Bush Talks, Market Falls

[ExPatLeftist]

It is fun to watch the little market ticker on the news while Bush makes his rare and befuddling speeches, especially today. The DJIA was hanging around -4 when he started, and by the time he was done, it had fallen to about -51! Even Wall Street has given up on him.

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/b?s=%5EDJI

(He started talking at about 10:00 and ended at about 10:30.)


The speech itself could have been a re-hash of most any of his speeches - playing the fear card and flogging the corpse of 9/11, all with a smirk on his face as if he was sharing an inside joke with someone in the front row. Disgusting.

[Virginia Dare]

1. There's always the danger that they'll end up dragging him away..

in a straight-jacket to a little rubber room. I'm sure that's what Wall Street fears every time he opens his mouth. Is this the day he totally loses his crap on live teevee?

[ThomWV]

2. True that ...

He had to go to the interior of the Pentagon go find an audience that wouldn't run him out of town on a rail* but there was something in this speech. For reasons I can not explain I did not jump up and change the channel when he came on, I listened to him.

It was the same old shit OK, he could have made the same speech 3 years ago, and maybe he did - lots of it sounded like dusted off old stuff. There were some slight hints in it though. Listen closely and you'll hear words of pull out. Also that 4-star clown who's name I can no begin to spell, betray-us as he is known, will be coming back for another dog and pony show next month. I'd bet he says a reduction is now desirable, and the Administration will orchestrate a great good whoop and holler about it being part of the President's plan, and a sign of success and all that. Then they will put together a timetable that cleverly hides a continuation of whatever the troop level is we have now. In short, expect another round of solid lies.

*did you note the mixed metaphor in the "John Adams" series on HBO in which the tax man was both tarred and feathered and run out of town (sitting-on, rather than the more realistic tied-to) a rail?

[bdamomma]

3. why can't they bring tar and feathered methods back or even better use

waterboarding on them all for their crimes against humanity. I hate them all.

[Virginia Dare]

4. I'm too cheap to subscribe to HBO.

I'll have to catch it on DVD, I've heard it's very good. The review I read said that they portrayed the tarring and feathering as more violent than what modern-day Americans would picture. Torture is always violent isn't it?

They're getting ready to cut and run, no doubt, this thing is unwinnable. It's just a giant sucking money and death pit.

I imagine they're just trying to hold out until November, it'll come crashing in on them just like the economy did.

[Zynx]

5. He finishes entirely and the market bottoms and starts heading higher.