Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress. (The Onion)
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
Amen.
Amen, indeed. But don’t exhale just yet. Call me a cynic, but we’re going to have to keep the pressure on this guy, as well as congress, to get any significant results out of our new-found democratic majority…