I have read a lot of your posts today, as well as many of your posts a while back before I took a break from here and elsewhere to do real world things. I am at least smart enough to follow most of your rambling, mostly off topic, sometimes even nonsensical posts. I even spot most of your plagarising of modernist and classical literature, although perhaps not all of it.

It has been my experience that somebody that name drops or riffs actual intellectuals as much as you do (Samantha Power? Really? How did she get into this?) is either-

a) desperately trying to disguise the fact that they really aren't anywhere close to as smart as they want people to think they are, or-

b) Even more stupid than that because they don't know the difference between what you do and actual intelligent thought.

Hence, you are the very definition of a pseudo-intellectual. Look up the word in the dictionary and I bet there's a picture of you.

As far the the man hating part, well, that probably was a little bit of a guess. You see, perhaps I am a little presumptious, but any woman I come across these days now who is still hanging onto Hillary and hasn't gotten over her losing to Obama is one of either two things:

1) a man hater who just can't accept that their goddess lost to a mere mortal man.

2) a racist who can't believe their shiny white girl lost to the black man.

I'm sorry there's not really anything other reason I can see why some people have a trouble supporting a candidate with many if not all of the same positions as their gal, especially on women's issues. Especially considering the anti-choice, and gay rights, domestic violence pooh-poohing candidate that many are all threatening to vote for instead.

So I'm sorry Maureen, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that you were not a bigot, just a man hater. Neither are good, but one is clearly worse than the other.

Oh, and by the way, just because you are married doesn't mean that you are not a gender-centric man-hater. Some of the biggest misogynists I have met were happily married or had very healthy dating lives.

Well I applaud you on your fine choice of a spouse. Would that we all could be that lucky.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the fine mind of your wife has nothing to do with her being from Europe, she has a fine mind because, well, she has a fine mind. If she was born in Kentucky, or New Mexico, or anywhere else, she would still be intelligent; the only real difference would probably be her accent.

I spent two semesters in college on exchange in England. While that's not a huge amount of one's life, it is something. And I can tell you from first hand experience, white trash is not exclusive to America. I met just as many dumb or ignorant people in the UK as I do here in Boston. Their education is admittedly more comprehensive, much to the continuing embarrassment of our country, but just because someone reads Chaucer and can quote him verbatim doesn't mean they understood a single word of his writing. Actual smart people don't need to quote everyone under the sun to express their ideas. The smart people they often steal from didn't.

And as far as other reasons why Hillary supporters could decide to vote for McCain over Obama, well, if you can think of another reason how someone can support a polar opposite of their own core beliefs over a man who champions them, then let's hear it.

Just to be clear: I am not talking about people who are supporting McCain with the man hater or racist thing. Many people in this country are bona fide conservative voters and sincerely support him on the issues. Including a few people in my own family who I know aren't either. I don't understand it personally, but I'm sure they find me just as perplexing about Obama.

I was talking very specifically about the PUMAs, and other so called liberals or Democrats threatening to vote contrary to their own beliefs out of spite.

Did you really not understand 'We're the ones we've been waiting for'? Really? I thought that one was pretty clear.

It's not mindless drivel.

What Obama was saying was that instead of waiting around for either another greatest generation, or some demagogic figure to come along fix things, we should do it ourselves. Basically, we are the ones who we've been waiting to come and fix things, or should be.

You can say that the statement is naive, or overly idealistic, but mindless? I'm not sure what you can be missing about this.