Stock Market Down. Bad or Good? (w/ Poll)

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Monday November 26, 2007 · 2:30 PM PST

2007/11/26 · 14:30

At the close of business today, the Dow Jones stock average is down another 237 points, now closing in an a ten percent drop from the highs it experienced earlier this year. I watch the stock market because the figures are on the front page of the NY Times website that I read regularly and because I know the market will affect politics and social issues.

But I have a dirty little secret. I actually like to see the stock market go down.

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127 votes Show Results

How do you feel about stock market drops?

127 votes Vote Now!

How do you feel about stock market drops?

I'm dependent on the stock market and I don't like drops.

33 votes

I'm dependent on the stock market but who cares, I still like to see it drop.

13 votes

I'm not dependent on the stock market and yes, I love to see investors get stuck.

41 votes

I'm not dependent on the stock market but because of its effects on broader society I don't like to see it go down.

40 votes

Novak Laughs.

LarryInNYC

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Saturday November 17, 2007 · 1:24 PM PST

2007/11/17 · 13:24

One of the least attractive features of the blogosphere -- left or right -- is its ability to get outraged very quickly over very little. In a community with an outrage addiction, Bob Novak (of Plame outing fame) was able to set off a fire storm of righteous indignation with three paragraphs of unsourced material.

You don't need a Ph.D in political theory or American history to know that Republicans win when Democrats -- as they sadly so often do -- fight amongst themselves. Does anyone think that Novak had any Democrat's interest at heart in his piece?

Novak's claim was made in his column in the conservative magazine Human Events. When in the pages of Human Events you read an article that disparages Democrats a decent respect for truth and accuracy requires that we should carefully parse the actual claims therein.

Why and how you were pwnd -->

LarryInNYC

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Sunday November 11, 2007 · 11:07 AM PST

2007/11/11 · 11:07

Of all you learn here remember this the best:
Don't hurt each other and clean up your mess
Take a nap everyday, wash before you eat
Hold hands, stick together, look before you cross the street
And remember the seed in the little paper cup:
First the root goes down and then the plant grows up!

John McCutcheon

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Wednesday October 31, 2007 · 7:57 PM PDT

2007/10/31 · 19:57

Several diaries today have lauded the awarding of $10.9 million to the father of a marine whose son's funeral was picketed by the rabidly insane Westboro Baptist Church led by the congenitally insane Phelps family. The award was for "defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress" according the story currently running on CNN.com.

As much as I dislike the Phelps family this is a truly terrible verdict and it's hard to imagine that it will not be overturned.

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109 votes Show Results

Phelps family pays $10.9 million for hateful speech.

109 votes Vote Now!

Phelps family pays $10.9 million for hateful speech.

Good decision.

53 votes

Bad decision.

56 votes

America, We Don't Want Your Stinking Votes

LarryInNYC

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 7:30 PM PDT

2007/10/23 · 19:30

Hello, America, we're the Democratic Party. We're here today to urge you not to vote for us in 2008. You may be thoroughly fed up with Republican misrule. You may be with us on any number of issues. But we want to encourage you to overlook our areas of agreement.

We're absolutely certain that if you give it enough consideration, you'll find a reason to vote against us. If nothing occurs to you, we'll help! And if, for some reason, you still decide to give us your impure, defective vote in 2008 -- we'll reject it! We're the Democrats, we don't want your stinking votes.

Reasons to vote against us -->

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44 votes Show Results

If we don't accept the votes of the people we don't like, are there enough 100% right people left to win?

44 votes Vote Now!

If we don't accept the votes of the people we don't like, are there enough 100% right people left to win?

Yes

13 votes

31 votes

Obama, Preconditions, And The Politics Of Purity

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Monday October 22, 2007 · 6:25 PM PDT

2007/10/22 · 18:25

Everyone is all in a tizzy over the inclusion in a South Carolina Obama campaign event of a gospel singer with a history of anti-gay statements. This despite Obama's history of being in the right place himself on gay and lesbian issues.

Obama has always said he'd meet with anyone -- Ahmedinejad, Chavez, Kim Jung-Il -- without "preconditions". Did you think he was joking? Why act so surprised when Obama acts on his convictions?

And what's wrong with letting this guy support him, anyway? -->

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140 votes Show Results

Campaigning with people who espouse divergent views:

140 votes Vote Now!

Campaigning with people who espouse divergent views:

It's possible to maintain your own views while campaiging with people with differing views.

