Somebody needs to consider what it is going to be like in America when Republican Carl Palidino, who sends pornographic e-mail to business associates, gets elected governor of NY; when Republican Governor Jan Brewer, who refuses to debate her opponent and cannot recall her administration’s major accomplishments since she took office, and who thinks beheaded corpses are lying around the desert of Arizona, gets re-elected governor; when Republican Christine O’Donnell, who dabbled in witchcraft, gets elected to the US Senate from Delaware; when Republican Joe Miller, who believes Social Security should be repealed, gets elected to the US Senate from Alaska; when Republican Sharron Angle, who refuses to answer questions on any substantive issue, is elected to the US Senate from Nevada; when Rand Paul, who believes the Civil Rights Act should be repealed, gets elected to the US Senate from Kentucky – to name a few of the nutcases looking forward to running your government next year.
Somebody needs to consider what America will be like once they get their hands of the levers of power. (Can you spell “ditch?”)
According to a new poll, “nearly 20% of U.S. citizens now believe Barack Obama is a cactus, the most Americans to identify the president as a water-retaining desert plant since he took office."
The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center, found a sharp rise in the number of Americans who say they firmly believe Obama was either born a cactus, became a cactus during his youth, or has questionable links to the Cactaceae family."
Thomas Jefferson! Where are you? We need your help – now – and bring Ben Franklin with you.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 89)
". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 88)
Ignorant or well-informed. That is the question.
I think we know the answer to your either/or question. As Bill Clinton said the other day, "We live in a fact free world." Not good for America. There has never been a time when we needed more the best judgment of Americans in November with votes cast based on informed positions grounded in facts.
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