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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Becky, girl, ya gotta be kiddin’ me.
The last young, charismatic white guy challenger who took the most anti-American position possible on any issue that came along, only managed to win 43% of the popular vote; he had southern credentials, was 6’2″, Governor of Arkansas for five terms, and didn’t even have a funny name.
Hey I know where you’re coming from: There is racism out there — just like there are people out there who are convinced the moon landing was staged and the earth is flat.
But there is one reason, and one reason only, to think it is pervasive:
Because if you’re called upon to prove you aren’t one of them, and you fall for it, maybe the Obamamaniacs can get you to vote for their depressing, disappointing, lackluster candidate. Other than that, there’s no reason to think racists are ruling the roost here. A candidate is failing to catch on, he has nothing to offer, he changes his positions constantly, he can’t answer tough questions, he has a long history of America-hating asshole friends, and he happens to be one-half black. If that’s Exhibit A, I’m already wincing in sympathetic embarrassment over whatever might be Exhibit B.
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She gives no reasons, serious ones that is, for her position. What’s the point in commenting?
- tim | 07/17/2008 @ 16:35Same as with salvage. There are millions of people who think the same way she does.
The difference is, though, that salvage is a pure attention whore. He craves approval from those who think like him. Becky is more like me, albeit a sloppier thinker. I think she puts her thoughts down in writing before she really has them straight in her head, to see if they make sense.
This is an unusually incoherent thesis for her. If I was to distill it down into its bare essentials, it would be “I know Barack Obama would get much further if he was a white guy, or at least win by the skin of his teeth the way JFK did, at least, if the mob was there to help him win the votes of a bunch of dead people in Cook County.” It as if she tossed down the opening paragraphs under the misunderstanding that JFK won some kind of a landslide, and did her research on the statistics of that election after the opening salvo was chiseled in granite. The doubtful, dubious and statistically insignificant margin of Kennedy’s victory demolishes her entire point.
In a way this is encouraging, because while this thing called “charisma” has been a powerful weapon in the elections stockpile, it has never actually put anyone decisively over the top. Not on a Reagan/Mondale scale, anyway. To do that, it seems you have to demonstrate how you intend to solve a problem.
- mkfreeberg | 07/17/2008 @ 16:58