"I lost my job because of Obama".

[Elwood P Dowd]

Republican friend: I lost my job because of Obama.

Me: How is that?

Republican friend: Because he and Barney Frank created Fannie Mae to loan money to poor blacks who can't pay the mortgage. Bush tried to stop it but the liberal press hammered him. Now look at the mess we are in. There ain't no jobs 'cause of this.

Me: Fannie was started in the late 1930s and it doesn't loan money for people to buy houses they can't afford. They buy mortgages and sell them as investments. Who told you this?

Republican friend: You need to watch that guy Fred on Fox News. Fannie gives money to unemployed black people to live in nice homes for free. Now the money is all gone, and I can't find no work.

Nice old guy almost my age (63) who makes cabinets. Believes every word he hears on Fox News. How many millions are there like him out in Palin land?

Another sad note: A friend of mine went to a doctor's house for a repair job last week. They had LCD TVs in every room of the house. Every single one of them was set to Fox News. The wife even bragged that the kids were only allowed to watch Fox News. Fahrenheit 451 anyone?

I have come to the conclusion it's going to require the republicans taking total power from 2013-2017 and causing a massive depression before the American people wake the hell up. Republican recessions and housing crashes don't phase these idiots. Jobs leaving because of republican free trade policies don't phase them. The Bush wars based on lies don't phase them. It's going to take suffering on a massive scale before they ever wake up.