Comments on: The common sense candidate http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/06/29/the-common-sense-candidate/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Winston http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/06/29/the-common-sense-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-13783 Winston Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:35:56 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3809#comment-13783 If Thompson gets some practice team snaps as you suggest, look for him to get more than a veep’s share of face time. When he is in Nashville, I run into him occasionally, primarily at a donut shop. He is a charming, charismatic, and commanding character for sure. Too bad he’s on the other side of the aisle and ideology. American voters remain shallow enough to sweep him into office the way they did Reagan, for no reason other than they recognize that face from somewhere.

Tricky little interview in reason that did not satisfy, just whetted — guess I’ll have to buy the book!

]]> By: Winston http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/06/29/the-common-sense-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-13782 Winston Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:34:22 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3809#comment-13782 If Thompson gets some practice team snaps as you suggest, look for him to get more than a veep’s share of face time. When he is in Nashville, I run into him occasionally, primarily at a donut shop. He is a charming, charismatic, and commanding character for sure. Too bad he’s on the other side of the aisle and ideology. American voters remain shallow enough to sweep him into office the way they did Reagan, for no reason other than they recognize that face from somewhere.

Tricky little interview in reason that did not satisfy, just whetted — guess I’ll have to buy the book!

]]> By: Frankenstein http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/06/29/the-common-sense-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-13781 Frankenstein Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:25:39 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3809#comment-13781 If the GOP nominates Fred Thompson as their presidential candidate, I think that it’s only fair that the Democrats should nominate Martin Sheen as their candidate.

]]> By: Alan Gutierrez http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/06/29/the-common-sense-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-13780 Alan Gutierrez Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:56:53 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3809#comment-13780 Dave

We’re putting together an unconference on the Road Home Program, here in Louisiana. I’m excited about it. It ties into this post in this way.

From last years summer of planning, and the preposterous citizen participation events, I can’t agree with you more that the notion of common values breaks down long before implementation.

A driving factor behind how uselessness of these conferences, was this notion of democracy that involved everyone agreeing, getting along, coming to the same conclusion. Not surprisingly, that conclusion would be the one that the funders of the conference wanted the conference to produce. F

The facilitator of these conferences, AmericaSpeaks, coming from far away to inject themselves in our process, were oblivious to the politics of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the recovery. When you talked about the politics, when you asked about who funded them, who was providing them with their technical materials, they would insist that it didn’t matter. They would stare incredulously, as if you were a conspiracy nut.

But, every time, the questions were grossly misleading, the outcomes were laughably absurd, and people in the neighborhoods would hound the City to ignore the results, and instead pay attention to the work of citizens at the district and neighborhood level.

I’ve come to appreciate democracy as a surrogate for violent conflict.

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