tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3925472311426897462..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Nightmare of Political Identity DisorderGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59130986447319092082012-09-03T16:06:51.800-07:002012-09-03T16:06:51.800-07:00For as maddening as independents are, at least the...For as maddening as independents are, at least they usually know who the candidates are. There needs to be another category for voting age citizens who are even more maddening - those who don't care enough to make an effort, or don't understand enough to care, or vote for the candidate they're told to vote for.<br /><br />What could that category be called?EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67285773156484534742012-09-03T13:31:48.988-07:002012-09-03T13:31:48.988-07:00Some good lines in this post. The "Are you a ...Some good lines in this post. The "Are you a boy or a girl?" analogy is apt. Matthew C Smallwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234878138545287306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26248450342990391022012-09-03T13:30:13.100-07:002012-09-03T13:30:13.100-07:00Yes, but if FOX has come to embody conservatism, a...Yes, but if FOX has come to embody conservatism, and being a real conservative (like D. Cortes) is philosophically impossible to your modern sensibilities, it's nice to hide behind the "independent" label, which often than not, means "Leftist" anyway. Matthew C Smallwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234878138545287306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30570197998446835102012-09-03T12:07:25.696-07:002012-09-03T12:07:25.696-07:00Van - re. The chair image, that literally made me ...Van - re. The chair image, that literally made me laugh out loud. If nothing else, the empty chair has certainly inspired a great deal of levity...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34245936416767367562012-09-03T11:01:13.265-07:002012-09-03T11:01:13.265-07:00"I say yes. For one thing, unlike those folks..."I say yes. For one thing, unlike those folks, we aren't staring into the maw of a future with an empty suit occupying that vacant chair at the top. So we got that going for us."<br /><br />Sorry, saw this and had to laugh. In a Des Moines park, there are statues of oddities, including <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=1024&bih=470&tbm=isch&tbnid=Ywb9AOpyQDk1TM:&imgrefurl=http://steveinjapan.aminus3.com/image/2010-09-02.html&imgurl=http://aminus3.s3.amazonaws.com/image/g0001/u00000447/i00971346/3a10c3ac8c36d0e2212d1e6be57c2660_large.jpg&w=546&h=835&ei=Ou9EUMGXD-nxygGQn4GgDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=93&vpy=60&dur=697&hovh=278&hovw=181&tx=99&ty=181&sig=108235002826510303932&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=86&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:76" rel="nofollow">this one of an empty suit</a>, that is rapidly becoming known as "The Obama Memorial".<br /><br />Another, which I don't have a public link for, but on facebook someone's got a picture of a chair soaring through the air over a shoreline and the caption "Days after Hurricane Issac, President Obama flies over to survey the damage."Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com