money where their mouth is... (revised)

[lagilman]

Edit Oh, just go to ginmar's actual journal entry, okay? (she's updated it) I still think that the pundits bit is useless and yeah, she's got a bias -- one, I might add, that being under fire she's damned well earned. But that doesn't negate the basic Interestingness of it all, considering the current actions and reactions of the Republican administration regarding war, the definition of "patriotism," and their attitude towards freedom of speech when it conflicts with what the President is selling.

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Comments

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Your icon is one of my most favourites.

BTW, I've been meaning to ask.

Who is the Meerkat party candidate? The media seems to be ignoring him or her and I'd like to hear what he or she has? ;-)

[lagilman]

Who can tell They all look alike...

the platform's pretty cool, though. More burrows, better equiped. Tax refunds for upgrading to DSL or cable as a health care incentive (less Internet road rage) Shared childcare funding. Fewer hawks. Tastier scorpions.

[msdori.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be a lot more impressed if this didn't have editorial comments attached to some of the listings, and if W's were not deliberately made to look as though he didn't actually serve at all. (Even if Bush didn't finish his ANG stint, he did serve some of it, correct?)

As a piece of Democratic propaganda, though, it's impressive. Unfortunately, it's so OBVIOUSLY slanted that it is completely useless as a tool to help me pick my candidate.

Right now, I'm looking real damn hard at Mickey Mouse.

[lagilman]

Depends on what you mean by "serve." Since his records have gone mostly walkabout, there's no way to tell if he did or didn't show up for it (some say he did, some day he was in absentia most of the time). Me, I don't care who sat it out and who went -- but I want them to be upfront about their record, damn it.

[msdori.livejournal.com]

Damn skippy.

Just give me The Facts, Ma'am. With as little spin as possible. <G>

[lagilman]

we had this discussion already, though. Facts to one person can be dismissed as "spin" by someone else. Even the way someone votes on a bit of legislation can be spun.

All you can do is decide where you stand, and see who's standing in the same area.

I know that George W and I don't stand in the same field. We may not even be on the same farm.

[stratfordbabe.livejournal.com]

It is a bit too obvious as propaganda. There are many Democrats who did not serve and many Republicans who did. Um, where are Bob Dole, John McCain, George H.W. Bush, etc?

And where is the listing of the Democratic pundits? Or the long list of Democratic actors, etc.?

[lagilman]

Yeah, I was tempted to leave the pundits off, since it didn't seem to be relevant to me. But I wanted to leave it intact, so's not to be accused of, well, editing.

ibid for the commentary.

[lagilman]

and McCain is listed.

[stratfordbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she finally included him, although I swear he wasn't on the list originally.

It would be interesting to do the entire Congress and see how it breaks down (as opposed to only focusing on Dems who served and Pubs that didn't). If someone would do that, sans comment, I would sit up and take notice.