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Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:00 AM

A country in shambles, under GOP rule

Efforts to blame Democrats for the country's deep woes assume deep stupidity on the part of the glorified Regular Voter.

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  • Saturday, October 4, 2008 10:51 AM

    Good example:

    tired GOP attack ads to depict Obama as a radical, fist-pumping, America-hating, unhinged socialist -- when everyone can see with their own eyes that he isn't -- won't change any of that

    You're right about that. Rather, Obama is a well-heeled, well-dressed, very polite, very articulate and very wealthy socialist, who is more than happy to foist the failures of his top corporate donors (Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros in the top five as of 2006) onto the taxpaying public.

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