hillary had just announced that she had bowled a 300 game while negotiating a settlement to the Darfur problem with world leaders.

OR EVEN BESTER BACK SPIN:  Hillary goes to town on this:

"Clearly we need to do something so that our party and the people can make the right decision" about who to nominate, Clinton told reporters after her speech to the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia. "I am challenging Sen. Obama to a bowl-off. A bowling match. Right here in Pennsylvania -- winner take all."

It would be a winning strategy; you can debate who's stronger on the issue, who's more electable, who competes best with John McCain, but it is simply not possible that Clinton bowls worse than Obama, who tried out his skills as a kegler in Altoona Saturday night. He was, indisputably, terrible, sending his first two tries wide right and scoring a 37 through seven frames before he quit. To be fair, I haven't seen Clinton bowl. But I watched Obama's entire painful game up close, and I doubt it could be duplicated.

So Clinton found herself with an irresistible April Fools' play. "It's time for his campaign to get out of the gutter," Clinton said this morning, earning actual laughs from the press, not the sort of polite, "well, at least they're trying" chuckles that many politicians get for their jokes.

HANDICAPPING THE POLS:  David Patterson could bowl better than a 37.

TRANSCENDING RACE, SORT OF.

SCOUTING REPORT:  Obama likes to take one step to the right and shoot.  Hmm, that one step would take him from the far left to the center-left...

EYE OF THE TIGER, HILL, EYE OF THE TIGER:  Hillary is Rocky?  OK, Obama speaks far too well to be Rocky, so he must be Apollo Creed.  Bit of a bummer when he gets to Rocky IV, especially after being VP in Rocky III.

Comments

[Elliott]

Who's doing better with his NCAA tournament bracket, McCain or Obama?

[Paul Zrimsek]

Don't be dissing that poor staffer; he kept hearing his boss ask "What do the Poles say?"

[DebinNC]

via Ed Morrissey - MSNBC Obama bowling discussion

I want to know why Casey and Obama felt the need to roll up their sleeves for the cameras but didn't even loosen their ties, much less remove them.

[hit and run]

Chris Matthews says:

Summary: On Hardball, discussing Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance at a campaign stop, Chris Matthews said to MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, "You know, Michelle -- and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody, but the fact that he's that terrible at bowling does make you wonder." While showing the video of Obama's bowling, Matthews asserted, "[I]t isn't the most macho form there."

[Danube of Thought]

It's not as painful as watching Kerry conscripting a few staffers to throw a football around on the tarmac in front of the photographers. We were supposed to think of the Kennedy touch football games on the lawn at Hyannis Port, but instead what we thought of was another phony contrivance.

[Barney Frank]

David Patterson could bowl better than a 37.

[MayBee]

I've always believed that bowling is one activity it is acceptable - preferable, even- to suck at.

That may be because I do.

[DebinNC]

"David Patterson could bowl better than a 37."

LOL

[Porchlight]

So let's have the Open All-Stupid Competition; nominees include:

(d) the candidate for agreeing to such silliness.

Yet more evidence of Obama's superior judgment.

[DebinNC]

Hillary "Rocky" Clinton

“Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people.”

Will we see a boxing gloved Hillary pummelling a punching bag effigy of George Bush or John McCain?

[Cecil Turner]

The youtube guys are having fun with it, but this Family Guy clip was funniest:

I must say I do feel a strange satisfaction watching the black ball topple all those self-righteous white pins.

[Ann]

RUSH is reading Clarice's article at AT. She's a STAR!!!!

[Sue]

Ann beat me to it! Rush and Clarice...sittin' in the tree...

::woohoo::

[hit and run]

My personal best is 254.

On my son's Wii

[DebinNC]

OT: Fifteen minutes into his 3rd hour, Rush is reading from a "fascinating piece in the AT by Clarice Feldman" about McCain-Feingold ... it's a "tremendous overview"...

[Sue]

My 3 year old granddaughter bowled a 43. The man should never have agreed to bowl. Shouldn't. Have. Done. It.

[Sue]

I used to bowl in a league when I was in high school. My average was in the 180s. I have no idea if I could still do that or not.

