Waiting for Schadenfreude by judith warner

While reading the blog post by Judith Warner it took me a moment to find the "line" of this story! It wasn't further into the post that I saw that she was bitching about the economy falling. I was distracted to find the line by her comments about the drunken guys in college that she was also referring to as the guys who are making it big on Wall Street. This opinion blog was not that bad, but once again it was dealing with politics and the economy... something i am just BURNT OUT on! I think that this piece would have made a greater impact if maybe it didn't have so much "tension" in it. She puts the blame on others and says that they are just taking the rest of the world down with them, but in a time where everything is crashing, is there really just one type of person to put the blame on? or is it more of a group effort to destroy of economy?

Mmmm Sweet Potato Pie!

from the class point of view:

This article was rather long for a newspaper article, but not bad! The article was full of descriptive detail which I loved to see! It almost put you right there in the middle of all the action! The author did a great job of really painting the scene for the readers. However I think that the author could have spent a little bit more time on talking about what Obama had to say rather then the surroundings.

my actual feelings on the article:

Honestly if I were to see this article on my own I would have never of read it! I really don't care for politics and am pretty much over the whole Obama McCain thing.. I'm not really into a bunch of bullshitters calling each other out on their bullshit! However the title would have drawn my attention... but the rest would have shortly lost it!



PS.. DOC I WAS IN CLASS TODAY OCTOBER 15~

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