We're on the Barackit Ship and so is Slash! Barack says pain has trickled up, and he has a NEW economic plan focused on lower taxes for 95% of Americans, more effective government oversight of big business, and an Apollo program for green energy.
The (non-elected) President of Camp Jam and I were talking yesterday about teetering on the brink of economic disaster and gas-pump-line-rage in metro Atlanta. He perceptively labeled it as a Mad Max environment (here's the classic chase scene)... which was actually on Showtime last night. Spooky.
I understand Barack doesn't want to associate himself with this economic mess or the half-assed attempts to clean it up. (FDR did the same thing to Hoover according to this article in the New York Times.)
But it would be nice if he, or McCain for that matter, was in a position to do something about it. The leadership vacuum created by W is turning into a Mad Max doomsday black hole faster than you can say, "Large Hadron Collider."
Also spooky: Sarah Palin's refusal to give a straight answer to Katie Couric in the NBC interview. Tina Fey's SNL parody didn't even have to change that much. Even the conservative columnists are starting to turn against Palin for her lack of experience. Let's see what happens Thursday night in the vice-presidential debate...
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To prove our patriotism (yet again) we wore our American Flag Eagle Shirts to the Chili Cook-Off, where we brought a thunderous rock fight of John Cougar versus Bob Seeger.
Q: Who won this rock fight?
A: America.
You smell something? Nope, that's not chili. That's the smell of freedom.
Correpondent / Manager Melkonian iPhoned in this observation from a local parking lot:
