BWHAAAAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
cathy, don't take this the wrong way - i enjoy your posts, BUT you're way way WAY off on this one. your post is little more than a typical republican whisper campaign which is not based AT ALL on numbers. don't take this the wrong way, but i am getting fed up with republican doublethink.
if you check historical sources (most easily thru stock trader's almanac -- the 2001 and 2002 editions had more presidential numbers, but this year's has some, too) you'll see that the mkt outperforms in the hands of a democratic pres combined with a repub congress.
you'll also see (2003 almanac p42) that the year before an election year has not been a losing year in 64 years! (even dumya couldn't tank the mkt the year before an election year).
considering the 2001-2002 market losses during dumya's first 2 years, it's complete and utter bullshit to say that the market has outperformed in his hands, and considering that little tidbit from p42 of the almanac, it's pretty uninformed to say that mkts outperform in hands of a repub president.
but i'd like to point out that the market accelerated its run to the shitter right when dumya "won" the election and continued south until the march03 lows. so excepting 2003 (year before election) the market has done terribly in the hands of that retard.
...and i AM a profitable trader and HATE republicans more than i hate quote.com.
let's also not forget that the biggest crashes in this century happened while repubs were pres.
the whole "republicans are good for capitalism, jesus, and white people" thing is just part of the GOP's clever whisper campaign...(except maybe the white people part).
republicans are a plague in this country which must be cut away. i say we shoot 'em all and replace them with libertarians. j/k
