Young Politicians

I witnessed 2 groups of kids today babble about the upcoming election:
Group 1
“Why would you want an old fart as president when you could have a cool black dude?”
Group 2
“McCain is too venomous and he is really out there to hurt us and our world will not be good with him around”

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A quote from an article in yesterday’s NYTimes, comparing our economic struggle with that of Japan a decade ago, how similar it is and how long it took for Japan to recover.
A final lesson may be that the crisis will spill over into the real economy, confronting America with the prospect of a long, grim [...]