Peggy Noonan mostly praised Obama’s speech, and largely seemed to understand it, which puts her in a minority of conservative commentators. But she criticizes him, near the end of her article, for . . . wait for it . . . not understanding America. Yes, snotty Reaganite lickspittles who made a profession of courting racists and religious bigots with coded signals, demonizing “welfare queens”, glorifying death squads and Nazi war dead, excusing incompetence and ignorance at every turn, and obsessing over wayward blowjobs, now presume to tell candidates of the working-class party what the real America is all about.
March 21st, 2008
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General, Politics, Church & State, Economics, Culture, News & Current Events, Fiasco, Torture |
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Because Texas Republicans are afraid of Obama, and voted for her to try to stop him?
“As Republican participation increased, Hillary got more votes,” Mann said. Some of them came from Allison Cavey’s family. “My whole family actually voted for Hillary in the Texas primaries and we are all McCain supporters,” said Cavey, 32, a Dallas resident who works for a medical software company. “We all thought it would be easier to beat Hillary in the fall. Also, we all agreed that if for some reason a Democrat won the election we would be better off with Hillary than Obama… scary thought!”
It’s an interesting hypothesis, but I’m skeptical — it plays into my biases just a little too conveniently. Even though the right-wing AM radio blowhards are actively pushing the strategy, if the exit polls are to be believed, Obama beat Clinton among self-described Republicans by 7 points. I suppose it’s possible that the Republican voters who followed Limbaugh’s marching orders also lied about their party affiliation in the exit polls, but that’s just a wee bit too conspiratorial for me.
Still, it gives us something other than whose pastor said what to chew on over the weekend.
March 21st, 2008
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Politics, Weekend Flame Bait |
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