In the same way most people fear a mental patient.

That was most likely in response to:

I would love to see the breakdown of how various foreign leaders favor either Obama or McCain.

I don’t think the community outside of Oly realizes that conventional liberals would find it somewhat radical. I don’t think we realize we can compete with Berkeley.

We differ regarding attitudes of and about Mid East leaders. I imagine that they are fearful of McCain but see Obama more like Jimmy Carter. A paper tiger who will offer appeasement in the face of aggression.

And on a completely different note, no it’s not a bad thing to post another picture of a cute chick. It’s what Oliver does best.

J.

Here’s how it works: If you’re an American and give more than $4,600 to any candidate in any election cycle (half for the primary, half for the general), you’re breaking the law. If you’re not an American and you’re giving ANY money to a candidate, you’re breaking the law.

If you’re a campaign and you’re accepting illegal donations, then you’re also breaking the law. But that’s OK if you’re Obama.

J.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

My girlfriend and I went to Evergreen in Olympia, Wash. before transferring. Yeah, bad idea. We’re pretty liberal and they made us look like Attila the Hun. Other than that, students (of the political oriented types, at least) I’ve met from Seattle, Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland have all been well to my left. As in Bush-is-a-nazi type stuff. Although, to be fair, there may be something of a cherry-picking effect at work, since these were mostly students moved by their political activist tendencies to travel.

It would be interesting to find out if they think an Obama or McCain administration would further their own national ambitions.

I’m not that interested in what foreign leaders think of Sens. Obama or McCain with respect to their domestic political situations, though I would be interested in their respective positions on those topics that obey no border (climate change, terrorism, etc.). Needless to say it won’t be playing into my voting decisions, and I question the logic of those for whom it will carry more sway.

If various disparate elements in the middle east have spoken kindly of Sen. Obama, I submit that those elements would probably rather not continue sending their youth (i.e. continuing to gut the future talent pool of their society) into suicide missions, and are hopeful that Sen. Obama will help to initiate a change in policy they can live with.

And on that same note I see Ollie has a late breaking report of more Obama support from South America. She’s cute and everything but this isn’t really her affair. Any reason to put up a picture of a cute chick I suppose.

I would love to see the breakdown of how various foreign leaders favor either Obama or McCain. It would be interesting to find out if they think an Obama or McCain administration would further their own national ambitions.

So why mention the first 2? Kicks?

J.

I didn’t know Austin and New York were other countries. Fascinating.

If foreign cash has been found to have entered an election, the moment that it’s found out it should be mandated that that same amount be handed over by the candidate to whatever body in the jurisdiction whose job it is to make sure this stuff doesn’t happen. That’s a bit of a tortured sentence, but I hope the drift comes across.

I love this country, like 96% of everyone who lives in it (the other 4% are college students in the Pacific Northwest and Berkeley), which is why it makes me cranky when I feel like some among us are holding other nations to a higher standard than we hold ourselves. If anything, we ought to hold ourselves to a higher standard, eh?

But what of you Parthenon? Do you favor foreigners using campaign money money to influence our elections or would you prefer American leaders being chosen by legal American voters, you know actual citizens of the United States.

Maybe he just read about this, and thought we’d, you know, apply the same rules of morality to ourselves as we do others.