The front page of the New York Times yesterday morning trumpeted the news that master message maven Bill Clinton has ordered up some new “change” rhetoric in hopes of rekindling Hillary’s sputtering campaign. He’s decided to spread the word that Hillary has always been a “change agent,” that she is a “proven agent of positive change,” and a “lifetime advocate of a change agenda.” Staffers are calling the litany the “change, change, change” phrase. But the new words aren’t really new at all — they are as old as politics. We’ve heard them from Brother Bill before, with questionable results. And they may or may not resonate with voters, who may or may not want a whole lot of change in their lives. (More)

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They say that when your neighbor loses his or her job, that’s a recession, but when you lose your job, that’s a depression. I guess when the bank sold my daughter’s home on the county courthouse steps last week, I likewise learned the difference between a sub-prime mortgage crisis and a teaser-rate flim-flam gone bad. (More)

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About a month ago, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue called a prayer meeting on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta to ask for divine intervention in a drought now in its twenty-first month. The next day, a quarter of an inch of rain fell in the northern part of the state. Then, three weeks later, it finally rained in Georgia. Not just a few drippy drops or a sissie little drizzle, but a fine, soaking rain, two inches in some places, maybe three inches in Atlanta, which the media called the “epicenter” of the drought. Believers in the power of prayer had a hissy-fit, proclaiming Governor Sonny a better rainmaker than Burt Lancaster. Disbelievers holed up in taverns and bars, taking their water on the side. (More)

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