Tuesday, August 22, 2006
see, this is what I mean
In this time when there are wildly different points of view and when the only possible way forward without bopping each other over the head is to let everyone have their fair say, this is the kind of thing that makes me crazy. Isn't the entire point of freedom and democratic choice and elections - those 'incidental' things America was founded in order to allow for its citizens - where do those who hold one point of view get the idea that it makes any sense at all to prevent voters from being able to listen to and vote for or against someone who holds a different point of view???

Labels:

Permalink | | posted by jau at 9:19 AM


4 more:
Blogger CGHill — at 5:35 PM, August 22, 2006:
I'm a Lieberman fan, sort of - voted for him in the Presidential primary in '04 - but there's something faintly unseemly about losing Stage 1 and then changing one's party affiliation for Stage 2. Indisputably we would be better off with six more years of Joe than with the empty suit who did beat him out, but I think I'd have been a little happier had he retired quietly.
 

< home >

Blogger jau — at 5:39 PM, August 22, 2006:
Maybe so, but don't you agree that not allowing him to run is a really really bad way to accomplish that?
 

< home >

Blogger jau — at 6:35 PM, August 22, 2006:
My post is included in a collection of bloggers' reactions to Connecticut democrats' call to keep Lieberman off the ballot in November. The collection is at Tailrank which describes itself as "find[ing] the best content from thousands of blogs so you don't have to". (Hmmm.)
 

< home >

Blogger CGHill — at 10:18 PM, August 24, 2006:
I don't even believe in term limits, really; I think that anything that gets between the electorate and the pols of their choice is obstructionary. It's just one of those gut reactions. I had a similar response when Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, having just been reelected by 80 percent or so, decided to run for Congress. "Geez, wasn't the margin big enough?"
 

< home >


Post a Comment

< home