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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25184)	7/1/2008 8:04:33 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 149317

I'll say it out loud. Yes, the majority of American voters are ignorant. Otherwise, they would not have voted for Bush the second time around. Everyone knows we have the worst education in the world below the college level. This is the consequence. We are ruled by the ignorant masses.

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25184)	7/1/2008 8:16:53 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

It is the "Fool me once....." scenario. In 2004, people voted for Bush because he asked for time. This time around, it is "No way, pull out from Iraq and repair the economy." This blog from LA Times says it all about the idiots and crooks which gently put are called evangelicals. ================================= John McCain and the less-than-excited Republican base Nearly five months after John McCain effectively locked down the Republican presidential nomination, many leaders of the religious right remain underwhelmed. A new Newsweek article asserts that McCain's candidacy has "tamped down" enthusiasm among these conservatives, "exposing fractures that make a rallying of the troops in the pews unlikely." The recent L.A. Times/Bloomberg national poll spotlighted a pronounced "passion gap" in the presidential race, with fully 81% of Barack Obama supporters declaring themselves fired up about his candidacy and only 45% of the McCain backers feeling likewise about their man. And here's an even more concrete sign of the difficulty McCain has been having rallying core Republicans, courtesy of a Gannett News Service story published Monday: "Of the more than 900 Hoosiers who contributed at least $2,000 to President Bush's re-election campaign, only about 50 had contributed to the Arizona senator by the end of [May], according to a review of campaign disclosure reports ..." McCain headlines a fundraiser in Indiana today, so he'll no doubt reel in some of those heretofore reticient givers. He then heads off on a short jaunt to Colombia and Mexico (a trip that The Times' Mark Barabak, in a Sunday story, termed part of the "unusual path" McCain is pursuing in his White House bid). latimesblogs.latimes.com