Libertarian Blue Boy

[Marta Russell]

>In a message dated 10/4/02 2:13:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>ap888 at lafn.org writes:
>
>Thank you, I think. Let me restate my points:
>
>This guy, Mr Kelleher, the guy with the huge eyebrows, has been 
>running singlehandedly for one office after another SINCE I WAS IN 
>MIDDLE SCHOOL in MT.  ALL I can remember about his many campaigns, 
>besides the number of them and his single-mindedness, is the 
>eyebrows. That alone says something I THINK about his credibility as 
>a candidate. I do not watch debates; maybe he adds a certain "je ne 
>sais quoi" on the podium...
>
>Naively, I expect candidates in a democracy to be able to mobilize 
>some kind of following and to interact with whatever mechanisms 
>there are to get anything done. All this guy seems to have going for 
>him is his eyebrows, and some kind of persistence. Maybe I am 
>misreading something about the situation,  but the fact that he is 
>running as a Green Party candidate and does not even show up on the 
>MT Green Party website list of candidates adds to his aura of 
>isolation.
>
>Why else does this matter? Consider the perennial image of Greens as 
>spoilers. This year's MT Senate race will be close under any 
>circumstances. In my rich fantasy life, I would love for credible 
>alternatives to the two mainstream parties or for forces that give 
>mainstream candidates more backbone for some positions. Instead the 
>ballot has the Libertarian Blue Boy and Mr. Green Party with the 
>enormous eyebrows. Oddly enough, maybe humorous and harmless are the 
>best that can be hoped for in that race.
>
>DoreneC

It still doesnot make any sense to me.
Why pick out a physical characteristic at all?
Are you fat or maybe not pretty as some definers of pretty would have 
it? Do you have died hair or some such thing where someone could hold 
that up to others in the way you have with "Mr. Eyebrows?'  Why even 
go there?
Marta
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Marta Russell
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.disweb.org
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