Stupid is as Stupid Does - Link

I watched a lot more of the Democratic Convention than I ever thought I would. It gave me a bit of a glow to hear others speaking so eloquently about the sorts of things that I support and believe in. I loved Obama's speech last night - but somewhere around 2/3rds of the way through it struck me again - for far too many of the voters in this nation, Barack Obama is scary because he's too intelligent.

Yep - Barack's positions were well-reasoned, well-thought out and logical.

Listen to McCain and all you hear is stupid. A lot of Americans are comfortable with stupid - they want a President who reflects their own lives. They did it with Bush - but in the polls it came across as being that most Americans would prefer to "drink a beer" with Bush. Because he's their kind of stupid.

I mean, how else can you explain the fact that so many Americans do not see the lies and the inconsistencies that McCain offers? It has made no sense to me - I keep thinking that sooner or later the other 50% of America will wake up and realize what a buffoon John McCain actually is - but they won't. It doesn't matter what McCain says - the folks who vote for him will like him no matter what.

He's their kind of guy.

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John W. McCain is holding a women's-only town hall event today in Wisconsin. He talked about how he's committed to "equal pay for equal work" but he sung a different tune just a few months ago.

In fact, McCain seems committed to just the opposite. In April, he skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have rectified the Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear “that made it much harder for women and other workers to pursue pay discrimination claims.”

In fact, on that very same day, McCain said that if he had been in the Senate, he would have voted against it because the bill “opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.” He also dismissed the importance of equal pay, saying that women simply need “education and training“: