Macacas For Lieberman
August 25, 2006 at 8:21 am
A search of Opensecrets.org reveals this: Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, whom Sen. George Allen called macaca, gave $2,000 to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign in 2003.
And, today’s Washington Post reports, the next summer, he was an intern in Lieberman’s office.
Allen’s apology tour aside, does UVA student Sidarth mind being called macaca? Not according to this conclusion to the Post story:
Larry J. Sabato, an oft-quoted political pundit who teaches a small, popular seminar on campaigns and elections, said he asked students to write an essay as part of the admission process. Eighty people applied for the course, including Sidarth. His essay was just three words long — but it was enough to clinch one of the 20 coveted spots in the class.
“I am Macaca,” he wrote.
Spank That Donkey said,
August 25, 2006 @ 11:05 am
$2,000…. When I was a poor starving college student from 1989-1995 (hey I wasn’t hung up on that completion thing), I gave the most I have ever given to a candidate… Patrick J. Buchanan. I gave like $25 a month for like two years (skipping a month or two here and there do to necessities, like food).
$2,000 It must be nice…
I still think Pat had the best domestic policy, but his current foreign policy really is bad.
Great Post!
Tom said,
August 25, 2006 @ 12:03 pm
Has anyone bothered to look into the number of gay sailors that were discharged from the U.S. navy while James Webb was secretary? Was he for that or against it then — and is he for it or against it now?