I've just been watching Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, a story about American soldiers caught by nasty Germans and held prisoner during WWII.  The soldiers are held in internment camps, and are subjected to verbal and physical abuse.  The Germans are comical although serious, so we will stay scared throughout the movie,  but basically they are a joke.

For the most part the Natzis are treated comically as buffoons.

How will history treat us?  As buffoons, who line up naked people in a pyramid as though it is a joke?  As though we are justified in saying that we are the only country worth following?  Or should we be AMONG the countries who are leading?

I came across this at Huffpo:

Mr. McCain's advisers said that in his speeches, television advertisements and mailings, he would seize on a remark Mr. Obama made in an encounter with an Ohio voter, Joe Wurzelbacher, who had pressed him to explain his support for a tax increase for upper-income filers. Mr. Obama responded by saying he wanted to "spread the wealth." Mr. McCain repeatedly invoked that encounter with the man, whom he called "Joe the Plumber," during the debate on Wednesday.

"Spread the wealth around: We will focus acutely on that," said Steve Schmidt, Mr. McCain's chief strategist. "Spread the wealth around is a big mistake."

My question:  What is wrong with Spreading the Wealth?  It rings so much better than "Trickle Down," which republicans have no embarrassment about, even though the wealth has done nothing more than trickle up.  Since so many of them don't believe in Evolution, maybe they don't believe in Gravity either.