How on Earth is it suspect?! It is from a newspaper, not some political group, and this is not some weird sneeky little issue, I remeber it. It was just some mundane news item three years ago.
Here is a nice information sheet for members of the UAW. Hardly a bastion of conservative dogma there.
These were all from the first page of my Google search.
Do you even know what disingenuous means? It is not an act so much as it is an attitude. Your posts are overflowing with it.
EDIT: Try as I might, the coding will not come out right on some of those links.
I did. I said that I doubt she was singled out. They probably have such profiles for everyone, were unsure about that particular check-box for her, then asked.
It takes a pretty broad reading of the linked article to suggest that that check box was blank. Diaz, the spokesman for the commitee to re-elect Bush, said nothing about race being a necessary piece of information. Twice.
The irony is, Arabs (not Arabic, that’s a language) are classified as white. Not that it’s relevant, since the photographer isn’t an Arab, but still kind of funny.
That is why I realized it was not a real quote, (something frown around here) besides, you asked for it, and the result is also not pretty.
Confirming things on the Internet is not good enough, but my experience has been that ignoring the Internet is also dumb. It all depends on the fact checker, and so the point again: Bush cannot recognize when personnel lack ability, or even find a real traitor in his mist (Chalabi). We better move Bush out of the way on November.
Aren’t ‘they’ technically, I dunno, human, and therefore exempt from automatic suspicion by broad category?
SheeYIT, I expect any credible leader to run an organization more sensibly than that. Reasonble caution is pragamatic. Bunker-mentality paranoia doesn’t exactly exude confidence, much less anything that might amount to hope for the future. Talk about the a sure way to alienate and marginalize those who just might, maybe, possibly be responsible folks playing by our principles of “freedom”, etc.
I’m guessing that even if there were other Mamta Popats, the chances of them having a similar racial profile is pretty high. Certainly enough of a chance and similar enough for it to be completely useless information as far as security might be concerned.
It’s a pretty good sign that the current US administration has lost the plot. But then, there’s still other areas of US govt that do racial profiling where it’s totally irrelevant and totally useless.
I’m just curious what kind of idiots the Bush team is letting in the door. This is the third idiotic thing that their campaign has had associated with them in under a week. I think it’s time to take a hard look at the quality of volunteers walking signing on. :dubious:
:eek: AIEEEE! It’s a plot! An evil conspiracy by those EEEEEEEE-vul (shudder) liberals! They’re infiltrating Our Noble Leader’s campaign, deliberately doing dumbshit stuff to tarnish his shining armor! :eek:
FYI, Popat is a not unknown (if not entirely very common) surname for a community that comes from a particular part of Maharashtra, a western state of India (Bombay is the capital of Maharashtra).
Mamta is a very common first name for girls in India.