Goodbye economy

[veronica_rich]

Airlines can fail, Wal-Mart can wobble, and gas can keep climbing. But when one of the most major, cheapeast forms of a little sin and stress relief sell out to an overseas beverage company - something it never needed to do even during the Depression - you know even worse times are sliding toward your country FAST.

I don't have particularly strong feelings of love and flowers toward Barack Obama; I'll be honest. His lack of experience bothers me, I'm not sure he'll be able to get the votes to do the things he wants to promise. And his eagerness to please the nutjob evangelicals for a few votes by infringing on basic medical rights for the female half of the population scares the hell out of me. But I'm sure as fuck not going to vote for McCain a sixth term for Reagan. He didn't have enough of a brain - literally - to run the country well the first time around, and his proteges and hangers-on have done absolutely nothing to improve it beyond padding their own bank accounts. In fact, with Clinton's help (on NAFTA), they've pretty much driven the whole country into the ground.

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[compassrose7577.livejournal.com]

Oddly, if you go by the polls, if you line up five people, your still going to find one that thinks Bush is doing a good job. Scarier yet, if you line up two, one of them is going to think Grandpa McCan't-Find-His-Ass-With-Both-Hands would be a wise choice for president.

If you wonder about the wisdom of JohnQ voter, consider this: given all that they knew (or should have known), they elected Bush AGAIN!!

We can only hope this country has enough fingernails left to be able to hang on for another 6 months. It's not looking good for the home team!