And we wonder why our economy is perched on the rim of the toilet leaning towards falling in.

The following is a response to a question on LinkedIn, I felt like reposting it here (yes, I wrote it).
The questions was: “Barack says his racist grandmother is a “Typica white person”. Is Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. therefore a typical black pastor?
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I followed a link from @acarvin on twitter to NPR’s Get My Vote project, I didn’t plan on doing anything but looking around, then I signed up and wrote the following:
The election in November will be the third presidential election that I have had the privilege of being a part of, and for the first [...]