99 percent of Americans aren't running for president while U.S. troops are at risk, Joe

As I've mentioned a few times over the years, Joe Scarborough is on the short (very, very, very, very short) list of right-wing louts I could learn to like. But I haven't yet, because he keeps saying the dumbest things. Things like this.

On Media Matters:

Scarborough trots out the most-Americans-don't-know-the-difference defense of McCain's Sunni-Shiite "confus[ion]'

Summary: On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough defended Sen. John McCain's apparent conflation of Sunni and Shiite Muslims, saying: "The thing is, everybody is obsessing over the fact that he keeps confusing Sunni and Shia. The fact is, I -- you know what? I could start peppering people with questions about Sunnis and Shia and Kurds, and the relationships there, and 99 percent of Americans wouldn't know; 99 percent of Americans wouldn't give a damn."

Is the bar so low that a potential president is expected to have no better command of our foreign policy than John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt from Peoria or Columbus?

Never mind boycotting the Chinese, let's just sell to them now.