Donald Ian Rankin
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Thu Sep-20-07 07:54 AM
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I do not give a damn about the outcome of the Democratic primary. |
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I think that it is clearly going to be won by one of Clinton, Obama and Edwards.
I think that, while there are differences between them - I have a mild preference for Edwards over Obama over Clinton - such differences pale into total insignificance when compared with the differences between any of them and any of their possible Republican opponents. Any of them would make a perfectly good candidate.
I don't think that Al Gore is going to run; I don't think he'd win if he did; I think that he'd make a good candidate if he did but not sufficiently better than any of the others for it to matter much.
As such, I am watching the primaries with amused indifference - it's striking that there is, if anything, more vitriol between the supporters of the different candidates that there is against Republicans (although I think that's because you get people disagreeing with one another - no-one defends Republicans, so they don't draw so much heat).
The battle that actually matters won't begin until February.
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BleedingHeartPatriot
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Thu Sep-20-07 07:57 AM
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1. Amused indifference can be equated with |
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contempt.
You're so above it all. MKJ
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Donald Ian Rankin
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:02 AM
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2. Outside, not above - I have the advantage of not being an American. |
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I imagine that if I was, I'd have a horse in the race and be involved to some extent. But even if I did, I think I'd still realise that the difference between my horse and the other horses wasn't great when compared to the difference between horses and elephants.
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:05 AM
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3. Thanks for your observations, how fortunate for you. |
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In the meantime, I have to get back to doing everything I can to make my country better.
Perhaps you should nibble on truffles and chuckle at the silliness of it all. MKJ
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Donald Ian Rankin
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:08 AM
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4. My point was that I think directing effort at the primary is inefficient. |
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I heartily applaud doing everything you can to make your country better, but I think that you et al would be able to do so more effectively by spending more effort & money ensuring that the winner of the primary beats the Republican, and less worrying about who that is.
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:14 AM
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5. A democrat will win , we need to pick the best one for the people. |
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Now if the election is tampered with as usual, all bets are off.
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:20 AM
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6. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination will be owned just as |
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surely by the corporations as any Republican. So the Democrats are a little more people-friendly? Great! As Neil Young might say, they've a "kinder, gentler machine-gun hand"...
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:23 AM
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7. I have a rather more optimistic spin reaching similar conclusions . . . |
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Which is -- for the first time in a long time, Dems can look at a slate of presidential contenders and say, "she'd make a good president, but so would he, and so would he . . ." and so on.
The 'Licans are bankrupt in so many ways and the Dems have an abundance of competent White House candidates -- all with more backbone than the average Congressional Dem. I'm overjoyed to have a choice.
I don't think Gore will run either. However, if he did run in the general, I think he'd win. And I think he'd make a fine president.
The only problem -- for Dems and 'Licans alike -- is that Schimpanski and Co. have left such a trail of destruction in their wake that the next president (Dem or 'Lican) is likely to be a one-term failure, with the faint hope that the *next* White House occupant can begin focusing on something other than damage control. I don't think people recognize the cost of the Bush presidency yet but it is world-historical-high.
And we'll be paying it for decades.
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Thu Sep-20-07 08:59 AM
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8. That's like someone with bad vision reading a newspaper without glasses |
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When it's all perceived as blurry and hard to read, it does make for indifference.
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