I think Americans want the best of both worlds. You could easily make the argument that America is basically a conservative nation, we are. Our "liberals" would be considered conservative anywhere else in the civilized world (Europe, Japan, Australia not Iran and Iraq). We are a right of center nation. However that couldn't be farther from the point your making.
The point your making is true. We want to like our President (it's a large part of how Obama beat Hillary. Nobody like Hillary. The job was hers by right of "royalty" but she lost because she wasn't well liked. She got as far as she did because Americans are just like any other people. We can say whatever we say but we want Kings and Queens. We praise democracy but we don't actually want it. Hense the Kennedys who basically show up in a state and explain politely that they would like to claim their throne and it's given to them. And the Bushes aren't a whole lot better. But obviously the Kennedies are the worst perpetrators of this.
There are of course liberal commie scum. But my point is that by the large our liberal commie scum would be considered ruthless capitalists if they left America.
Like I said D6, I don't have proof but this doesn't pass the smell test. I mean just entrapment and illegal recording of a conversation alone are a big deal. There is a reason why when a company is even sorta selling you something on the phone that they inform you that you are being recorded. It's because it's law. No blurred faces, this is so far down the totem pole of believability that Rush Limbaugh hasn't touched it.
The networks are covering it. Maybe not as heavily as they should have given the size of the scandal. Though to be fair we didn't hear much more than this about various shit Blackwater got away with and they were killing people not supporting prostitutes (which should be legal to begin with)
More to the point nobody would care about Acorn if it wasn't seen as a way to damage Obama.
There was a lady on the Laura Ingraham show earlier this evening who blew the whistle on ACORN last year. She went to the New York Times, ABC, and CNN. She told them how a group within ACORN was soliciting more money from maxed out contributors to Obama's campaign. This sounds like the kind of funny business that got Richard Nixon impeached.
Obama's mother was an American, right? Case closed on the birth issue, unless I am missing something. CNN's boy, Lou Dobbs, is stoking that fire, probably to help make conservatives look stupid. That is akin to liberals posing as conservatives at rallies and holding up Nazi signs. And where was McCain born? Illegal campaign activities is a legitamate issue and will probably be why the new Republican congress (after 2010 elections) impeaches Mr. Obama, and then we get Biden (groan). As far as the Kanye West is a jackass comment, that just shows that he is inexperienced and needs to keep his mouth shut at all times. We all could be better at that. This is the fun part about American politics. No matter who becomes president, they will be slapped down if they get too cocky and do stuff that is too extreme. Obama thinks he has found a new technique to fool The People (using ACORN, etc.). He is about to find out that Joe Q. Public does not like to be fucked with. Even die-hard Democrats do not like to be scammed by one of their own. Guys like Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gwhore wake Joe Q. up and get him to the polls. Believe me, Joe Q. knows what is important and what is not important. You do not have to point that out.