My brother Dumb and my other brother Dumber

Watching Obama briefly on the TV yesterday speaking to folks in Charlotte, NC I can see what is meant by his "professorial" style. Everything he said made total sense to me and I was thinking, "See folks this is what the real issues are and here are the answers." However then as I listened and watched the crowd I began to think that unfortunately society has become addicted to slogans, sound bites and rally cries and don't really want to nor do they take the time to actually listen and analyze a speaker’s words.

America has Attention Deficit Disorder! I think the media run, dumbing down of America has finally succeeded. We now consider RAP poetry. Beat box songs are considered music. Byron and Beethoven are turning over in their graves. Jerry Springer rules. Our children are dressed as slum children dress. My country born niece thinks that only the redneck poor culture from the country is worth adulation. Smart or gentile country folk are stupid, she thinks. We are now a society that has succeeded in glorifying ignorance over learning, poverty over wealth and we wonder why no one seems to get the message Obama speaks loudly and clearly before the TV cameras?

We are not just in a financial Recession and near Depression but we are also in an intellectual one also. And we wonder why the world seems to sneer at us sometimes? Obama is not perfect but he is a darned sight closer to it mentally and intellectually than the vast majority of American society today. It is no longer the dumbing down of America; it has already succeeded and let me introduce you to my brother Dumb and my other brother Dumber. They are going to vote for Sarah Palin in 2012, because she is a real American and she knows what she is talking about. Sheesh!