Chris Matthews Calls the Dow Jones Obama's Scorecard

[NikDanger99]

IThe Dow knows all and sees all?

Aren't shivers running down Cris's legs anymore whenever he hears Obama speak?

Isn't the Dow Jones industrial average just a short twitch in numerical representation of a bunch of guesses about other people's assumptions about the financial well-being of an arbitratily chosen group of 30 companies out of tens of thousands of psosible choices? Or is it a real-time cause and effect precision barometer of how the President is doing?

[areki38]

Fineman is asking Obama to be dishonest. Noone knows how to fix this, and noone can. Bullshitting is what caused this problem, and bullshitting is not gonna fix it.

[Frackin64]

People like Howard Fineman need to get out of Washington. Real people are being patient for Obama, we know how hard it will be to fix all the devastation of the Bush Administration.

[samilli3]

Rupert Murdoch took control of the DOW& CO in 2006...the guy is against Obama's policies because they do not favor the wealthy... ....but the inner truth about things are anyone can manipulate anything...and I can tell you that there something fishy about the Dow...just my thought prosess,,,the stock market is a gamble...that's why you do not put all your money in one basket..i.e the stock market

[armatus99]

wtf is wrong with him? the dow jones as a measure? by that logic W was one of the best presidents ever.

the people have no saying on wall street, so why should that be a scoreboard of how good he is doing..

[il128]

Um, the DOW never went above the point it was at when W came in to office. The DOW did nothing but go down the entire time W was in office.

[dogncatmom]

Wrong! The economy and the Dow went down after September 11th and then they both went back up within a year. The Dow proceeded to go up. The last two years of George Bush's presidency the Democrats took hold of Congress and there was nothing George Bush could really do to stop them. The Republicans in Congress tried to stop the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mess but Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel and Macxine Waters lied.

[dogncatmom]

Watch the video Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in Their Own Words. You can find it by typing in Senate Hearings Fannie Mae

[xhagast]

Obama is doing what he can. The stock market has always been panic-prone and completely unreliable as a scorecard. And it was overvalued anyway and due for a readjustment. Wait a year and then ask again.

[MikeNobodyIsBack]

This is like blaming a basketball player, who takes the last shot at the hoop, for the mess of the whole game. tt's just like these revisionist historian Republicans who have the balls to BLAME Franklin D. ROOSEVELT for the Great Depression! WTF?

[jqjacobs]

The Dow is a scorecard on the last eight years, not the last four weeks.