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With a hopelessly abject, low-brow tabloid level of understanding of things in many pop-culture segments of the current American populace and electorate, as opposed to having any detailed inkling on such things as intrinsic differences between capitalism and socialism, the American People are liable to go with the buzzers and whistles and National Enquirer level-stuff *crap* rather than true issues in a studied, logical way. This is what dumbing down produces. At times, I think the folks interviewed on the street by Jay Leno are not an extreme sampling, but often how things truly are and where we are as a country (particularly with many young people). Sad to say. If in retrospect the history books show for 2008 that such pablum loses the election for Obama, it is sad in one way (intellectual), but it will be a godsend in another (machiavellian/scorched earth).

A supposed girlfriend, hiding out someplace, is not the “October Surprise” that will change this election.

That’s just my opinion. Even if it were true, the MSM would not carry it against a democrat.

Different story, though, if it were a republican. You can see the media’s hypocritical treatment of the democratic congressman in Foley’s seat who has been caught paying his mistress out of campaign funds and intercepting a sexual harassment charge from her.

Pick any republican congressman anyplace in the country and that would be all over front page and would be an example of republican corruption.