State of Unions

The state of my union is good. Wifey takes very good care of me and together we try to take good care of J. Not much more to say on that.

As to the State of THE Union. In most measurable terms, health care, real wages, economic and political security, the great majority of Americans are worse off than when Junior took office. The right wing continues to besmirch the Clinton years as the worse thing that ever happened to America, but it's simply not true, so I don't get it. And it's not just the recent downturn. The clown in office now in incomparably worse.

Good part of the state of the Union. We are less than a year away of dumping Junior. There's an election campaign going on and we have more legitimate choices than we may ever have had before. Record numbers of people are voting in the primaries. These are good things. There's some hope for the future.