Are Americans Dumb? I hope not.

Anybody who believes that the Republicans can fix the mess they created
probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic."
-- Hillary, with a zinger and 'forgetting' to be polite, above all else,


So the polls have had McCain coming from behind and now show him in either a lead or dead heat...I really don't care about national polls but care mainly about the key swing states. Nonetheless, I have to say I'm really annoyed and bewildered how half of the population is considering a vote for Mcain/Palin.

Let's break things down plain and simple to you small towners (I am one!) who just don't get it!

*Those urbanites are not OUT to get you, they are not all liberal elite. Elite however would be defined by the Republican candidates. For example
1. John McCain doesn't know how many houses he has (I know one more he doesn't need!)
2. They are worth millions in net worth and eat dinners in one night you could never afford in three weeks. Giulani and Palin quickly criticized Obama and the media as liberal elite, but the taxpayers of Alaska paid for Sarah Palins $700 per night hotels in the liberal elite NYC, she cheated Alaskans out of money so she could get paid to work from home (isn't that a common complaint of stay at home mom's...you don't get paid for your work?) Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088_pf.html
These people live it up on dollars you will never see perhaps in your whole life and then turn around and tout small town values.

* Second, many voters say they just want a common person as president, someone like them or someone they can drink a beer with. I don't want someone like me to be the President or VP, I want them to be smarter than me, experienced and capable of deciding if indeed we should support Israel in the even of an attack by Iran. I want the President to know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, Waziristan, Kurdistan, and Balochistan. I don't care if you are a Mom, Hunter, Jew or anything else if you arent capable of explaining to me how to stimulate the economy and lower gas prices then you are not worth my time of day.

*It does not make you"liberal and elite" to have an education. Barack Obama went to the top law school in the US and was head of the Harvard Law Review, thats not affirmative action and it means something, he's smart and thats worth something! Upon leaving Harvard he had offers and could have easily joined as a clerk for the Supreme Court or prestigious law firms in Boston and NYC, he declined and chose to go and help the poor people of South Side Chicago. After all Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King and Jesus were community organizers of the sort...Pontius Pilate was a governor.
McCain graduated 894th out of 899 of his graduating class. Yes he fought in a war and thats honorable, but it doesn't give you experience of how to run a country. If anything being a POW should make you realize how avoidable a situation like war should be...hence, going around sing Bom Bom Bom Bomb Iran doe's not seem very prudent. We have homeless POW's all over the major cities, does that give them a qualification to run for President. You can't run POW as experience...take POW away and you have a senator...hmm the same title as Mr. Obama, which the McCain camp (once again showing hypocrisy) says isn't sufficient experience.

*Republicans cannot claim sexism as a defense when it has been something the party has completely ignored since its existence. They dont stand for womens equality! In fact it was McCain who called Chelsea Clinton an ugly dog and lest we forget how many times we heard the B word used with Senator Clinton. Now all of a sudden if you ask if someone not experienced is experienced.....criticize her for not doing an interview with anyone for 2 weeks...criticize the validity of abstinence only education when her 17 year old daugher is pregnant..It's sexist...This is the party that thinks YOU small towners are so stupid that you really believe its okay for McCain to mention lipstick on a pig but Barack Obama doing so is Sexist. Please, must you prove them right? I know you small towners, you aren't this stupid...you're caring, nice and have common sense...Don't fall victims to such vicious political Rovian attacks!

9/11 happened under Republicans...No other similar event happened on US soil for over half a century..please explain to me why people now believe that they will be safe under Republican watch, because another attack didn't happen? An attack didn't occur under 8 years of Clinton does that mean he and his party were the best at protecting us from terrorism? What has the the Iraq war done? It made more than 1/2 the world hate us....it created more hostility and terrorists. And made us trillions of dollars in debt..this makes YOU suffer

DO NOT, DO NOT use the deaths of those 3000 people as a justification for war and absolutely do not use it as a political gain for your political agenda...It's sickening. They did not die for use at your political convention. On the 7th anniversary of the tragic events, God rest the souls of those who died at the hands of evil and God protect us from the neo-fascism the government is trying to create with 9/11 as its justification.

I don't know what to say anymore...please how can you look at the last 8 years economically, politically, culturally and say I want more of that...Mcain is a carbon copy of Bush, and Palin makes Bush look liberal... Right Wing Evangelicals should not fall for political trickery, the politicians touting it..have they ever came through for you? Has abortion stopped, do homosexuals still exist? This is hardly a topic that is even discussed once the office is assumed, you're being used!. Its a means of getting elected. Sinclair Lewis once said "when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

Every empire falls and I feel that America is starting its descent...I honestly believe a change in administration is enough to reverse that trend.