[PaulL]

Yeah, it's obvious that Rush is just smitten with Clarice.

[SWarren]

Rush said he's linking Clarice on his website.
Said it would be up after 3:00pm.
Congrats Clarice!

[DebinNC]

Free Republic is back up, and Clarice's piece has been posted in full.

[Ann]

Hit,

I have to open a new Google account everytime I try and post at THEvimh. Sometimes that doesn't even work.

I bet you would have alot of traffic if it wasn't such a drag to post. It took be forever just to post "Brilliant" last night. :)

Just wishing you the best!

[Enlightened]

Chris Matthews - Bwaahahahhh. Good one. Not Macho, but definitely ethnic. Well allrighty then.

[centralcal]

Ann, I had the same problem at VIMH. When I just have to comment - I usually end up doing it back here at JOM! lol.

[Jane]

I have a funny bowling story that may bore you all to tears.

Several years ago a bunch of athletes and I were visiting a friend. It was raining so we decided to go bowling. I was picked (last I'm sure) for a team and everyone expected me to throw gutter balls. I hadn't bowled in 25 years.

Suddenly I was 3/4 way thru a perfect game. No one could figure out why. I actually had no idea how to bowl but I kept getting strike after strike. There was a big tournament going on in the alleys and I was beating everyone in the tournament.

I figured out the reason right after I blew the perfect game. I was a curler. (yeah I know). And curling is a lot like bowling, except harder and on ice.

So I fooled them all, including myself!

For a fee, I'll give Barack lessons.

[Syl]

The perfect thread to give the new MSNBC slogan.

MSNBC, THE Place for Obamatics

Har har har

[bgates]

You know, Michelle -- and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody
It surprises me. Kenyans have a great reputation for distance running, but sprinting? Google 'kenyan sprint' and you get a bunch of marathon stories. Chris Matthews must go to Greece expecting to find tall Nordic women because, hey, Europe.

The SI story has Obama claiming he could dunk in high school. His brother in law says not so.

[hit and run]

Thanks Ann.

Gonna try and fix it. How? Anybody's guess at this point.

[Syl]

If I thought MSNBC as a whole is in the tank for the O, CNN is first runner up.

Today they showed the gutter ball THEN showed Obama making a slam dunk.

See? He's really a great athlete after all.

Sigh.

[Enlightened]

"Today they showed the gutter ball THEN showed Obama making a slam dunk."

Ugh. Pandermania gone beserk.

[hit and run]

Jane...a curler?

That's...hot!

And Rush has a crush on Clarice? Of course, we all do. But I suggest he tread lightly...unless he wants a strongly worded email challenging him to mud wrestle.

[Danube of Thought]

Beautiful, Clarice!

[clarice]

Thank you all--I asked my doc which finger I was holding up and told her I was cutting back on the statins because I was turning into a zombie on them--That article was me on half dose of statins (3 days ). In mid-May if my blood test is good--or maybe even if it doesn't Lipitor is going out the window.

As to this bowling thing...Don't underestimate it..remember Bush's perfect pitches vs. Kerry's "hunting" and "windsurfing" and football fumbles on the tarmac. Damn straight if I'm voting for a man, I want to vote for a MAN.

[hit and run]

By the way, Syl...a few threads ago Cathyf's bday came up...and the fact that we missed it.

IIRC, we have also missed yours...it is on or very near the first day of spring, no?

Happy Birthday!!!

Even if I am wrong.

[Jane]

Damn straight if I'm voting for a man, I want to vote for a MAN.

OOooh Oooh Ooooh!

[rhodeymark]

AT not blogrolled at JOM? I can't find it in the sidebar anywhere... curious.

[Lesley]

Filed Under: Something You Will NEVER See on National Television.

Barack Obama challenges some serious gamers to a round of 'Halo."

[Syl]

H&R

Happy Birthday!!!

Even if I am wrong.

Awwwww. thanks. Mine is on the anniversary of Shock and Awe (3/19). Hated to call it a birthday present in 2003, but it sure felt like it then.

Heh.

