You think the purple finger thing was planned?

[mrgorth]

and I'm not talking about last night. I mean, knowing how political this admin is, do you think Rove wanted a symbol of the Iraqi vote they could mimic in Washington and came up with the purple finger thing?

[Walt Starr]

1. Yes, they did it in Afghanistan

so Rove planned this for months.

[Cocoa]

2. absolutely

the reason for the dye was its PR value in the U.S.

[LiberalinNC]

3. I'll be happy to "give them the purple finger"....

And yes it was planned, Rove is a sly one!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Is the Pope Catholic?

:evilgrin:

[frankly_fedup2]

5. I started to take bets yesterday beforethe speech that Bush's finger . . .

would be purple. Glad I didn't bet that one (lol).

http://newamerica2004.blogspot.com/

[realFedUp]

6. as much as the little purple bandaids at the Repub convention were...

its about the visuals stupid

[davidwparker]

7. Janeane was funny last night when she likened it the Nazi

salute. She made the comment on both Majority Report and on MSRNC's After Hours. She was on briefly. She and Ron Reagan Jr. were two bright spots, then there was the rest of the panel/guests.

[AlCzervik]

8. every little detail is planned*

*Offer not applicable to war

[Oilwellian]

9. I like Podesta's comment about the purple fingers

"While I truly admire the courage of the people of Iraq for going to the polls on Sunday, watching members of the house hold up their ink stained fingers is ironic since Tom DeLay won’t let them vote on anything."

http://www.thinkprogress.org/

[TomClash]

10. No it was spontaneous love