It is hard to believe that people are still relying on word of mouth to select their president.

My Repub friends should know better, but sometimes they forget and just drop the comments, that to me, don't make any sense. And when I question where they get their facts, they button up. They can't even tell me it's Fox News! So I figured it out. They were repeating crapiola they heard in conversations. The one that almost threw me for a loop was when I was watching a soccer game on a Spanish channel. My friend made a quick observation asking me if I watched it often. No big deal.

Then he said I should be more like some Latin American Governor who was Republican. Didn't know who he was referring to. But, remembering my upbringing in Latin America I told him it would be no surprise that there would be Latin Americans who voted Republican. I told him that it's a place where ten percent of the population owns 90% of the resources, which is much in line with where the Republicans want to take us. That's why, I said, we have to vote for Obama. To protect the Middle Class.

And then he says, Obama is trying to get rid of the Middle Class!

Where do you get your information? I asked.

He didn't answer.

So I say, please tell me you're not getting it from word of mouth. Please tell me you're going to do some research before you vote.

Still, no answer. And then it comes to me, that they're still preening each other with their ideology. Now that they don't have a Rove framing the debate for them, they're just saying ANYTHING. So their complaints against Obama sound exactly the same as what I would say about a Republican! It's crazy!