We always feel a little better when there is someone else to blame.  Trouble paying back those pesky student loans?  Blame the "predatory" student loan companies.  Adjustable rate mortgage cramping your financial style?  Damn those banks and their ARMs.  Don't want to exercise or change your diet?  Evil health insurers.  Like driving that gargantuan SUV but hate those $80 fillups?  Oil companies.  Shocked by the amount of money removed from your gross pay?  Oops, wrong villain.  There now, don't you feel better?

I previously posted on Hillary Clinton's red meat advertisement running in Ohio.  The Wall Street Journal has also noticed the enhancement of this theme in both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's efforts to win the Democratic nomination:

"In Cincinnati Friday, Mrs. Clinton described herself as the "candidate of, from and for the middle class of America" to roundtable of voters in Cincinnati.

"We're going to end every single tax break that still exists in the federal tax code that gives one penny of your money to anybody who exports a job. Those days are done," she said. "It is wrong that an investment money manager in Wall Street making $50 million a year gets a lower tax rate than a teacher, a nurse, a truck driver, and autoworker making $50,000 a year."

She has taken a number of opportunities over the last week to denounce corporations. On Thursday, she responded to reports of possible airline mergers. "We will have to take a hard look at the potential effects on workers and consumers," she said in a statement. "It is also vitally important that any proposed merger preserve the jobs and worker protections on which thousands of families rely." A spokeswoman for Delta Air Lines Inc., which people close to the matter say is in merger talks, said any merger decision would be made with the long-term interests of employees and customers in mind."

Read the article here and, hopefully, the government will soon arrive with help.  Don't let "The Man" keep you down.