The American people have come come out of their decades of self induced commas. The fourth branch of government, the people, are calling out the President, Congress, and the Judiciary. WE are fed up with the spending, the constant lies and the b$#$#$# programs. The jig is up. It's time for real hope and change.

Myth/Mis-Information/Propaganda (Soviet Style):

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Disappointed progressive pundits also resonate this angst over having to deal with childlike Americans. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recently psychoanalyzed the falling support for the president by claiming that "The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats."

Fact/Reality Check:

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The American people are intelligent and respectful of their traditions and institutions. The American people (at least conservatives aand tea party movement members) are acting like the board of directors of a corporation about to clean house by removing a CEO and executive management team who have run the corporation into financial ruin to pay for things we cannot afford and do not need.

32+ days and counting to the big reckoning.

"U.S. Worsens Mexican Violence by Returning Criminal Aliens to Border Cities, Mexican Mayors Say" Fox News.Com

Can you believe the audacity of these Mexican Mayor twits?

They would rather us Americans suffer from and deal with their scum.

So instead of just returning them to the border, we should do so in body bags. Problem solved for both countries!

"The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn't be enough in America because 'I need a majority.'"

Sigh...

Sadly the neocommie elite will never understand the fact that the MAJORITY of Americans are indeed well educated. Some to a greater degree and some to lesser one, but all educated. We are well read, well informed, and tackle challenges with an individual gusto that the neocommies cannot simply comprehend.

Additionally I would add that many of us were educated through their one of their own pet projects public education, albeit it was at a time when students actually LEARNED something of value, and feeling good about themselves, was about achieving satisfactory grades, and or accomplishments, and NOT about, well, just feely good emotions.

Finally as I stated yesterday, in relation to Senator Kerry's (N-MA) (N=neocommie), that we are indeed becoming very much aware of and paying attention to, their scheme to turn the USA into a third world socialist utopia. In fact many of those that were asleep are waking up, as are those who are removing the green goggles from the Emerald City of OzBama, and are beginning to realize that their freedoms are indeed at risk.

The reason I am a fiscal conservative and a Constitutional Constructionist is that I can read and do math. I also passed econ101 in school.

Always ask a liberal that wants to do something three questions:

1. Where is the Constitutional authority for that?

2. Who is going to pay for it?

3. Are you willing to reduce your income to pay for it?

The only difference between the people and politicians is---language! Politicians speak in a language only they can relate to. People speak in reality which is detramental to politics. How do you think Barry got elected? He spoke to you with words not commenly used be the people. He is well versed in propaganda techniques, which he used very effectivly during his campaign, but when he blames Bush he uses plain language. A politician is very adept at not answering the question. They give an answer that leads you to think they did, but what you think I said is not what I meant, the result is you don't understand what I said. There fore you mis-understood.

The liberals in congress do not want to see the problem. They want to see their dream and use that as an excuse for not dealing with the problem, ie; immigration, debt, spending etc. Once again you mis-understood what I meant. Once again Victor is right about the intelligence factor, in as far as the congress holds itself in such high esteem after so many years in office, they have convinced themselves they are more intelligent than the average person, and they prove it everytime they get re-elected by you. Term limits are a good start, but that won't happen. Term limits happen at the voting booth. Depending on what freebies you get you will vote for the one who gave them to you. The old "don't bite the hand that feeds you" rings true every election cycle. This cycle is becoming very bad for the Dems. People are waking-up to what Barry was really saying, even thought he told you during the campaign, people are now having regrets. They hung their hope on simple slogans like Hope and change, yes we can, fundementally change America, oh bye the way did I mention I'am black. All that was propaganda, unless you paid attention to who he really was and the people he hung around with. My Minister once told my Cousin after he caugh us smoking in the car "that if you lay with the pigs long enough you begin to smell like them". I was 16 then, in 1963, and have only retutned to that church once in 1982, and that was to bury my Grandmother who was a devout Christian and member of that church. That cured my belief in religion and I haven't been in a church as a member since, nor will I.

What BO, the Democrap party, and the LameStream Media can't, or won't, or refuse to, see, is that the American people do not appreciate being talked down to. That is what we mean when we say, "All men are created equally." We do not mean, "everybody is the same", we mean that I am just as good as John Kerry. His wife's millions mean nothing, his education means nothing, he is no better than I. The problem stems from the fact that HE thinks he is above the rest of us rabble. That is the elite's error, and the same error brought King George to a disasterous attempt to control the colonies.

