Don't Be Hopin'

Well, the latest jobs report has unemployment up to 8.2 per cent, which isn't good news for the country or a president seeking re-election.  True, it's hardly the disaster that's being painted in the news.  "The news" is sort of like a person who has absolutely no perspective, and a very short attention span to top off the lack of perspective. 

But enough damn-liberal complaining.  There's no doubt that "O'Bummer" has failed.  It's all his fault, whatever it is, because as we all know, presidents are always directly to blame for whatever happens – gas prices, economic swings, that lamentably visible door ding you discovered recently on your car, you name it.  We tried the hopey-changey thing, we really did, but now it's time to go back to what works: violence-inducing fear, ignorance that would put a medieval peasant to shame, implacable contempt leveled against anyone who isn't sufficiently rich and white, and callous, self-congratulatory indifference to the plight of the poor and the struggling working class.  Republicans 2012!