I couldn't read past this sentence:

Things are becoming truly, madly, deeply weird out there on the campaign trail.

I'll take my commentary sans Savage Garden, please.

God help us: this was a farking boring headline. And strangely irritating at the same time. Ugh.

/cranky

Andric: Savage Garden

Whoa, there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

/Mmm, chicken cherry cola

What a craptastic article. WTF was it about?

This woman is an idiot

"Political Correctness" came about because politicians exist to get votes. If you take old-fashioned direct political action, lots of people will get pissed off and not vote for you.

So naturally, the Democratic process favors nancy's who never say anything direct and always dance around the issue, so no one knows what the hell he really wants to do when he's in office. Anyone who is direct will not be voted for because half of the population hates him already.

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Bill S. Preston, Esquire.

MithrandirBooga: "Political Correctness" came about because politicians exist to get votes. If you take old-fashioned direct political action, lots of people will get pissed off and not vote for you.

So naturally, the Democratic process favors nancy's who never say anything direct and always dance around the issue, so no one knows what the hell he really wants to do when he's in office. Anyone who is direct will not be voted for because half of the population hates him already.

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Bill S. Preston, Esquire.

Uh, so the author thinks that vandalism should be both legal and lauded? That's an interesting take on petty crime, I guess. Though I'm not sure that you have to be obsessed with political correctness to think that party officials should stick to being figurative criminals rather than literal ones.

It would help if "direct action" hadn't degenerated into a euphemism for violence and/or sabotage, but the modern protest crowd has pretty much ruined the phrase for everybody.

Millennium: It would help if "direct action" hadn't degenerated into a euphemism for violence and/or sabotage, but the modern protest crowd has pretty much ruined the phrase for everybody.

Uh... No, dumbass, "direct action" has always at least included some form of sabotage and anti-property action. That's the farking point.

It's the post-1960s "peace at all costs" types that decided it meant hanging out on streetcorners with giant rod puppets.

Jim_Callahan: Uh, so the author thinks that vandalism should be both legal and lauded? That's an interesting take on petty crime, I guess. Though I'm not sure that you have to be obsessed with political correctness to think that party officials should stick to being figurative criminals rather than literal ones.

Yeah, I should say. Defacing and removing other peoples' political advertisements is just a dick move regardless of the party.

A Dark Evil Omen: Millennium: It would help if "direct action" hadn't degenerated into a euphemism for violence and/or sabotage, but the modern protest crowd has pretty much ruined the phrase for everybody.

Uh... No, dumbass, "direct action" has always at least included some form of sabotage and anti-property action. That's the farking point.

It's the post-1960s "peace at all costs" types that decided it meant hanging out on streetcorners with giant rod puppets.

you call him a "dumbass" while waxing poetic about a heady time filled with intellectual righteousness and drawing mustaches on political ads. This is why people laugh at you... well, in addition to the fact that you're an actual socialist and you're not in high school.

Not just vandalism of a political poster (which is severely tempting here, there are SO farking many), which is illegal but sort of 'overlooked' for the most part, but vandalism of a rival political poster by a member of one of the competing parties. THAT is criminal.

14 measly comments.

Must have been one sleepfest of an article...

whidbey: 14 measly comments.

Must have been one sleepfest of an article...

It was a hysterical whinefest. Members of a political party should not be defacing the billboards of other political parties, it's just not on (and I hate National).

More importantly, it was about the political process of a country other than America. That tells you all you need to know about why Farkers aren't interested.

Perhaps if there was some sort of uprising of non-whites with coloured armbands and fifty "OFFICIAL" threads a day run by a self-appointed expert...