My Attention is Waning

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

More true today than four years ago when he said it. Take for example the recent "faith forum" held in Rick Warren's California megachurch. Pundits are criticizing Obama for not answering in rapid-fire style like McCain did. Instead, Obama explained his answers in a thoughtful manner showing us how he came to the decision. Neither method (McCain's or Obama's) was any more correct than the other, but when you live in a world where the TV has less than 10 seconds to capture your attention, anything but split-second, knee jerk reactions will be considered slow and uncertain.

Oh, the horror, if we actually had a President who thought out their answers before blurting them out. We'll all be doomed if someone decides to apply the thought process to their semi-regular decisions...