BTW, don't feel bad. My Joe forgot it completely. LOL I finally sang 'will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm....' and he just stared at me.

[cathyf]

When my now 10-yr-old daughter was about 7 we started going bowling. She bowls by putting the ball down behind the line, lying down behind it and sighting down the lane, and pushing off. About 2/3 of the time it ends up in the gutter, but the other 1/3 of the time, man she knocks down an appalling number of pins!

What's most hilarious is watching some big burly guy throw the ball really really hard, and have it cut through the pins "like butter" and only knock down the pins it directly contacts. Because it's moving so fast that the pins that get hit are driven straight backwards and don't even touch any other pins. So the guy is standing there bemusedly contemplating his 3, while in the lane next to his my daughter's ball is slowly drizzling down the lane. It get to the end and bounces off of the pins, and goes sideways, and the pins go sideways, and pretty soon 7 or 8 of them have fallen down in the slow-motion chain reaction.

This really pisses off her 14-yr-old brother, who ends up well behind her in score. (Although even he usually does better than a 37!)

[Elliott]

"A man, oh no, Jean-Louis."

(From this wonderful yet sadly underrated film.)

[Elliott]

That's a great bowling story, Jane. You're probably a very good putter, too. It's good to know these things.

[fdcol63]

Obama kept rolling gutter balls.

How appropriate.

[GMax]

Main Event is a childrens arcade, seems to be a chain so maybe some others have them in their neck of the woods too. Anyway, they have the ability to put up bumpers for the kids, so no gutter balls.

Obama should have asked for the bumpers.

In sever frames only 43, and he had a spare someplace I think I read? O my word that an average of about three pins a ball...

Man will that be the conversation around the bowling leagues around Pa. You can vote for a guy is not good enough to even bowl in the beer league...

[clarice]

I know I'm ill-tempered but had my scheduler put me in a bowling alley just before the Pa primary and I bowled this poorly, I'd fire him.

You can't imagine what a laughing stock this makes him.

(I'm not from Pa., but I am from a working class area in Wisconsin and I know what I'm talking about.)

[Neo]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner more than $1 million in legal fees in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.

Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered McDermott to pay Boehner $1.05 million in attorney's fees and costs, plus about $40,000 in interest. McDermott, a Washington Democrat, also had to pay more than $60,000 in fines and damages, as well as nearly $600,000 in fees to his own lawyers.

McDermott said Tuesday he would not appeal the judge's ruling.

[DebinNC]

Hillary bowls an orange at 10,000 Ft. in heels and with a little jig at the end.[video link at bottom of the page]

[hit and run]

After Obama's series of fabrications over the last few weeks, I'm not sure I can trust that he even bowled a 37.

I demand a copy of the video for review.

[Soylent Red]

You all may be interested in knowing that I am, no kidding, a certified bowling coach. Went to a school for it and everything.

In fact, at one point in my life, I was into it so much I considered becoming a pro. Unfortunately that's not as easy as it sounds.

Bowling moderately well is largely a function of keeping the ball on the lane. Bowling really well is being able to throw the ball so that you can predict where it will strike the pins. Bowling at a professional level really boils down to being able to correctly determine how the lane is affecting your throw, and being able to repeat your throw exactly the same way each time. Simple game.

Now, to score a 37 after 7 frames, at least in my opinion, suggests that Obamessiah wasn't even trying. I coached Special Olympics and even those kids could do better than that.

This was simply a photo-op designed to make him look like his conception of a regular guy. I can totally see the Obamessiah war room sitting down and trying to figure out what would resonate with all those beer-swilling blue-collar -skis in southern PA. Ah yes, of course, we must go bowling.

I'm surprised he didn't want to "git him some of them bowling shoes".

Obamessiah's lack of bowling acumen points to his overall L-7 weenie-ness, and forces me to mark him a zero, dude.

Not Presidential material.

[GMax]

As goofy to Joe Sixpack as riding around in a funny helmet peeking out of a tank? Or wearing a clean room suit and crawling on your hands and knees for the cameras? I think this ranks right there. Is there video?

