I've been mulling over how these words are floating around on the web. It is Latin for "Thus always to tyrants" or something to that affect. Since it is most famous for having been shouted by John Wilkes Booth as he killed Abraham Lincoln, and supposed (by some) to have been said by one or more of Caesar's assassins, the implication is that tyrants always are, or should be, killed.
Why this phrase? A huge segment of the American public has convinced themselves that Obama is the worst tyrant ever to "reign" in America. Google the phrase and you will get 100s of thousands of links which at a first look seem to be to right wing blogs, etc.
If we take seriously the idea that the mood of the country (confidence or panic) can have a huge effect on the market, the genius of FDR's "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" becomes clear.
On the other hand does anyone dare suggest that 2-1/2 years of a war against the president that showed its hand with the urging of parents to keep their children home from school the day he made a special address to schoolchildren -- that these years of calling the president a Marxist, a thug, a secret muslim, not an American citizen, an elitist intellectual an incompetent fool, a wild ideologue, a triangulator with no ideology, and predicting doom for the country if he isn't stopped -- does anyone dare suggest that this is all bound to have a profoundly negative effect on the economy?
What does it mean that this book is #8 Amazon bestseller today 2/18/2011?
