Comments on: On the politics of subprime and sex party houses….

By: Bill Oliver

Bill Oliver — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:50:34 +0000

My misunderstanding. I thought your blog was dedicated to “original insight and analysis” of SEC filings of interest to “professional money managers and analysts, as well as sophisticated individual investors.”

Political opinion is surely your right — but not my interest.

Good luck, and good bye.

By: Michelle Leder

Michelle Leder — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:44:03 +0000

@ Bill: My eye is on the ball. But keep in mind that this is my site. Do you agree with every article that you read in the WSJ? Or whatever other sites you visit? Do you contact those writers and tell them that they should only write about a particular subject and preferably the ones that you agree with?

One of the things that amazed me when I was canvassing was how bitter certain people were at the prospect of an Obama Administration. On Monday, I knocked on the door of a 70 year-old woman who came to the door in her bikini and told me that she wouldn’t be voting for “any damn socialist”. And there were these guys who I talked to over lunch on Monday — one of them was named Domenic — who upon seeing my friend’s Obama volunteer name-tag, started spewing the most vile racist crap and then applauded my “passion” when I tried to logically refute their idiotic arguments.

By: Bill Oliver

Bill Oliver — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:04:48 +0000

Please concentrate on the financial business at hand.

People interested in — and who support — your espoused research, are not remotely interested in your political thinking and conceivably have other political insight than your own. Worse, your comments are cheap at best.

No sense distracting one’s audience with extraneous, off-the-subject, grenades.

Keep your eye on the ball, please.

By: Michelle Leder

Michelle Leder — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:38:25 +0000

Thanks, JoJo. Appreciate the defense.

By: JoJo

JoJo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:21 +0000

James, Paul, Charlie, Tom,

Your attempts at censorship doesn’t work on the internet (you know, that “series of tubes”?). The writers on footnoted have the right to write whatever the heck they want on their blog with whatever political slant that they please. If you have a problem with that, go somewhere else. You won’t have any problem finding places that panders to your views. Your “50%” won’t be missed.

It’s funny how it’s always little boys who are so easily offended.

Keep up the KICK-ASS work Michelle et al. I would never have the patience trawling through the filings as you guys do.

By: Michelle Leder

Michelle Leder — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:33:41 +0000

@ Guillaume: Thanks for the support. It was meant to be ironic by pointing out that there’s clear beneficiaries of the subprime crisis. Countrywide may have gone out of business by making hundreds of loans like the one to the sex party house, but clearly the new owner benefited by getting a 9-bedroom waterfront house for a fraction of the price.

@Tom: Clearly you’re not that regular of a reader if you can’t even get the name of the site correct. Good luck reading those Edgar filings

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:32:53 +0000

Keep it coming, Michelle. Your post struck me more as an ironic observation than an aspersion cast upon the Arizona Senator.

Those responding posters just reinforce the argument that holier-than-thou social conservatives have hijacked the Republicans. With any luck the drubbing they are about to receive will restore the socially moderate and fiscally conservative small government wing of the party. It won’t be worse than eight years of irresponsible policy that has come out of Washington with the Repubs in charge.

By: Tom Malinowski

Tom Malinowski — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:15:31 +0000

I really have enjoyed (note – past tense!) your FOOTNOTE.ORG but…who the HELL gave you the right to inject your PERSONAL political opinions into something that I felt was non-partisan, non-political and CERTAINLY not a platform for YOUR political leanings!
Prior to this I WOULD’VE (note – past tense) been willing to pay for your expertise and opinions but -alas – you screwed up BIG TIME.
I’ll give you this much – for a quick time it’s been enlighting and informative.
ADIOS!

By: Michelle Leder

Michelle Leder — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:12:50 +0000

I’m not quite sure where to begin, but I’ll start here: This site is all about opinions. While most of them are focused on SEC filings, I occassionally turn to other things. If you want your SEC filings opinion-free, I suggest you start plowing through Edgar. As for thinking that the people who bought the house had no idea of it’s history, that simply defies logic.

By: James

James — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:18:03 +0000

You do your site a disservice when you open it to political spin. Remember, around 50% of the country does not see things the way you do. Best not to cut your membership in half.