[Rick Ballard]

"I demand a copy of the video for review."

I'll bet he got the 2,4,7,8 mostly, picking up the 5 and 9 occasionally. My problem is the spare - how'd he ever get the ball far enough to the right to catch the head pin? Did he send the ball to a re-education camp afterwards?

[clarice]

I can bowl better than a 37 and I'm an old biddy klutz.

[Soylent Red]

I'm an old biddy klutz.

But you write magical, insightful commentary, quoting some of the greatest thinkers of our day.

Bowling can be taught. That which you do, not so much.

[M. Simon]

Soylent,

If you are ever in Rockford give me a shout and we and get together at Don Carter lanes.

My right arm is not what it used to be, but I'd be glad to watch.

[M. Simon]

BTW my dad was an avid bowler. The Rose Bowl in Omaha. He was a good friend of Rubin for whom the Rubin Sandwich is named.

My mate ate one of those at a Chicago Deli on Lincoln Ave. (The Belmont Cafe IIRC) a few hours before she went into labor with #1 son. She lost the whole thing.

It was a good sandwich too. Piled high with lean corned beef. Great fries.

[M. Simon]

Reuben Origins.

Reuben was a grocer as was my dad. Jewish grocers in Omaha were a tight bunch.

[Soylent Red]

My right arm is not what it used to be, but I'd be glad to watch.

I heard that. Busted my wrist two months ago in training. Tonight or tomorrow my father and I are going to go out and see if it ruined my bowling. Might have to teach myself how to roll left-handed. That would be a bummer.

[Brian]

I thought the whole bowling story was hilarious, and Hillary is certainly the better Rocky (is Obama Apollo Creed?)

If you want to see something interesting on Hillary, though, look at this hilarious take on the omissions from the Clinton Library:
http://ladycatherinebedamned.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-was-in-clinton-library-redactions.html

[Soylent Red]

Oh, and I have eaten many a sloppy namesake sandwich at the Dell up in Midtown. Went to graduate school up the road about a half mile, and used to consume adult beverages there.

And Jewish grocers in Omaha are still a tight bunch. I'm still trying to infiltrate the Pastrami Mafia.

[clarice]

"quoting some of the greatest thinkers of our day"--HEH.

[clarice]

What fun! From Drudge:

NYT WEDS: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON DEM LEADER DEAN; INSIDERS QUESTION ABILITY TO NAVIGATE PRIMARY FINISH... DEVELOPING...
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[DebinNC]

The ref (Dean} will announce the fight will only last 8 rounds (until June or 4-23 if Rocky loses PA), after which the judges (superdelegates)will award the win to the black guy.

[hit and run]

Soylent:
"quoting some of the greatest thinkers of our day"

Well, that's a "modest proposal" that I'll gladly second!

[fdcol63]

After seeing what he's done to his own party, can you imagine the damage that Dean could have done to America if he hadn't yelled?

What a moron.

[clarice]

He is a moron , but he's in good company and shouldn't take the fall for this. The rules were preposterous, he was not the onw who decided on his own that Fla and MI shoud be punished and as I said in AT, the CFR has speeded up the splintering of the Dem party.
The "insiders" may want to get rid of Dean, but the nutroots will surely see this as a CLinton move to get rid of them and their loser Obama.

[Barney Frank]

the CFR has speeded up the splintering of the Dem party

Does this mean we're going to have to start calling McCain a magnificent bastard too?

[clarice]

He didn't know what hewas doing, however, so no, Barney...God just looks over the decent but stupid.

[Rick Ballard]

I started that a long time ago, Barney. Except for the "magnificent" part. I kind of like having a candidate that I don't feel a need to defend.

Clarice,

I'm going to cling to my Dean's Revenge concept right through BHO's defeat in November. There's no way BHO could have come through with the organizational strength he has shown in the caucuses without Dean (and the SEIU) providing a ton of talent.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Okay, this story just flat does it. have there been any news stories today that weren't April Fools' stories?

[centralcal]

The chief PMS gal at PMS-NBC (Norah O'D) interviewed Dean today. Talk about awkward! I wonder if Media Matters will go after her, since she was definitely not fawning over Howard. Even asked him if the whole primary problem was his fault!

