Brock LayFayette: the poor-man's Wheeler Jones

I watched a small portion of the democratic debate last night. It was too aggravating to watch much.
The low-light for me:

Obama is asked a SECOND question about someone he knew and something that person said 40 years prior, when Obama was 8 years old.

To paraphase Obama: I can answer these kinds of questions until the end of time. Making someone answer for the opinions and statements of everyone they know is insane. More importantly, these ridiculous questions that are cycled and recycled in sound bites only subvert the REAL issues that we should be talking about. We're wasting our forum and insulting the public's intelligence by focusing on this stuff.

(I suspect he read my blog as this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I posted about recently)

Hillary in response: I think we SHOULD look at these things. It's important.

*GONG*
Thanks, Hill. And the next time you start a soliloqy with "Well, I am the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton who went to work in the Scranton lace mills when he was 11 years old, worked his entire life there, mostly six-day weeks." ...why don't you finish the sentence with the truth: "...but as you know, I'm not in touch in the least with any of that as I made 100 million dollars last year, so I'm not sure why I keep bringing it up."

I see Obama take the high road on many of these things. I respect him for that. I'm a vindictive bastard, and I know I wouldn't be able to. I'm almost angry at him for taking the high road, but really, he's doing a good job as not reducing himself to that level. (not that he never has, of course, just generally speaking).

Obama said many times during the speech that the average American is smart enough not to get distracted by the sound-bite reality tv bamboozling that we get 24/7.
Shame on you, sir. Now YOU'RE not being honest.
If you asked Americans to describe what kind of government the country has, I DEFY you to report back that more than 1/10 DOESN'T say: "Democracy" when in fact the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

Am I being petty? I don't think so. I'm an immigrant and I know this.
Do I expect Obama NOT to flatter the American people? I guess not. He certainly can't be a real truth-teller if he's looking to get elected. This is the subtlety and flaw of the process.

I have to get over this. I will.
I was just sickened by Obama pointing out that in order to make debate on the future of the country a meaningful exercise we cannot allow ourselves to be bamboozled... and Hillary responding: "Let's not be hasty!!!"

...but I can't really blame her, in the end, she's only the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton who went to work in the Scranton lace mills when he was 11 years old...