advent of cable TV or what, but we have become a society which functions solely on sound bites. In addition many in our society have been led by RW media to be contemptuous of education and/or educated people. They react emotionally, not logically or rationally many time, particularly in political matters. And the RW has been extremely astute in exploiting this phenomenon for their own purpose. For too long we Democrats have been content to try and make our case to the folks logically, expecting that they will consider the facts rationally and logically, and we've been steamrollered by this assumption. The latest case in point was the debate. Rmoney talked exclusively in sound bites carefully programmed to appeal to the reptile brain dominant in many of these voters, whereas the President looked like the oft-despised 'Professor'. (Note Scott Brown's repeated attacks calling Elizabeth Warren "Professor"
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We have got to get down to the level of discourse and fight these people with their own language and their own tactics. To not do so would be in my mind a critical mistake, and one the could cost us dearly. Let's learn the lesson of the infamous debate and try to turn it into something positive for us. I am waiting to see what the tone of the Biden-Joe Cool debate will be, although I confess to a certain gut fear that Biden will feel constrained to take the kinder, gentler tone he was forced to take with Palin and let this idiot get away with things. Hopefully I'm wrong and Biden will do the job and nail the little sonofabitch to the wall. Let's see. Fingers crossed.
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