I think he's lazy. I think he doesn't do much of anything and votes how he is told to vote and reads what he is told to read and assume he understands things. I think he is just a man who does a half-ass job of trying to understand the issues. He has never had a serious race and the media has never called him on anything. I think he believes he is very bright and well informed but doesn't understand the difference between listening to the hacks that advise him and filling in the blanks with assumptions and doing actual hard research to make sure you get it.
He is an awful candidate and if the media wasn't so obsessed with Obama he would be destroyed in no time flat. I posted earlier this is a man who got eviscerated by Meredith Viera on his strongest issue. Not only is he not qualified to be president, he is not qualified to be Senator either.
For the record, I don't get touchy when people attack the south for its dumbass political record, I get upset when people (a) immediately assume if you are from the South, you are an idiot (I like Obama but this is what stopped Edwards, a much stronger candidate, from getting the nod) or (b) speak as if every southerner is a brain-dead Ken-style GOP racist zombie. I accept that there are a lot of those, but the Pubs don't win Texas 99%-1%. Since 1992, somewhere between 39%-59% of us have showed up and voted against the republican.
Also, I live in Austin which is kind of like the West Berlin of the South. Ask Cenk, he was just here.
Finally, three things the rest of the blue nation seems to fail to understand about the South. It is economically populist, it is chock full of minorities and it has 160 Electoral Votes of which the Dems have won ZERO since 1980. Maybe constantly berating the entire region isn't really a smart way to go if you want to change the direction of the country.
This isnt the 1950s, its the digital age, he cant lay up and not expect people to call him on it.
Hes just looking more and more tired as it goes on.
