Republicans Know Stupid
The other day, Barack Obama said, “they must think you’re stupid”, referring to one of John McCain’s many blatantly false campaign ads. No Barack, the Republicans don’t just think the American people are stupid, they are quite sure that the American people are stupid. It really is the stupid, stupid. We have a two-term President who is clearly one of the dimmest human beings on the face of the planet. This is not a partisan opinion. Had Bush been born to any other family, he wouldn’t have made it to section manager at a Home Depot. He has been our President for eight years. We are a nation of stupid. Still not convinced?
Here are some lowlights from an article by Dan Hoyle on salon.com, called “What small-town America is saying about Obama“.
Cathy - “He’s just not someone I can personally relate to,” explained Cathy Massingale, 33, of Cullowhee, N.C., a Democrat who first supported John Edwards this election, and then Hillary Clinton. “Obama just doesn’t feel like someone who knows me.” Massingale’s husband is in the military, and she wants to see a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But she said she remains undecided about Obama or McCain.
Louie - “‘Obama’s like Jesse Jackson — what does he know except a bunch of cities with lots of blacks?’
Mack - “Obama, he’s not our kind of people,” said Middleton in a gruff, bitten-off speaking style, taking a break from canning green beans at the couple’s double-wide mobile home. “He don’t believe in the hereafter, and the Lord, the way I look at it … he’s Muslim.”
Scott - 26, a former trucker currently unemployed, isn’t going to vote for Obama. “I know it sounds stupid,” he says taking a long drag from his Maverick cigarette, “but Barack Hussein Obama? And if he gets in, somebody’ll take him out real quick,” he said, referring to potential assassination, which was a surprisingly common theme along rural back roads.
Gary - “People around here see Obama as being privileged,” he said. Never mind McCain — with his seven houses — or recent blue blood candidates George W. Bush, John Kerry and Al Gore. “We know Obama’s plenty book-smart … but I liked Harry Truman, the last president to have a simple high school education.”
Now, which candidate wants to do away with the department of education? Compared to these people, Sarah Palin is highly qualified.
There’s plenty of stupid in big cities, but small-town stupid just seems … well … stupider. Republicans know stupid. That’s why they win. That’s why the rest of us are screwed.
Meanwhile in other news …
Survivors beg for help as Ike ravages Texas
Hurricane Ike messed with Texas. In the midst of a mandatory evacuation order and clear evidence of a killer Hurricane coming straight at them, many Texas residents stayed and had Hurricane parties. It’s so much harder to crawl into a National Guard rescue bucket when you are drunk.
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