Kreskin's Predictions for 2009

This past year of 2008 proved to be a successful one in the prognostications of the Amazing Kreskin.

Early in the year, ten days before the Iowa Caucus vote, I appeared on CBS News, CNN News, Fox News Network, etc. and made three predictions about the results of the Iowa Caucus. Each proved to be correct.

Later on in the year, when the Super Bowl was about to be played, I appeared on a Fox television program 4 days before. My prediction was that the Giants would win. I did not expect to give the score, but stated they would win by 3 points. The final score was 17 - 14.

The major prediction, of course, was the Presidential election, but what made it special is that I filed the prediction at a location next to the United Nations called the World Bar eleven months earlier, namely in December of 2007, when key prominent figures included Mayor Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, as well as Senator McCain. My prediction of the Presidency, which was revealed 2 days after the election in November 2008, was correct. My analysis of his thinking to bring this about is even more dramatic.

2009
These are some of the impressions that I have for the coming year:

Waterboarding, and its controversy regarding unfair torture, will be taught as a skill to be experienced by terrorists. This will be uncovered before the end of the year.

If a terrorist attack succeeds on the U.S. mainland within the next 2 years, Attorney General Eric Holder will be blamed by a considerable percentage of the American public.

Hillary Clinton will be seriously encouraged to run for the Presidency in 2012. If President Barack Obama doesn't win a second term, the cause will be Hillary Clinton.

As Hollywood diminishes as a meaningful location for the motion picture industry, along with India, one of the strongest locations of movie-making will be the state of Connecticut. Unfortunately, it will not be successful in the state of New Jersey.

In the spirit of the great Jackie Gleason, a renewed area for professional entertainers, many of whom are out of business because of the recession, will develop in the next few years. It will be on trains. Thankfully the government will come to its senses and borrow and learn from Europe, making trains a viable and tremendously successful public form of public transportation.

Within 4 years it will become clear to businessmen and the American public that bankruptcy is a far more realistic and successful form of reconstruction for a business or industry than is tremendous amounts of bailout money.

If immense monetary bailouts continue and spread, the recession will last longer than 4 ½ years.

As our national politicians who are claiming to represent the American people continue to put heavy restrictions and controls over certain industries, such as the automotive industry, the lack of insight into how to control the banking industry will result in less and less loans for the American citizens, and the money the banks receive being abused and used to buy other banks. The likelihood is that by the end of Obama's first period in office, there will be less than 6 banks in the United States.

There will be an outcry, both from professional behaviorists and some part of the U.S. public, especially during the increasing and deepening recession, that something be done to bring the lotteries to a realistic level, instead of destroying the lives of individuals winning tons of dollars, sometimes in the 40-50+ millions. Since the average person would probably be happy winning just a couple of million dollars, some enterprising, mathematical-minded individual will come up with a way in which a multitude of people can win the results of a lottery, rather than dropping the money into one family, and in many, many cases destroying their lives with the sudden, excessive wealth.

One of the blessings that will come out of the deepening recession will be the rebirth of mom and pop stores. This will be counter-balanced to the disaster and the closing of many shopping malls in the United States, or at least many of their occupants.

A study will reveal, as has been expected, that many very young kids are developing more slowly and later in their ability to verbally communicate. Cell phones will be suspected as one of the causes, because of parents ignoring communications of children while they are preoccupied on the phone.

There will be a growing movement in the United States to follow in the steps of England, and that is to restrict, discourage, or even ban cell phones in restaurants.

The practice of vegetarianism will be found to be a dangerous aspect in the health of certain individuals.

While I cannot give the month and the year, it is inevitable that the draft in the United States will be reinstated. It will be realized by more and more Americans that the dissolving of the draft was a gigantic mistake.

There will be a movement to increase the length of the school year for children.

While the recession will continue to deepen and affect every aspect of the business world and even our social lives, there will be some pluses to come out of this. One of the most significant is the popularity of the kitchen. People will join together, sitting around a kitchen table, a popular activity amongst many nationalities when they originally came to this country. It will be a source of socializing, while imbibing in light meals or food or drink, and will enrich the relationship of people with their loved ones, relatives, and friends. People will discover that it is possible to communicate more deeply in such an informal manner without the need to stare at a television set, listen to a radio, look at a box, or hold a miniature screen in their hand. This may very possibly result in a revolution in American society, in that families will begin to become tightly knitted once again.

Comments

[Bitsko]

"There will be a movement to increase the length of the school year for children." Again? This is an easy call, but I don't think school districts can afford it.

[Drdemocrat]

The Draft will NEVER happen. That's my prediction.

[Drdemocrat]

Why would Hillary Clinton who is Obama's Secretary of State be encouraged to run against Obama in 2012.? That doesn't make any sense. Extremely rarely is the leader of the party to be challenged in a primary.

Why would Eric Holder be blamed if there is a terrorist attack? That doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't the blame be Obama?

[Bitsko]

Exactly.

[closetodemfection]

It's not as rare as you'd think. RFK, Ted Kennedy, Pat Buchanan all challenged sitting POTUSes from their party. It depends on Obama's approval ratings and job performance. We all know what he's inherited and expectations are high. If his ratings plummet and the Dems think they'll lose the White House to a Republican, they'll push for HRC to run in 2012.

[estern53]

Why is it that people who claim to predicate the future can never win the lottery...

[agro23]

I'd like to read the misses from 2008.

[Truby]

I predict that we will bestow much power on our entertainers, oops, already happened, my bad.

[RepugsOut08]

I just got back from a New Years Party, and I find that champagne has given me incredible powers of clairvoyance.
In 2009, I predict!

Aliens will finally make contact with the Earth, and promise to tell us what the crop circle messages mean, if we tell them what the hell "Lost" was all about.
GM will take another hit, when PETA protests their new "Hamster." A vehicle propelled by rodents in spinning cages.
Global Warming opponents will get a boost, when it is discovered that US voters electing an African American president actually caused hell to freeze over.
And finally, Putin will be rejected by voters in a bid to return as Russia's president, losing to a hot Russian woman who's campaign slogan is, "I can see Alaska from my house!"

[MAragon]

Ha ha ha ha ha. Fabulous!

[TJCole]

I predict nothing will change as far as man's inhumanity to man just as it hasn't in 6,000 years...!

[1003]

The only person on Huff that was on the money was Philip Sedgwick. His predictions during the election was great. Sylvia Brown predicted that a democrat was going to win and the beginning of 2008 and she was right.

[Shieldmaiden]

Half of these random statements aren't predictions. They are the obvious effects of the economic crisis. I predicted that Obama and the Giants would win as well. Perhaps I should leave a list of my own "predictions".

[brynnrose thorn]

Kreskin has nothing on me. I predicted that GWB would be declared the worst president in U.S. history back in 2000. Unfortunately, I sealed up that prediction and left it at Bennigan's. I MEAN, who could have predicted the fall of Bennigan's?

[SonofLiberty1]

No one predicted the discovery of "The Basketball Player in The Moon" either:)
Few of us have the gift of prophecy...

[Crix]

Connecticut attracts movie making?

Not exactly earth-shattering predictions there.

[brynnrose thorn]

It will be Texas, not CT. You read it here first.

[PaHairO]

Re: a draft -

First on the boat is every single military age offspring of every member of the SCOTUS, the executive, and Congress. Regardless of gender. No exceptions.

[nequam]

What does the Supreme Court have to do with reinstating the draft?

[astockton]

Kreskin supposedly has the gift of clairvoyance, and THESE are the best predictions he can come up with?