Comments on: Open Thread #58

By: SusieQ

SusieQ — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:56:04 +0000

Anyone remember the famous youtube video of the Korean teacher beating on the student with a broomstick? Like really laying into the kid??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....4&NR=1

Well, he made the papers yesterday:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....28062.html

(Sarcasm on)
You’ll be happy to hear he’s been justly punished. He’s been “stripped [] of his homeroom teacher position and ordered him not to come to the school for a while”[.]

Not the homeroom teacher position!!! Damn! These people are serious about stopping child abuse.
(Sarcasm off)

By: redneck hickboy

redneck hickboy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:59:54 +0000

I think the word fascist is pretty off when used in the same sentence with McCain. The guy is a leader in a nation with EEO, affirmative action, emphasis against gender bias, no discrimination on race creed or religion… Re-read the history of fascism and come back to John McCain. I promise you’ll feel silly.

By: Tripod

Tripod — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:27:30 +0000

#105,

This is what the American conservative media has to say about your choices:

McCain = “patriotic war hero”.
Obama = “his middle name is Hussein”.
McKinney, Baldwin, et al.= “who?”

By: wjk, 검은 머리 외국인

wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:24:25 +0000

Check out Radio Freeasia Korean Podcast, around 37 minutes of the July 20, 2008 broadcast, Dr. Lankov recommends North Korean kids in North Korea to study up on math and science, for their futures. Says the whole thing in Korean. Cool.

By: user-81

user-81 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:01:54 +0000

I meant ordinal numbers, but I guess this really isn’t as important as Dokdo.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:35:31 +0000

“Partial term” and “full term” are generally used to distinguish.

By: user-81

user-81 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:12:56 +0000

So what do you call that period, if you don’t call it Johnson’s first term?

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:07:45 +0000

“Johnson didn’t “choose” not to run for a third term. The Constitution limits presidents to two full terms.”

Maybe this is semantics. I say that Truman and Johnson served two terms (not two full terms) but two terms and he was elected into office by being elected V.P. What do you call Johnson’s period from November 1963 to January 1965 if you don’t call it his first term as president?

A partial term. Johnson was in office only one year unlike Truman, who served out nearly all of Roosevelt’s third term. One could say Truman served nearly two terms, but not Johnson, who occupied the White House only five years. Thus, one could argue that Truman’s 1948 election was a referendum on his presidency. Johnson, however, hadn’t really been in office long enough to make his own mark. When he took office in 1963, he kept most of Kennedy’s staff and promised to continue Kennedy’s policies and programs.

By: John from Daejeon

John from Daejeon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:17:58 +0000

Where are those grains of salt?

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Sto.....amp;page=1

Irrational fears running amuck. Who would have thunk it?

By: user-81

user-81 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:55:03 +0000

I made a mistake on Truman. The 22nd amendment passed in 1951 specifically didn’t apply to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T....._amendment

According to the wikipedia link, Truman was unpopular in 1952 and dropped out after a bad showing in NH. He wasn’t really popular at the same point in 1948 either but he managed to win.

“Johnson didn’t “choose” not to run for a third term. The Constitution limits presidents to two full terms.”

Maybe this is semantics. I say that Truman and Johnson served two terms (not two full terms) but two terms and he was elected into office by being elected V.P. What do you call Johnson’s period from November 1963 to January 1965 if you don’t call it his first term as president?

Anyway, in 1948 and in 1964 Americans voted to send a sitting Democratic incumbent president back to the White House.