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To: IYAS9YAS
"These folks stay as informed as they can within their means. I would not call these folks (i.e. my grandmother) useful idiots."

I disagree. Just because there is a 'good reason' that people are uninformed doesn't make them any less a useful idiot. If you haven't figured out by now that you aren't going to get unbiased information from media (conservative or otherwise), then you are a useful idiot.

Heck, everybody's got a 'good reason' for their ignorance. Only those who make the effort to educate themselves can escape being useful idiots.

In short, just because you have a 'good excuse' for being a useful idiot doesn't make you any less a useful idiot.

24 posted on 03/13/2009 9:14:53 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
I will agree that those who voted for Obama, but now suffer "buyer's remorse" are useful idiots. They fit the original definition by Lenin.
25 posted on 03/13/2009 9:40:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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