I detest Sarah Palin. Why? She reminds me of the student who tries to BS their way out of having to do the course work or out of learning the material. They act as if they know stuff when in fact they don’t.

Therefore it is hard for me to be objective with respect to how the public at large sees her.

Funny, but I didn’t like Bill Clinton at first, and the reason was that I found his “folksy charm” to be very off-putting. I grew to like him when it became clear to me how darned smart he is but it still annoyed me that he seemed to take pains to hide his intellect from the public.

This is also why I love Obama: the guy is very smart and doesn’t try to hide it.

Maybe, just maybe, if Obama wins, he can do for intellectual people what Reagan did for dumbasses.

Reagan made it “cool to be dumb” (e. g., Forrest Gump) and maybe, just maybe, Obama can make it “cool to be smart”.

Yet, my wife was also able to see through the lack of substance and depth.

My son, who has become addicted to Colbert recently, basically complained for the entire debate that she never answered a question. My son is 15 and could see right through her.

Anyone with a brain could see that Palin had no grasp of any real facts or the issues in general. I loved how Biden attacked on the “maverick” issue and how he responded on the number of votes related to taxes. How anyone could think that Palin could attack two Senators on “facts” related to Senate votes when Biden has been in the Senate for so long is beyond me.

The “soccer game” comment was annoying. Hell, her whole attitude of talking about whatever she wanted and never answering a question was annoying.

The fact that Palin went 90 minutes and only once had me saying “WTF is she talking about?” means she performed above expectations, so maybe it’s a win. It was way better than anything from the Katie Couric interviews.

But, I’m tired of morons and rigid non-thinkers running our country, no matter how “folksy” they are. We need the f-ing “elites” running the country, not the morons.