Electing Barack Obama has actually been sort of the same thing. For a lot of people, just getting Obama elected president was IT. They’d been fighting (or hiding under the bed, whichever the choice) for so long that this was the be-all and end-all. And then he got elected (with the help of a lot of people and people who actually went and stood in the voting booth and made their choice) and everyone held their breaths and waited for some disaster to hit before the inaugural. And then Aretha Franklin stood up and sang and the Chief Justice screwed up the oath and they did it again. And there’s been all this noise trying to delegitimize the entire thing.

Jill Richardson of San Diego is one of our own, a commenter who turned into a blogger (www.lavidalocavore.org), who then got the contract to write the book, Recipe for America. The new American Dream.

Every job created in the last ten years is not gone; and with the unstimulating package we got, it doesn't look like we're going to have any new ones either.

SC Goopers are trying to argue that Sanford's affair is causing high unemployment and problems with economic development. And his mom dresses him funny, too...

Now that President Obama has put McHugh’s seat into play by nominating him for the top Army slot, it might be interesting to take a look at the area.