Politics and religion.

**blue** · 09-01-2011, 04:40 AM

Edit.

Originally Posted by Karen

I am sure there are also people who didn't vote for him for the same reason. Neither position makes much sense, but humans are not always as rational as they could be!

That was the point Liz was trying to make.

If you voted for someone because of their race its just as raciest as if you voted against them because of their race.

**Bonny** · 09-01-2011, 09:48 AM

Darned if you do! Darned if you don"t!

**blue** · 09-02-2011, 03:34 AM

I remember seeing a poll that women voted for Clinton because he resembled Robert Redford.

But of course voting for someone because they are black is good, and voting against the same person is bad, is a perfectly rational argument.

**phesina** · 09-02-2011, 01:51 PM

Robert Redford? Never heard that one before! Oh, well.. could be..

And how about men who voted or would vote for Sarah Palin because they think she's good-looking, former beauty queen and all?

**blue** · 09-02-2011, 04:16 PM

Nobody voted for Sarah Palin for President.

**Karen** · 09-02-2011, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by blue

Nobody voted for Sarah Palin for President.

No, but they voted for her for Governor in Alaska, and voted for her for Vice President ...

That is the glory and the pain of democracy - there's no need to tell anyone WHY you are voting for someone, so you can have reasons that are good, bad, ridiculous or sublime, and anything in between.

And by the way, anyone who voted for Bill Clinton because they thought he looked like Robert Redford needs their eyes examined. Yes, they are both Caucasian males with blue eyes, there the resemblance ends!

**wombat2u2004** · 09-02-2011, 10:02 PM

Hey, the same happens here.
Last election we had a rock singer, and a popular news reader who won seats.
Since then, nobody has heard a peep from the news reader, but the rock singer gave everyone in the country free ceiling installation, which backfired into his own face....haven't heard much from him since either.
Nobody should be voted in on popularity, but more so on policy. The sad fact is that a lot of people wouldn't know a good policy from a bad one, so rather than have someone who is experienced and knows what they are doing, the seat is usually filled by....
1) A Marlon Brando lookalike if the majority of voters have purple dyed hair.
2) BO, if a great deal of the voters depend on welfare because they don't like work, and the rest of his votes by those who feel sorry for the plight of BO's coloured folk because they feel sorry for them.
Not much to build a country on.