[instantgratification]

Regional businesses can also be boycotted. The regional auto dealership is Ford? A full Ford boycott could be organized. But, that is really a sidebar to my point; Get real. When was the last time there was a national boycott of anything organized by anyone other than gay rights activists? Americans of both political stripes are too disinterested to do this. I think the article, which note, is from foreign press, has a lot of merit. The personal attacks have lead to a general breakdown of manners and political discourse. And that goes for the left as well as the right (Franken's attack on Limbaugh, for example, or the media's general attacks on Laura Schlesinger). I think this is, frankly, just lazy. It is easier to state that Laura Schlesinger had her tubes tied, had an affair, had premarital sex, had a dicey relationship with her mother, etc., etc. than to challenge the ideas she puts forward. Similarly, it is easier to attack Barack Obama's middle name and his supposed lack of "black credentials" than to put forth a reasoned response to his ideas. Both sides of the political spectrum are guilty of this lack of intellectual energy. And America is the poorer for it, as the paucity of great ideas from either side of the political spectrum proves.

[saganite]

it is easier to attack Barack Obama’s middle name and his supposed lack of “black credentials” than to put forth a reasoned response to his ideas

What ideas?

[bfree]

Similarly, it is easier to attack Barack Obama's middle name and his supposed lack of "black credentials" than to put forth a reasoned response to his ideas

He's an empty suit with no ideas, at least not in the Senate and not so far on the campaign trail. Other than being on the leftist Letterman show.