A poll to be released by the University of Texas today states that 23% of Texans think that Barack Obama is Muslim. Hey it doesn't matter if we are dumb, we got the number one football team in the USA.
Perhaps we should go back to the thoughts of Alexander Hamilton in 1775, modnerized as persons of indigent fortune can be often more independent in thought than someone with a full bank account. I understand the following came from the Blackstone Commentaries in England, credits to the blog truthbeyondreason.blogspot.com.
"If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other."
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I have been appalled at the level of ignorance and stupidity shown by many Americans this election season.
It is truly a sad commentary on our great nation.
i am convinced that the majority of people in this country are idiots. you should meet some of the people I deal with at work every day....whew....i don't even know what to say about them-- it's that bad!
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