Is it just me or has it passed from funny into horrifying?
So, just in case you wondered how life is doing, apparently rosy. The President in his press conference yesterday said that the economy is "slowing down", but there is no recession or anything. (The New York financial firms have laid off over 27,000 people so far, the construction industry is at a standstill and home prices have fallen for the longest sustained period EVER recorded in this country.)
Wall Street reacted to our hands-on commander in chief total command of the facts in yesterday's news conference today by sinking like a lead weight.
President CEO McSmirkster has left our country bankrupt, a massive deficit (and the request that we go spend MORE MORE MORE), a legacy of stubborn refusal to acknowledge facts, a dollar that is worth .66 of a Euro, and 2 wars we "won" and are now losing. He has stretched our arm forces to a point of unreadiness and made enemies around the world.
(By comparision: President Clinton left us a huge cash surplus, a dollar that was worth 1.01561 Euros (exactly 8 years ago this week), a rising middle class, pulled us out of Somalia (where Bush #1 had sent people in) and pulled us out of Bosnia - after stopping an aggressive war. And it the embarassment of a white house hummer.)
It was never hilarious, and now it is just sad.