Posted on 02/08/2005 7:11:49 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--In an editorial in the Ithaca Journal (which cannot be reposted here thanks to the cretins at Gannett news), Susan Buck-Morss, a "professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University" wrings her hands over the recent Iraqi elections and argues they may not be legitimate.
Bush-Morss, in arguing against the election results, attacks the election on issues that including campaign financing, ethnic politics and not letting prisoners vote.
In other words, she seems to hinting that "Bush stole another election."
Another plain application of the Lewis Grizzard rule...
"NEVER trust a woman with a hyphenated last name."
It's all Bushes fault....
This is the kind of thing you might read on Scrappleface. The scary part is this is coming from Ithaca, and someone is actually saying it.
This is par for the course for Ithaca. Anything less would be a big disappointment.
On the bright side, they'll have to completely wrap up Tipper.
Agree totaly. She's probably 1/16th Cherokee...
HOW IN THE H DO PEOPLE THIS STUPID GET JOBS AT UNIVERSITIES.
Cornell's employment of her is damning.
Yep. It's Bush's fault, again!
I am truly surprised that this many adults cannot accept the results of OUR elections back in November.
Now the Iraqi elections have problems.
Well, yah. But after a number of years in politics I can report to you that there are ALWAYS problems with elections. Something, somewhere is ALWAYS a problem.
These whack-job academics think elections should be things of perfection. That literally everyone who can vote should vote, and that all the tallies should be perfect.
Can't happen. This is an imperfect world chock full of imperfect people.
The Iraqis proved recently that they've got a helluva lot more courage than many voters in the US. Some American voters, we hear, want to move to Canada because they cannot abide by the results of November 2nd. Yeah, that takes guts, doesn't it? To leave willingly your country because George Bush got re-elected. What rubbish.
Phew! I feel better.
PS-Names containing hyphens often indicate, I find, a great deral to be humble about.
professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University
wasn't enough of a disqualifier, then
The Bush regime is.
Here's a free tip to Academic Elites - don't bother writing if you intend to discredit yourself in the first paragraph. Also, avoid "butthead" openings - the I agree...but meme is getting tiresome
Cliff notes: She's unhappy b/c the Iraqi election wasn't perfect. Maybe we should send her off to Washington State. ;)
Yep. It's Bush's fault, again!
I am truly surprised that this many adults cannot accept the results of OUR elections back in November.
Now the Iraqi elections have problems.
Well, yah. But after a number of years in politics I can report to you that there are ALWAYS problems with elections. Something, somewhere is ALWAYS a problem.
These whack-job academics think elections should be things of perfection. That literally everyone who can vote should vote, and that all the tallies should be perfect.
Can't happen. This is an imperfect world chock full of imperfect people.
The Iraqis proved recently that they've got a helluva lot more courage than many voters in the US. Some American voters, we hear, want to move to Canada because they cannot abide by the results of November 2nd. Yeah, that takes guts, doesn't it? To leave willingly your country because George Bush got re-elected. What rubbish.
Phew! I feel better.
PS-Names containing hyphens often indicate, I find, a great deral to be humble about.
Who wants to listen to the blatherings of a nutty leftist from Ithaca?
My first thought was that this was just more "sour grapes" from the left, stuck in a rhetorical rut that forces them to mistake rehashing conspiracy theories and Bush hatred for intelligent ideas.
Then it occurred to me: maybe this is part of another "insidious Karl Rove master plan."
Perhaps Rove purposefully had the Bush team set up the elections this way to draw in the left. Perhaps, Rove thought, this will draw not just terrorists, but liberals, to Iraq.
For example, if their behavior over here is any guide, Jesse Jackson can show up and argue that the Iraqis were "disenfranchised." Howard Dean can fly over there and scream for Iraqi campaign finance reform. John Kerry can claim the elections were fair, but then "flip flop" and call for an investigation to make sure they were.
Barbara Boxer can stand on the steps of the Iraqi capitol, tears streaming down her burka-covered face, and argue that the results should not be certified. Thousands of American college students can go over for the Iraqi inauguration and turn their backs on the new President. In fact, the possibilities for leftist mischief over there are endless now.
So, I say keep finding new ways to attack the Iraq elections, liberals, especially if you can go over there and do it in person. And especially if you don't ever come back.
I certainly have enjoyed your writing, BLL!
Not just anyone - an Ivy League professor who is undoubtedly trying her best to indoctrinate the leaders of tomorrow with this paranoid garbage.
It is also true that the "divide and conquer" strategy of preventing national unity was successfully deployed by European colonial powers in order to ensure their political control -- in Rwanda, for example, where Tutsis were played off against Hutus, ultimately with disastrous, genocidal consequences
She must have just seen hotel rwanda. The proper term for the colonialization of rwanda was Indirect Rule. So much for the academic prowess of cornell....
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I believe you've answered your own question--people this stupid can only get jobs at universities.
And herein lies the problem with "progressives". They continually try to frame debates as THEY see it, rather than on REALITY.
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Internationally renowned scholar and author Susan Buck-Morss will deliver this year's Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture titled "Global Imagination Against Global Power."
Her work on the Frankfurt School of philosophical thought is considered essential reading for students of critical theory. This school of thought, a diverse body of neo-Marxist social theory, was started in The Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research) as part of the University of Frankfurt in Germany in 1923. 
Ioan Davies taught at York University from 1972 until his sudden death on Feb. 15, 2000. He helped establish the African Studies Program, the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, and the Joint Graduate Program in Communications and Culture.