ONE IN FIVE THINK BIN LADEN STILL ALIVE

A recent Zogby poll says that one in five Americans think Bin Laden is alive and kicking somewhere. Mind you it means 80% of us are sane, rational beings and the other twenty are gargling Drano for fun it appears. Who are these brain powers you ask? Let's look at the stats.

They tend to be Republicans (25 percent), those born between 1964 and 1978 (24 percent), born-again non-Catholics (28 percent), those without a college degree (25 percent), conservatives (25 percent), residents of rural areas (24 percent), those without a passport (26 percent), weekly WalMart shoppers (31 percent), those who attend a place of worship (25 percent), voters most likely to be inclined to support a tea-party-backed candidate (32 percent), and people who have gone without food for 24 hours at a time because of a lack of money or food (52 percent). All in all, an interesting cacophony of groups most likely to doubt anything the government says, Republican, conservative, and just the plain angry. In other words, your average Tea Party member.

Funny how these groups also tend to be highly militaristic and supportive of troops. If what is being said is true and Bin Laden is still alive, then a huge number of our troops had to be complacent in such an operation. Navy SEAL team 6 would have to be traitors to follow such an order and I for one doubt that to be true. My experience with members of the military rarely are bad and many of my close friends and family are current or ex-military. None of these people would go on a mission like this and either refuse to do it or leak info to the press afterward as it would be unpatriotic not to. Are these people really suggesting that major portions of the military are subservient to the elite? If that is true, we are so screwed. Thankfully, at this point, I see no evidence of it being so.

So Bin Laden IS dead and to doubt that is really entering birther territory. What his involvement with 9/11 was is another. Obama is getting a much deserved bounce for his leadership on this issue. I for one commend him. I only hope that he can do something about it. Democrats are scared of angering corporate interests now that there is no stop gap on money that can be thrown in a political race. Piss off the wrong company and they can throw unlimited money to wreck your career. Think that won't kill free speech quick in this country, think again. Vote Republican if you like slavery.