This is so danged much fun to watch, I don't want it to ever end. RW just has to keep on keepin' on.

[Topsecretk9]

McCain asked Hugh Hewitt to be his official press person - Hugh's leaning towards doing it.

[Topsecretk9]

It was an April's Fools!

[clarice]

Maybe, Rick--If we see big howls from Obama's supporters to the report about Dean being removed, we'll get some evidence to support your view.

[centralcal]

Oh, and by the way Clarice - looks like the liberal MSMers are finding themselves in a bit of a briar patch themselves. Can't stop grinning!

Plus, I didn't hear Rush's show today, but he has a graph up on his website of all the newly minted dem and crossover voters in PA who registered on the last day of eligibility. He is taking credit for that with his Operation Chaos.

[clarice]

Operation Chaos tops even his auctioning off of Reid's idiotic letter to him. I never met the guy but I love him.

[GMax]

Dean apparently has 25 appointees to the credentials committee. So its not at all out of character for Hill to be having proxies take shots at Dean. Look for a call for Dr. Dean to step down soon. Its coming. Those 25 appointees decide if and how Fla and Mich get to participate in the convention as Hill and Mess will be so close that neither will have a majority without the DNC 25.

[Danube of Thought]

I once had my own bowling shirt. The corporate department at our firm used to have these evening meetings every few months, and at some point they came up with the corporated department blazer, complete with some kind of breast-pocket widget.

So a guy in our litigation department commissioned the litigation department bowling shirts, which were lovely yellow satin items with the firm name and our individual first names embroidered on the breast pockets. On the back, in flowing script, was the name of a wholly fictional bowling alley, "Cahuenga Lanes," derived from Cahuenga Boulevard, which on certain stretches had a number of spots that would have been ideal for such an establishment.

Years later somebody inquired as to how many of us still had these beauties, and enough of us did that one Saturday afternoon a bunch of us went bowling, all wearing our shirts. I'm sure we looked like a bowling team when we arrived, but some guys were not much better than Obama. I don't know what the other people at the bowling alley thought, but because this was long before You-Tube we weren't concerned with any blow-back.

[Danube of Thought]

I don't see Dean stepping down no matter who calls for it. I don't know what it takes to have him removed and replaced, but it would be a lovely indication of a political party in utter disarray. And they want to run the Executive Branch.

[clarice]

It would make everything from now to the election even more chaotic to remove him at this point. Remember he's probably picked all the major employees there--Even suggesting he'll be removed, will (as institutions go) create an intolerable work atmosphere where little gets done.

[Sue]

Maybe Dean has a plan. That includes him stepping in and taking the nomination away from both of them. ::grin::

[glasater]

Karl Rove's recommendations for the D's election.

[glasater]

Or rather--how to handle their convention.

[centralcal]

I would be curious to see a really good financial analysis of this campaign season.

The D's candidates have raised about a bazillion bucks. (Ron Paul did almost as well, but ain't a real Republican). Our candidate (with no money) claimed victory early on, their side still duking it out and spending, spending, spending.

Will there be Dem donation fatigue when they finally have a general election candidate? And hasn't this whole campaign season pretty much shown that money really doesn't do much to help (look how far Huckabee went with no dough).

[DebinNC]

Dean may be breathing much easier soon if Bob Barr decides to reprise Ross Perot's spoller role.

[MayBee]

Bob Barr was not even re-elected in his own district. I think he'd be humiliated in a presidential bid.

[DebinNC]

He might siphon off enough McCain votes to give the win to the Dem though. He'll have the Libertarian label + the Ron Paul zealots.

[MayBee]

I don't know. I think the Ron Paul zealots are the Ron Paul zealots.

[Danube of Thought]

Barr is a revolting, vainglorious fool.

[clarice]

Isn't he? I hope someone close to him can persuade him this will go nowhere.

[Jane]

I think it's funny how you can identify which media hack supports Obama and who supports Hillary by whether or not she should get out of the race.

