If a man wants to believe something, no amount of evidence or argumentation will change his mind.
It seems that the vast majority of Obama voters are wishful thinkers. Wishful thinking can't survive for very long in the work-a-day world, but it can survive in the hothouse environments of universities, government employment, and government subsidy.
This tells us something about the state of our society that isn't very good.
Drudge has a post from a female almost crying”if he wins I won’t have to worry about paying for gas or my mortgage”
As I get ready to go out and vote, I was thinking the same.
I mean, here we are, with the economy literally on its’ knees by almost any and all measures. Why wouldn’t the electorate wish/vote for some other time, some other set of conditions, any other set of conditions?
Wasn’t it better when anyone could buy a house, no matter what the realities of their income or ability to pay the mortgage? The idea that that condition led us pretty directly into the situation we now find ourselves in...doesn’t matter. Hey, back then, home prices only rose, what’s not to like about that? The messiah will lead us back, the hope he brings all by itself will do that, we don’t need to know the irritating details of his actual plans. Our home will become more valuable, that’s all we care about.
Wasn’t it better for folks when they had more money to spend because they had a job? Well, the rat-bastard McCain sure as heck isn’t going to create any jobs, let’s vote for the guy who promises to shut down coal plants, to tax industry and big oil, think of all the jobs that will come out of that! Let’s vote for the guy who will change his spiel to whatever we want to hear, because it’s so much better to hear positive news! Never mind that he, the chosen one, will take more of our money in taxes, we will accept that outcome because we have more money to pay in taxes; it’s better than where we are now.
And wasn’t it better when all these dark skinned folks didn’t hate us so much and try to kill us? 0bama will talk to them, he will convince them because he’s so smooth, to abandon their hatred of us and we will all be so much more secure, without having to take these awful measures to surveil everything and eavesdrop on all our important conversations.
I for one don’t understand what there is to understand about 0bama. 0bama is a street hustler selling crack, and evidently the entire electorate is so badly in need of a fix, they will sell out their precious freedoms, their livelihoods, anything, just to get that fix, no matter what the cost or what the long term consequences are. I must confess to being dumbfounded about his support.