answers for the poll questions

[rmd]

who-done-it answers for my scandal poll no cheating!

1. laura bush (then laura welch) was the driver in a car accident where she struck a car driven by her ex boyfriend.

2. Michelle Obama's thesis looked at how black princeton alumni related to the black community. it contains some content considered racist by some folks. others say that the racist quotes are cherry-picked out of context.

3. John McCain had an affair for over 6 months while still married. he divorced his wife and married his mistress the following month. the UK daily mail had an article that was somewhat critical of how McCain's first marriage ended and his second marriage.

4. john edwards has admitted an extramarital affair that happened while he was campaigning for president. this is only marginally less stupid than gary hart, if only because edwards hadn't challenged folks to watch his activities at the time and see if he was having an affair.

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

oh sweet jesus, yes. it seems my intended dryly ironic tone[1] may have failed to come out in that description of her thesis. my apologies if you were offended.

actually, when i read the description of the thesis a while back, i thought "huh, i wonder if browngirl and sparkeymonster have read about this -- i'd be curious to see how or if things are different a couple of decades later." but i didn't want to be all "HELLO MY BLACK IVY LEAGUE FRIENDS! I'M YOUR NICE WHITE FRIEND! WHAT DO THE BLACK IVY LEAGUE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS RACE-RELATED THING I HAVE READ ABOUT?"

and for more fun: compare and contrast the reaction to that (written when she was an undergraduate college student in the 1980's) with the stuff (http://www.realchange.org/ronpaul.htm) written in ron paul's newsletter when he was an established politician and former presidential candidate in the 1990's. gah.

[1] DAMN WHITE PEOPLE AND THEIR TONE!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*flail* Oh, goodness, no, your tone came through, and I was completely the opposite of offended. I'm sorry I made you worry! What I meant by 'being diplomatic' was an oblique advance apology in case someone objects to what I said since I wasn't, well, as conciliatory as I could have been in my phrasing.

It's interesting --- I can't speak for sparkymonster *wave to her*, but I would totally have been delighted if you'd forwarded this to me. WD sends me stuff like this all the time. *grin*

And don't get me started on Ron Paul. I keep wanting to ask his fans what they think of statements of his such as the ones you linked to, but I don't really want to know if they think he had a valid point, or agree with him. Sometimes it gets wearying. *rueful smile*

[rmd.livejournal.com]

oh, no worries.

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could start identifying as "pink" rather than "white"...

you know

"Pink" - the other "white" meat!

Maybe that would be too gaycasian.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

pinko.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

... or maybe PINKY!

NARF