Tuesday, April 15, 2008
INTENSITY UNNERVING
Progressive Rebecca Traister is troubled by her Hillary-hatin’ comrades:
One of my closest girlfriends, an Obama voter, told me of a drink she’d had with a politically progressive man who made a series of legitimate complaints about Clinton’s policies before adding that when he hears the senator’s voice, he’s overcome by an urge to punch her in the face.
As Michelle Goldberg says in the above-linked piece: “I suppose that the intensity of Obama supporters can be unnerving and hard to relate to.”
UPDATE. Obama secures the stoner vote:
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has attacked democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton – calling the senator from New York “ghastly”.
Waters, who admits to being a fan of Clinton’s rival for the democratic nomination, Barack Obama, said that Clinton would invade Iran if she was elected America’s next president.
UPDATE II. Mickey Kaus decodes Obama:
Once the Pennsylvanians get some jobs back, they’ll change and become as enlightened as Obama or the San Franciscans to whom he was talking. That’s the clear logic of his argument. Superiority of this sort - not crediting the authenticity and standing of your subject’s views - is a violation of social equality, which is a more important value for Americans than money equality. Liberals tend to lose elections when they forget that.
UPDATE III. The WSJ’s John Fund:
Barack Obama’s San Francisco-Democrat comment last week – about how alienated working-class voters “cling to guns or religion” – is already famous. But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.