Bug list

I'm thinking of starting one, for bugs not in our software but in our heads. And maybe my first entry will be this one:

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- With economic anxiety rising, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama scrambled Wednesday to adjust their messages to connect more directly with financially struggling voters.

Obama talks directly into the camera in a new, two-minute television ad on how he'll fix an economy in which "paychecks are flat and home values are falling." McCain and running mate Sarah Palin softened opposition to government bailouts, accepting the U.S. takeover of the nation's largest insurer as unfortunate but necessary to protect ordinary Americans.

"Ordinary Americans." WTF, dude, aren't we all Americans just as much? Nobody ever told me there were two kinds, ordinary and super-special-deluxe. Or maybe three kinds if you count Associated Press writers. Squash "ordinary Americans": That's definitely a bug.

And another thing, as long as I woke up bitchy.

"In the past few weeks, Wall Street's been rocked as banks closed and markets tumbled. But for many of you - the people I've met in town halls, backyards and diners across America - our troubled economy isn't news," Obama says in [his] ad, taped Tuesday in a living room-like setting.

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What's with that? Is he saying you (I guess, "ordinary Americans"), hanging around in your diners and such, saw this coming but we (extraordinary Americans) didn't? Or maybe, we saw it but we didn't think you'd notice?

What?

I think he means nothing at all. And yes I know, you don't have to tell me, Obama's not the only one. All those guys talk that trash. The other one too. The R.

Like they think you're just an ordinary American. Not like them.

Yeah, Bunky, that's a bug.