Man, how many times has this happened to you? You’re one of the only black kids in your posh private high school; you have a good friend, a couple years older than you, who’s also black, and with whom you can talk about your feelings of alienation and not have to put such a brave front up all the time. Eventually, you go on to a political career, write a book about your childhood where you talk about your friend under a fake name to protect his privacy, and start running for president … and then your friend calls you from a pay phone and you find out that he just got out of prison and he’s living in a car with an aspiring rapper named “Bobby Bang.”
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The big news today shows that we are not — as every politician says — in a recession after all! A "recession," of course, is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And in Q1 2008, the American economy grew by 0.6%, just as it did in Q4 2007. Take that you Liberals; you and your wretched Doomsday scenarios! Sure, the actual Great New Depression may only be starting right now and lasting another 50 years. But for right now, George Bush 'n' Tax Cuts have saved the economy again! [AP/Breitbart]
