Liza
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:12:50 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power
>
>>>> You repeatedly mentioned "Stanley's stained shirt" -- it must have
>>>> annoyed the hell out of you, if it was so memorable.
>>>
>>> It's stupid to campaign for public office while looking like a slob.
>>> Anyone with a rudimentary sense of audience would know that.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>
>> Since I was there too, I'll add: the stained shirt was egregious. But it's
>> also important to add that the man was wearing SHORTS. Which I thought was
>> even more appalling, given that it was a nighttime, indoor event. Both
>> (stain and shorts) suggested to me either that he had no sense of how to be
>> a candidate, or -- much worse -- that he was expecting a crowd exclusively
>> composed of folks who wouldn't mind him wearing a stained shirt and shorts.
>> The latter possibility was of course, even more depressing, since that's an
>> *awfully* small choir to preach to. One that didn't even include us, and
>> emphatically didn't include the people we brought with us -- if they'd been
>> American citizens, his slovenly appearance probably would have cost him
>> their votes. It just spelled out "Don't take me seriously, I'm only
>> pretending to run for governor."
>>
>> Liza
>
> Didn't Doug vote for Aronowitz, though? Have you, too? Or did the
> fashion crime put him beyond the pale?
> --
> Yoshie
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