Obama is the F'd-O-Meter

The soaring popularity of this candidate provides insight as to how F'd we are as a voting population. The fact that a huge (H U G E) number of voters are providing financial and voting support to a candidate of this nature should be sending a message to every remaining thinking American.

There are two likely possibilities for this particular surge.

The first possibility is less likely but more hopeful. That is the thought that maybe voters are sending a message that they want change and are supporting him for that reason until the election in November. At that time they will vote on a candidate for President rather than voting to send a message that our government needs to do a better job.

The second, more likely, more scary possibility is that they truly buy into his words, and will follow like lambs to the slaughter in November. Maybe they have been so trained by our multimedia Hollywood spoon fed entertainment that they need speeches rather than substance. Maybe they are so fed up with the system that they are willing to vote a socialist that cares not for the Constitution of the United States of America into office. Maybe they have given up on our country and simply want to throw everything into turmoil and have to start over with some sort of revolution.

Alternately, what if the entire Obama phenomenon is a republican conspiracy (everybody love conspiracy theories) to make an oncoming depression a result of the Democratic inability to handle a high maintenance economy? Yes, that last one is a stretch.

The unfortunate likelihood is that the voting population truly is as ignorant and short sighted as they would seem to be. It's entirely likely that generations of taking our country for granted has led to a society where the future no longer matters. Is it possible that we've finally realized a nationwide pattern of "emotion trumps logic"?

It would seem the fate of our nation is in the hands of those that cannot balance a checkbook, understand how much money they throw away when going upside down for a car they don't need, or realize that the house they are buying will cost more to keep than they make within the next 24 months.

If we use Obama as the F'd-O-Meter, it looks like we're pretty F'd people.