Political opinion of a sort

[camwyn]

In the vein of pelogrande, as recorded here:

I don't like politics. I don't like to talk about them, and I don't like to hear people argue about them. The subject makes me angry, because far too often it consists of people aggressively not listening to anyone else, and any good they may have meant in the beginning is lost thereby. But I vote, and I do so in every election where I am permitted to do so, save for primaries and other elections in which there is only one candidate standing for any given position. (I do not live in a state where a "Low Tax" Looper situation has arisen at the polls, fortunately.) As regards this election:

I am going to vote for John Kerry, even if come 2nd November the man is legally defined as dead. It would take John Kerry walking in front of live television cameras munching on a freshly killed human corpse to make me vote against him, and even then I might give him a pass if the corpse were Dick Cheney or John Ashcroft. Or, to be perfectly fair, Ralph Nader. Seriously, have you read some of Nader's recent interviews and opinions? The man's friggin' insane.

That is all.

Comments

[kali921.livejournal.com]

AMEN, Sister!!

I do not understand those who do not vote. I spoke to a friend today, a very intelligent articulate friend, who doesn't vote. To me, that's a slap in the face to the fact that we have the luxury of voting.

So I always vote. And yeah, Nader's two bullets short of a full chamber right now.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I would like to know more about Nader being nuts.

[camwyn]

When I get home today I'll find it, but a few months ago one of the major news outlets- I believe it was CNN- attempted to interview Nader. The result was completely indistinguishable from an interview with a conspiracy theorist, down to Nader accusing his interviewers of being in league with his enemies and refusing to answer questions he hadn't approved first.

I'll find it when I'm home from work.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

What's a "Low Tax" Looper?

[camwyn]

A lunatic in one of our Southern states who worked his way up in politics through a series of crappy publicity stunts (he legally changed his middle name to "Low Tax", hence Low Tax Looper) and pandering to various interests until he got to the state senate candidate level. Then he murdered the other guy, knowing that there was a law in the state that hadn't been invoked in a bajillion years that stated that if a candidate died within a certain number of days of the election, no name was to be entered in the dead guy's place.

The local Republican apparatus- Looper was technically a Republican, although the party gave him very little backing because the man was a very, very, very bad example of a legislator and they considered him an embarrassment- ran a write-in campaign that got the dead candidate's wife elected instead. Looper's in jail, has been for a few years now. Petitioned for a retrial recently. His chances do not look good.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

That's the strangest story I've heard all week. Thanks!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

OOHHH, yeah.

Mind if I metaquotes you? :)

[camwyn]

I would say yes, but I'm pretty sure I got the 'munching on a corpse' line from someone else's LJ- possibly even someone who was on metaquotes. So that would just be too meta to be healthy.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

No prob. I personally thought there was enough 'value added' to make it unique, but it's your call. :)

[nesmith.livejournal.com]

Woman after my heart. :)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I apologize for boggling your mind with the saga of Byron Looper. Here's something to make up for it, lifted from

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I apologize for boggling your mind with the saga of Byron Looper. Here's something to make up for it, lifted from <ljuser=ginmar> at Rania's Gate:

"This is not the struggle of one day or one month or one year or of one war. It's a struggle and an effort and a sacrifice and a contribution which we make for the rest of our lives. <b>Though men of small mind and less character may project themselves on to their fellow citizens and suggest that an America that admits its mistakes will turn into a craven, hollow place, we will continue this struggle because this country is bigger than they are and it is bigger than any of us here.</b>"

--John Kerry, Saturday, April 24, 1971, to a crowd of 500,000 war protesters.

Really strong people can admit they've made a mistake, and take steps to fix it. Only weaklings deny they've ever made a mistake, and refuse to take steps to fix it. Why do I support Kerry? The 223 days between the time Richard Clarke asked for a cabinet-level briefing about the threat from Al Qu'aida [January 24, 2001--3 days after the inauguration] and the day it was held [September 4, 2001] are just the beginning.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Ok, I must not be holding my mouth right when it comes to HTML. I thought that was done right...

[camwyn]

You missed a space between 'lj' and 'user'.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

head>>>desk.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

For the record, in Illinois, we don't consider Nader a loony ... but only because we have Alan Keyes, who is a certifiable NUTJOB. :-> He's running at about 16% on the polls, versus Obama's 60%+.

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

Camwyn, you are the goddess of quotable lines. Even if you do lift sections from elsewhere.

[camwyn]

When I was ten years old and read Dune for the first time*, I was terribly impressed by the fact that Gurney Halleck was able to come up with a really cool quote for any situation life threw at him. I wanted to be able to do that someday. I'm still working on it, but I like to think I'm getting there.

*At the instigation of a Dominican nun, who gave me the book and said it was really good