John McCain wants to be Herbert Hoover

As we stare down the precipice of another financial crisis, we can be thankful that at least 1/4 of us are not unemployed. No one is considering scooping up roadkill and eating it. Our economy is not going to contract by 40%, reversing nearly twenty years of economic growth (I just made both of those numbers up, but they're somewhat right).

So maybe it m…