Summary: It’s the sound of all the fundraising creating a perfect vacuum beneath the Big Three: Obama, Edwards, and Clinton. The first victim was Tom Vilsack, former governor of Iowa. A McClatchy Newspaper analysis finds that the number of severely poor Americans grew by 26 percent from 2000(The year George W. Bush was appointed) to 2005 (the year after George W. Bush was sorta elected). The Washington Post tries to explain to the Pentagon what “support our troops” actually means.

Listen to: That Giant Sucking Sound (35:24 32.4MB)

This post was written by Mary Mancini