[lit-ideas] Re: Some of you may remember ... ueber-gaffe
- From: "Judith Evans" <judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:49:22 +0100
Eric: Did you watch the Debate in "real time"? Were you in its "live"
audience?
this is a really silly question, Eric. Have I, since then, watched debates
'in real time'? Yes. (Have I watched US Presidential and VP debates real
time? Yes. I watched Palin-Biden -- alas - and part of the first
Obama-McCain one. But that's irrelevant.) Have I since then taken part in
political meetings and campaigns, yes. And that's my point. I was using
my circumstances then, that is, as an analogy.
With all respect due your circumstances and attainments,
some US people, Eric,
sufficiently interested to watch the Debate
will at the time of 9/11 been in situations that led to their not being able
to
remember the tragedy of 9/11 and where (they) were on that day and, you
know, how all of the country was ready to come together and make enormous
changes to make us not only safer, but to make us a better country and a
more unified country (etc.)
but yet watched the debate 'real-time'. Your suggestion that all such
people are buffoons who switched the TV on by accident, when they may have
been coping with serious problems, is really unpleasant and foolish, too.
I would have said.
Events
have therefore shown Obama's comment was not a mainstream ueber-gaffe,
only something that weirded me out.
Indeed. So we can drop the matter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Some of you may remember ... ueber-gaffe
Eric: how does he [Obama]explain that this same group is in the (real or
TV) audience listening to him speak during a Presidential Debate?
Judith: Very easily. Very easily because *I* don't know when I heard what
had actually happened or where I was then, and because then, I was cut off
from the chattering classes ...
Eric: Did you watch the Debate in "real time"? Were you in its "live"
audience?
With all respect due your circumstances and attainments, Judy, candidate
Obama was presumably making a case to potential voters sufficiently
interested to watch the Debate. To be so dismissive of their attention to,
or memory of major public events is to presume an audience incapable of
evaluating the competing claims of the candidates. Were your situation the
norm or even the situation of a sizable percentage of the audience, as his
comment implied, the debate could be argued by offering McCain and Obama
coloring books with symbolic crayons ... which would give a new meaning to
"red" and "blue" states.
Yet again, the media did not seize on the remark, nor has it gone into
attack ads as far as I know. Events have therefore shown Obama's comment
was not a mainstream ueber-gaffe, only something that weirded me out.
Filling in the background green,
Eric
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