America the Illiterate


	America the Illiterate

papananook

11-12-2008 11:32 AM

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papananook says:

Quite an interesting article that won't be read by too many people in 'Merika...*sigh*

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11-12-2008 11:39 AM

polymath22

Sounds like the faux-conservatives on clipmarks!

11-12-2008 11:50 AM

papananook

Hedges may be a faux-conservative but that label doesn't make this article any less interesting. Too many 'Merikans can't fucking read!

11-12-2008 12:31 PM

ColoradoRight

But they can vote!

11-12-2008 1:36 PM

papananook

Yeah, they can vote but without being informed, what use is it?
And if you read the article, he says they often DON'T vote because they don't have little picture ballots like McDonald's menus...duh!

11-12-2008 2:35 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

Nuff' said.

11-12-2008 8:34 PM

papananook

Oh, WOW--it's worse than anyone can know...49% still like Palin, after all her idiocy--WTF?

11-13-2008 3:44 AM

darkeforce

Republicanism breeds stupidity. What do you expect from them?

11-13-2008 9:33 AM

gzuckier

there are people who decide with their brains, and people who decide with their gut, and never the twain shall meet.

11-19-2008 1:56 AM

Mithray

That explains why some support Palin as a future president of the USA!

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