{"id":7151,"date":"2008-10-10T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/insinewating-ti\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:10:51","slug":"insinewating-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/insinewating-ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Insinewating Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

Election coverage this week has shifted from the blaze town hall draw to the
\ncascading economic slide (i.e., a crash dragged out for a few days) to the
\nMcCain campaign’s great efforts to weave strong ties between Obama and
\nBill
\nAyers<\/a>. Am I riled up about any of this? Not really. I had the
\ndebate on in the background as I did other work, I have watched the modest<\/strike>
\npaltry TIAA-CREF nest egg I micro-accumulated over seven years at Park U. suffer
\ndisfigurations akin to Humpty Dumpty, and I don’t for a second accept that Obama
\nis terrorist-like for the company he kept with Ayers. <\/p>\n

So what, then?<\/p>\n

I have been interested in the way the campaigns try to establish ties and
\nlinkages. Palin and other McCain surrogates have tried mightily to forge a
\nstrong tie between Obama and Ayers. If they succeed, if they get people to
\nbelieve that such a tie is strong, that, in effect, Ayers of old and Obama of
\nlate think alike, then they will have sprung from thin air a damaging blow:
\nprobable guilt by the company one keeps. Yet, nodes perform ethos. Obama
\ncan simply say, "No tie," or "weak tie," and the burden of establishing a
\nlinkage falls on the accusers. <\/p>\n

There are other interesting questions here about temporality and, perhaps,
\nabout how the ties suggested by associative technologies (e.g., Facebook) will
\nfunction as evidence of strong ties in the future. Serving on a board
\ntogether, dinner at one’s house: these are time-constrained connections.
\nThey do not live on in quite the same way as some more recent developments.
\nMaybe we’ll see more of it in the weeks ahead, but so far this election cycle
\nhas seemed to me to dwell on whose network is more presidential, more executive
\nin its constitution: McCain’s? (a network of houses, a claim to be a Senate
\nboundary-spanner, a hand in the Keating Five heist) or Obama’s? (a recklessly
\noutspoken
\npastor in Wright, a radical former colleague in Ayers, generous
\nfriends in F. May and F. Mack). Campaign: another name for the high stakes
\npractice of network building at breakneck pace–a rhetorical production of ties and associations
\nthat will trip one candidate into second place and vault the other into the
\nWhite House. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Somewhat related (via<\/a>). Warning: Cover their ears or the innocents will pick up a cuss at the end:<\/p>\n

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