"Because so few people bother to check the facts, . . . ."
The beginning of the last paragraph says it all. Unfortunately it is the fact that "so many illiterate people" are the problem with being enamored of our "Ocampaigner"
If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's
The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a
landslide.
The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?" A more apt question might be, "Where was the whole economics profession when we needed them?" Where were the media? For that matter, where were the Republicans?
Since "Who's The Fairest of Them All?" was published in October, there was little chance that it would affect this year's election. But this little gem of a book exposes,...
All of which begs the question - when will we require IQ tests for voting? You have to pass a skills test to get a driver's license; you have to be accredited to practice law or medicine, but morons and and do vote.
Now that's the real crime.