And yet, the McCain/Pallin ticket seems to be gathering momentum. I can't explain it any other way than to think that the general public doesn't care about the truth, and wants to believe the fantasies. The U.S. public has become even more anti-intellectual and more determined to believe that if we continue to believe that the U.S. is "number One", it will be so, and because "God is on our side" (and on our currency), might makes right, and we have nothing to fear. Sort of like the decline of the Roman Empire.