"That was a pretty close election. Better this way when that HALF of the country who actually willingly voted for him and believed in him and what he said can see the results of that choice."

I'm not so sure that they're seeing what's happening Trixie. It seems to me that both the right and the left in the USA are blithely happy to keep huge blindspots in their mindsets. The Vice president shoots someone at point blank range and everybody seems to buy that he was thirty yards away because one side hates him already and the other side wouldn't care if he had held a pistol to the guys head and pulled the trigger. This Sandra Day O'Connor statement about the "beginnings of an American Dictatorship" falls into line with the NYT not wanting to publish the wiretapping scandal till a couple of days before one of it's journalists was going to press with a book and they were forced to. Worse than the press ignoring news stories is the idea that there's another tier of news out there that the hoi-polloi don't get. I suspect that this speech was front page news in those little broadsheets like the ones that my Mom used to filch from the Attorney's office where she worked. It's not even making page three in the mainstream media as far as I can tell. Has anyone seen it outside of a left wing blog or net page?

*Does a pratfall to see if his sense of humor is intackt*

No wonder I'm more concerned about the election on Battlestar Galactica being fixed.

Thank goodness I'm weak willed and always show up late.

Oh, and self-centered. Obviously far too self-centered.