posted on June 10, 2008 08:08:09 PM new
What is going to be the hottest driving factor of the presidential campaign? A few months ago, I would have said the war. Now I'm thinking the economy.
posted on June 10, 2008 10:00:35 PM new
I'd like to say it's the economy, but I just came back from my first trip to town in a month and although gas is 4 bucks and food prices in the stores are higher than ever, people are still speeding and tailgating like they didn't have to make a car payment in addition to buying fuel and the stores are full of people loading up on packaged food and cheap junk they could probably do without. I saw the same real estate signs on the same properties I saw a month ago and more new ones. None of that seems to matter to these folks, I reckon they're all rich..So maybe it's not so bad after all.....
People seem to be in a state of apathy about the war AND the economy. Nothing seems to be a "hot topic" with the exception of the latest titillating tale that Fox news can spin. You might say, based on that source of news, that religion is the hottest topic today.
Shoppers are still shopping and driving with wild abandon and as they say in the south, still eating high on the hog.
The fact that a good percentage of people are currently planning to vote for a McCain/Bush administration once again is further evidence that "hot issues" have been banished to the nether land of people's brains and they have become sedated.
This is a photo published today of a protest to denounce a decision to allow U.S. beef imports possibly containing mad cow disease back into South Korea. The situation has grown so serious that President Lee Myung-bak's cabinet has offered to resign.
Remember when the U.S. had investigative reporting? Remember when we too had protests?
