When Are You Going To Prevent Them From Beating You

I watched the Palin "interview" tonight. It's amazing how much better she did when she was given the softball questions from Hannity before so her handlers could brief her on the right answers. She didn't miss a beat unlike her interview with Gibson where she was totally lost.

Why, she sounded like more of a Democratic populist than Obama. The old trick of co-opting your opponents message seems to be working. Why she said they were going to even out regulate Obama. Yeah, you can imagine McCain the 'ol deregulator morphing into a super regulator. He won't appear now to answer questions from the news people. If he did, they should ask him if he was happy that he supported his compadre Sen. Phil Graham's bill deregulating the many laws put in by the Roosevelt Admin. to prevent exactly what has happened recently.

Yes, Indeed. Old P.T. Barnum knew a circus and all about how to run one."There's a sucker born every minute," he said, giving historical inspiration to today's GOP. Unfortunately, most of the suckers vote. . . and too many of them are concerned with the fortunes of a couple of NASCAR drivers than with the mismanagement of their representatives in government.

Bamboozled by the superficiality of television, they confuse what passes as the daily "news" with soap operas, "reality" shows and old John Wayne movies. Even with true reality biting them in the ass, they are titillated by the superficial glitz and outright lies of the likes of John McCain, Karl Rove, George Bush and Sarah Palin--and their attention span has long since dissipated by the time anyone presents the actual truth as rebuttal.

Reagan was a bit mixed up in his thinking, but his remarks always resonated well. "The problem is not government," he also said; "government is the problem." Sorry, Ron. The problem is those who vote in a government, endure its incompetence and corruption and learn nothing in the process. As the philosopher Pogo, long a student of human nature, once observed, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

As Harry Truman said in reference to the middle class, "They are beating you in the head. When are you going to vote to stop the beatings."

Bob