Erk

Ah, the power of ignorance:

http://howobamagotelected.com/

The failure, I think, is one of education. We teach children to expect that things will be spoon-fed to them. Study to the test. Multiple choice with one answer obviously wrong. 30 seconds is plenty of time for a news story. Heck, just read the headline.

And so the real world comes along, with complicated issues and an infinite number of variables in infintite combinations. People find that they're totally unprepared for it, but there's the media, with soundbites and headlines. The media thus has unbelievable power - they can tell people how to think, and many people will think that way.

I wonder if the media would have run banner headlines if John McCain had used cocaine? I'm sure that if they had, he'd have lost supporters, whatever the details were. But I never saw a single headline or subline on any media site, or heard on the radio, that Obama did. [from Wikipedia: As an adult Obama admitted that he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol when in high school, which he described as his greatest moral failure at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency.[12][13]] 12 and 13 are CNN and the International Herald Trib. The CNN link doesn't actually have any substantiation of the cocaine part - the IHT cites Obama's own book. OK, we all make mistakes, context is important, and you often learn and grow the most by making mistakes. And it did make the news that Obama used illegal drugs, though I had to dig back via wikipedia to find the stories.

God is in the details. Context is everything.

And if the United States falls, I think it will be because of spin.