Re #20/John Dubya: [...] I think to assume that the electorate is blogosphere literate is a mistake. O-vomit got elected by an entirely uneducated, unwired, never turned a PC on, kind of voter. [...]
John, I agree, but I’d add some nuances to the “enlightment” notion so jealously monopolized by liberals:
1) the fact that Ob’s electorate is mighty enligtened, i.e. high tech & communications savvy is pretty much a legend pushed by liberals who are deeply in self-flattering (another illustration of this situation is in the current PJM article about how the libs have found the WH in technical stone-age, which actually informs us about how cute & hip they look with their Macs, Blackberries and ipods – some months ago Politico had a glowing piece about the skin-tight, designer jeans favored by Obamistas);
2) the fact that someone can use a PC, surfs well, and uses a few common programs well, doesn’t mean necessarily that that person is mighty intelligent or insightful; neither that that person has a superior sense of what the Internet’s potentialities are;
3) Ob’s followers as “educated” vs. you know who, all other yahoos (from bitter white guys, to the present burly guys etc.): the correct description of the referred to category is “people w/ college degrees”: unfortunately, the present times show that college education is rather a mind-blunter, largely a process that impairs analytical or critical skills or aptitudes;
Lots of other things to add here -
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