Friday, June 13, 2008

Obama was selected, not elected

In Ann Coulter's blog "Obama Was Selected, Not Elected" she generalized that liberals as if they all were exactly the same which already discredited her opinion as being at all objective. Coulter pointed out that the situation with Obama having one the primaries but with Hillary having won the popular vote for the primaries is very similar to that in 2000 with Gore and Bush. Her argument is that liberals will twist the situation in order to prove their point in the moment but that they don't have a solid argument in the first place. According to Coulter, liberals don't validate the constitution's purpose to put forth liberty, prosperity and security in the way they think the constitution validates gay marriage. Coulter has a strong stance on the process of electing president in which each state chooses electors who pledge their vote to certain candidates. She most likely could have shown her stance without being so condescending and arrogant for example when she makes the comment about the possibility that liberals might understand the rules of American Idol but not the process for selecting the president of the United States. Throughout Coulter's blog she uses many pop culture references which are at times helpful but it comes off more so that she doesn't trust America's knowledge of the government system in America. There is probably some legitimacy in her apparent claim that those voting for Obama and Clinton don't understand the process but she seems to take it a little beyond the possible evidence and more towards patronizing. Coulter supports Hillary's desire to take the primaries election to the Democratic National Convention because of the difference between the rules on the presidential party primaries and the actual presidential elections. In dealing with party primaries there are no rules in the constitution stating that they have to be done in a certain way in contrast to the presidential election where there are constitutional rules. I feel like the lack of constitutional rules is irrelevant and the two processes should work in the same way going, as is now, by the electoral system or changing to popular vote but that there shouldn't be a disparity between the two.

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