I wonder.

I wonder if Michelle Bachmann, R Minn, really does think a significant portion of the US congress is “anti-American.”

I wonder if McCain regrets the tenor of his recent rallies.

I wonder why Palin is so narrow in her definition of true Americans.

I wonder if McCain/Palin would rather win at all costs, or have every American aware of Obama’s Christian faith and patriotism.

I wonder why “spreading the wealth” is socialist if that’s what all taxes do in the first place.

I wonder why we’re so scared of socialists.

I wonder what America would look like if we had more patriots like Colin Powell who served two Bush presidents and said,

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that he is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

I wonder if we can blame things on “silly season” in politics, or if this season just brings out what we already think but usually don’t say.

I wonder why we don’t have more insightful discussions of church and politics like Jan Edminston’s.

I wonder who benefits the US more: a school teacher on the prairie or another DC lawyer.

I wonder if it might just be more patriotic to plant vegetables in our front yards than buy chicken raised in California shipped to China for packaging then shipped back to California to be sent to grocery stores on the east coast.

I wonder how many us will vote.

I wonder.

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