Too Dumb To Vote.

"We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency of course."

-Walter Cronkite on Larry King Live
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If Americans aren't smart enough to choose their own leaders Walter, then
why are all of your liberal buddies out there trying to get as many of
them to vote as possible. Despite the old saying that 2 heads are better
than one, I am afraid that that doesn't translate into 2 stupid people
voting equaling one smart person.

I think the biggest evidence of the American public being dumb is the
fact that they tuned into you for so many decades. I am happy to say that
we are smartening up and the MSM does not have its grip on us like it once
did.

What is really implied in what you are saying is that we are obviously too
stupid to vote because look at who we chose, George W. Bush, twice!! And
on top of that a Republican Congress and Senate. Maybe you would be
happier if only the Blue states were allowed to vote. Or maybe a red state
vote could only count for 1/2 or maybe 3/4 of a vote.

I am sure that you find comfort, Walter, in knowing that the election was
stolen anyway. So we aren't as ignorant as we would be if we had
actually chosen Bush as our President.

You seem to want to blame education for this, Walter, but how could we be
a nation full of a brilliant and enlightened electorate during the Clinton
administration and then fall to the depths that we are at now in so short
a time. Was it the recent High School Graduates flooding the polls in
2000 that offset things? The answer would have to be yes, in which case
we only have Clintons education policies to blame. So in other words it
must be Clintons fault that Bush got elected. If only he had done a
better job in educating our youth we wouldn't be in this terrible predicament.

The ironic thing is that really it is the democrats that can't figure out
how to read a ballot or work the voting machines. They are the ones
always complaining about how complicated the ballots are too read.
"Hmmmm... It says Pat Buchanan so I will punch that hole to vote for Al
Gore." Doesn't make any sense to me, but then again, I am probably just
too stupid to get it.