Last...

...but not least.

I watched on C-Span (please, no nasty comments) a panel discussion involving research/polling of eleven ordinary citizens. They were queried on the President and Congress and the issues confronting the nation.

Two of the nine thought the nation was going in the wrong direction. Five though Obama was going to be a "great" President (although they couldn't remotely say why except, "He cares."). Two disliked Congress and didn't trust what it was doing.

From what I could tell, one certainly didn't like BO, three likely weren't big fans of his, a couple were fence-sitters, and the other five fawned over him. Now, realize, each of the five couldn't say one positive result that has stemmed from BO's Presidency (he might have some, but that isn't the point here--the people who couldn't name even one still thought he was great). Oh, there were the generalities and platitudes like, "Oh, he's one of us" (although none of the panelists looked like they lived in multi-million dollar homes), "He really cares" (enough to spend how many millions on his weekly parties and dates with Michelle--so far?), "He's really trying" (well, lots of people have "tried," even Nixon and W). How frightening! It's one thing to think he's doing well and be able to cite reasons for it (whether or not I agree or disagree). It's quite another to say he's doing well, but not be able to name a single thing that he's accomplished. Is it suprising that almost all of the BO supporters were in education or some sort of gov't work?????

It was funny, the opinion gatherer asked the panelists to form a portrait, a picture of someone who symbolized Congress to them. I immediately laughed as "Satan" came to my mind. I laughed even harder as five of the panelists also said "the devil" (with one admitting he couldn't spell "Beelzebub," as if I can).

I was answering along with the questions. For instance, "What one word or phrase characterizes what you think of President Obama? My word was "hypocrite," although I could think of others. For Michelle O my phrase was "glitz with no substance."

I could see a couple of the panel members seemed to want to explode at some of the other responses, but were obviously told ahead of time that this was not a debate, wasn't supposed to be contentious, etc.

It's OK to differ in opinions, but there must be reasons for differences. People should be able to support their views. "I feel" isn't a good argument. I'm all for 100% voting, until I think that people like these (or the one interviewed a year ago who thought Sarah Palin was a good choice to be Barak Obama's running mate) have a vote that counts as much as mine.