Re: [OT]: The not-so-democratic Democrats

From: Bill Sloman (bill.sloman_at_ieee.org)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: 26 Sep 2004 01:40:09 -0700

soar2morrow@yahoo.com (Tom Seim) wrote in message news:<6c71b322.0409232027.62ff6802@posting.google.com>...
> > The image that comes to my mind in this context is the last scene in
> > the book, where the pigs become difficult to distinguish from the
> > human oppressors from whom they had liberated the farm.
> >
> > The longer Bush and his Southern Baptist bigots throw their weight
> > around in Irak, the harder it becomes to tell them apart from Osama
> > bin Laden and his Muslim bigots .... to give the Baptists their due,
> > they haven't beheaded anybody in front of a video camera yet, but as
> > Governor in Texas, Dubbya did seem to be happy to see the
> > feeble-minded executed to his political advantage.
> >
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> > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
>
> A word of advice on analogies: they need to be simple and obvious.
> Yours is convoluted and distant. Mine: the Democrats insist that every
> vote should be counted unless it is one for Nader.

Thanks for telling me that. The relevance of "Animal Farm" in that
context isn't entirely obvious ....

> Yours: Bush and his
> Southern Baptist bigots sorta look like bin Laden if you squint your
> eyes except they don't behead people. Give me a break! It just doesn't
> score the point.

Not with you perhaps, but dumbing the message down enough to make it
easy for every feeble-minded right-winger would bore the rest of the
audience.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen