[Peace-discuss] Pointless primary

[Jenifer Cartwright]

It's nationwide, John, not only this town. Scott Ritter sez his card-playing buddies say they "don't have time" to follow the news, not counting sports, which they have plenty of time for -- SCOTT RITTER'S BUDDIES, FER CRISSAKES!! -- and I KNOW many of my friends (and many friends of everyone on this list, I'm guessing) haven't a clue about what's going on in our country and world... because they're just not interested, NOT because the media is failing to inform them. The MSM is responsible for misleading the ones who actually do pay attention, of course... and then there are the idiots listening to O'Reilly and Rush... Most of those who don't vote are NOT making a statement other than that they REALLY aren't interested, imho. Btw, according to some recent poll or other, most (young) people now get their news from the Internet, a death sentence to newspapers eventually. 
   --Jenifer 

"John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
  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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