Comments on: American Idol’s Davids = Obama vs. Romney

By: k. Carpenter

k. Carpenter — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:08:23 +0000

The sky has not fallen here in Murray since David Archulette did not gain the AI crown. However, I can not believe there was no mention of his Alma Mater, Murray High School. This illustrious institution also gave foundation to your infamous father, aunt and uncle plus assorted Sundwall cousins.
Go Spartans!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:01:01 +0000

Over at huffpo, they actually compared Archuletta to Obama and Cook to Hillary. If their prediction comes true, that’s a bad sign

By: Susan M

Susan M — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:02:21 +0000

Every week I scrutinized his song choices and his outfit, and quizzed no one in particular

And I thought I had no life.

By: David B

David B — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:11:14 +0000

‘Splains why this Mormon has always prefered Obama to Romney, then!

By: kenjebz

kenjebz — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:50:13 +0000

http://jbsolis.blogspot.com/2008/05/they-dont-like-mormon-ballader.html

THEY DON’T LIKE THE MORMON BALLADER…
THEY PREFER THE HEAD-BANGING-LOUD-SINGING-HIPPY-SPIKY HAIR-ROCKER. Yea David, almost the same analogy of Mitt Romney and Obama.

By: David H. Sundwall

David H. Sundwall — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:57:05 +0000

David B -

That actually crossed my mind. And I’m sure that’s what she would say too.

But getting the whole home-schooled, mini-Mitt, “secret religious messages,” conservative Christian, Republican vibe out of a goofy 17-year old singer is a little weird.

By: David B

David B — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:15:35 +0000

I read it as sarcasm. You know, that thing that large numbers columnists regularly do, or at least try to?

By: David H. Sundwall

David H. Sundwall — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:01:32 +0000

Bill -

That’s funny but at least the author admits the analogy is ridiculous. What was weird was that despite the judges and a lot of the commentary saying that Archuletta had won by a knockout, Tradesports had Cooke wunning away with it. And he did.

Nick -

I’m glad too that no one (that I’ve seen) is crying “anti-Mormonism.” It sounds like a lot of people simply preferred Cooke’s Rock’n'Roll “authenticity” over Archuletta’s clean-cut image. It’s too bad they have to project so much other baggage into it though.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:33:23 +0000

Haha! Everyone is reading a little too much into American Idol. Check this out for the opposite analogy:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/american_idol_and_the_2008_ele.asp

By: Nick Literski

Nick Literski — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:10:53 +0000

Heh…I’m just glad I haven’t seen any long-winded blog posts yet, claiming that David Archuletta “obviously” only lost because he was LDS, and there’s a giant conspiracy against LDS members.