Call me a latte-sipping elitist if you want*, but there are some truly stupid people in this country. Even worse, they’re willfully stupid!
Via Ben Smith’s “Things Americans Believe”:
10% of Americans believe [Barack] Obama’s a Muslim
…
22% believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.
30% believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
23% believe they’ve been [...]
Again, Keith Olbermann cuts to the chase:
You actually used the word “assassination” in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again-troubled land and fractured political landscape might target a black man running for president.
Or a white man.
Or a white woman!
You actually used those words, in this America, Senator, [...]
Even Saturday Night Live knows it’s all over for Hillary Clinton:
“Sore loser, racist supporters, no ethical standards — qualities Senator Obama simply cannot match.”
I don’t think she’ll be referencing this one any time soon!
…but I certainly feel like I’ve been buried alive lately!
Speaking, tangentially, of being careful what you wish for*, I’d totally understand if Obama was really close to just saying “screw y’all” and handing the nomination to Clinton. Hunter S. Thompson’s sentiment – paraprashing someone else, I believe — “In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve [...]
[from the Jed Report, via Ben Smith]
And for some background, the Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers dug up Sinbad, the comedian who accompanied Clinton on that harrowing peace-keeping mission to Bosnia in 1996, along with other noted crisis negotiators Sheryl Crow and a pre-teen Chelsea Clinton, for this enlightening flashback:
