Sarah Palin Book-Signing

Well, this is somewhat unfair - like shooting fish in a barrel - but mildly-amusing nonetheless.

People are remarkably fuzzy about their political thoughts - always have been - and especially so when interviewed on camera. Kind of sad, really, and an indictment of our educational system.

But at the same time, it shows what a happy place America really is. Misery is the best education. Money can't buy the equivalent of the experience of having a car door slammed on your fingers, day after day, for years.

The highest-grade of political education I ever saw in any group of people, ever, was amongst Palestinian refugee university students. Razor-sharp intelligent, they are, and they can slam your lame political arguments into the ground in seconds flat. But I wouldn't want to be in their shoes....