In in the real world outside the presidential campaign bubble, there's some really big, bad news [1] from the BBC:
"The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch. It said that Friday's employment report, which sent shares tumbling worldwide, confirmed that the US is in the first month of a recession."
This is very troubling — as is the fact that it is basically being ignored by the American media. I mean, really: It's pretty sad that our celebrity-obsessed media is so consumed in its efforts to turn the presidential contest into a glorified television show that we have to rely on British news outlets to deliver this huge news about our economy.
(h/t Peak Dems [2])
Links:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7176255.stm
[2] http://blog.peakdems.org/2008/01/bring-it-on.html