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You made me hate you, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it. You made me hate you, and all the time you knew it, I guess you always knew it. The Politico's David Paul Kuhn takes a look at the fallout from Barack Obama's remark to San Francisco donors about an aspect of the character of small town Americans. A phrase popped out at me: "Obama's opponents have pounced." It caught my eye because it describes the loathing I have for that kind of opportunism and my own mental picture of a predator lying in wait to seize on any error or weakness. It makes me want to go live in the jungle with the real animals. At least they don't substitute truth and reality for perceived truth and the appearance of things. Remember in one of the debates when Obama admitted he loses his notes and tells aides to hand him his papers immediately before he needs them? Remember the way Hillary crouched and narrowed her eyes to a slit and pounced on that one too? That's the way politics works, right? That's the way it has worked. I was kind of hoping for different way of picking a leader -- a way that lets candidates show a little of their real selves, a little humanity. I think a lot of us were. Jane Smiley, one of my favorite contemporary novelists, writes about the truth of it all in the Huffington Post. She's an intellectual and understands middle America, has dissected it with a new razor blade. I've been trying to keep a section of my heart warm for Hillary in case it works out that she ends up on Obama's ticket. She's making it hard; I'm starting to hate her. Momocrat was there Here's what Glennia had to say about Obama's remarks at the SF fundraiser. The comments are interesting too. Today's search |
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