Have you noticed young women starting to wear their hair in Sarah Palinesque hair buns? I have.
Fashion is a language. Women are speaking with their hair. But what are they saying? "I can see Russia from my back yard"?
A national leader should be aware of a few things. Just a few. Among them are the current foreign policy they are supporting. Even if they are not supporting it, they should at least know what it is. Or that when Russia sent troops into Georgia, it was in response to something Georgia did. And that would be called "provoked" rather than "unprovoked." After all, she can see Russia from her back yard. Didn't she notice something amiss?
It is the rise of the Know-Nothings all over again.
The American electorate has chosen the deliberately and delightfully ignorant to lead our nation in the past. Why not again? What is the appeal of a person who doesn't know and doesn't care that she doesn't know?
The President doesn't know all the answers. People don't expect him to. In fact, they don't expect any knowledge at all.
Maybe because most Americans don't know these answers, they don't expect our Vice President to know them. Or maybe a candidate that is too well informed makes them feel stupid.
It could be the appeal of the "just nuke 'em" camp of political beliefs, which spares us all the grief of looking at America's role in some of these world conflicts. Remember when the only criteria for U.S. support was anti-Communism? The United States was one of the last countries on Earth to support apartheid South Africa. Even the Queen of England tossed South Africa out of the Commonwealth of Nations decades before the United States reluctantly acceded that apartheid was wrong.
So what does the bun mean? Possibly - "We voted a Know-Nothing into office twice before, let's do it again!"
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I don't know what it means. And I can not say I have noticed this hair thing. At least not in Miami.
The election of Bush in 2000 pretty much filled in the last puzzle piece for me. Why do Republicans seem to be content to allow the public schools to rot away? Why is their one solution to get rid of the system and privatize education?
And it all became clear in 2000. People listen to imbeciles on the radio, who tell them what to think. And it works.
But even in my senior college classes, there were people who wore Bush campaign buttons in 2000.
I would ask them why they are supporting a man for President who can not even speak English properly, and who does not seem to have a grasp on anything.
The answer? He will lower taxes.
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