[BRIEF NOTE] Who to vote for?
Oct. 21st, 2004 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldSome Republicans say that Kerry looks and is French. (If Kerry has any non-WASP traits in his ancestry, they're Jewish. I'm sure that the GOP could dig out some anti-Semitic stereotypes if they wanted. They do say he's cosmopolitan, don't they?)
Some Democrats say that Bush is compromised by his Saudi connections and leanings. (Brief version: Texas can only be compared to Saudi Arabia in the loosest and least meaningful terms. More on this later.)
If you're so inclined, you can say that next month's American elections aren't a competition between the Democratic and Republican parties, but rather that they constitute a proxy conflict between French and Saudi agents.
How should Americans decide? David Plotz, at Slate, looks at the issue.
UPDATE (5:52 PM):![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
countess_sophia points out that Plotz is offensive in, among other things, his identification of the French as anti-Semitic. One would have hoped that at least some Americans would remember that whereas France has actually had at least one Jewish head of state (Léon Blum, in the 1930s), the United States has had none. But then, that would take away from simpleminded fun.
The rest of it is entertaining enough, though.
UPDATE (7:47 PM): Ascountess_sophia points out, Blum was head of government, not head of state.
Some Democrats say that Bush is compromised by his Saudi connections and leanings. (Brief version: Texas can only be compared to Saudi Arabia in the loosest and least meaningful terms. More on this later.)
If you're so inclined, you can say that next month's American elections aren't a competition between the Democratic and Republican parties, but rather that they constitute a proxy conflict between French and Saudi agents.
How should Americans decide? David Plotz, at Slate, looks at the issue.
UPDATE (5:52 PM):
countess_sophia points out that Plotz is offensive in, among other things, his identification of the French as anti-Semitic. One would have hoped that at least some Americans would remember that whereas France has actually had at least one Jewish head of state (Léon Blum, in the 1930s), the United States has had none. But then, that would take away from simpleminded fun.The rest of it is entertaining enough, though.
UPDATE (7:47 PM): As
countess_sophia points out, Blum was head of government, not head of state.
