Witness America’s Long Slide into Oblivion

Barbara Bush says she hopes Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. You and me both sister. But merely hoping for it is not going to make it so.

The Republican Party has already let this unwashed mouthpiece out of the box and they have no intention of giving up on a project that they have spent so much time and effort grooming.

It’s no accident that Sarah Palin was chosen for this project. She very closely resembles what the majority of Americans are becoming. She is a product of an educational system that has failed America. She represents the erosion of culture in this country, thereby making her easy to be handled. Her ego allows her to believe that ‘she’ is the person the public wants, when in fact she is merely a tool used by the GOP to keep their party in power no matter the cost.

She was chosen because she exemplifies the misplaced optimistic view that the American public is in control of its own destiny.

Education is what we so desperately need right now. Education…not just what to think but how to think…to give us the ability to see beyond what is being placed in front of us and deduce the true meaning of why it is being placed in front of us. The lack of this ability is why it is so easy for us to be manipulated.

And make no mistake, the American public is being manipulated. The media is being used by practitioners of what Karl Rove so expertly used to put an under-qualified George W Bush into office. Their goal is to win at all costs and the loser will once again be the American public.

The media has been speculating about Sarah Palin laying out the ground work for a run at the Presidency. No, she is not, the GOP is. Her ‘handlers’ are keeping her in the lime light for just this purpose. Mind you she doesn't need to be pushed too hard because she has enough ambition, drive and ego to push herself, but she needs the expert talent that her backers provide to know where and when and at what pace to keep her name in the public's face.

The main problem I have with the circus that the presidential campaign has become, is that the democratic process of choosing our candidates has been denigrated into a “win at all costs” mentality backed by unlimited funds. What’s best-for-America no longer has anything to do with choosing the best candidate.

When someone from her own party hopes she stays in Alaska and out of the presidential race, you just know we are in trouble.



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The present bunch of morons who scream about “FREEDOM!!!” and “PATRIOTISM!!!” wouldn’t know what this country is all about if Thomas Jefferson hit them in the head with a rolled-up Constitution.

Don’t get me wrong-I know that Caribou Barbie is an idiot. That’s been clear from the day John McCain decided to screw this country good and hard by elevating her to national prominence. But, even given that we all understand she’s an idiot, some of the things that this stupid bimbo says STILL surprise me.

Ann Coulter, please get out of the gutter

Can this woman do any more damage to our collective sense of decency and class? Hasn’t she reached the bottom yet?

Before you start jumping on me for defending anyone she has attacked, I want to tell you right up front that I do not support John Edwards, I do not support any candidate that she has attacked. I support common decency. I also support the idea that everyone has the right to say what they want to say but I believe there is a line that you do not cross. When you cross that line you show the world how little you respect yourself and others. Attacking someone in the mean-spirited manner in which Ann Coulter attacked Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and John Edwards and his family crossed that line.

In my opinion, any person who wants to become a public personality is representing the rest of us. A public personality represents America’s educational system and our collective moral and ethical standards. As a self-appointed spokesperson for all Americans, Ann Coulter should have the common decency to maintain a level of class and decorum and shun ‘hate-speech’. If she wants to talk street trash then she should stay out of the camera’s eye where the rest of the world cannot see her and we don’t have to be subjected to her low opinion of us as American’s. To resort to name calling and character assassination degrades herself and panders to the under-educated citizens who eat this stuff up in the super market tabloids.

I know this woman is better educated than this. I’ve heard her speak and I used to value her opinion, I did not always agree with her but now I won’t even listen to what she has to say. This woman can show some class, as we all can, she chooses not to. Why, only she knows. I have to wonder if she is suffering from some sort of psychological break-down. Is she lowering her standards as an educated person for the pursuit of dollars and notoriety and the hell with what people think?

On a larger scale, the world’s view of Americans is that we are a bunch of uncouth, lower-classed, violent, thugs and lately every time this woman opens her mouth this opinion of us is further substantiated.

Please Ms Coulter, pick yourself up out of the gutter and show some class.

And now for the media’s role in all of this. The media loves controversy and drama. They love outrageous behavior. They love it to the point that they will seek out and support this activity in an attempt to gain something as fleeting and myopic as ratings and ad dollars. The media, in general, and television in particular, is just as guilty of portraying America as a bunch of short-sighted, untrustworthy, self-indulgent, spoiled, brats and as long as it brings money in for the studios it will never stop.

America, we need to raise our standards. Please, think outside yourselves and start looking at a bigger picture. Stop playing the role of fools and show the world that we are not as they think we are.