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"As polling data conclusively demonstrates, the mindset of the voting public is infinitely more rational and substance-based than the pundits and the Right fantasize when they lyrically praise the Regular American..."
I hope you're right. I hope it is enough to stem the tsunami of primitive swiftboating that the rightwing masterminds are sure to let loose - some filth, some idiocy - right before the election.
Americans don't really have any idea how the rest of the world makes fun of them. How Bush politics have made them look like passive, dumbed citizens of some banana republic. How angry the world is, about the Wall street crash.
Living in Europe, I regularly get the brunt of this. It generally makes me sick when I hear my 10 year-old son's friends with Bush jokes, or when the even the half-senile old neighbor of mine cluck-clucks about the mess the US has made in Iraq.
