"Presumptuous and Arrogant"?

According to Dictionary.com, a synonym for presumptuous is arrogant. Another synonym is...uppity. As in, uppity negro. All class, that John McCain, isn't he? Josh Marshall decodes the dog whistle.

Meanwhile, McCain already crowns himself President. How...presumptuous.

Although I've got another couple words to describe McCain: pathetic and desperate.

UPDATE: Obama is exactly correct....

Bye Bye Citibank U.S.

I managed to close my Citibank account. Oddly enough their exclusive procedure for "global executives" to do so involved sending a fax. How very...Reagan Era. But it worked.

I still bank with Citibank Japan, though. And I do hope Citibank, which is undergoing tremendous turmoil right now, recovers.

Meanwhile, this past weekend the FDIC seized control of IndyMac Bank in one of the U.S.'s largest bank failures ever.