Who’s Not Paying Attention?

Now I’m becoming concerned.  Just yesterday I agreed with, of all people, Barack Obama.  Now I find myself agreeing with John Kerry … sort of.  According to the Boston Herald, Kerry recently said, “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”

Kerry is right … but only in a reverse sort of way.  Though we have a much more informed electorate today than in decades past, there is still a significant percentage of the population that “doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on” and is “influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”

That was self-evident when a majority of voters elected a Marxist community organizer to the office of the presidency, notwithstanding his well-documented relationships with left-wing radicals of various stripes such as Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, mentor Frank Marshall Davis, Andy Stern … and his own parents!

Had people been paying attention, Obama’s admitted twenty-year association with black-liberation theologian Wright (whom Obama proudly described as his spiritual mentor) would have forced him out of the primaries — especially when he insisted he had never heard Wright make the kind of inflammatory remarks that you and I witnessed on television.

For sure, only a person who wasn’t “paying much attention to what was going on” could believe that Obama, in twenty years of attending the Trinity United Church of Christ, never heard Wright’s hateful rhetoric.  Hmm … a more plausible scenario, methinks, is that he heard it every single Sunday.  Let’s get real here.  The good reverend only knows how to give one kind of sermon.

And, yes, Kerry is right about people being influenced by simple slogans — you know, like “Change we can believe in” and “Yes we can.”

Now, the $64 dollar question is, does Teresa Heinz’s perennially frowning husband really believe it’s the tea-party people who don’t pay that much attention to what’s going and are influenced by simple slogans, or is he just trying to be cute, knowing full well that the people who meet that description are the melonheads who voted for the Duplicitous Despot — especially the ones who still haven’t been able to get rid of that darn tingle in their legs?

You be the judge.

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