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DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
Peaceful Bill wrote:
wrote: On Nov 4, 11:45 am, rw wrote: The free market has spoken. :-) If McCain wins watch it drop. Ummm, don't look now but the DJIA is down today. I know it's not correlated, but if McCain had somehow won you'd be pointing at the DJIA today screaming the sky was falling. - Ken The market was up yesterday because of some favorable economic reports. Down today as a result of the election. No, you have it all wrong. The market is down today because the Democrats failed to get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. :-) -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
OT: Political "DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory"
On Nov 4, 2:21*pm, wrote:
On Nov 4, 2:53 pm, DaveS wrote: prosperity is just around the corner. If that's so, then IMO it's a looooong corner... I don't envy the people who win their elections. They will face monumental challenges. From the prez right down to the new school board member who is finding out the district is heavily invested in CDOs. I think we are living right now in "history" unlike any since WWII. We should all pray that those elected will be up to the task and will honorably attack the great challenges ahead. If they don't, if it ends up as petty politics as usual, or worse, then God help us all... Jon. Jon My post was tongue-in-cheek, harassing the pirate, et al. Dave |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Nov 4, 2:37*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
Dave Seems you got my joke. :-)) Dave |
OT: DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Nov 5, 11:26*am, rw wrote:
I think the market is down because the market has everything to do with sitting on one's ass, and little to do with the real economy where people work, eat, sleep, buy, sell, cook, ****, create, drive, worry, **** and hope for a cold beer on Fridays. Dave |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Nov 4, 6:57*pm, jeff miller wrote:
strident disagreement and principled argument does not equal hate dave... unfortunately, our culture has become one mired in blame and namecalling - especially our political culture. *nc's own jesse helms and his brigade of ****stirrers are largely to blame, but so are each of us who has allowed our human weakness, shallowness, and selfishness to win out over our ability to think and care about our fellow citizens. this is a monumentally historic moment and election...i'm not sure many have really appreciated the uniqueness of this election, despite the record turnout. There's a lot of blame to go around; but I'd lay a lot of it on the traditional media in general and the right wing talk show hosts in particular. I've even seen it spill into at least one political blog. It is unfortunate that controversy sells advertising. Whether it's circulation, Neilson ratings, or site hits, hate sells. There's no profit in being calm, reasonable, and intelligent. To be sure, many of these attitudes were pre-existing conditions; but it is imho a disturbingly dark spot on the media and those who profit from it that so much effort was spent in tearing down candidates and their supporters and so little on an unbiased examination of the issues. While I understand that my personal bias makes me see the Obama victory from a particular pov, I nonetheless agree that it is a monumentally different election both for it's cultural aspect as well as its rejection of the negative politics of Lee A****er and Karl Rove. Despite despicably vile accusations of being unpatriotic, anti- American, terrorist sympathizer, Muslim extremist, and a dozen other smears, Sen. Obama held firm to a message of hope and progress and encouraging all Americans to see the best in each other, not the worst. That such a message could succeed when delivered by a black man in America transcends the mere fact that he is the first African- American POTUS candidate. I surely know that many here and in real life disagree with me; but last night was a great moment for this country. It could, if the lessons are learned, show us a new way forward in the way we interact with each other politically, socially, and personally. I'm damned proud of my country this morning. |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:45:45 -0800, rw
wrote: The free market has spoken. :-) If McCain wins watch it drop. LOL. Hey, Girlyman. The dow is down aound 500 tday. So much for your theories. Too funny. And, ya can't marry your boyfriend anymore in California. What a bummer. Move to Mass. We're still liberal. d;o) |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
rw wrote:
Peaceful Bill wrote: wrote: On Nov 4, 11:45 am, rw wrote: The free market has spoken. :-) If McCain wins watch it drop. Ummm, don't look now but the DJIA is down today. I know it's not correlated, but if McCain had somehow won you'd be pointing at the DJIA today screaming the sky was falling. - Ken The market was up yesterday because of some favorable economic reports. Down today as a result of the election. No, you have it all wrong. The market is down today because the Democrats failed to get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. :-) That's the only reason the market is NOT down 20%. The markets know that the Republicans are standing in the way of Obama and his three vice-presidents. They won't not be able to totally wreck the economy. |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:57:15 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: On Nov 4, 11:45*am, rw wrote: The free market has spoken. :-) If McCain wins watch it drop. Ummm, don't look now but the DJIA is down today. I know it's not correlated, but if McCain had somehow won you'd be pointing at the DJIA today screaming the sky was falling. - Ken "Buy on the rumor, sell on the news" might explain what we've seen in the last two trading sessions...Or not...These days, who the heck knows? /daytripper |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:59:58 -0500, Dave LaCourse
wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:45:45 -0800, rw wrote: The free market has spoken. :-) If McCain wins watch it drop. LOL. Hey, Girlyman. The dow is down aound 500 tday. So much for your theories. Too funny. And, ya can't marry your boyfriend anymore in California. What a bummer. Move to Mass. We're still liberal. d;o) ahahahahaha! What do you mean, "we"? /daytripper (or - did you "turn" last night? ;-) |
DJIA up sharply, anticipating Obama victory
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:03:57 -0800 (PST), rb608
wrote: On Nov 4, 6:57*pm, jeff miller wrote: strident disagreement and principled argument does not equal hate dave... unfortunately, our culture has become one mired in blame and namecalling - especially our political culture. *nc's own jesse helms and his brigade of ****stirrers are largely to blame, but so are each of us who has allowed our human weakness, shallowness, and selfishness to win out over our ability to think and care about our fellow citizens. this is a monumentally historic moment and election...i'm not sure many have really appreciated the uniqueness of this election, despite the record turnout. There's a lot of blame to go around; but I'd lay a lot of it on the traditional media in general and the right wing talk show hosts in particular. I've even seen it spill into at least one political blog. It is unfortunate that controversy sells advertising. Whether it's circulation, Neilson ratings, or site hits, hate sells. There's no profit in being calm, reasonable, and intelligent. To be sure, many of these attitudes were pre-existing conditions; but it is imho a disturbingly dark spot on the media and those who profit from it that so much effort was spent in tearing down candidates and their supporters and so little on an unbiased examination of the issues. While I understand that my personal bias makes me see the Obama victory from a particular pov, I nonetheless agree that it is a monumentally different election both for it's cultural aspect as well as its rejection of the negative politics of Lee A****er and Karl Rove. Despite despicably vile accusations of being unpatriotic, anti- American, terrorist sympathizer, Muslim extremist, and a dozen other smears, Sen. Obama held firm to a message of hope and progress and encouraging all Americans to see the best in each other, not the worst. That such a message could succeed when delivered by a black man in America transcends the mere fact that he is the first African- American POTUS candidate. I surely know that many here and in real life disagree with me; but last night was a great moment for this country. It could, if the lessons are learned, show us a new way forward in the way we interact with each other politically, socially, and personally. I'm damned proud of my country this morning. Man, the echoes in here are startling! /daytripper (or maybe they're just in my head ;-) |
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