************* Yes. They didn’t have to DO anything. Eeeeek.

Who needs sleep anyway

************ Sigh . . . .

Sadly, the voters appear to LIKE a president who isn’t too smart. They appear intimidated by intelligence. (See Reagan). They want someone like them. Now, I truly believe that Bush is faking much of the “dumb” – nobody that stupid could have got that far – but some, alas comes naturally to him. I fear they will think Obama is too smart.
Talking to rural midwesterners, there is an amazing amount of , um, very old-fashioned worldviews still out there. So they truly would not have voted for Clinton because women shouldn’t be the boss of them, and I greatly fear the hind-brain response to Obama. (Palin is apparently ok because she hunts moose and is therefore a spunky frontier archetype (fending off hostiles, digging the well and battling the locust swarms while raising a passel of brats. Etc.)).
The scary thing about McCain is the soothing tone in his voice. He sounds like he’s reasoning someone down from a high ledge. He could say anything at all in that voice, and it would sound cosy and reasonable, and the rural midwest would buy into it and vote for him. I fear 1984 is round the corner.

;)

****Absolutely agree. While you’re wasting time, if you can tear yourself away from xkcd :), did you watch any of the SNL clips? Some very good Palin incoherence there.****

Yes, I watched all of them, and the one from the Daily Show, and had a good laugh. The incoherence on the subject of the bailout was straight from the transcript. Who needs sleep anyway?

Yes. I hope the fact that people have always–or at any rate for a long time–felt this way, whatever time they live in, is *hopeful* now.