almostwitty

The whole thing makes me ill. I just spent a weekend with people from around the country at a DeLorean car show and someone found my "Barak to the Future" (done in the proper logo, of course) entirely unamusing because they would never EVER support Obama. I don't even feel that much venom towards McCain and I wouldn't vote for him. (although they were amused when I told them about the shirt with Clinton and Obama on it that said "bros before hos". ) They are from middle america... but I've even talked to people here in New Jersey and they are convinced that Barak Obama is a Muslim and that it is a bad thing. People that I thought were smarter than that. Another person said that we couldn't elect him because he wouldn't support Israel.... until I pointed out that no one in the oval office would be silly enough to think that we could survive for a single second without Israeli intelligence... and then he agreed.

Its all about keeping people afraid - and if Obama stopped the visa thing SO many people would say he was soft on security - they want things in place no matter how much time/money it wastes - because they don't think it through. We are a society of instant gratification because we want to move from one thing to the next so we don't have to see how our world is crumbling. Its about what is fast and what is easy, not about what is right (see American's skyrocketing debt).

Its a sad state of affairs, and I haven't a clue how to change it.