Exactly roquat. Even though there are a lot of stupid people in America, I think all of the analysts who think she did a good job talking to the average non-Washington people are a bit out-of-touch because she totally read as condescending and fake.
"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'"
-Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot
Updated On: 10/2/08 at 11:00 PM