this thing writes itself!

watch the whole thing for the best zinger of the campaign.

This is so good that I had to quote it here. I won't say who it is except to say it is from a friend of a friend who grew up in communist Russia:

Its a puritan, religious country... since the beginning. The only thing everyone agreed to is hating taxes.

A third of the country doesn't believe in evolution... and that's not even a very difficult theory to understand. How much easier is it to say that God is everything when you talk about partical physics? Or claim that the Large Hedron Collider will create a black hole that eats the earth (impossible say scientists! i'm going with my gut says the common man!).

we're run by a populist president who went to yale - but can still imply that educated people are somehow suspect. everyone is equal! everyone's achievements are the same! no-one is better than you simply because you are a lazy sack who never graduated high school, and they busted their ass to earn a degree and learn something!

for a country that hates communism, we certianly echo its worst traits: blind patriotism, distrust of education and knowledge, and a broad dismissal of critics as traitors and snobs.

So, tell me why we shouldn't fear Sarah Palin? To paraphrase Matt Damon: if one goes by the actuary tables, there is a 1 in 3 chance that John McCain dies in his first term in office, meaning she would become President Sarah Palin. And so we would go on, following our fearless hockey mom leader as she ruled in her best creationist-spewing, tolerance-smashing, ignorance-spreading way. People need to take notice of this and consider the future. I'm not saying Obama is immune to criticism or other issues, but at least he doesn't think its wrong to tell our kids that the universe wasn't created in 6 days.