Gauging George

So let’s summarize what kind of a man is the ostensible leader of the "greatest nation on earth," a country of 300 million which gets to elect a president from a large field of eligible candidates.

His intelligence and articulation are low, his charm is slightly above average (if you’re not overly particular about the first two things), his personal accomplishments in the private sector were at best questionable, his military record was a rich kid’s joke, his charisma is nonexistent (to compare him to Reagan is simply ludicrous), his foreign policy has led us into a non-ending hellhole, and his domestic policies have been centered on making the rich richer and the corporations fatter.

It therefore is not rational judgment that has him in office; it has to be something else, the one thing that unfortunately triumphs over rationality, and that is fear: fear of terrorism, fear of blacks, fear of homosexuals, fear of Godless secularists and liberals who some people are convinced (having been told by their preachers and the likes of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell) are the baby-killing minions of Satan himself.