Fred Thompson at Republican convention

[hairhorn]

um, the Republican's VP nominee raised taxes many times as a small town mayor.

She inherited a city with no debt, and left it with a whopping bill when she left.

[perudog95]

Just wanted to say my piece!

Listening to Obama is like being in pep rally for a losing sports teams...

They cheer and say how much they are going to beat the other team, but in the end like always they lose.

So Richardgwm if you want a cheerleader for a president that is your choice but to sit here and say that being from a different party is wrong and everyone in that party is wrong I wonder what other opinions you have?

Being a biggit does not help no one!

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Obama is where he is because he is young, has a cool black swagger, fist greets, plays basketball, turns some women on--he is tall, dark, and handsome, is a good orator, offers the promise of lots of "free" stuff, is extremely liberal, and helps relieve white guilt. Those can be the only reasons, since he has no special qualifications to take the most important political position in the world, nor has he accomplished anything. Talk about a dumbed down voting block!

[Richardgwm]

Stock market total returns (S&P500) during eight year Presidential terms

Roosevelt (12.1 years) 336%

Clinton 259%

Eisenhower 216%

Reagan 200%

Truman (7.8 years) 185%

Bush 3%

That is not 3% per year. That is 3% over the entire 7+ years. If you are satisfied with these results, vote Republican.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

This writer assumes cause and effect in these numbers. A president cannot have such a direct impact on stock the moment he takes office. Stock prices vary from myriad causes. For example, regardless of who is in office, what do you think would happen to our economy and stock prices if there was a nuclear device set off in a major city?

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Also, economic policies have a long latency and may not have an impact for years--meaning one president will not get credit for good actions, and the one following him may get credit for bad ones. Bush cannot be blamed for a faltering economy that is primarily directly linked to 911, third world development and use of energy resources, etc.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

If it were reducible to whether a president is a Republican or not, people could become zillionaires by shorting the market as soon as a Republican takes office. Also, does the writer suggest that the socialistic taxing of the productive class and the resultant disincentives actually bolsters an economy--that government stealing money from the productive class and giving to the nose pickers is the way to a sprightly economy?

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Please. Since we cannot reduce voting to dredging for statistics, the philosophies and accomplishments of the competing candidates must be compared.

[Richardgwm]

Typical Republican. Results don't matter.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

I would like to hear an explanation of how these stats could possibly reflect the impact of republicans on the stock market. An explanation of how the dems anti-business, increase tax and government stupidty would increase the stock market would be interesting.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Clinton was not responsible for economic growth. The Gingrich led congress was.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Stock markets reflect emotion more than they do real underlying economic forces.

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

Presidents do not make laws that affect the stock market.

[Richardgwm]

I'll let Jeremy Siegel explain:

finance(dot)yahoo(dot)com/expe­rt/article/futureinvest/104492

[AsIfThinkingMatters]

I do not know who you are referring to, but i am not a Republican. Anyway, since you cannot prove the relationship between stock prices and presidents is cause-effect related, you take the typical course of a Democrat in that reason does not matter, just ideology.