Every day like today when I see the DJIA fall another 87 points or so, it makes me wish we had a smarter President.
Does it bother you that he's been the most popular President since FDR?
Yes, and it also bothers me that unemployment is up to 6%, that crime is rising, and that Dumbya doesn't have a clue on how to fulfill his promise to get OBL "dead or alive".
Does it bother you that the November elections were a rebuke of Clinton/Gore?
Yes, but I realize that with the Repukies' huge monetary advantage and with most of the media on their side, we were lucky that more Repukies weren't elected.
Or is it only a "decade of greeeeeed" when a Republican is in office?
34 million in a contest of over 700 million is a huge advantage?
You must see the giant white rabbit hourly. Is your first name Alice by any chance?
Have you ever heard of the business cycle? A president's ability to control the direction of the stock market is vastly overrated. About the only thing he can do is lower taxes and have the Fed make realistic changes in the money supply. The economic success during the Clinton years was almost certainly in spite of him, rather than because of him. Since we don't get the benefit of a control group living in a parallel universe, we are left with the following nonsensical syllogism:
Clinton raised taxes.
The economy was good.
Therefore, raising taxes is good for the economy.
No one will ever know what would have happened in the nineties, with the private sector booming as AlGore's Internet was developed, the personal computer becoming ubiquitous, and the wireless communications industry getting off the ground. Attributing the success of the economy in the nineties to Clinton's economic policy, whatever it was, is a fallacy. Casey Stengel won pennants year after year with the Yankees. When he managed the brand new Mets, the team set a record for futility. Sometimes the manager doesn't have all that much to do with it.
This is almost funny. Gotta result in name calling, huh? I'll try my best to not do that with you. As for OBL, I would love for this to be 1944 and talking to you in a barbershop somewhere. I'll be willing to bet that you'd be saying we were losing the war because we had not found Hitler.
As for the economy, it's doing rather well. It's the worst it's been since..... 1996??? or 1994? According to your logic, the Clinton years were awesome.. Well, it's doing about the samelevel as the Clinton years. Clinton handed Bush a recession, and he's had to deal with that plus a war that attacked out financial district.
As I stated earlier, I'm glad that you are in the tiniest of minorities in your thinking.
Please tell me, specifically, what George W. Bush is supposed to do to keep the DJIA from falling.