[Cowperson]

I didn't suggest the average american has that attitude, I suggested that Bush is tapping into the ones that do.

So . . . you're saying gun owning, confederate flag waving, roll-your-own smokin', backwoods brewin', bucktoothed folks shouldn't vote for anyone? Why, are they over-qualified?

That's very elitist of you.

Well you amazingly forgot to mention how he whipped his country (Germany I mean) into a frenzy by placing much of the blame on the Jews and other minorities. This was integral to his rise to power. Blaming other groups cause Germany it'self could never have fallen so far on it's own.

Ah, I see. The Bush/Cheney ticket got elected on an anti-Muslim platform in 2000. Geez, I missed that completely.

Wrong, it changed Americas world and now it's doing that for the rest of us thanks very much, with aggresive knee jerk policy. You think those families who had members killed by the Irish Republican Army think the world changed after 9/11? No. The world at most, will remember the US reaction to 9/11.

As they should. That's the point isn't it? We can argue about whether or not it "should" be the point, but regardless, that IS the point.

Cowperson