I am surely falling for the Madonnaoid trap of giving shock value publicity and therefore the name recognition necessary to win popularity contests like elections, but here goes:
The Citizen-Times printed articles indicating more people are dependent on food stamps and charity for heating this year. Congressional candidate and Asheville city councilman Cecil Bothwell was first to say the obvious: Obama inherited a mess from Bush, and it is going to take a long time to clean It up. The fact of the matter is, if Bush were still president, the hockey-stick graph, showing the rise in poverty with an inflection point at 2009, would be bending back on itself by now.
