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Robot Pirate Ninja

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STLtoday – Obama tests America’s cult of ignorance

Early on in Robert Harris’ new novel, “The Ghost,” a literary editor says to an author who ghost-writes celebrity memoirs, “Tell me. When did it become fashionable to be stupid? That’s the thing I don’t understand. The cult of the idiot. The elevation of the moron.”

I worried about this question last week as I listened to Sen. Barack Obama’s speech on race. I wondered, is America going to get this? Isn’t this speech way too carefully constructed and nuanced? Shouldn’t he have explained what he meant by “Jim Crow”? Shouldn’t he have explained who William Faulkner was?

What’s he doing giving this speech at 10 o’clock on a Tuesday morning? Doesn’t he know about prime time? Why did he write this speech himself? Doesn’t he have speechwriters and focus groups who can test this stuff? Shouldn’t he be shouting and waving his arms instead of standing coolly behind a lectern and talking in measured cadence? Why isn’t he pandering?

…underestimating the intelligence of the American electorate.    Watching the response to the..curious speech (Robot Pirate Ninja’s have no race)…tells me what I need to know about the rest of you.

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