[Peace-discuss] Pointless primary

[John W.]

At 03:21 AM 1/14/2008, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

>Ah yes, another example of our ill-informed electorate. And folks on this 
>very list were arguing some months back w/ posts describing joe sixpack in 
>those terms??
>  --Jenifer


Having barely survived 20 years' residency in a town that was utterly 
homogeneous in its citizens' absence of critical thinking, I would renew to 
my dying breath the argument that Joe Sixpack is ill-informed.  The media 
is/are a part of the problem, but only part.  Joe has to WANT to be 
informed, and that is sadly not generally the case.

John Wason



>"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>More evidence that the issues have been carefully removed from the
>presidential campaign, really now no more than a high-school popularity
>contest. --CGE
>
>NH Voters Thought McCain Opposed the Iraq War?
>Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 in News by James Bovard
>
>CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday’s New Hampshire primary
>and found that “among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who
>said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the
>GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S.
>withdrawal in the Republican field.” (hat tip to Think Progress).
>
>Perhaps such voters did not realize the temporal difference between
>exiting Iraq ”now” (in Ron Paul’s case) versus 10,000 years from now (in
>McCain’s case, according to his comment on CBS’s Face the Nation last week).
>
>McCain has rarely missed a chance to grovel at Bush’s feet to support
>the Iraq war...
>
>http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/09/nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war/
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