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Understand the Big Picture, Please, Pt.1 – ‘Visual’: 1 – ‘Analytic’: 0.

Like Mark Harris of “Entertainment Weekly” so aptly explains, we’ve become a nation drawn into being ‘reality-show competition’ and ‘prime-time soap’ arm-char critics. We’ve been programmed to judge the presidential debates the same way. Maybe it’s true that most Americans vote on a fifth-grade level when it comes to the issues. No more is this true than with the health insurance/care crisis. Which is the active subject (noun or phrase) here? Is it “health insurance/care” the active subject? Wrong! That’s just an adjective. The subject is “crisis”. We have a CRISIS that happens to deal with health insurance/care. (Sorry for the technical. That’s exactly what is being opposed here.)

The perfect example here was showcased in the first Veep debate last night. It doesn’t take a partisan bias to explain what happened with the health insurance/care debate. Ms. Palin was scintillating with her smile and her pretty fifth grade picture. I think any honest person would agree. No matter how much one disagrees with her health insurance/care message, we all have to award her an A+ for reaching the most important audience.

Mr. Biden’s response: "You're going to have to replace a $12,000 [health-care plan] with a $5,000 [tax-credit] check you've just given to the insurance company. I call that the ultimate bridge to nowhere." The fifth-grade reaction was exactly nailed here by the “Washington Post” when they assessed: “Biden Focuses Only on Negatives Of McCain's Health-Coverage Plan.” And after all, aren’t we trying to reach a fifth-grade level political audience. Even someone who loves Mr. Biden’s stance on health insurance/care reform would have to award him a D- for reaching the most important audience.  Remember, you’re being judged by ‘American Idol’ armchair judges. You must accommodate their reasoning and judgments.

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