"Palin might be a dummy, yes, but she represents the growing resentment of eggheads and slick Willie types who have co-opted our politics for far too long"

Having the best and the brightest in charge is not something with which you feel particularly concerned.  Feeling threatened by people who are smarter than you are, you, yourself, resent them, and you criticize them for being smarter than you are.

You want people who are less intellectually capable to be in charge.  That way, you won't feel so threatened by them, and you can feel superior to them and still continue to criticize them without having to actually do anything yourself to make things better.

by EveningStarNM on 02/09/2010 11:15:50 AM EST

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As Obama has illustrated in the first year of his failing presidency, its not always the best and brightest who knows how to get things done.

Someone (like Obama) can be super smart and intellectually driven and be a piss poor people person who can't understand why things don't go the way he thinks they should.

Bush and Palin are dummies in the intelectual department, yes, but they are the kind of people who can rally the masses and take action as opposed to just using mere words. Hell, Bush got us totally involved in two wars and for a time convinced the majority of the country that it was the right thing to do! Obama couldn't do that if he had God given directions and free money to give out to supporters...

I'm not saying Bush/Palin are right, I'm saying they know how to sway people better than Mr. Professor Obama...

by bobo1 on 02/09/2010 01:02:32 PM EST

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Yeah, that sounds like a great plan: Let's keep electing dummies.

by EveningStarNM on 02/09/2010 02:58:49 PM EST

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Its not about electing dummies. Its about electing people who can get the job done.

Obama is not getting the job done. He's not getting what he wants done.

Republicans get the job done, as evidenced by who gets what they want when they want it.

Do you understand now? Or do I need to spell it out in even simpler terms...

by bobo1 on 02/09/2010 03:23:45 PM EST

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Let's keep electing dummies!  They'll certainly get something done, even if it drives our economy into the ground!

Bob, at some point, you're going to have to start thinking about things.  You apparently have no idea about why Obama hasn't been able to accomplish even the things that he has tried to accomplish.  And I'm not defending him.  I'm simply trying to get you to think about things rather than continue to skim along the surface, where your ridiculous criticisms and ideas might seem to make sense, even though any meager analysis of them reveals them to be completely worthless.

If you want to solve problems, you're going to have to learn to understand the problems first.  Just because a dummy can be used by underlings who are smarter than he is to achieve a lot of their goals does not mean that it's a good thing to have dummies in charge.  You should always want the absolute smartest person to be in charge, as long as that person is qualified and has good motives, even if you disagree with some of his or her policies.  And if you disagree with a lot of those policies but the alternative is Palin or Bush or [name any popular Republican here], then you still must vote for the smarter person.

To do otherwise is simply irresponsible.  No matter what you want, the government -- and the world -- is more complicated than you think.  It takes a smart person to deal with it.  Electing anyone of Palin's or Bush's or McCain's or Boehner's or ... limited abilities is courting further disaster.

And no matter what you think, Obama has kept us out of the pit of doom in which Republicans want to bury us.

by EveningStarNM on 02/09/2010 05:22:23 PM EST

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