Morning in America?

What's this? Jesse Jackson announces John Edwards by saying "the Democratic ticket 'represents morning time in America'." Are the Democrats and Republicans trying to one up one another by recycling the greatest hits of the Reagan campaigns? First "you can run but you can't hide" and now this. Does Jackson really want to invoke one of the Reagan team's cleverest bits of propaganda? The whole thing about morning in America was that, if Carter and Caddell's malaise had nominally passed, it was still a let them eat jellybeans and ketchup packs sunshiny day, where blacks and the HIV-positive (read gay) might as well just stay in bed. Maybe the Rainbow Coalition has gone greyscale.

Song du jour. Gillian Welch transcendent