Comments on: The Full Mushy, or The President Has No Clothes

By: causabon in grad school

causabon in grad school — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:34:12 +0000

Okay, I don't have my copy of David Lodge's Small World with me now. But if I did I would quote Morris Zapp's analogy between striptease as the perpetual deferment of the spectator's pleasure and the perpetual deferment of meaning in structuralism (one decoding is another encoding)and that Musharraf's struggle-filled disrobing is but another robing.

By: Ardy

Ardy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:54:00 +0000

he has made vulnerable to coup d'etat from middle-higher military.

So nothing really changes - Pakistan will be ruled by the military.

By: louiecypher

louiecypher — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:49:13 +0000

Slightly off-topic, but some right-wing forum nuts noted a great facial resemblance of Nawaz Sharif and Al Gore. Just imagine, Nawaz Sharif and Al Gore, TWINS!!!

I see a movie here ..."The Peshawarian Candidate". His handler whispers "onion kulcha" in his ear and he goes on a hippy slappin rampage through Berkeley

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:35:34 +0000

No, nothing changes.

As NPR was discussing this morning, he has made vulnerable to coup d'etat from middle-higher military. He given up his position of influence over them in some ways. Also, religious hardliners in Pakistan may doubt his ability to get military do his bidding no questions asked.

By: desidude

desidude — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:31:48 +0000

As Americans or Indians, why do we care? It's all the same to us whoever is at the napak helm.

As Americans, the "War On Terror" will continue.

As Indians, the proxy war (jihad) in newly Islamic territories in India will continue.

By: Nawaz Gore

Nawaz Gore — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:25:52 +0000

Slightly off-topic, but some right-wing forum nuts noted a great facial resemblance of Nawaz Sharif and Al Gore. Just imagine, Nawaz Sharif and Al Gore, TWINS!!!

By: Whose God is it anyways?

Whose God is it anyways? — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:29:29 +0000

“Mahaveer wore no clothes. Gandhi wore little. Not in the same league but lingerie models have a lot of influence on one half of the human populace ”

hence the disclaimer “whether one agrees with him or not”

then there’s the other side of the coin: “sometimes the clothes do not make the man (or woman).”

By: Amardeep

Amardeep — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:07:46 +0000

now that Mush is shirt(uniform)-less will he add to Ms. Bhutto's strength?

No, nothing changes. The state of emergency continues, the sham supreme court continues -- nothing is really going to be different.

Neither Bhutto nor Sharif have a chance. If they condemn Musharraf too stridently, or attempt mass protests, he'll shut them down. If they don't condemn him very strongly (or express a willingness to 'compromise'), they become his puppets. I'm now beginning to think they walked into a kind of political trap when they came back.

Which is partly why I find this whole spectacle of "removing the uniform" kind of comical. It's black comedy, to be sure (people are still in prison; some of them have been tortured, as Anna's post on Monday discussed).

By: Aparna

Aparna — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:47:43 +0000

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-poor-and-shirtless-of-pak-are-my-strength/48492-2.html?xml now that Mush is shirt(uniform)-less will he add to Ms. Bhutto’s strength?

By: vishal

vishal — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:23 +0000

2 “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society”

Mahaveer wore no clothes. Gandhi wore little. Not in the same league but lingerie models have a lot of influence on one half of the human populace