Jim Webb

[MADem]

70. I have not said a single thing about him that wasn't stone-cold truth.

And I've seen him in Full Berate Mode (not directed at me, so I was able to give the process my complete attention). Let me put it diplomatically--I was not impressed.

I think we could do better.

I also thought, as a nation, we could have done better than G. W. Bush...not just once, but twice, so that and a dollar and tax will get you a cup of coffee at a fast food joint.

As for the "gossipy" stuff that some here are raising the Waaah flag over, anyone who wants to be honest with themselves knows full well that people read that shit. They read it, they retain it, and they REPEAT it.

You could stop any person on the street, and I'll bet the number of people who know that Kim Kardashian's big old ass is all over the internet (bonus points for the name of the website) compared with the number of people who can name the PM of the UK would run at about a ten to one ratio. THAT's the voting public. They aren't very sophisticated, and they can be moved, point-by-point, with screwy shit--everything from "Do you want to have a beer with him?" to "I like/don't like his (never yet HER) blue jeans."

A lot of voters just aren't very deep. It's an inconvenient truth, as it were.