[Peace-discuss] Pointless primary

[John W.]

At 10:24 PM 1/14/2008, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

>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


Hahaha!  It wasn't THIS town that I was referring to.  THIS town is a 
veritable hotbed of critical thinking, compared to the vast wastelands in 
between American university communities.

In everything else you say above, I quite agree with you.  I too get much 
of my news from the internet...and from this peace-discuss list.  Hahahaha!

Interesting factoid about Scott Ritter.

John



>"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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