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So people who are obvious, total idiots--people who SELF-IDENTIFY as idiots ("I know it sounds stupid, but Barack 'Hussein' Obama?") are poised to define our national priorities once again, it seems. At a certain point these people get what they deserve by voting the way they do.
They're too dim to make the connection between the shuttered storefronts in their downtowns and the giant Wal-Marts down the road, and it's just too taxing on them to figure out that the claims made in a viral e-mail ("Obama is a Muslim! He wants to kill your babies!") are false. So they vote Republican against their own interests. At this point I have zero sympathy for these people. They gave us George Bush, and they just might give us John McCain and Sarah Palin.
What IS tragic is that the rest of the country, and indeed the rest of the world, will suffer unimaginable horrors if McCain and Palin, the king and queen of anti-intellectualism, manage to win the election with the help of these hopeless morons.
