On March 9, 2009, several weeks after the president's inauguration, the Dow bottomed out at 6,625. At the end of the trading day on Friday, the Dow reached a five year high of 13,610 -- more than double the March, 2009 number. As an old saying goes: fill one hand with slick debate optics and the other with Dow 13,610 -- and see which one fills up faster.