In Search of Rational Voters

is it me or does obama seem to be having one of those moments that fathe phleger showed hilary having ? can't you just see it obama with his chest all puffed out saying look at me i got this !! then all of a sudden HELLO I'M SARAH PALIN !>>>>>>>>> then from obama >>>>>>>>>> no no no this is mine i'm entitled its mine ! i'm entitled!! i'm black !! i went to harvard !! i was a community organizer !! its mine !!

In 2004 I was in Spain when W. Bush won the election. I would never forget the reaction of the Spaniards around me. It was pure disbelief. They could not understand how a man with such a terrible record could be re-elected in an American Democracy.

At that moment i realised two things..... The Spaniards actually knew more about American issues than the Americans , and a lot of Americans could not even find Spain in a map.

It was not Bush's fault that Americans believed Hussein had something to do with 9-11 even after years of every network saying again and again he did not. In the end even the Amasonian tribes , let alone the Spaniards knew Sadam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11 and that Bush had made the worst strategic blunder in modern American history--- The American voters thought some how he was right and diserbed to be re-elected.

9-11 was revelation to the political world. Politicians allways knew that voters tend to decide out of personal bias, and little information. But politicians never until 9-11 took American voters for morons. 9-11 forever changed that view. For the first time political operatives like Rove began to grasp the extent of the ignorance of the electorate, hence to what extent it could be manipulated. And manipulate they did. And American politics changed forever.

Nations do indeed have the leaders they deserve. I don't know if Obama will win or loose, but just to see the race about even tells me clearly we are still as dumb as ever. Something tells me that the Spaniards will have plenty of company wandering what on hearth is wrong with us if we reaward the republicans with 4 years more years afterthe 8 they just gave us.

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this
way.
Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or
Republicans.
Thoughtful Point of View
the Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton
and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other
former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so
is his wife, Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984
went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every
Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for
Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at the
Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each
house is a lawyer
The Republican Party is different. President Bush and
Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers.
Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an
exterminator; and, Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?
Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won
the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running
against Ronald Reagan in 1
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real
work. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats
mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney,
or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves
in history, like Gingrich.
The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who
pro vide goods and services that people want, as the enemies
of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official
enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow
against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical
companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast
food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers,
and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything
through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by
successfully representing their clients, in this case the
American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they
seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to
overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to
favor their side.
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Thank you! I am a prof catholic female voter for Obama too. I am voting for someone that I believe can make this country stronger economically and politically.... not who shares my gender, or color, or ethnic origin, or crede.

You must not be Catholic if you are for abortion then. How can you vote for a man that said in his interview with strong conviction that it is above his pay grade to answer a question on abortion. This man is totally confused and says one thing one day then another thing the next day. He said that he Believes in Jesus and hopes that he will be forgiven for his sins....brother if he claims to be a Christian and has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior he should know that he is forgiven. This goes to show that Reverend Wright and his church did not teach him the Bible and that he is lost!

In Search of Rational Voters
Do such creatures exist? How can we mint more of them?
yes they do sarah palin has 5 i've got 6 and so many other families that are just average have those rational voters and yes we are minting them !

The problem with our system today is the lack of statesmen(women) in politics. None of these people have plans that they can elaborate on .... they have agendas prepared for them by special interests. Corparate America or Leftist extremests, it matters not. They will suck the American tax coffers and sell the American economy to the foreign investors, all for the ability to spend it "their way." They are no different from each other. They all want the ability/power to spend our money in the method in which they see fit.

We need a common person, one that has lived and struggled for his or her own success to lead this country. Someone who has lived with his wages stolen by governments of all sizes every two weeks. Who has to borrow money to his eyeballs to live in a decent house. Someone who reminds themselves every morning "its the economy stupid" before all else. He or she must place our own people before others, our health, our education and our physical and economic security. Someone that will persue our enemies that do us harm with all the ruthlessness that our might can muster; until they are dead, and their efforts are no more. They must be compassionate and generous with aide but wary of profiteers and corruption that derails our efforts at succor. Retribution will be swift and final. Someone who cherishes the indiviuals' freedom to act in protection and safety of each of us and our families. Justice must be fully funded.
Does this person exist?? Yes, we just haven't found the yet. These four yaahoos aren't them. We really should get to vote "NONE OF THE ABOVE," and start over.

Wow.

Newsweek is usually pretty bland with the editorializing. Not this time.

"None of this is to say that anyone who voted for George Bush in 2004 was a fool. But anyone who voted for him on the grounds that he had dethroned an international terrorist was, if not exactly a fool, at least badly fooled."

The author notes that politicians rarely can insult the electorate and get away with it, and the same applies to journalists in terms of speaking uncomfortable truths, who have to avoid alienating their readership or go out of business. Kudos to the author for having the strength and the guys to say this in a national newsmagazine. That takes some big brass balls. I applaud it.

After reading all the the posts on this article, I must admit I'm disheartened on the topic of rational voters. Many posts seem so inflamatory that I can only hope they are trying to enrage people and only mean half of what they say. Tossing around phrases like "One Nation Under God" and "true American" and making heated suggestions that those who disagree should move to another country is a slippery slope. Even those who have not loaded their posts with such emotionally-charged language have, in many cases, fallen prey to the temptation to insult the opposition's intelligence. To these I would say, what are you trying to do? Convince others to see things your way by denegrating them? Does that really work? It just makes me cringe, coming from either side. If you want a rational voter, you've got to be a rational voter, no matter how strongly you hold your beliefs. Ranting and spewing hatred may feel good in the short term, but it's damaging to the political process. It sets a bad example for the country, and it makes us look ridiculous in the world community.