The thing that I see that is unique about this election is that both the candidates’ positions on certain issues are so far out of whack with those of most people. Something like 70% of the American people say they want illegal immigration stopped, preferably yesterday. In contrast, Obama wants to treat the illegals as U.S Citizens who have simply lost their driver’s licenses or something like that and McCain wants us to consider them as our guests or something like that. A similar percentage of people want to drill everywhere and anywhere for oil. McCain has moved some on that issue – but not all the way – and at last report Obama is thinking about the same move.

It is not clear if this disconnect with the electorate is due to Courage of Convictions or Courage of Cluelessness.

When Jimmy Carter was running I asked my friends and relatives who they were voting for. They all said Carter. I then enumerated each of Carter’s positions on certain issues and asked I they agreed. They all said “No!” I then asked why they were voting for him and they replied that they thought he was lying about all those positions and would instead do what they wanted. Six months after Carter took office all of them were furious. “That dirty SOB! He did exactly what he said he was going to do! How were we to know he was the ONE politician we ever saw who was telling the truth?”