Bush Legacy Tour

MEMPHIS, TN-It is difficult to figure out why it took three months to link the Bush Legacy Bus to fried fish and hush puppies. Thankfully, we included fried fish in our tour schedule for the first time on Saturday at the Fish Fry at the IBEW hall in Memphis. We had the honor of being invited there to show off the bus and eat delicious food.

We met quite a few locals that are fired up about getting Bush and his allies like Senator Lamar Alexander out of office.  The refrain from the people I talked to was that they simply could not afford another four years of this mess.  The way that the people were speaking about the election transcended the normal political rhetoric you hear on the television or in line at the grocery store. The conversations I overheard, and was part of, in Memphis were not about ideology, but about necessity on a very personal level. It is certainly still about the economy, stupid. Most of the people that came through the bus were working families that are often having  trouble affording gas, milk and medicine. The idea of another four years of these failed policies means more sacrifice, more hours worked to make ends meet, more healthcare costs, and more of the same.  “I can’t afford four more years of this,” may as well have been piped into the speakers on the bus. We met a lot of great people at the fish fry and here are some of the comments that they made…