I am glad the liberals think I am to dumb to vote for them. I was smart enough to retire as a Chief Petty Officer in The US Navy (#4 on the promotion list). I went on to building ships for the navy. How many of those elite politician's could read a Nuke drawing for a submarine and build complex components for them. At least the wont expect my vote in November or 2012.

HTC USN Retired

So with all this talk, all this rhetoric about colossal change, when is somebody going to address the real, I said REAL problem with american politics-- the absolutely TREASONABLE offense of taking MONEY to vote any way other than their constituents desire !!!! Anyone that I elect who would take money to vote differently than the majority of his electors wanted is a TRAITOR.

There is an old saying: "knowledge without wisdom is like piling books on the back of a jackass"

Wisdom can be defined as how well one uses the knowledge gathered from education and experience.

No matter how well educated you are, you will be nothing more than an "empty suit" if you've never done anything productive with your knowledge.

After several centuries of the utter failure of all forms of socialism and the booming prosperity of free people under a limited government, it is a clear indication of the total lack of wisdom that is pervasive among the over educated morons of the present administration.

Is it any wonder that the jackass, is the appropriate symbol of the democrat party?

Bob W.

If there was a "LIKE" button next to your last sentence, I'd click on it.

Of course they are well educated. They are so well educated in lies that they really believe they are the truth. And when one doesn't know what is a lie and what is the truth, they cannot help but lie themselves. Every word I've heard from BO (he stinks) is a lie, every time. I'm sure he must have told the truth in there somewhere, but it was accidental.

The "bookish" candidate was reportedly not very big on book reading and mansged to flunk out of Harvard Law school. Another Democrat Myth?

I think it's hillarious how these so called enlightened progressives think we traditional valued Americans are somehow less knowledgeable than them. Yet they are the ones who have the most trouble grasping the simplest concepts of creation, faith, personal responsibility and individual freedom. Quite honestly I think all their high brow educations have bought them is an ability to out think their common sense, what little of it they had to begin with.

I guess it's a matter of knowledge versus wisdom. They have the former and we the latter.

It is precisely this arrogant, snooty, elite, condescensending attitude displayed by many of our politicians today (including our president) that will ultimately be the demise of the Democratic party. Republicans are far from being off the hook and have much to do to regain the stature once enjoyed during the Reagan era. Most Americans are not stupid, but they are mad as hell!!

First of all, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. Period. One of a handful of writers who's often even more impressive as a speaker.

But while I generally like this article, the alleged debate over who's more "educated" than whom is, at least in this context, essentially drivel when one pauses to look deeper at its inescapable, attendant foundations: values, values, values. Or, if you like, call them IDEAS, or convictions, or worldview. In ANY case THIS is really what is being argued here, NOT education.

Think about it: not only can two lowly farmers disagree about whether a given tax policy is onerous/socialistic/confiscatory VERSUS dignified/reasonable/uninvasive, BUT two educationally "elite" achievers can do the same. For example, consider the views of the NYT's Paul Krugman vs. those of the late William F. Buckley -- does anyone with a wisp of wisdom believe that either man will substantively alter his own position as such if only he were privy to even more "education?"

Now, if it were possible for Reality to somehow allow each of those men 50 or so years of dictatorial latitude to fully institute his own nation state from scratch, from roughly equal starting points (i.e. equal opportunity) each using only his own espoused values -- and if we could agree to call those results "education" -- then, the regrettable and vast differences in the health of those two nation states might begin to bridge the gap in our understanding.

On the other hand similar experiments have already played out in the form of history and not that many of us seem interested in availing ourselves to its dictates -- at least not nearly as masterfully as the larger works of a Dr. Hanson would suggest a sensible electorate should.

As citizens of this democracy, you

are the rulers and the ruled, the

law-givers and the law-abiding, the

beginning and the end.---Adlai E. Stevenson

(1900-1965)

We've created the best educated dummies in history.

Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, contended with the same conditions in his day. His wonderful satire captured the "elite and super-educated" group wonderfully. Look up Laputa and Laputans just for fun. See if you agree.

Alas, we are lead by Laputans in all their glory. Time for a big, big change.

Sen. Kerry;

"We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on." Instead it falls for "a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening."

Do you mean a slogan like "HOPE and CHANGE" ???