Oh goddammit, take two
From the Economist for the week of Oct 4-10,
“A financial crisis on the scale of the one unfolding on Wall Street would be terrible at any juncture. But the timing of this one is astonishingly bad. In one corner is a president with just over a hundred days left to serve, who many people believe is among the most calamitous ever to occupy the White House. In the other corner is Congress, where a third of the Senate and the whole of the House face re-election in exactly one month’s time. Flickering in and out of the fray are the two presidential candidates, whose campaigns have become the playthings of forces over which they have no control. If ever there were a recipe for poor political leadership, this is it.”
And then you have the above woman trying to convince America she can do this, who also might become the next President of the United States of America if John McCain, perchance, were to drop dead. Really?! People are buying this?!
