Far from it. But Card's criticisms of Obama come straight from the Faux News playbook. He's a Dick Morris democrat. A supposed moderate that opposed everything about Obama from the moment he entered the race and in whose eyes Obama can do no right.
There are plenty of other things in his columns that are troubling as well. Plus his recent writings are going into right wing fantasy land in a big way. Here's a review of his novel Empire: "Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card's bestselling science fiction (Ender's Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card's heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel's polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left." --- In [email protected], Omari Confer <clockwork...@...> wrote: > > You cant be a Democrat and be critical of Obama? > > That is new to me. > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:14 PM, B Smith <daikaij...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > All of the above and more. He's written some very homophobic things and his > > take on President Obama is pretty interesting. He claims that he's a > > Democrat but has been hyper-critical of Obama from the very beginning and > > been very alarmist about all of the actions he's taken since he became > > president. Very Tea Partyish in some ways. > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, Keith > > Johnson <KeithBJohnson@> wrote: > > > > > > I haven't read a Card book in twenty years. But, why is he on the avoided > > list? Is there something about his Mormon (?) background and how it > > influences his writings? Disrespect for people of color or other non-whites? > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "B Smith" <daikaiju66@> > > > To: [email protected] <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:48:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Pandorum > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That makes me remember when I used to like OSC. He's another author on > > the to be avoided list. > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com> , Keith > > Johnson <KeithBJohnson@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I've heard mixed views, but never a good synopsis, thanks. What you > > presented made it sound like a great premise. I love the idea of hypersleep > > causing such problems. I may check it out. How does it compare to another > > scifi film I really love, "Event Horizon"? I know that latter is much more > > of a horror-focused scifi film. > > > > > > > > As for hypersleep, I remember reading a book by Orson Scott Card > > ("Ender's Game", among many others). It postulated a fascinating world in > > which people who were deemed absolutely critical to humanity (great > > politicians, wealthy financiers, brilliant scientists, etc.) would "skip" > > generations. A person of sufficient means would live among humanity for a > > few years, doing whatever he or she did for a living. Then, that person > > would go into suspended animation for a time. As an example, Steve Jobs > > might run Apple for three years, set its future course, then go into > > suspended animation for twenty or thirty years. He'd wake up, get the lay of > > the land, do some more work, then back into the routine. If you think about > > it, it's a cool way to be granted a sort of immortality, as you can skip > > across the centuries, experiencing and influencing human development. > > > > The only problem is that the sleeper's mind is "bubbled" into a storage > > device before the body is put under. If something happened to that device, > > the sleeper would be rendered little more than a body with no mind, akin to > > a newborn babe, albeit in an adult's body. In one story, that very thing > > happens with a colony ship to another planet. There's an accident, all the > > crew's bubbles are destroyed, and the one guy who was awake is left with > > trying to retrain and re-educate all the now completely blank people. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "B Smith" <daikaiju66@> > > > > To: [email protected] <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:52:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada > > Eastern > > > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Pandorum > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone seen this movie? I was pleasantly surprised. Don't get me > > wrong it's not great but it was interesting and pretty well executed. > > > > > > > > Long story short: An Earthlike exoplanet called Tanis is discovered in > > the early 21st century. A probe using an advanced drive is sent there, finds > > that it's very, very Earthlike and can support life. > > > > > > > > 22nd century Earth is massively overpopulated, resources are dwindling, > > etc. A generation ship called the Elysium is built by all nations and 60,000 > > volunteers set off for Tanis. The journey will take 123 years so multiple > > crews rotate in two year shifts and go into hypersleep the rest of the time. > > > > > > > > > > Hypersleep is a tough process and people wake up with memory loss, mild > > sickness, etc. Some folks develop a severe type of sickness called pandorum. > > Another deep space Earth ship suffered a massive disaster when a pandorum > > affected crew member jettisoned all of the ship's hyperspace modules, killed > > the remaining crew and then himself. > > > > > > > > A crewman on the Elysium wakes up out of hypersleep for his 2 year > > shift. He's out of it, doesn't remember his name, etc. He reads his name off > > his sleep pod and begins to remember that he is ship's engineer Bower. A > > second crewman, Lt. Payton, awakens and they realize that they are the only > > people from their shift that are awake. The power is down and they are > > cutoff from the rest of ship. The reactor is out of synch and needs to be > > repaired before the ship's power can be restored. Bower grabs some tools and > > sets off to restore the power. > > > > > > > > Then the fun begins. > > > > > > > > I was surprised at how much I liked the movie. There were a few things > > that strained logic but it's a fun, scary movie with a healthy dose of > > semihard sci fi. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > READ MY BLOG > http://centralheatingblog.blogspot.com > STRING THEORY > http://stringtheory.podbean.com >
