It's the economy, again, stupid!

My rendition of James Carville's quote creates two points that I want to discuss.

One James Carville is a smart man. He should have been Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign manager too and maybe she would have won. If only...but..back to my point, this always reminds me of my one year stay at UCR. I took American Politics in Fall 07 (wow, its been a year already) along with my sister and her friend. BTW, My sister and I were both at UCR for a year, she was a senior and I was a freshwoman. But taking this class happened completely by coincidence. I did not know the classes she was taking neither did she know about mine. About a two weeks before school started, she and I talked about our classes and we both said that we were taking Politicial Science 10. So we had a pretty fun time during that quarter, having Pizza Party Wednesdays in my sister's car and going to class. One day, (finally back to Carville), Professor Bishin put on the documentary "The War Room." The first time I saw it, I was kind of bored, but then as I actually paid attention to it I started to realized that this was about Clinton and the people behind the scenes. In this docu, Carville coins the term "It's the economy, stupid!" because Bush lied when he said "Read my lips, no new taxes" at the RNC in 1988. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig!

The second matter is Carville has to come and recite this sweet phrase again. Oh how I can just hear it tingle people's hears. But the reality is: People are po'. This means that people have been poor for about more than one generation. Example: My grandparents were poor and now my parents and I are po'. I can't sympathize with middle and lower class families, I can completely relate! There's no more going out to the movies or buying that pretty shirt seen through the window at Torrid. There's no money! After the mortgage, the car payments, the house and auto insurance, the Target credit card, the Best Buy bill, the utility bill, the gas bill, groceries, and money for gas, nothing is left for recreation! The problem is, politician's don't get it. They cannot relate to these hard realities that people face everyday. That's why Obama and Biden and McCain and Palin are trying to persuade the American public about how they'll fix our broken system. But can they?

Let's leave that for another day's discussion.

p.s. If only Carville could have managed Hillary's campaign, what a difference that would have made.

Peace.