"Intelliphobia" - The fear of learning FACTS about any political issue from any other source but FOX NOISE and the FOXpublicans. You can tell an "intelliphobe" by their behavior patterns: repeating lies over and over at a higher volume each time; they believe that action makes their lies true. (a technique perfected by Bush). Also refusing to use reason or logic to respond, or they will, when confronted directly, simply not respond at all.
The "intelliphobe" is a dying bread, first showing their faces in late 01 early 02, they were strong then, by the 04 election they had fallen off to about 51% of the population, they were how ever able to secure the 04 election, that alone has cost the US over 3000 more children, DEAD in Iraq, because of FEAR of Intelligence. It 06 we saw the first significant CHANGE when Democrats were given a SLIM majority in Congress. (note: this is not a veto proof majority, and prior to 06 Bush and NEVER used his veto pen, since over 100 times). The 51% has now died off to about 15% of Americans who suffer with this illness, and it is expected that between November 08 and Jan 09 they will be almost entirely extinct, with the exception of the FOX NOISE GROUP where it is believed this disease started, theirs will be a long process of "healing".
So don't worry, use this information to help them, don't judge them, as they are a dying bread and it is their fear that makes them irrational, and say things they know to NOT be true. Just try to help them and eventually TOGETHER we will have a great country again ;).
See also Joseph Goebbels - the actual inventor of this disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
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I am told by Democratic sources that within minutes of Hillary Clinton's speech "suspending" her candidacy, Johnson was working the phones, calling her most loyal supporters asking—all but demanding—that they attend fund-raisers and start Bundling for Obama. (He couldn't have been that busy on veep vetting.)
Johnson made hundreds of millions, perfectly legally, as the leader of Fannie Mae, the mortgage-bundling semigovernmental agency that helps homeowners of modest means. Under Johnson, Fannie Mae greatly expanded its role and helped drive home-ownership numbers to record levels, but it also became a gilt-edged ghetto for patronage appointees who used their contacts and chits to insulate the companies (and Johnson) from political attack.
He parlayed his Fannie Mae work into investments and corporate-board ties in New York and elsewhere. No one knows how much he is worth, but it is said to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. No one begrudges him his success. Johnson is widely liked. But only in Washington would he be seen as a character who did not clash horribly with Obama's message.
And he wasn't all that good a veep vetter, either. It was Johnson who oversaw the "vetting" of Geraldine Ferraro as Mondale's running mate in 1984. It was a historic choice—the first female on a major ticket. But no sooner had she been chosen than the press and the Reagan machine descended on her husband, raising questions about his business dealings that the Mondale campaign evidently had never considered.
When reporters raised questions about some of Johnson's personal mortgage dealings, Obama's first instinct was to tartly brush off the questions. I don't vet my vetters, he said. But as the media vultures circled—and as others pointed out the glaring mismatch between his basic message and the man he had chosen—Obama changed his mind.
And Johnson was out. He can still Bundle for Obama, and the betting here is that he will.
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