Comments on: Wall St. Falters Amid Investor Uncertainty

Stocks Follow Up Dismal Week With More Losses As Pessimism Grows

[McHineguy]

Reason? Oh please, there is no Republican reason at the moment, there is no Republican leadership at the moment, the voices of the Republican party are:

Limbaugh
Hannity
Palin
Steele
McCain (who can't figure out he lost, who told us the economy was fundamentality sound, let banks fail, yet this Bozo was one of the Keating 5 who tried to cover up the S&L failure)
And a disgraced Gingrich now talking about running
A party of No! in the congress, with no plan

And you call this reason? Sorry, I'm calling BS on your response.
Posted by rickwar98 at 2:05 PM : Mar 9, 2009

So here we go with personal attacks again!!!

We give you reason and facts. You attack personalities. that is not a healthy way to run a country but it seems to be the Change we can believe in.

But I am not going to waste time on personalities. I will offer these observations:

1. You are right. The GOP has no good spolesman who can articulate goals and objectives. This is made painfully clear because Obama is a great communicator.
2. Unfrotunately, Obama has no clear objectives. Despite his oratory we are left with little understanding. Its clear he wants tax give aways of $13.00 per week, some kind of health program, and lots of new spending. But that is pretty think thinking if you ask me.

So, lets talk policy and objectives. Personalities are what caused this terrible mess.

[ghwab1949]

What I suspect is happening now is that stocks are being reduced to their true value. President Obama has made it clear time and again that he will raise taxes (indeed he has to substantially raise them) on those individuals most in the market to buy stocks, those with any appreciable discretionary income, those families who make more than $250,000 a year. He also has said time and again that he wants to raise taxes on the only two ways that stocks pay out -- on dividends and capital gains. Surprise, surprise that the value of stocks has dropped in anticipation of President Obama getting exactly what he wants. The country is now seeing the results of this war on "the wealthy" -- the not so wealthy lose their jobs.

[McHineguy]

really? bush had the decline nearly halted? please post whatever you have that supports this claim.
Posted by bobnjersey at 1:17 PM : Mar 9, 2009

1. The fact that the stock market had bottomed out at 8000 for two full months.
2. The fact that unemployment had slowed significantly.
3. The fact that holiday shopping had showed only a small decline from 2007.

Since Obama took over he has

1. Spent the rest of the TARP money.
2. Warned that TARP would cost even more.
3. Demanded a huge ($787 Billion) spending program.
4. Presented an uprecedented deficit budget that even surpasses the worst Bush ever did and forecasts it to continue indefinitely
5. Demanding a mortgage bailout program
6. Plans to raise utility bills and shipping costs by taxing carbon fuels.
7 Said that the current 25% decline in the US stock prices is a "bob and weave".
8. Unemployment is reaching 10%
9. Last weeks White House issue was about a talk show host.

[specialty8]

sockpuppet4,
Obama has been nothing but gloom and doom since he got in office. Now that the media is starting to question the "messiah" they put in there,he started to change his tune a little.

[bobnjersey]

[Bush had it stabilized before he left. Obama has accelerated our decline. read the news and see. Every day its worse. ]
[Posted by McHineguy at 1:56 PM : Mar 9, 2009 ]

please post background for this claim. gwb didn't have a clue what was going on ... so even coming close to giving him any credit for 'stabilizing' anything is absolutely ridiculous.

[rickwar98]

Funny isnt it? We give you rationale, we give you reason, and you give us personal slander. The nation is facing the worst financial crisis of our time and the White House persues a campaign of personalities against that talk show guy Rush Limbaugh. I think they are fixated on him. Bush is gone, and they need someone to ridicule. Makes them look better to the ignorant.
Posted by McHineguy at 12:45 PM : Mar 9, 2009

Reason? Oh please, there is no Republican reason at the moment, there is no Republican leadership at the moment, the voices of the Republican party are:

Limbaugh
Hannity
Palin
Steele
McCain (who can't figure out he lost, who told us the economy was fundamentality sound, let banks fail, yet this Bozo was one of the Keating 5 who tried to cover up the S&L failure)
And a disgraced Gingrich now talking about running
A party of No! in the congress, with no plan

And you call this reason? Sorry, I'm calling BS on your response.

[McHineguy]

what exactly is rush doing ... who exactly is he representing?

maybe you're a bit blinded as well.
Posted by bobnjersey at 1:13 PM : Mar 9, 2009

I have no idea who or what Rush is doing or representing. He is a talk show guy that I dont listen to unless I see something elsewhere here that draws my attention to him.

I might be a bit blinded, I cant see anything good that Obama has done and that might not be fair. But its pretty hard to ignore the constant whining and failure coming out of the White House. From economic policy to world diplomacy, we look like amatures. And now we have our government and may of our Presidents strongest supporters fixated on a talk show personality. Even Bush was smart enough to let Michael Moore lie.

[bobnjersey]

[Obama is starting to look like a school yard cry baby trying to hide his report card. ]
[Posted by McHineguy at 1:59 PM : Mar 9, 2009 ]

and what of the others ... patriots?

[bubba027]

What makes me laugh is that many of the Democratic elite, that had money, voted for Obama. Thy're losing their shirts like the rest of us.

In Obama I Trusted; Now I''m Busted.

[McHineguy]

It looks like we are in a class war now. I just seen McCain on TV news whistling Dixie. He has taken the limpball stance and plotting the downfall of the United States.
Posted by sockpuppet4 at 1:49 PM : Mar 9, 2009

Is McCain going to be the next White House distraction?

Its embarrassing that in todays world our White House is more concerned with personalities and rhetoric than with success.

Obama is starting to look like a school yard cry baby trying to hide his report card.