It has gotten too much. With the daily stream of shocking, disturbing revelations, I find myself increasingly sickened. Is this really the level of the quality of this country, the true character of its leaders? Dishonest, dishonorable, disgusting??? And true of McCain and Palin - absolutely low information politicians, for low information voters? Yes, McCain, too. I've been shocked by his ignorance, his obstinacy that he knows things (in his own obsolete sixties, GWB cowboy way). I find myself knowing more than him about events in the world, including politics, world affairs, world culture (with the advantage, I'll admit, of not having grown up in the USA). This is scary, that even I know more... And I can't even begin to voice my horror at Palin's utter idiocy, her extreme ignorance, her immature, bullying ways. You can see Russia from Alaska, and that is the basis of her foreign policy experience???? That she could utter something so shatteringly STUPID is frightening. Did we not learn from Bush? For all those who have said she's a smart, capable woman, you declare yourselves incompetent to judge, or willing to say anything to see your side win. "Elitist" is just another euphemism for "you know more than me, and I hate you for it". McCain and Palin object to a "fat resume"??? When we despise competence, intelligence, experience and skill, we enter the Dark Ages again, ruled by brutish thugs who spit, lie, bite and scratch...