Students at the University of Minnesota are relaxing on Friday evening, getting ready for final exams. Do you think they (the students in general) are following the race for the US presidency that is on cable news 24-7?
Think again.
Do you think that they are planning to fight in Iraq after they graduate?
Think again.
Do you think they will bury Republican party in the next election? You bet your ass they will.
Count on it.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that it's a toxic climate for the Republican party. And the latest Rolling Stone features another long list of recent anti-Bush songs by popular artists. The list is too long to place here, but words like Katrina, Iraq, and high gas prices, to name a few, are becoming negative trade marks of the soon to be decimated Republican Party.
How clever... you honk, we drink!
I like the spirit of this blogpost!! I hope we bury the republican party. If I were 20, I sure would do anything and everything!
Posted by: Zapata | April 29, 2007 at 09:56 PM
I, too, like the playfulness of their drinking game. But tell me how you know that these three people are not following politics on cable (which might mean that they are more, not less, informed, given the quality of the coverage on cable). Did you interview them and they said something to that effect? Or are you assuming that those who drink and have a sense of humor are, inevitably, members of the same set who do not inform themselves or care about the current state of the world? Good thing you didn't interview them, or you'd have run the risk of discovering that your sense of political superiority was unwarranted.
Posted by: Phidippides | May 03, 2007 at 10:26 AM
I doubt following politics on cable makes one informed. Looking around you is probably more valuable.
I quit tv in 1991 during the Gulf War - too much propaganda.
Easier to follow on public radio and internet, and even then, it involves taking the whole thing with many grains of salt.
Read foreign papers!
Posted by: slugbug | May 03, 2007 at 11:35 AM