The Words They Use
Hi everyone it is 125am at the moment in Korea which means it is 1226pm on the East Coast. I am back to blogging, sort off, and I apologize to all my friends for not visiting your blogs first but I just wanted to get this post done and get back into my blogging routine. First of all I want to thank Gordon and Big Blue for posting and continuing to keep this blog going while I have been busy, your posts were both great and judging by some of the comments, well received.
Korea is actually amazing and not what I expected in any way or form, the people are really nice though I really need to improve my speaking and reading. I tried to take the bus to into the city today and only realized after 30 minutes that I was heading into the country. Thankfully I got off before I ended up somewhere I didn’t want to be. The language barrier is the biggest issue so far as I often have to resort to hand gestures that I am sure people perceive as: “another crazy foreigner.” I have taken some pictures and I will upload them in due course, but on to the politics.
I have managed to keep track of the politics while I have been here and regarding Sarah Palin, I think she is a smart move for the McCain campaign as evidenced by her energizing the republican base. This energy is only slightly less than the Obama campaign but the problem with choosing her is that Senator McCain can no longer use the experience attack line against Senator Obama because he will inevitably be criticizing his own VP who has minimal experience. Sarah Palin is too radical and conflicts with Senator McCain’s image of a reformer as she is by far more conservative than he is and this is not a good thing.
The New York Times has an interesting comparison up on their site detailing the number of times Democrats and Republicans have used certain keywords. The interesting thing to note from a liberal perspective is that the Democrats are hitting the economy more often than the Republicans which is what the majority of Americans care about at this juncture in the political race. The Republicans have talked about god twice as much as the Democrats but that is no surprise there given that evangelicals always side with conservatives. A cursory glance at this comparison gives me hope, yes I said it 
, if the Democrats keep hitting the right notes and the Republicans continue on old lines of attack, we are sure to win.
September 06 2008 04:49 pm | American Politics
September 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Nice to see you back, Crian! It’s been an interesting week or so in politics. The Republicans nearly had their convention blotted out by a hurricane. Detroit’s mayor was finally forced to resign. The protestors at the RNC were far less numerous than expected, but they still managed to do a bit of damage.
Oh yeah, there’s that chick from Alaska….
September 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hey Gordon, yeah I followed all of that, it has been an interesting week but that could be said for the last year in American politics.
September 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
welcome back to the world Crian. knew you couldn’t stay away very long. lol
as for the chart it is interesting for it reveals the strategy of both camps up until now. on one side you have a strategy of playing up to the perceived historical strength of that party. and on the other hand you have a strategy of shoring up the historical perceived weakness of the party.
this comment is based upon the perceived assumption that each word was used in a positive manner. lol