Nazgûl update

[marketsquare]

In my LJ sidebar, I keep a link to the Nazgûl-- that is to say, the nine Republican senators who, three years ago, refused to vote against torture. I try to keep blatant electoral politicking off this LJ most of the time, but for these guys, I make an exception

Comments

fairness

[seraphimsigrist]

excuse the question but was it literally
an up down vote on "torture"?
I am thinking your formulation may represent
the reality ,and your thought very right, but
are we not always better served by being fair
and stating just what it is that the other
fellow voted for in a precise way?
It troubles me, not with you who are not after
all deeply involved in politics I expect, that
people who are always involved in public affairs
nonetheless now often take short cuts to put
their opponents in the worst possible light and
if called on it would say "well it is the same
thing" etc
but no two things are really "the same thing"
are they?

Re: Alaska Senate

[seraphimsigrist]

Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich is running to represent Alaska in the US Senate and is a Democrat. He announced his candidacy last month - you can learn more at Begich.com

Best,
Matt Browner-Hamlin
Online Communications Director
Begich Campaign

[marketsquare]

Indeed, no two things are "the same thing", as you say

[seraphimsigrist]

very fairly thank you.
I would have voted for the amendment I
expect, as would you no doubt,
though it seems an honorable man
could have opposed it on more than one
ground for that matter. How honorable
those who did oppose it were must depend
perhaps on a broader sense of their persons,
motives, thought etc

[canonfire]

If Cornyn wins and Hutchinson wins the governor's race, he'll be the senior senator of Texas. Think about that.