[clarice]

Heh--Jane, When is some Mass reporter going to confrint Kerry/Kennedy about supporeting Obama when the party members of their state picked Hill? Can't wait to see make every vote count guys handle that one.

[Porchlight]

I think you're right, Jane, and I think we should make a list of who's supporting whom. It could be very useful for gauging coverage in the general and beyond.

[Jane]

Oh yeah, right. No one is gonna do that here because the distaste for our governor, Obama's source of speech material is sooooo high. By the time Patrick's term is over, Obama won't be able to book a hotel room in the Bay State.

Don't forget, Patrick won nearly 70% of the vote with the same empty rhetoric - and in one short year he has nearly bankrupted the state.

He's absent, arrogant and completely unqulaified to be dog catcher.

[Sue]

I'll go first. Chrissy Matthews and his tingly leg. Obama.

[cathyf]

He's absent, arrogant and completely unqulaified to be dog catcher.

I would think that "absent" would be one of his good points!

[Tuoe]

Dems are interviewing with CBC. Obama wins.

Canadians do business in a strange way. They stare through your head and tell you what your seeing. Then they tell you about your day. Then they tell you about your accounts. Then they tell you who you screwed. Then they tell you what your seeing as you dream. Then they tell you what to see. It's dreams and nightmares and you just went to the circus, go figure it.

There is always Toronto. Go up and do business. Dems are already doing this for you. When it's Bill again, don't blame Canadians. They know how to do business.

April 1st and there can't be a fool. Maybe we should leave it to the NHL, but there are other sports.

[DRW]

Tingly leg. It's a new disease. There is a new pill out last year. Of course it came out of a pain treatment from one group due to pain from another group. They have two times the stroke or heart disease problem of others without the disease, which is not neurological. Of course, the disease was a pain treatment...........

[Jane]

I would think that "absent" would be one of his good points!

That's what they used to accuse Romney of - despite the fact that he ran the state pretty well. It's a big deal around here - I can't tell you why. Last week when his signature issue came to a vote he was in NYC shopping his life story. Boy did that fry people.

I can't tell you enough about the similarities with the Messiah. He was all talk while campaigning, and people swooned. He refused to take any positions on anything, except change. I couldn't believe it. Everyone was so in love with him. They hate his guts these days.

I predict the exact same fate if Obama is elected.

[Ann]

Keith Olbermann is for O B A M A!

The great thing is his show use to be my sister-in-laws fave. All they did was rave about him until recently. Now they think he is a crazy, ranting, nutjob. It is so delightful!!!

[Sue]

Now they think he is a crazy, ranting, nutjob.

He is a crazy, ranting, nutjob.

[Rick Ballard]

CathyF,

A question for you. The NYMEX crude contract specification has trade limits described thusly:

Maximum Daily Price Fluctuation

$10.00 per barrel ($10,000 per contract) for all months. If any contract is traded, bid, or offered at the limit for five minutes, trading is halted for five minutes. When trading resumes, the limit is expanded by $10.00 per barrel in either direction. If another halt were triggered, the market would continue to be expanded by $10.00 per barrel in either direction after each successive five-minute trading halt. There will be no maximum price fluctuation limits during any one trading session.

If I'm interpreting the margin requirements correctly, a 1,000 barrel contract at $100.71 per barrel requires a cash outlay of $7,763 (plus transaction costs), for a leverage of 12.88/1. The open interest is 349,071 contracts with a notional total value of $35 billion and change backed by $2.7 billion in margin.

If I'm reading the Maximum Daily Fluctuation correctly, one could, in theory, see a series of limit drops taking the price to $10 in one session. I realize that won't happen but I can imagine a $20 drop in one day. That would be a $7 billion bust which is actually no big deal in the grand scheme, but could the hedge funds actually come up with $4.3 billion overnight? Do hedge funds have that kind of access to quick funds, especially considering the fact that they would be borrowing to cover actual losses?

[Danube of Thought]

Note that he is a crazy, rambling nutjob who, having denounced the sitting president as a pathological liar, was selected by NBC News to be a network commentator on election coverage following some of the primaries.