Enough with the “simple homespun wisdom from the heartland” crap, okay? (And that goes for you bloggers as well as the mainstream media.) It’s incredibly condescending — now class, let’s listen to the very special perspective of our geographically-disadvantaged friends in Iowa.
People in the midwest are, you know, people.
(Not sayng that everyone on the ground is doing this, but when I see it, it irks the hell out of me…)