Wednesday, 13 February 2013  Middle Class State of The Union  In
a sweeping bid to reassure markets (which are at 5 year highs),
get the republican controlled congress on side (which it will
never, ever be), and show all those enlightened people who
entrusted their faith in him for a second term that he's more
than just an inspiring pretty face, Barack Obama used his 12
page long state of the union address last night to pound and
pound the thematic dead horse that politicos are convinced is in
fact an electoral golden goose: the middle class.  The middle
class.  If I hear this patronizing, meaningless, bullshit
idiotic term one more time, I'm going to have to take to Lacking
Credentials for a serious rant.  Oh, wait. Here I am.  Guess
that was one time too many.  What possesses successful and
mediocre politicians alike to so shamelessly, so blithely, and
so frequently trot out this term? Why are we in 2013 witnessing
the full-scale creation of a continent-wide mythology that
lionizes this amorphous entity cal