Comments on: Presidential Poll: Conservative share of voter support at 64%

By: OK, Maybe it Really IS Time for the Fat Lady to Sing | The Marmot's Hole

OK, Maybe it Really IS Time for the Fat Lady to Sing | The Marmot's Hole — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:59:33 +0000

[...] I thought my friend and blogging colleague might have been a little early in calling out the Fat Lady on the Korean presidential race. [...]

By: cmm

cmm — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:57:54 +0000

I completely agree with Baeksu (cringe) about Lee Myung-Bak looking like Marilyn Manson. I noticed it before, but couldn’t put my finger on it exactly.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:33:22 +0000

Ummm, IMHO, you are looking down the large end of the telescope Baduk. It is the Hanara Party that would have caused a win for Chung because of the feckless corruption that members of that party have allowed for so long, thus robbing the country and its future. It’s called greed and it is not a virtue.

If anyone is to blame, it is Hanara as a whole and if Chung should win, then Koreans, collectively, have no one to blame but themselves.

By: baduk

baduk — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:10:03 +0000

Chung Ding Dong is not yet defeated. With solid Jolla Commie block votes, he can be the next president of Korea.

He is very close to Lee MB in the real vote counts. Commies lie when asked by reporters but on the day of election they will vote for Chung singing Commie songs.

Lee HC’d better look for a mouse hole to hide when Chung wins this election. He caused LMB to lose by splitting the conservative votes.

It is very close election between LMB and Chung DingDong Commie.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:31:03 +0000

One must really wonder about Park Gun-hye’s spineless support for Hanara and Lee Min-bak.

. . . When a government is doing a bad job, it is up to voters to say so and make sure they are held to account,” she said. “Give the Grand National Party a chance to make it right again. Choose Lee Myung-bak for president.

Hanara has botched the job of good government for so many years before now (thus enabling the rise of the last two administrations) that her statement is difficult to fathom — the problem has *been* the party itself and still is. More than a few of her supporters have defected to Lee Hoi-chang’s side.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:50:59 +0000

“Cmm, I just have one comment regarding the present front runner, Lee “I’m Marilyn Manson’s long-lost father” Myung-bak.”

He does look a bit like him…minus the makeup, the monochromatic contact lenses and the bondage gear, that is.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:49:31 +0000

12 different electoral posters went up overnight in my apartment block. I’ve never heard of half of the candidates. What would motivate the lesser known ones to run? It’s not as if they have a chance of winning.

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:26:03 +0000

Cmm, I just have one comment regarding the present front runner, Lee “I’m Marilyn Manson’s long-lost father” Myung-bak.

The main argument I seem to keep hearing in his favor is that he achieves results, especially in the economic arena, and that that trumps his many alleged ethical transgressions. In other words, the end seems to justify the means.

According this kind of absurd and frankly nihilistic moral logic, South Koreans could just as easily hire a ggangp’ae leader from Cholla or Yongdungp’o as their next president, as long as he gets the economic job done by any means necessary.

Or, to put it another way, Tony Soprano would have been a better U.S. President than George W. Bush because he was a better businessman, right?

If Lee Myung-bak gets enough votes to become South Korea’s next president, despite his obviously dodgy past in both his personal and public life, it shall indeed be a dark day for South Korean democracy.

Is this sorry situation really the legacy of Kwangju?

Absolutely shameful.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:50:58 +0000

Well, the fat lady is definitely singing some wrong notes. I think the key may be wrong — Park supporter quites GNP for independent (Lee) (http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2883359)
and my man goes on to say:

What does Lee Myung-bak have? A sense of history? A personal philosophy? A commitment to abide by the law? A conscience? Nothing!” Koak (Koak Sung-moon) said yesterday. “All he cares about is success by any means. I will not accept his shallowness any longer.”

Ouch!

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:48:39 +0000

I wouldn’t bring out the Fat Lady just yet:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....14678.html

I still think Lee’s going to win — BIG — but the prosecutors haven’t released their findings yet, and we still have to watch what Geun-hye will do.