91 votes

If you lie down with dogs you get fleas. Campaigning with McClurkin means Obama's views on gay issues are in doubt.

49 votes

Rudy Living Large On Contributor Cash - Can He Be Trusted With Money?

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 6:49 PM PDT

2007/10/16 · 18:49

Fron the Washington Post, via the every great TalkingPointsMemo comes news that Rudy Giuliani is living the good life courtesy of his campaign contributors.

Giuliani is one of the candidates who burned through more money in the last quarter than her raised (Romney and Obama are the others). Unlike Romney and Obama, Giuliani managed to do so without making significant media buys. Where did the money go? As Max Bialystock famously said -- If you've got it, baby, flaunt it!

Giuliani's spendthrift ways echo his past and have to make Americans wonder if he can be trusted with their hard earned money.

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 7:33 PM PDT

2007/10/14 · 19:33

One thing that Republicans have figured out about the electoral process is the role that primaries play. Rather than treating primaries as intra-party bloodbaths they use them as auditions for the general election. The candidate who convinces the primary electorate that he will best carry the Republican banner in the general election gets the nomination.

It's true that Republicans don't always follow this rule, which Ronald Reagan summarized as the 11th Commandment: "Thou Shalt Not Attack Another Republican". For instance, I remember commenting during the 1996 Republican primary debate that I loved to hear the sound of Republicans eating their own. Of course, things didn't work out so well for them that year.

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86 votes Show Results

Thou shalt not attack another Democrat?

86 votes Vote Now!

Thou shalt not attack another Democrat?

Yes! Stay on message -- the Republicans are the enemy.

55 votes

No. Intra-party conflict during the primaries is good!

31 votes

Obama. Tick, tick, tick.

LarryInNYC

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Wednesday October 10, 2007 · 6:29 AM PDT

2007/10/10 · 06:29

Josh Marshall wrote an outstanding essay yesterday on his disappointment that Obama has not seemed to be able to rally a challenge to Clinton in the Democratic primary race (Pretty much everything Marshall writes is outstanding in my book).

As someone initially inclined towards Obama, Josh pretty much summed up my feelings as well. We're now almost six weeks into the "real" primary election and Obama is running out of time to make his move, at least with voters like me.

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198 votes Show Results

Obama needs to "spark" his campaign?

198 votes Vote Now!

Obama needs to "spark" his campaign?

Yes, there's something missing.

119 votes

No, the problem is with you, LarryInNYC, that you fail to see Obama as clearly the best candidate.

79 votes

In California, Clinton 1, Giuliani 0

LarryInNYC

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Monday October 08, 2007 · 7:34 PM PDT

2007/10/08 · 19:34

Pretty much everyone here at dKos is probably aware of the recent Republican attempt to steal the 2008 election using a ballot initiative in California that would have wound up allocating that state's electoral votes by Congressional district rather than on a winner take all basis. The result would have been twenty or so "free" electoral votes for the Republican candidate.

If you were following this now-defeated plot you probably know that when the dust settled it became clear that it was being funded by a small number of Giuliani backers. What I only learned tonight from an article republished on truthout.org is that this may have been the first scuffle in a possible general election fight between Giuliani and the Clinton campaign.

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 7:15 PM PDT

2007/10/04 · 19:15

Well, I think we can all agree that the primary ended this week. Who would have thought we'd have a nominee in December, almost a full month before the first caucus will be held?

And you have to admit, it's pretty decisive. The front runner is leading in all the polls and piling up the money. And the media's certainly made its decision. Things have gotten so bad that one of the also-rans has had to mortgage his own home to keep his campaign limping along.

Yes, it's certainly time to get behind the Democratic Party's certain Presidential nominee. Howard Dean.

LarryInNYC

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Wednesday October 03, 2007 · 8:38 AM PDT

2007/10/03 · 08:38

Via the New York Times, the AP reports McCain Backs Off Clinton Critique. The critique? That Clinton is too indecisive on Iraq. Now McCain has decided not to include his remarks in a speech he will give today -- remarks that, apparently, he had not even seen before his campaign announced them to the press.

more about John "Mr. Decisive" McCain after the jump -->

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28 votes Show Results

Is John McCain Decisive Enough To Be President?

28 votes Vote Now!

Is John McCain Decisive Enough To Be President?

Yes

1 vote

11 votes

Uhh. . . Maybe?

16 votes

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Obama. Tick, tick, tick.

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