Both presidential candidates love attacking Wall Street and its many abusers-of-the-system while defending Main Street, which is a euphemism for us, the American people, the laborers, the masses, the many, citizens, you and me. But I don’t know anyone who lives on Main Street. In my experience, Main Streets across the nation are generally populated by businesses, usually banks and Subway sandwich shops and auto repair shops and sometimes hospitals, but rarely residences. If politicians wanted to use a euphemism for us, regular people, the hurting, average Americans, Yankees, gringos, they should use Maple Street or Second Street, which is actually the most common street name in these United States, or Martin Luther King Boulevard, which would imply that the candidate supports black people, or Cesar Chavez Avenue, which indicates his support of Latinos, or Broadway, which is a very long street, stretching from downtown Manhattan all the way to Albany and has the added benefit of voicing the candidate’s support for the arts, which I have heard very little about in this election.
Tags: barack obama, campaign 2008, john mccain
