The Tucson Citizen editorial board says we’ve been baaaadddd. OK, they didn’t mention us by name, but they said they were most certainly not amused by Project White House. From the Citizen editorial:
Among the 24 Republicans and 24 Democrats on the ballot are 14 people you likely haven’t heard of. It’s part of a misguided promotional stunt to show how easy it is to run for president in Arizona.
Yes, it is relatively easy to become a presidential candidate.
Thus on Tuesday, voters will have to plow through a ballot more cluttered than it ought to be.
Before going to the polls, voters are advised to look over sample ballots that they received in the mail or otherwise review the long list of names they will encounter.
Misguided? Snap! Now that stings. And we can only imagine how hard it will be for Citizen readers to “plow through” that “cluttered” ballot. Yikes! Why, we’ll bet that a lot of ’em will just give up looking for Hillary and vote for Sandy Whitehouse.
Incidentally, we’re not quite sure how the Citizen gang does math, but only “14 people you likely haven’t heard of”? Given that there are 48 names on the ballot, guess that means they figure that people have heard of 34 of the candidates. We’d sure like to see that list. Perhaps Doctress Neutopia has more name recognition that we realized.
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2008.
Some newspapers want the trains to run on time and some newspapers don’t.
Its not a “misguided publicity stunt.” Its just tedious and dull.
You know, that’s prezactly what they said about Bill Clinton’s speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention. That bodes well for the Murphy 2012 campaign!
I hate those misguided publicity stunts that teach people something about how to participate in the democratic process.
I also hate that misguided “journalism” that writes about things happening in the world.
Misguided? Who the fuck made them, or any of you, the arbiters of proper guidance. You humorless bloggers, perhaps the project was guided in the direction it was intended to go. Consider that?
Red Star, where were you during Project White House? Me thinks you’s a candidate, me thinks.
Seems to me that there have been a lot fewer blog comments since Project White House began dominating the posts. Looks like it’s actually possible to intensify voter apathy.
Yet blog traffic is still up. My theory: People were coming here, and being left speechless.
James: I miss King Mulder, too.
Yes, please bring back the photo-radar updates. And my favorite fish taco is…
Tortillas DeLote: Thank you for the kind words! Alas, Red Star may not be USA President because of the “natural born” thing in Article II of Our Constitution. See, Red Star was prematurely born in Cairo, Egypt (not the bucolic hiding place known as Cairo, Illinois, USA) of USA citizens following the medical emergency diversion of a commercial flight from…from…Africa. Needless to say, Red Star was delivered to Earth by a Soviet doctor and Soviet nurses, and cared for, in a Soviet-staffed hospital (which was about as good Mom and Dad Red Star or anyone else could get in Egypt those days, emergency or not).
Why run for something you are prohibited from winning? At this time, it is a waiting game for Red Star…
For more about “natural born” citizens and some startling political revelations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen
and scroll down to: “Children born outside the United States to American parents”