Over at Harry's Place, Johann Hari gets in touch with his inner Appeaser and his inner Imperialist and lets them battle it out.
I try to have these internal arguments with myself, but I usually find it impossible not to root for one side, allow a bit of cheating and so forth. I could probably benefit from having the League of Women Voters lay some ground rules; surprise questions from an audience could help too, perhaps. As when playing chess against yourself, it can help to put on different hats (literally) and to have a different sort of drink on either side of the table. (Baseball cap with scotch and water vs. beret with sherry can work-- but still, I always find I want the baseball cap to clobber the beret, and for some reason that's what usually happens. Queen's Gambit Declined.) Johann's ground rules favor his inner "Imperialist" slightly (and having come away from losing his cool in a BBC "debate" with George Galloway it's not hard to see why-- I didn't hear the interview, but as a general rule I'd imagine it would be indecent and unforgivable not to lose one's cool when debating GG.) In truth, his inner "Imperialist" propounds a more or less classic internationalist Liberalism, which is quite hard to argue against, hat or no hat.
Anyway, it's long but worth reading.
"Our rallying cry now needs to be: Democrats of the world, unite." Quite.
Posted by Dr. Frank at November 8, 2003 06:08 PM | TrackBackDemocracy is gay man.
Posted by: Tre Cool at November 10, 2003 10:02 PMApparently it's bi, Tre.
Posted by: JB at November 11, 2003 02:36 AMI play drunken chess too, but there's no beret involved.
Posted by: spacetoast at November 11, 2003 03:39 AMTre, Rock Against Bush? What do you have against Gavin Rossdale and those nice boys?
Posted by: JB at November 11, 2003 05:04 AM"Apparently it's bi"
I think you're reading "Democracy is gay man" wrong, i.e. with an omitted comma rather than with an omitted article. I read (in fob idiom): "democracy = gay man."
Posted by: spacetoast at November 11, 2003 06:15 AMBut now with my beret on and rolling rock, err..."sherry" in hand, I read it the other way...
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Posted by: spacetoast at November 11, 2003 06:27 AM"Democracy is gay man" sounds too poetic and metaphoric for a blog comment, so I'll stick with the omitted comma interpretation.
I just think it's ironic that a guy against bush thinks democracy is gay. *teehee*
Posted by: JB at November 11, 2003 06:36 AMDemocrat shmemocrat republican blah blah blah....here's your definitions:
Republican: Wealthy, power hungry, war mongering puppet for the big money lobbyists, who hides behind the religion and morals.
Democrat: sneaky, deceitful and morally bankrupt crooks who hide behind loop holes in the legal system and are in the pockets of big-money environmental groups and pander to the "Sally Strothers" feed the poor starving children mantras as a feigned sign of caring.
In other words, until the common man can get into office and not the lawyers, corporate CEOs and "old money" groups, we're all screwed.
Posted by: theTruth at November 12, 2003 01:25 AMThe common man is gay man.
Posted by: spacetoast at November 12, 2003 03:08 AMTre, you're fired.
Posted by: BJ at November 12, 2003 04:42 PMTre is awesome and most likely not gay, he's either bi or straight...so stop spreading fucking rumors and keep out of other peoples lives cuz you don't know what their going through. Fuck off!
Posted by: KJ at May 22, 2005 11:54 PMI luv all of the Green Day members even if they are bi or straight...im not quite sure whats going on...but good luck finding out...thanks for expanding my vocabulary in both ways!
Posted by: KJ at May 22, 2005 11:59 PM