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"Rick Shenkman
'They must think you're stupid'

Thus spoke Barack Obama in mocking derision of an obvious falsehood after McCain began selling himself as the real agent of change.

I have news for Mr. Obama.

'They' the Republicans do think 'you're stupid.' And I have to admit the evidence keeps piling up that they're right.

We spend two whole days debating whether Barack Obama insulted Sarah Palin and we're supposed to think that's a sign of our intelligence as a self-governing people?

Please.

Obama had the nerve the other day to echo his veep's claim that the American people are smart.

But where's the evidence of it?

It's my official position of course that it is silly to call the American people stupid. It's impossible to generalize like that about 300 million plus people. But they sure aren't smart. Smart voters wouldn't put up with debates about pigs wearing lipstick."

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