Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:

> ... the things that happened to Joe the Plumber


zanooda:

The media were very obnoxious in this case, but aren't they always
:-)? Just look how they dissected Sarah Palin ;-(. I'm not sure it has
something to do with the Obama campaign, though. Besides, we don't
have to worry about this Joe guy - he is one tough cookie and seems
utterly unperturbed by all the ado around him. Also, far from being
destroyed, he is taking advantage of the situation. Good for him :-)! 

But I understand what you are saying - if something like this had
happened not to Joe, but, let's say, to me :-), I would have felt
totally intimidated and harassed by the press. That's why it seems a
little strange to me that the McCain people didn't contact the guy and
didn't ask for his consent to use his name like this. I understand
that it's not against the law, but they should have been a little more
sensitive about this, IMO. He probably would have agreed anyway :-).


> Tonks wrote:

> It is how Obama won that disheartens me.


zanooda:

Of course you know more about it, and I'm sure it can get really ugly
there, behind the scenes :-). I just want to say that Obama himself
leaves a rather favorable impression. I'm someone who would have never
voted for him, but, his views aside, he seems like a nice and decent
guy. I may be totally wrong here, because we don't really know much
about him, but this is just the impression that he gives me, so I'm
more than willing to give him a chance. 

I liked it how he answered the question about Sarah Palin daughter's
pregnancy - something along the lines that the families of the
candidates shouldn't be brought into this, and that his mother also
gave birth to him at the age of 18 etc. I understand that he may not
be as sincere as he seems, but we'll just have to wait and see, right :-)?


zanooda, who understands that she didn't really answer any of Tonks's
questions ...