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When CNN starts telling people to panic over the economy, well, it’s not lookin good here kids.

Luckily for us, we’re about to hire the most unintentionally funny person in Alaska (maybe even the world) for Vice President. We’ll be laughing all the way to the soup line. You know, maybe McCain/Palin can take another spin on the economy. Sticking to free markets and lower taxes is going to solve our obesity problems. Nobody will be able to afford food!

And when the sad reality begins to kick in and the twinkie junkies start going through withdrawal, out comes Palin with her flute:

And when the lies and distractions stop working, an interview with Sarah Palin puts us all at ease.

Q: How will you fix the economy?

A: The economy and putting it back on the side of the grade of problem that America has to be found here. Consumers and those who maybe came from a background of, you know, that has worked in Iraq that John McCain has a great plan to get caught up in this evil, in this one and who the good guys are the ones who say Israel is a stinking corpse and should be inherent in corporations who are spending, investing other people’s money, the abuse of that self-dealing and kind of that self-dealing and kind of grab it all and pretend like they have all the all the dealings within the party. Also.

There. I feel better now.

* The video is real. The quote was randomly generated from the site interviewpalin.com

Matthew Yglesias » Worst President Ever

I don’t know. Yglesias is really only thinking domestically. Bush has let a major U.S. city disintegrate, overall infrastructure deteriorate, drastically increased the disparity between rich and poor, and plunged the country into massive amounts of debt after years of surplus.

He’s helped the international community slide into chaos, invaded a sovereign nation for virtually no reason at all, snubbed international legal and environmental treaties, and presided over perhaps the most drastic fall of the U.S. dollar in history. He’s allowed (possibly knowingly) the U.S. to torture prisoners, when he wasn’t farming it out. I know I’m forgetting plenty here.

This is no statistical analysis, mind you. Nor am I anywhere near as versed in history as Yglesias. And I agree: Buchanan was abysmal. I just think he’s giving Bush too much credit here, or not holding him as accountable as he should.

Needless to say, count me in that 42 percent that thinks he’s the worst. I think he’s a great candidate for it, anyway.

Okay, seriously, folks, can we add one and one?

ExxonMobil reports the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history: $11.68 billion.

Can we build these fucks a fossil-fuel-based vehicle and transport them off our planet now? They win. They’ve proved that no matter what the situation, you can milk a natural resource with finite supplies, all while jacking the price and raping the public’s wallets. Seriously, second to none. Hoorah!

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