Reply #27: No, he is thought of as more liberal

[zalinda]

because he is black. I'd say about 75% of voters (and I'm being kind) have no idea what he has done in office. Go out on the street and ask about one of his achievements, and I doubt if you will be able to find any who will be able to name any. DU really seems to thing that all people are political nerds, and they ARE NOT. They vote with their gut, who their friends are voting for, who the press tell them to vote for, who is the cutest or all of the above. Very few people know anything about him and assume that because he is black he is liberal, and that's only because there are so few black conservatives. Hell, put Allen Keyes face out there and ask if he's liberal or conservative and 80% or more would probably guess that he is liberal.

People in the US are stupid. They hold athletes in higher regard than honor students, how stupid is that? Minor league athletes can get more money than college professors, how stupid is that? Adults going on a TV show to test their intelligences against a fifth grader, how stupid is that? Building stadiums for sports teams in their town when their schools are falling apart, how stupid is that? And, yes, I think professional sports teams are over paid, over rated and over praised in every part of this country. And to spend government money to investigate these fools over drugs is STUPID, when we have many, many other things that are more important to get done in this country.

Yes, people in this country, the United States of America, are stupid.

zalinda