They really do think we're all stupid

[BL611]

What could possibly be more elitist than politicians (and the media)who talk to us like we're 3 year olds? Like we can't read, like we can't pay attention to anything more than a 2 second sound bite, like we can't understand an argument than is anything more than a superficial platitude, that when a candidate inspires us it can't be for any other reason than superficial platitudes. Why don't Hillary and McCain just offer to wipe my ass for me while their at it.

I really truly don't believe that the American people are stupid, and I don't think they appreciate being treated as such, but i guess we'll find out over the next 7 months...

[Joanne98]

1. "Identity politics" is so insulting to your intelligence..

I think this attack on Obama will backfire. People are sick of being treated like their stupid.

[Demeter]

2. And Powerless

It's like poking a stick at the wild animals in a cage, while being unaware that the door isn't locked. Should be fun to watch.

[wndycty]

3. Any objective analysis would show that Obama used the same theme. . .

. . .in his Perfect Union speech: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5468610

[TahitiNut]

4. Well, to be fair, there're quite a few that're eager to prove her right - even on DU.

The eager abdication of IQ points in a compulsive commitment to zero-sum politics is truly neurotic.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Hillary tries to convince the serfs and peasants that they're noble and merry and optimistic.

[crankychatter]

9. oh god i can't believe you said that

I think I'll do a dance on the front porch just to let them know how happy I am to have these hog intestines for supper

that'n was funny, thanks

[Connie_Corleone]

And the Media is doing their part by trying to create a controversy over NOTHING.

They want to see Pennsylvania residents get riled up and upset over a manufactured controversy.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how Penn. residents react to this, or if they even care about this non-issue.

[Avalux]

6. Obama challenges us to THINK even if it makes us uncomfortable.

He doesn't talk to us like we're 3 year olds; he has faith that the American people are up to the challenge of engaging in the real issues that separate us - which is the only way to bring about change.

He doesn't think we're stupid, quite the opposite.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

7. Matthews and Schuster did it last night with the orange juice.

Trying to emulate Morn Joe. Alex Witless pulled the same crap.

I am not amused.

[cottonseed]

8. She's allready lost the framing.

Most people I've talked to are already laughing at her. Imagine, Hillary Clinton multi-millionaire globe trotting free trader giving crap about small town America.

[Dr.Phool]

10. I'm with Stupid!!

[Yael]

11. When you have the media blathering about 'low information voters'

the candidates react.

High information voters are more likely to have made a decision.

This isn't about stupidity, more about not being exposed to the topics at play.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Now multiply that feeling by ten and you'll get an idea of what it's like

to be a Floridian.

[PetraPooh]

13. Unfortunately many of "us" apparently are; proof . . . Bush still in office

No matter how many of us opposed war, protested against it; he was still allowed to go to war.
No matter how many of us could see that Dan Rather was right; he still got ousted, and Bush was installed again in office.
No matter how many of us wrote and emailed and screamed about the revisions for bankruptcy, they still passed it.
No matter how many voted for Dem's in 2006 to get the war ended and Bush impeached; well, we really must have some really stupid folks amongst us, and the rest of us are being rendered impotent.

[pretzel4gore]

14. the battle was joined long ago

and it was always the drama that we see in every great movie or book or story told- good versus no damn good! In 1980, i felt SO ALONE watching regan get crowned US prez, and it mattered not that relatively few voters voted for him. The 'storytellers' took over, however, and they've been telling the same story ever since... Regan (good) won against Carter (bad) only thanks to patriotic red blooded american citizens defying convention/liberal media etc and voting for the heroic regan, to the anger of hollywood and academia etc. Just that one snippet, taken from memory, and used to emphasise a certain point, works because it was all trickery, all phony and ...well PT Barnum once said it best: 'no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american people' Mr Barnum, whose forte was entertaining small town crowds and selling snake oil for whatever ailed folks, in his travelling carnivals, was commenting on the good hearted trusting nature of small town people, who relished a certain naivite in a brutish nasty world that killed far too many (Abe Lincoln lost his beloved son to tuberculosis- people actually died from absessed teeth and minor cuts which went gangrenous) ...The power available nowadays to the conmen/politician/snake oil salesman are astoniishing; and we don't even know the full story! So remember that the good always operates at a disadvantage! Btw, the gop, bush, foxnews etc are the 'no damn good' in our story, lest you have cnn on and are susceptible to the big lie (as are the majority of us) which cnn etc very skillfully promulgate

[Little Star]

15. k&r