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Face it, a majority of the voting public is woefully ignorant of facts and issues. I study this stuff daily, so a lot isn’t news to me, but I often get alarmed by just average FReepers that praise me for knowing so much more than they on political history. I don’t feel like this stuff is rocket science, it’s easily learnable. If average FReepers, the cream of the crop of informed people, feel inferior to my knowledge, it is bone-chilling how bad it must be for the average citizen, most of whom couldn’t separate Gov. Palin from the disguting caricature Tina Fey portrayed (and Fey hates Palin, which she admitted publicly, even worse than rodeo-mamma). Imagine if a Conservative program decided to do a similar caricature of the False Messiah. A half-witted Step ‘n Fetchit wearing a Mohammadan turbin reading off of cue cards held by his Black Power “Angela Davis” wife chanting “Kill Whitey” (much like the New Yorker mag cover, which was a bit TOO honest), with his little daughters saying the same, eating a watermelon, and giving birth (at 8) to more babies, wiping the placenta on the Constitution with the infants also chanting, “Kill Whitey.” Fair is fair, now. Time to go after these thugs with a vengeance. What ? We can’t do that ? Time to kill the double-standard, too.

i can help you out there, on the average citizen since my BIL is one. they work 8-12 hours a day, come home, eat supper, and plop in front of the TV. they listen to the news when some thing grabs their attention and then resume reading the paper, mostly the funnies.
they get politics from peeps at work over the water cooler, and the blips and sound bytes via the msm.
the entire world could be in crisis and if it did not directly effect their lives they would never, EVER know.
i admit at times ignorance is bliss crosses my mind. would i be so fearful for our country if that was the extent of my information? probably not. it would be just another election, with another politician, ho hum.
you also have republicans whose only news source is fox news, and while they do better than most, it sorely lacks.
admittedly i dont know as much about politics as i would prefer, but what extra information i have from reading here is too much for the average republican. they gloss over, fade out... or worse think i am a tin foil hat kook because what i am saying has not made main news sources;)
as much as a find obama repulsive and woefully ignorant, whoever ran his campaign is brilliant. we need to look carefully at how he reached so many that normally would have no information. since his was the first campaign to use this tactic there ar bugs, so we can improve on it, but we have got to get moving, the dude is still campaigning!

OK on the last point, i got to stand up for tina faye in your comparison to rodeo mama. at least faye had a few nice things about palin, no so with rodeo!