Is It Just Me, Or....
The BBC has put together a word cloud of words from W's 8 state of the union addresses to attempt to capture the essence of America under George W. Bush. Is it just me, or do I not see middle class anywhere, not even in the tiniest of tiny print?
Middle class?
Submitted by mvirenicus on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 12:07am.
It no longer exists. Why should it be mentioned by Bush?
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"And as Ohio goes in 2006,
Submitted by O-H...I-O on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 2:15am.
"And as Ohio goes in 2006, so goes the nation in 2008" ~ Sherrod Brown, Election Night 2006.
I'm probably being biased and reading too far into this thing, but not only was Sherrod right, but I really think someone in the Obama camp at one point took a good hard look at Brown's strategy to win statewide in the ultimate swing state (and as a more liberal candidate than Obama himself).
Brown won by preaching about the middle class -- he ended a number of ads with "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve this message and it's time we put the middle class first again" (or something like that). Now I don't know if he stole that from someone -- or if it was a decision made at the national level before him -- but the way Obama harped on the middle class was unparalleled to Kerry's campaign. He even ended some ads with the same message that Brown had earlier.
It was a great way in both campaigns to show how that quaint little demographic known as the middle class had been neglected by the Republicans for years and years. Clearly, this graphic is an illustration of that.
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