Do you see a pattern here?

All it takes is seconds on television any more.

You don't even have to have talent or education or knowledge or looks or anything.

First it was "Joe the plumber", who turned out to not be a plumber after all and now there's some kid President Obama spoke to in a crowd yesterday and bam--he's a celebrity.

These people have gone from "nobodies" on the street to nationally- and internationally-known phenomena within no time at all and for virtually no reason at all.

All it takes is presence.

Have you seen about this young kid since yesterday?

He stood up and asked the President a question--however manic he was and dis-jarring his delivery was--and suddenly he's all over the news. Keith Olbermann interviewed him live last night on his show on MSNBC, he's all over the internet, he got a radio disc-jockey job I guess, the whole thing.

What insanity.

Have we become so shallow that it doesn't even require knowledge or education or, virtually anything, in order to be famous and on television?

Does this make any sense?

Who is listening to these people? (Wait, I ask myself that about Rush Limbaugh all the time and he makes nearly a half-million dollars a year, for pity's sake).

It seems like this comes from the "Sarah Palin School of Politics".

Again, you don't need to know anything and you can still be "important". Heck, you can be elected governor of a state, for pity's sake and even, nearly, Vice President of the whole bloody country.

Man our standards are low.

Are you in the right place? Is it the right time? Then COME ON DOWN! "We have a position of former importance for you!"

Now that I think of it, it's likely an outgrowth of the "President George W. Bush School of Presidential Politics".

Wrong person. No knowledge. No experience. Ideologue. Divisionist. Destructive--all that.

But what the hell, "How about you be our President, boy?!"

We're dumbing ourselves down incredibly low, folks, and it ought to stop way higher than this.

No wonder we're going broke.

Link to story about latest connection here:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62687523/1?se=yahoorefer