Southern Perlo—a Charleston rice dish loaded with local bounty to extend and enhance its value and taste. Perlo is carefully crafted: its recipe handed down and modified by experience, enjoyed by all.

Yester Love

Over lima beans and red rice, I watched the Republican candidate bring no plan for change for the troubles on the plate of the American public. Behind the carry-out counter was a church-going Viet Nam veteran who agreed. Repeating talking points and attacking his opponent with stock phrases and scary labels doesn't move McClain's campaign--or the country forward. How exactly will the government buying mortgages strengthen and stabilize the economy? How will offshore drilling, whose lead time is at least ten years, help America become energy independent? How will nuclear power help provide energy when it will take at least 15 years to construct the first power plants? How will a tax plan offering additional cuts to the wealthy increase the purchasing power of the middle class? And if Pakistan knows America's intent, isn't the country more likely to cooperate and follow through on seizing terrorists? Sadly, McClain's rhetoric was empty, void of new ideas, and recycled former Republican strategies that this time simply won't work. In Charleston, SC, those of us at Dave's Seafood were hungry for change, but didn't see it on McClain's menu.
More of the same has almost given us a heart attack. Sure, he has served. But what is he serving up now?