Richard:

I believe that Barry Obama's popularity resides with the fact that most young & middle-aged Americans interact within a scripted role. They internalize scripted roles.

With Aloha,

Right there Harry. They either are not bright enough or are too lazy to think for themselves any deeper than superficially.

Like the post says, America is in a sad shape when it comes to quality of thought in its voter pool.

Ach der lieber! You would have thought that "Der Magische Schwarze" would at least have had enough common sense to pay some attention to General Petraeus, instead of sticking blindly to the left's anti-American, Marxist, "defeatism"! So much for "listening to the generals on the ground"!

Let's face it, Obama and his "Netroots," "Code Pink" leftist moonbats, and "Fith Columnist" Marxist moles, have already made up their minds that the war is lost, to suit their agenda - as Pelosi, Murtha, and Reid declared not so long ago - and no matter how miraculously the situation improves in Iraq, how much progress is made, how much stability, civility restored, and how "brightly the sun shines and the birds chirp" the they simply will always refuse to acknowledge it! To their sick, anti-USA, defeatist, twisted minds VICTORY IS NOT AN OPTION! Any surprises?

The commies and the left have always been busy "re-writing history" with a leftist slant to fit their agenda. But this is utterly ridiculous! They are busy re-writing history even as it unfolds!!!

I hate to point this out, but the divide in America today is such, that, and especially if Obama wins and starts to implement his Marxist agenda and that of his supporters, I'm afraid we are inching ever closer to the abyss of another civil war! God save us from these "enemies, foreign...and DOMESTIC."

As to Obama and Michelle's "intelligence" - if I may be so bold - since San Francisco is planning to name a sewage treatment plant after President Bush in order to further dishonor and humiliate him - would it not be appropriate then, that we should name the "Lower Primates Intelligence Resarch Center," at Iowa State University, after Obama?

Althor

Dear Mike:

What I was focusing on was that our younger generation has internalized complete packages of scripted socialization. By this, I mean that even if they were amongst our brightest college graduates, they would be unable to detect flaws in their reasoning. The internalization is so complete (pervasive) that it materializes controlling metaphors which in turn dictate (constrain) their powers of reasoning.

For example: Think of how the metaphor: Time is Money, controls the reasoning of our captains of industry. A similar metaphorical construction infests the minds of our younger generations.

The situation, Mike in Iraq, is far worse than merely being lazy and stupid. They have become mentally disabled. Barry Obama suffers from the same ailment!

With Aloha,

I'll certainly buy-in to the mentally disabled part regarding the American electorate, at least those deep in the tank for Obama.