What if a white President doubled the stock market...?

[KamaAina]

[samsingh]

1. then he would almost be as good as President Obama !

[randys1]

2. The white half of him did...

The Black half is responsible for every single problem on planet earth and on Mars too...

[brooklynite]

3. DU progressives would beat him up for lining the pockets of Wall Street and the 1%?

[KamaAina]

6. DUzy!

[TheKentuckian]

11. That Is correct! Deservedly so.

[MADem]

4. Looks like they swiped Craig Ferguson's hair for that photoshop! nt

[unblock]

5. they would have impeached him, look what they did to clinton.

assuming we're talking about a democrat, of course.

otherwise, they would have made him a saint, look what they did to reagan.



i agree that there's certainly racism involved, but it's actually because they see the democratic party itself as the party of blacks and "others", and of course the republican party is the white party. they'd hate a while president too. it's just more obvious and more intense when the president is actually black and not merely the leader of the party of blacks and "others".

note also the hate that's been levied against hillary going way back.

[kickitup]

12. I have heard people actually argue that their vitriol against Obama can't be racist because . . .

he is "half-white." As if having any degree of whiteness makes one of color immune to racism in general. And then of course they will drag out the names of black leaders they like (Ms. Rice, for example) to prove . . . something.

[Boom Sound 416]

7. What if a mixed race president did it?

Oh.

[ClarkeVII]

8. Why does the stock market do poorly under Republicans?

Oh - it's because they suck and don't get supply side economics.

[davidn3600]

9. So we are supposed to celebrate the rich getting richer?

Because that's what has been happening with the stock market. The 1% is making out like bandits in this economy while the poor and middle class are being gutted.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. I won't argue that the rich have gotten richer; but, ...

do you have a pension? Do you pay taxes? If you answered "yes" to either question, you benefitted as well.

Just saying ...

[TIMETOCHANGE]

10. That Photo Shop looks good.

Wow that pic looks very attractive.

The stock market will give back some of its gains and remain steadily volatile. That's how money gets made, in a volatile market. July's gains just got wiped out today. I've been waiting on it and positioning to jump in and grab some choice picks. Granted I played a few IPOs and it paid off big but once the market gets so high you have to prepare for it to go to shit. Just the way of things.

It's great that jobs are/have come back but did Obama really create them? I mean did he go to employers and convince them to hire? Did he offer tax incentives? I know employers and most of them are hiring because the confidence in the market is slowly returning and they have to hire or risk losing market share to future competition. It got real ugly there for awhile and we have stagnated wages, less labor participation, and Americans hold less wealth.

We came out of the nose dive, Obama didn't destroy the country, things are slowly getting better than they were in 2008. But when is it going to be as good as 2004?

Mitt Romney would have screwed us completely, so we got lucky, but don't give Obama too much credit. He's done a lot of good, but there's still a lot more to be done and if the Republicans keep shooting themselves in the feet, we might get to see more of it getting done.

[Barbarossa]

19. Employers need a demand for their products in order to hire

"It's great that jobs are/have come back but did Obama really create them? I mean did he go to employers and convince them to hire?"

Employers don't hire more workers because someone asks them to; they hire more workers because people are buying more of their stuff and they NEED more workers! Bring up the demand for products and employers will hire more people to make those products!

Despite the continuing efforts by the Republican house to sabotage the Obama administration, it would seem that he has managed the economy pretty well, despite the opposition of those who are desperate for him to fail.

[Nye Bevan]

14. Didn't Bill Clinton pretty much do that?

So I guess the answer to the OP's question is, "they would impeach him".

[RandiFan1290]

15. I just asked my disabled sister how she feels about the market

She is wondering if they are going to cut her food stamps again.

Congrats!!

[JHB]

16. If he's a Democrat, Republicans would drum up some excuse to impeach him

Obama's race adds gas to the fire, but don't think they weren't already at five alarms.

[Iggo]

17. Then they'd impeach him over a blowjob. (n/t)

[badtoworse]

18. All things being equal, DU would be screaming that all the gains went to the 1%