Re: Looking For a Candidate

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Yes, he's unelectable. It doesn't take much intelligence to know that.


Posted by: A politically astute canine | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:38 PM
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Um, does google index blog comments?


Posted by: Mithras | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:45 PM
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It does indeed.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 7:46 PM
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Thank god you weren't on my dissertation committee, or I'd have to start the blog yet again -- and only a few hours after ending it.

But seriously, doesn't this sort of empowering game just make you feel more sharply your lack of power? Imagine how pathetic we'd have thought anti-Clinton google bombers four or five years ago?


Posted by: Ted H. | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:12 PM
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It is a game, and I have no illusions about my lack of power. I feel it pretty sharply every time I see that George Bush is still President. I must say I think this is a bit different from the "miserable failure" game in that it's at least a clever twist on the "unelectability" of various Democrats and it's not quite as paritsan as "miserable failure."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:21 PM
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It's a twist in another respect as well. Google bombing Bush as 'miserable failure' presumably wasn't supposed to be what makes him a miserable failure, even in part. But this new game might help a teeny tiny bit in rendering 'unelectable' true.

So I'll grant you it's not quite as pathetic as the earlier game.


Posted by: Ted H. | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:55 PM
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Ok, we agree!

I have modest argumentative aims.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-11-03 8:57 PM
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