Voter’s Remorse
By Mitch Berg
Not everyone is celebrating The One’s ascenscion:
A case of post-election nerves sent stocks plunging Wednesday as investors, again anxious about a recession, began questioning what impact a Barack Obama presidency will have on business and the overall economy. The Dow Jones industrials dropped more than 400 points and the major indexes all fell more than 4 percent.
That last brief flash of pre-election McCain optimism, I’m pretty convinced, was what gave us that nice Monday rally.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
To quote one sanctimonious hyperbole from M.Berg a few weeks back..
“The One’s ascension” – That’s The President Elect of the United States to you, you know, the one that is your President too?
Apparently disrespect for the office is only disrespect when it’s YOUR President. Call him what you like, I don’t much care, but save yourself from looking like a kook for chewing me out for calling Shrub – Shrub, it’s no less respectful than calling Obama “the One.”
November 6th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Actually, penigma, using the label “The One” for the president elect is more a rip on you than on him.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Troy, I don’t quite see your logic. First, I don’t see him as anything like a Messianic figure, that’s pure invective and hyperbole from the right, but second, it’s yet another case of the wonton hypocrisy that flows from the right, especially from spin-machines like Berg.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Penigma, you didn’t catch on to the halos the Obama campaign insisted on using with him, and the quasi-Messianic language used to talk about him that he never asked to stop?
Sorry, the right was just mocking what the Obama campaign started and encouraged. The major reason I didn’t join in in the mockery is because I have a very real Messiah, with Whom I do not want to associate any politician, especially Mr. Obama.