DO McCAIN-PALIN THINK AMERICANS ARE DUMB?

I am getting worried about the tone and tenor of the campaign strategies currently being employed by McCain-Palin ticket. The Republican advert about Obama being associated with Bill Ayers, the robocalls, the FBI investigation in ACORN - all this is sickening!
First, let us take this Ayers thing...I have listened to the actual story as per which Obama purportedly met Ayers when the Illinois Senator was just 8 years old. In recent times Obama was on a Board which had Ayers also as a member. But the fact is that this Board had other members too who are known Republican supporters. So, are these pro-Republican people also so-called 'terrorists'?
Dave Letterman pointedly asked McCain during his show on Oct 16 about Arizona Senator's hobnobbing with a guy called Liddy who was a radical/terrorist element. McCain clearly got flustered and gave some utterly incoherent answers.
Anyway, the question is: if Obama is dangerous just because he sat on the same table with Ayers, then by the same token McCain is also a 'radical' and 'dangerous' person because he interacted with Liddy. In fact, McCain's association with Liddy is said to be far more closer than what Obama had with Ayers.
So, the thought comes to one's mind is: what do these Republican candidates take the American voters to be ? Do McCain-Palin think that American people will buy their distorted, twisted propaganda? Do they think that the American voters are so dumb that they will not be able to distinguish truth from blatant lies?
So, what should the American voters do? The American voters must think rationally and analyse each Republican commercial advert that they hear, each word that the Republican candidates utter in their rally speeches. If they do so, the people of America will come to the incontrovertible conclusion that both McCain and Palin are totally incompetent to be President and Vice-President, respectively.
Intellectually both McCain and Palin just don't have in them to hold the above mentioned positions. McCain fumbles on every topic, including foreign affairs, for which he claims to be highly knowledgeable. McCain doesn't even know which Muslim sect lives in Iran. There are so many other examples of his disgusting gaffes.
Worst of all, McCain has no understanding of economic issues either. His increasing age seems to be making his mental faculties slower, weaker by the day. His comprehension seems to be clearly handicapped by rapidly decreasing number of neurons of his brain. The result: he just reads out something from the paper placed in front of him, or blurts out something that he had memorised without understanding what the question was, or whether what he said made any sense.
If you watch closely McCain's conversation, you will notice that he often smiles abruptly. And, if you watch closely you will find that that smile is totally meaningless. The smile resembles typically that of an idiot, or a moron, or an imbecile. A vacuous, foolish smile.
One hopes that the American voters will make the correct judgement on Nov 4, and will give a resounding slap to McCain-Palin by voting against them in huge numbers.
One thing is for sure: this Republican ticket is probably the worst in American history. Therefore, they should be consigned to where they actually belong to - political trashcan!

PERILS OF UNSUPERVISED FREE MARKET

US finally had to reconcile to the harsh reality - it will be foolhardy to continue to be the breast-thumping champion of the so-called free market.
To buy 'significant' stakes in 9 US banks which are apparently in good health is in other words govermentalization of these institutions. It was a silver bullet that was hard to swallow for the current Republican administration.
Republicans have been strong votaries of the concept that free market mechanism will work fine on its own, and no oversight is necessary. They somehow formed a notion in their minds, of course naively, that people will self-regulate and things will always be hunky dory.
May be some of them were really NOT so naive and may have felt in their heart of hearts that left to themselves the human nature can create mayhem in the free market realm, but probably they were not so bold to rock the boat, as they say.
It is impossible to believe that Republican thinkers were too dumb to visualize the scenario of free market mechanism spinning out of control one day or the other given the increasing financial greed. Anyway, eventually the present dispensation in Washington came around to realize the importance of oversight of free market operations.
But it was sad to see that US which boasts tens of living Nobel Laureates in Economics could not come out quickly with steps to meet the current financial turmoil. Consequently, the US administration became a poor copy cat of their British and European counterparts who came out first with the idea of buying stakes in big banks and implemented without dithering.
Whether you support the philosophy of Party A or Party B, what is of paramount importance when you are presiding over a country's affairs is that you do what is best for your country. You don't remain doped by the ideology of the party you support or remain obstinately shackled to its illogical tenets. But, unfortunately, the Republicans in last decade or so did exactly that. The result: US ended up becoming camp followers of Europe, and fell from the grace of being the most powerful economic nation on this planet.
Wall Street will not be same as it used to be in terms of clout in the world of financial goings-on. And, the Americans will have to get used to be part of pack, not the leader. The sooner it happens the less pain they will feel to adjust to new world order.

USA's Pathetic Mediocrity

The more I listen to the Republican candidates for US presidential poll, I wonder what has happened to intellectual level of US - I mean, the Republican party could not find anyone better than John McCain and Sarah Palin!!
If McCain is an ageing blunderbag, Palin is a pathologically moronic shrew. Both of them intellectually challenged, and shamelessly dismissive about their outstanding mediocrity.
Day after day the duo spews balderdash on most of the topics they speak on. Worst, they resort to disgusting inaccuracies, and talk any nonsense while responding to media questions.
One wonders, are they panicking, or they are simply not capable of doing better? The opinion polls are suggesting day after day that gap between McCain-Palin ticket and Obama-Biden pair is increasing.
What I said in the foregoing is not based on any bias against McCain and Palin. A dispassionate, impartial, logical examination of their utterances bring out the inescapable conclusions mentioned above.
But do the voters of US realise this? Are they evaluating the candidates based on their competence or they are sticking to one ticket or the other based on the party affiliations? Should the voters not weigh in their minds as to who is more capable in handling economic crises, and who is more composed and organised in thinking etc etc?
There is a month between now and the election day. Will the Republican strategists come out with some kind of magic to change the horrendous perception most of the logical and sane minded voters of US have of the intellectually drained McCain-Palin ticket? If they can do it, it will indeed be something better than what Chris Angel Mindfreak achieves in his acts.
I am not sure about others, at least I will be watching the developments with great interest. I will come back with more.