Sen. John McCain’s trusted adviser and campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm was absolutely right when he dismissed our nation’s economic malaise as largely “mental”. There are always going to be people struggling, but in its frenzy to elevate the presidential aspirations of Sen. Barrack Hussein Obama, America’s shameless mainstream media have worked overtime to convince average citizens that we are experiencing an economic freefall.
As Monday’s Exhibit A, I submit Page 38 in the Chicago Sun-Times and a headline above a dispatch by celebrity gossip columnist Bill Zwecker. The headline reads, “Recession? … what recession?”
Zwecker’s column detailed elaborate summer bashes hosted last weekend in the Wisconsin vacation estates of a pair of Chicago’s wealthiest families, the J.B. Pritzkers and the Richard Driehauses. Rod Stewart was flown in to perform at the Pritzker soire.
Guys like Zwecker love to shake a bony finger at these undertaxed rich people, as it is obvious that they should not be partying during an era in American history when (gasp!) some other folks are not equally rich. Not fair. They should give all their excess money to Obama (although J.B. Pritzker was once an avid fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton). Then they should park in front of CNBC and join the national hand-wringing, just after driving their evil, gas guzzling Escalades and Yukons and Hummers into Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva.
This is a typical example of what has been going on for months. The U.S. economy is NOT IN A RECESSION yet headlines like the Sun-Times’ are popping up all over.
Americans would rather fixate on Obama running around the globe apologizing for the spread of democracy than take a few minutes to notice rapidly declining oil prices and a slew of American companies that have reported excellent profit news in recent weeks, blowing way past analysts’ estimates.
And while I think financially secure people should be able to throw a party whenever they desire, I do hope J.B. Pritzker’s sister, Penny, an Obama campaign finance insider, is thinking ahead to the Obama celebration most likely in planning stages for the evening of Nov. 4, 2008.
When Obama loses that night, Election Night 2008, what’s going to happen to all of that chilled jumbo shrimp and Cristal Champagne?
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