I honestly think if Ida Amin were alive today and running for President as a Republican, he'd get in no problem.
Well, as Arnold Schwarzenegger shows, being a former foreigner is not a problem - which I suppose shows some progress on their part. But I imagine Ida Amin would have the same problem getting elected as Alan Keyes. Conservatives love Keyes because he is 99% one of them. He even disowned his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, which Dick Cheney hasn't done. But there's that other superficial 1% which makes it hard for many of them to vote for him and Amin has that same political liability.*
In the meantime, I have laundry to do and a chapter of someone's book that just arrived in the mail. ;)
That was fast! Enjoy. Read chapter one first, since some of the revisions I have made make them flow into each other better.
How do you like the shirt art? There may be a snag on the shirt front, as we can't seem to locate the local union printer who did our branch shirts last time and we may have to have them printed out of state on short notice.
* By which I mean skin color. To use a typical conservative rhetorical gimmick, I have no evidence that Alan Keyes has ever actually eaten anyone.
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Date: 2005-06-01 11:50 pm (UTC)Well, as Arnold Schwarzenegger shows, being a former foreigner is not a problem - which I suppose shows some progress on their part. But I imagine Ida Amin would have the same problem getting elected as Alan Keyes. Conservatives love Keyes because he is 99% one of them. He even disowned his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, which Dick Cheney hasn't done. But there's that other superficial 1% which makes it hard for many of them to vote for him and Amin has that same political liability.*
In the meantime, I have laundry to do and a chapter of someone's book that just arrived in the mail. ;)
That was fast! Enjoy. Read chapter one first, since some of the revisions I have made make them flow into each other better.
How do you like the shirt art? There may be a snag on the shirt front, as we can't seem to locate the local union printer who did our branch shirts last time and we may have to have them printed out of state on short notice.
* By which I mean skin color. To use a typical conservative rhetorical gimmick, I have no evidence that Alan Keyes has ever actually eaten anyone.