Comments on: Jim Cramer gets it—and then he doesn’t

By: Oblio

Oblio — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:57:51 +0000

After two big up days, maybe the acolytes are starting to inhale again. There is some thought that yesterday in particular represented short sellers covering up.

By: james wilson

james wilson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:58:10 +0000

Kramer has not begun a conversion. He is typical of those who extoll the virus and are shocked at the disease. He still stands for everything that makes Obama inevitable, except the certain result.

By: waltj

waltj — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:02:23 +0000

“…Now that they have come down from the high, the acolytes are starting to realize that Mr. Obama is ushering in new anxieties that are immeasurably worse.”

Yes, indeed, Oblio. Those of us who never drank the Kool-Aid in the first place have been going all Cassandra about this all along. To quote Will Smith in “I, Robot” who said, “Sometimes, ‘I told you so’ just doesn’t quite say it”.

By: ERB

ERB — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:57 +0000

Yes, recognition of the liberal hypocrisy is the first step on the road to conversion. It may take Cramer awhile to fully commit. I remember what an odd feeling it was to be sitting in my kitchen one morning and angrily saying to my husband….. “They are driving me into the arms of the Republican party!”. Cognitive dissonance, indeed.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:13:57 +0000

Cramer is one of many useful idiots. His strongest feature is hyperkinesis, not $ intelligence.

By: D. B. Light

D. B. Light — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:13:21 +0000

The Obams enthusiasts are just eliminating the Mencheviki — the right-wing deviationists.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:01:17 +0000

I was always willing to give so-called moderate Democrats a pass as meaning well until four years ago when I got to know one far-left Democrat whose circle included one so-called moderate who was active as an influential legislator in my state’s assembly. What I quickly learned was that in this case (and as I suspect, in many others) the difference between the leftist and the so-called moderate wasn’t great at all, and there were no moderates of any stripe left in their circle.

While I might be accused of assuming a general proposition on the basis of too little experience, the fact is, after that experience, I couldn’t understand how anyone who could actually, honestly claim to be a moderate could be active in any way as a Democrat in today’s party. If Democrat holds any sort of position of power or influence within the party, as far as I’m concerned, it means they’re pretty far left.

By: Oblio

Oblio — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:46:31 +0000

Mr. Cramer is about to discover who the free thinkers are. If he doesn’t turn back soon, he will be cast into outermost darkness, and there will be no more TV show and no more cocktails with heiresses.

Mr. Welch’s anecdote about his daughters illustrates the point that you can’t understand ObamaLove without understanding urban social anxiety. The inauguration induced euphoria because the promise of Obama was to make this anxiety go away.

Now that they have come down from the high, the acolytes are starting to realize that Mr. Obama is ushering in new anxieties that are immeasurably worse.

By: ELC

ELC — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:16:37 +0000

My two trust-fund daughters, if I bring his name up in anything other than a glori[fying way]—they don’t have any critical thinking about it: at all!

Trust funds aside, where do those two work? CNN? Or MSNBC?

By: Stark

Stark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:11:02 +0000

Jim Cramer is still suffering from cognitive dissonance, he could work his way out of it if he would just go and have a good discussion with Timmy Geithner.

Jack Welch is priceless, I think he gets it!