Comments on The Polarization Of The Ethnic Vote Is Strategy...

Go to Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys - Add a comment - Go to The Polarization Of The Ethnic Vote Is Strategy...

That's what you get, Naut, for stealing Dudley Moore's Emmy-winning

title...

. A couple times I've had the time to read a little of your Time series, but seemed to run out of time every time. Sometime, when I have more time...

posted by saul_relative on March 19, 2008 at 7:24 AM | link to this | reply

Saul

The whole race and gender business has become so convolutedly strange in this election, that it certainly deserves a detailed analysis. I'd be tempted if I had the time, but I hardly have time for my thing on Time which no one seems to read anyway, no time for it, probably...

posted by Nautikos on March 15, 2008 at 4:41 AM | link to this | reply

Let's certainly hope so, Glennb...

posted by saul_relative on March 15, 2008 at 12:41 AM | link to this | reply

Saul Relative,

This is the only thing these people know! I still accept we will emerge from this a better Planet!

posted by Glennb on March 14, 2008 at 7:57 AM | link to this | reply

There is that, Soul Builder. In these days of electronci surveillance,

cameras, and machines that can watch other machines, there should be no such thing as a fixable election (not one that can't be detected in some way, that is). Florida in 2000 proved that a man could win an election and still not get the office. Ohio in 2004 almost did the same damned thing. I got a polarization: honest elections as opposed to dishonest ones. How about doing what is right and fair instead of supplanting it with what you think should be right and fair.

Here's an example. I think the people of DC were fools to re-elect Marion Bradley back into the Mayor's office. If I was one of these self-appointed moralists with a mission, I could have done something to get involved to alter the election. Let's say I'm an official vote-counter, so I ditch a few votes here and there. My precinct goes to the other guy, just enough to win. I saved DC from another term under Mayor Drug King. All praise me.

Yeah. It's guys like that, people who appoint themselves to herd everyone else in the direction that they, through some mission-driven ascendancy, believe is the way to go, that screw it up for everyone else.

Sort of like this Wright fellow. Here's a guy that preaches independence and pride. However, he does it by alienating others. Not a particularly good strategy. But, hey, people don't have to listen to him. It's a free country. And just because Obama goes to church there does not mean he's in lockstep with Wright. Polarization is such a limiter of options...

posted by saul_relative on March 14, 2008 at 6:59 AM | link to this | reply

You're right, Mermaid. There is far too little beauty in politics, if any.

posted by saul_relative on March 14, 2008 at 6:45 AM | link to this | reply

Ain't it, though, TAPS...

posted by saul_relative on March 14, 2008 at 6:44 AM | link to this | reply

Polarization is when Obama (a black man) got zero votes in scores of black precincts in New York. Fuck, is it Clinton or the back-door programmers of the voting machines?

posted by Soul_Builder101 on March 13, 2008 at 9:38 PM | link to this | reply

is it me dear Saul, coz i never really saw any beauty in politics...they are soo misleading aren't they?

(thank you dear one for dropping by at my blog, it's so nice to hear from you again dear)...

posted by __Purple_Mermaid11__ on March 13, 2008 at 5:44 PM | link to this | reply