sounds dumb? How about "people from the middle east have a right to do terrorist acts because they have no other way to express their political views" from the 1990's?
Mr. Bush, despite his strong ideology, has been perhaps the most popular president in US history over a multi-year period.
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It is not despite, but *because* of his strong right-wing ideology that he is popular. Moderates never reach the same peaks of popularity, or their precipitous crashes. A good example is the moderate-until-recently Jean Chretien in Canada, who's not really loved or hated, just tolerated with a slight negative bias (from what I can tell). Bush is like the stock market, and right now, he's in "strongly overbought" territory. His actual performance is not close to deserving this much acclaim and devotion. Makes me wonder about the supposed subliminal messages that the Repubs were caught putting in political ads in the 2000 election. Have they come up with some new subliminal? How is it that I'm the only one who seems to have kept his objectivity? That's a question only HarryTrader can answer I guess. Being this overbought, Bush seems to be a 'fad' President, like a political Rubik's Cube, Hula Hoop, or pet rock. I just hope he doesn't crash too hard, he'll make sure to take the world with him in a blaze of nuclear fire. If the EMA20 of his popularity crosses the Resistance Level set by Reagan in the 80's, I'd say you should short him with extreme leverage, and don't cover until he hits the Jimmy Carter Support Level.
As far as the market's concerned, I'm still in this guys camp for now. But I can be as big a bear as anyone. I've been a big bull since QQQ 25's. If there are too many bulls out there then how come it took so long for me to find this bullish commentary below. Market Outlook Update By Todd Salamone 8/1/2003 9:43 AM ET SHORT-TERM STOCK POSTURE: BULLISH! We are seeing signs of fear as the market consolidates after an impressive rally. Permeating the financial press are thoughts such as: "We've come too far too fast," "There is too much optimism in the Investors Intelligence numbers," "The CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX - 21.24) moved below 20," or "Insider selling is predominant." These anecdotal examples of fear are keeping money on the sidelines and fuel in this rally's tank. Meanwhile, we have noticed growing fear among option speculators since May, even as the S&P 500 Index (SPX â 987.34) and Nasdaq Composite (COMP â 1730.6) have rallied. For example, the 21-day moving average of the CBOE equity put/call ratio peaked around 0.68 a few days ago. This is the same level it peaked at around May 20, when the SPX was trading at 920 and the COMP was trading around 1490. With the SPX closing at 990 and the COMP closing at 1735 yesterday, the conclusion is that there is more fear among option speculators now versus several weeks ago. Furthermore, our ratios for the Rydex family of mutual funds (assets in bullish funds/assets in bearish funds) remain relatively low, indicating that short-term mutual fund switchers are less than convinced about the market's short-term prospects. Such activity often has bullish implications amid strong technical patterns like we're seeing now and improving fundamentals, as evidenced by the recent upside GDP and unemployment surprises. It's also encouraging to see other sentiment gauges reflecting investor pessimism. The Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio for the Nasdaq-100 Trust (QQQ â 31.67) currently shows puts outnumbering calls by a ratio of two-to-one in the front three months of options. As this pessimism unravels, expect a surge of buying strength to drive stock prices higher in the near future. From a technical standpoint, the SPX continues to find strong support from its rising 10-week moving average. The recent consolidation into this trendline could set the stage for another jaunt higher
BTW, Bush lowered our taxes on profits from the stock market down to 15%. All US investors should love him.
A guy's charisma is lower dramatically when he has to speak a foreign language. For example, Mubarak is incredibly charismatic...but you'd only know that by hearing him in Arabic. I'm sure the same concept applies to many of those on the above list.