It's funny how when you have so many people talking about the same thing 24 hours a day, the level of collective intelligence drops. No reasonable individual would categorize a person on the basis of one statement. But to hear the media talk, one statement could cost Obama the election.
I guess it goes back to the simple wisdom of, if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all. Mary, our second mama, used to tell us that when we were little. Look at all the news channels - they have so much time to fill but not enough to talk about. So they wind up making idle chatter.
In the meantime, the average American believes everything the talking heads say, and don't see that it's all just idle chatter, and will therefore use it as guidance in deciding who to vote for, which means idle chatter is, at least in part, deciding who will preside over this country.
If they have all that time for all that "bak bak," then maybe they should remind people, over and over, to vote for the candidate whose ACTIONS suggest the strongest benefit for America. And not bakking for a week on whether one comment - even if "elitist" (and hell, so he's elitist, which of the candidates isn't?? which candidate ever hasn't been?) - should cost him in November.
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So, I am not the only one irked by this "idle chatter".
Speaking of Mary, hope she is doing OK, have not heard from her lately even though we visited Fay.last Sat. (Well, you know Paeden's-- and their food has not 'suffered' the effects of gas-price rises so far)
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