No they aren’t ready, they are watching American Idol, and text messaging at the mall.
That's the truth, and the shame of it is that the reason they feel that way is because the "rough men" have kept the wolf from their door for so long (in American attention-span terms) that they think it's actually safe to vote Democrat. To his credit, and this is something the MSM (with their "Mission Accomplished" and "immediate withdrawal" fixations) have forgotten, President Bush told the American people as far back as September 2001 that this was going to be a "long war" of a decade or more.