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Thursday, November 04, 2004
The Globalized ElectionBBC wonders if the Guardian helped swing Ohio to Bush, with its wacky pen-pal idea. The paper's web site put concerned British people in touch with Ohio citizens, in order to stump for Kerry on behalf of the civilized world. Predictable response from an Ohio voter: "Some arrogant Brit telling us why to not vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies."
Still, it's interesting. America is now so powerful that everyone felt caught up in this election. Le Monde, Bild-Zeitung, and The Economist all endorsed a candidate (from Paris, Berlin, and London). The average American citizen is now, to the rest of the world, as a congressman is to the average American citizen -- a voting member, someone worth writing to with grave concerns. Which gives Hank Trout from Booneville, Ohio, say, a huge amount of power, without diminishing his fine old American sense of getting victimized by yellow-toothed Brits.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
6:11 PM
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