Comments on: In Cambodia, I imagine

By: Jay C

Jay C — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:24:19 +0000

Well, yes, presumably Sen. Kerry does have a few other things on his agenda at the moment that might impact his being able to take off time and pop down to Fenway for a ballgame…… But, just IMO, if he doesn’t make make some sort of effort to show up in Boston for at least one of the Series games…… well, then that would be would be BAD politics, in spades. After all, Presidents come and go: baseball is forever – and besides, as (presumably) a Red Sox fan, who knows when he would get the next opportunity!

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:10:51 +0000

john kerry once walked by me while i was eating a pasta salad and he deliberately did not fart directly on top of my food, why not? he’s tall enough. what kind of elitist pansyism prevented him from farting in my food.

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:21 +0000

Howie Kurtz does another toss of the loaded coin: “By the way, how does Camouflage Kerry have all this time at the end of a campaign to go hunting?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47633-2004Oct20.html

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:27:06 +0000

I’m inclined to think that Kerry’s attendance at a game would be extremely disruptive; lots of secret service, lots of additional bag checks, and what not. This would probably irritate some fans, and that irritation might find its way onto Rush or Fox News.

By: Jackmomorn

Jackmomorn — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:11:06 +0000

I See this as a lose-lose for Kerry. Baseball fans are incredibly loyal, which makes them, across the nation, more likely to resent the winner of the World’s Series. Yet, in Presidential races, the conventional wisdom is that the perceiveed winner will win. Given the Curse, I understand entirely Kerry’s distincing himself from the team’s success. How could one possibily calculate the odds?!?

By: CW

CW — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:07:21 +0000

speaking only for myself: re hackery, kcindc has it right. as a first time visitor, I have no opinion on CT’s position on the scale. re.”who’s this guy?”, djw has it right. res ipsa loquitur. not being familiar with a poster’s writing and caring who s/he “is” are different, as anyone not primarily interested in showing off would understand.

By: djw

djw — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:09:50 +0000

Aeon, if I’m looking to David Post for legal advice or academic scholarship, I’ll follow the bloody links. All I’m interested in, however, is interesting and insightful political commentary. And I maintain this post contains sufficient information to assess his likely contribution in that category. Ted: your self-deprecation is charming, but it’s not close.

By: dop

dop — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:43:55 +0000

I do remember seeing yesterday Kerry explaining why he wasn’t attending the game. (I’ll post a link if I can dredge it up.) But basically, it was along the lines of, ‘at this point, winning the presidency is a far more serious matter, and I’m not going to take my eye off the ball’ (I’m paraphrasing, of course.)

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:39:51 +0000

Ted, I think the complaints are about expectations. Maybe things have been different in the past, but I expect frequent partisan posts (and perhaps occasionally what others might call hackery) on CT. They seem more out of place on VC —if they hadn’t been very rare, I probably wouldn’t have started reading VC regularly.

By: Ted Barlow

Ted Barlow — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:27:26 +0000

For the record, I don’t know how well Crooked Timber would stand up against the Volokh Conspiracy on the “partisan hack” scale. Also for the record, that’s mostly my fault.

By: aeon skoble

aeon skoble — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:23:17 +0000

Different Chris, I was responding to this, primarily: “I don’t know who the hell he is, but this post provides me with all the empirical data I need to sufficiently answer that question to my satisfaction.” Also this commenter: “I too am unfamiliar with DP, but it appears that the VC is suffering a pre-election infusion of partisan hackery”—first of all, it’s not clear that because he’s criticizing Kerry, he must be a Bush partisan, and second of all, there’s that “who’s this guy?” theme again—so it was the question for some people, and that’s what I was referring to. I wasn’t taking a stand one way or the other on Kieran’s interpretation of Post’s post.

By: a different chris

a different chris — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:08:24 +0000

>Um, John was watching the game with his campaign team in Ohio. But jif, that is a “fact” and therefore is something of value only to those pathetic liberals that occupy the “reality-based” world. David Post has faith that Big John, whatever he did, was somehow sleazy and nefarious, and faith is fact in his world. aeon- lame, lots of people went to college, you know that wasn’t the question being asked here. But thanks for pointing it out, it amuses me that most of Bush’s base would consider Mr. Post’s CV to be pretty girly.

By: a different chris

a different chris — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:07:36 +0000

By: a different chris

a different chris — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:58:15 +0000

By: aeon skoble

aeon skoble — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:05:54 +0000

Come on, people, it’s not like the identity of David Post is some big mystery. As on most blogs, most of the VC contributors have “about” links—David Post went to Yale and Georgetown, is a law prof, has a JD and a PhD. I just learned this 2 minutes ago, as could any of you. His whole CV is on line. Disagree with his views or don’t, but the “who is this guy?” approach is not only ad hominem, it’s lazy.