Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

So what gives? When I imagined Obama going to sleep next to his wife these last few weeks, I imagined a reasonned and intelligent man admitting to his wife that his problem is the fact that he's not dumb enough for most Americans. I wonder how he's dealing with that? I wonder what Barack and Michelle's intimate moments are like, right at this moment. What a hard truth they are having to face about their own country. A nation filled with fine and very hard-working people who mostly don't pay enough attention to the big picture.

I like Obama. If he becomes President, the world will at least be able to admit that America chose better this time. But you can't win the White House without the "hick" vote. The working-class vote. The blue collar vote. Whatever it is that you want to call that huge swash of Americans who work their asses off for the smallest piece of the pie. They've been conned for so long that the only candidates they respond to are the ones who con them the best and in the most clever ways.

It isn't about what you stand for or your ideas to these people. It's all about if you walk and talk like them. How sad. Obama is a really good man. He's "with it" about most policy issues, and he's very brave for having as part of his stump speech the fact that the problems in America are so huge that gay marriage ought to really take a back seat right now.