Given that he taught at free-market-fountainhead University of Chicago and socializes with many of its most famous conservatives, I suspect he will treat conservatives with respect. Obama's most blistering criticims never mention "conservatism." Rather, they focus on Bush, whom many conservatives have disowned. And in interviews he has never demonized Bush. Rather, he says he believes Bush generally acts in good will and based on firmly held beliefs. He just argues that those beliefs are incorrect.

He does NOT say that he represents "real Americans." He says he will represent all Americans.

A friend of mine was a student of Obama's at U of C. One of his classmates was Gonzales' former chief of staff (Ted Ullyot). My friend reports that Obama was very fair-minded in the classroom and equally challenging to liberal points of view as to conservatives. And my friend is actually a fan of McCain, though he's voting for Obama.

• 4 weeks ago

Lateef, that may be true for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities like YouTube, but the vast majority of businesses don't fit that criteria, particularly B2B. You may not get the billion dollar exit in three years, but that's true of most VC businesses anyway, let alone non-VC companies.

• 5 weeks ago

Yes but the Fed's money is fiat currency, not taxpayer money. $700 billion is easily the single largest peacetime government expenditure in history. Though if it works, we'll likely get some of that back as with the Resolution Trust Corp in the late 80s and 90s.

• 7 weeks ago

I think the election has a small role at best. $700 billion is a jaw-dropping amount of money, and Bush likely wouldn't do it if he could avoid it what with the political consequences. Also, it's not every day that Goldman Sachs elects to become a bank holding company.

• 7 weeks ago

This election is about to get fugly.

• 8 weeks ago