Don't elect me, I'm like you

On the Republican side, this whole campaign has been, overtly or in an underlying way, about accusing the other side of being elitist.

Elitist, in Republican rhetoric, is a slur, as well as socialist, redistributor (coined by McCain to describe Obama, just before he coined redistributionist in chief), liberal of course, etc., etc.

So John and Sarah pretend to be like any other American. It does not really matter that John owns seven houses and Sarah owns a plane. What matters is that, at heart and in talking, they are like us. You betcha!

Unfortunately, this pose does not always go as planned.

A few weeks ago, Sarah the Hockey Mom, dropped the puck at a hockey game (dropping the puck is "donner le coup d'envoi" for a soccer game, my dear French readers).
She was booed by the Hockey Joe Six-Packs filling up the stands.
Oops!

Yesterday, in Pennsylvania, Palin started her speech by saying it was a great pleasure to be in the home state of the Philadelphia Phillies (note for my French baseball-clueless friends, the Phillies, the baseball team from Philadelphia, just won what they call here the World's Series -- although the Americans are the only ones playing baseball, but shhh, some American friends are listening).
She was booed by the audience. Her own audience. Why? Because she was talking in western Pennsylvania, home of the arch-enemy of the Phillies, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Oops, again!

Yesterday also, McCain was campaigning in Ohio. He called Joe the Plumber on stage. "Joe, come on up... Joe, where are you? ... Joe??? Joe, I thought you were here with us today." Oops again! Joe was not there. Had his staff played a mean trick on John? It doesn't matter. John knows how to get out of such a dire strait honorably. "Well, it doesn't matter, you are all Joe the Plumbers," he said to the timidly cheering crown of 6,000 which included 4,000 high school students who had been bused in.

But why was he calling for Joe the Plumber, by the way?
Well, because Joe the Plumber had been campaigning for John and Sarah. He has been answering questions from the audience. Not just questions about plumbing. Nooooo. Questions about foreign policy. He agreed with an idiot in the audience saying that if Obama was elected, it would mean the death of Israel!

What the f...!!!

Joe, come on. Go back plumbing. I know you really want to be John's Secretary of State, but John is not going to win, so forget it.

I don't really understand why people don't want someone smarter than they are leading their country. I wouldn't want someone like me for President, and yet, I dare say I think I am reasonably smart.
They have had the dumbest president ever for the last eight years, and they haven't learned the lesson yet.
When I thought you could not produce a worse candidate than Bush, John invented Sarah.

Please, if you are not really smart, don't vote for the people who say they are like you.