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"maff" |
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31 Oct 2004 03:25:05 AM |
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OT: Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just) |
Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1340237,00.html
Christopher Hitchens
Sunday October 31, 2004
The Observer
The election season is always hellish for people who fancy that they
live by political principles, because 'politics' becomes, even more
than usually, a matter of showbusiness and superficial calculation.
Ever since 1980, when I bet the liberals of New York that Ronald
Reagan would win easily (and didn't have to buy my own lunch for
months afterward), I have sympathised with the prisoners' dilemma
facing liberals and leftists every four years. The shady term 'lesser
evil' was evolved to deal with this very trap.
Christopher Hitchens
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0409221303.273a74cc%40posting.google.com
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| User: "DJ Nozem" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just) |
31 Oct 2004 10:56:58 AM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0410310125.7fb31ff7@posting.google.com>...
Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1340237,00.html
Christopher Hitchens
Sunday October 31, 2004
The Observer
The election season is always hellish for people who fancy that they
live by political principles, because 'politics' becomes, even more
than usually, a matter of showbusiness and superficial calculation.
Ever since 1980, when I bet the liberals of New York that Ronald
Reagan would win easily (and didn't have to buy my own lunch for
months afterward), I have sympathised with the prisoners' dilemma
facing liberals and leftists every four years. The shady term 'lesser
evil' was evolved to deal with this very trap.
Chris is a flip-flopper!
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108714/
<quote>
Christopher Hitchens, Contributor: Kerry
I am assuming for now that this is a single-issue election. There is
one's subjective vote, one's objective vote, and one's ironic vote.
Subjectively, Bush (and Blair) deserve to be re-elected because they
called the enemy by its right name and were determined to confront it.
Objectively, Bush deserves to be sacked for his flabbergasting failure
to prepare for such an essential confrontation. Subjectively, Kerry
should be put in the pillory for his inability to hold up on principle
under any kind of pressure. Objectively, his election would compel
mainstream and liberal Democrats to get real about Iraq.
The ironic votes are the endorsements for Kerry that appear in
Buchanan's anti-war sheet The American Conservative, and the support
for Kerry's pro-war candidacy manifested by those simple folks at
MoveOn.org. I can't compete with this sort of thing, but I do think
that Bush deserves praise for his implacability, and that Kerry should
get his worst private nightmare and have to report for duty.
</quote>
This after he wrote a story in The Nation where he supported Bush! (
see http://slate.msn.com/id/2108682/&#sybil ) That story is identical
to the one in the Guardian, by the way. Did Chris sell it before he
changed his mind, or did he re-change it just now? The mystery
continues! (Incidentally, the above analysis by Chris is sharp, to the
point and funny, the long article is drawn-out half-hearted babbling,
IMNSHO)
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We give meaning to each other
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just) |
31 Oct 2004 01:32:41 PM |
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maff wrote:
Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1340237,00.html
Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens has lost all credibility.
Best we can do is buy the poor old bugger a drink.......
http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/013547.html
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Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
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