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Aswad -> RE: Restoring the draft (7/25/2007 6:39:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark
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ORIGINAL: Aswad
And Bush is actually a lot smarter once the camera is off, or so I've been told.
That wouldn't be difficult. As Lex Luther once said to his assistant Otis, "it's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving." [:D]
Some who have spoken with him indicate he's actually a fairly bright fellow in private, but plays it down because people prefer a simple, stupid and stubborn man with politically correct flaws and appealingly simple rhetoric to an intelligent, flexible one who actually addresses the issues at hand in a meaningful manner. They'll take Forest Gump over the real world any day.
We see the same trend in Norway, although not quite as pronounced; both V, H and to some extent AP have, in that order and despite their ideological differences, a fairly well thought-out approach to their different goals. H and AP do better, because they dumb it down to the public, which V refuses to do. So, V gets less votes, despite having a policy that is pretty much the real-world equivalent of what the most popular party, SV, is waxing lyrical about all over the media.
Apart from the influences of the media (see Chomsky's work, if unfamiliar with it), it's quite simple:
The majority gets what they asked for.
Which may not be what they wanted...
Though I do think Bush should've managed his office in a way that kept the problems inside his own nation, without spewing fallout on everywhere else, the people who are ultimately to blame for letting it go on, are the ones who put him there in the first place.
That, and Diebold- what even nominally democratic nation would want to use voting machines delivered by a company whose CEO promised one candidate the election, and delivers uninspected, unreviewed solutions? Never mind that the candidate won, that the tied areas showed unrefutable (it has been tried) statistical aberrations, that exit-polls mismatched with ballot counts for the first time, and various demonstrations showing how to make the voting machines into pinball machines... The question isn't whether there was foul play. The question is why it was acceptable to leave the door open to it, and why it remains acceptable to have no means of discovering it reliably if there was such a thing...
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