The purpose of this post is not to rail against John McCain for lying. I’m more interested in the way American voters are responding to McCain’s lies. My good friend Evan wrote a piece detailing how John McCain stole his “cross in the dirt” story; you know, the one that brought a tear to the eyes of Saddleback Church congregants during Saturday Night’s forum. I kind of joked with Evan about his revelation – I thought everyone knew McCain stole the story from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The other whopper I thought everyone knew was nothing but a big, fat fib was McCain’s interrogation tale where he says he threw his torturers off-track by giving them the names of his buddies, the 1967 Green Bay Packers’ offensive line. Unless he’s telling the tale in Pittsburgh, where his buddies were the Steel Curtain.

Now, I was under the impression that the American electorate was savvy enough to know when they were getting hosed and were willing to just go along with McCain and his flare for the dramatic. A few republicans are pleased that McCain has the testicular fortitude to flat-out lie in a House of God, but I truly had no idea that the vast majority of Americans believe McCain’s tall tales.

I’ve come across one or two bloggers that say if voters are so stupid, we deserve what we get – a Bush third term full of lies, corruption and incompetence. I disagree. I care about America deeply, and I hope there are enough Americans that are smart enough to see through McCain’s blatant, obvious lies to stop that third term before it ever starts…