Ken — That black people are good at singing and dancing, but can’t think, is the old racist sentiment. I think the ‘all talk’ line, beaten to death by you-know-who, is an echo of that, especially in light of many other public incidents.
Valerie — don’t expect policy wonk stuff if you want to hear a good speech. People tune out of that stuff. Many are more interested in “Kristin” than Austan.
Larry — true, so far that’s all we have to go by.
John — if it’s class war to restore taxes on high income persons, was it something else to reduce them? The top 60% or so pay some income tax, so restoring rates for the top one or two percent is hardly “increasing taxes for as many current payers as possible.” If you only make, say, $35K and have a few kids, you pay little or not income tax, but you have a big stake in a well-running economy.
Ken — Bush’s Federal Reserve guy is bailing out Bear Stearns today, so I guess there’s a lot of that going around.
