You point is well taken. Yes, we all have stereotypes of how we believe other people behave and the Obama campaign complaining about it is a tad on the hypocritical side when they have their own beliefs in stereotypical behavior.

Posted at May 10, 2008 10:45 AM in response to Rhetorical: Labels which Divide Us?

It just gets more and more absurd.

Posted at May 10, 2008 10:21 AM in response to The Ballad of Billy Glad

He shouldn't be up twenty points.

Posted at May 9, 2008 3:49 PM in response to The North-Carolina win is a day of doom for Obama

Makes you think that all the criticism of Clinton is projection, doesn't it? In all my years as a democrat, I have never seen anything like this, it is like a crosstown high school rivalry.

Posted at May 9, 2008 3:33 PM in response to The Ballad of Billy Glad

In your mind, maybe. You certainly have jumped to that conclusion based on the usual faulty reasoning that's so prevalent today.

Posted at May 9, 2008 3:28 PM in response to " Hardworking Americans, white Americans" vs. Lazy Blacks?

Yes, but McCain isn't a centrist, he's a maverick...just kidding.

The thing is, when you look at McCain's record, he always votes with his party, with few exceptions. He should shuffle on over to the middle, but then, the conventional wisdom is that he'll pick up enough of the evangelical religious right vote, conservatives and traditional republicans and then pick up independents to win.

The problem with this, is that McCain isn't doing very well with three if not four of these groups, especially independents. Limbaugh claims that those republicans who crossed over to vote in dem primaries did so because of his political machinations, but the numbers don't say that at all. In fact the majority of crossovers in every primary with the exception of two, voted for Obama, in some cases 3 to 1 and for those registering to vote as democrats were independents and first time primary voters - and this was after the repubs had a nominee, not before it. If repubs really thought McCain was strong enough to win it wouldn't matter which dem candidate becomes the nominee. This is the story that dems have to work to get out there.

In my opinion, the repub operatives were looking at these early crossover/firt time primary/independent voters and they are panicking which is why they're trying so hard to sell this "operation chaos" propaganda to the public. If Obama is the nominee (and something really drastic has to happen for him not to be) he is going to be in a really strong position to beat McCain, despite the bullshit from the repubs and the press.

It's going to be close, because historically the presidential election is always "close", few elected presidents have had a true political mandate, but a win is a win.

Does Obama have some major problems? He sure as hell does, he better get down to Florida and fix that problem, because the longer he drags it out the worse it is going to get, and he has some big problems with blue collar workers, but he has time to work on that and the press is going to crucify him with the "elitist" label, which I see as the hardest problem to overcome because it has become conventional wisdom, but he will win it.

Posted at May 9, 2008 1:42 PM in response to Price is Right politics

Both Obama and Clinton are centrists. The difference is that Clinton is moving to populism, which is exactly what Gore did and won the 2000 election.

On every issue, Obama presents a centrist position, especially in international policy, in health care he is more to the right and Clinton is more to the left.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:52 PM in response to Price is Right politics

Why do you assume that because blue collar voters aren't voting for Obama, it is because he is black? Why are you stereotyping blue collar Americans?

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:41 PM in response to It Is Not Racism

She didn't say "hardworking white Americans." So why is it okay for the press to discuss demographics, but Clinton can't? "blue collar, hardworking Americans, white Americans IS her strongest demographic. She HAS overwhelmingly won their support. That doesn't make Clinton a racist, it doesn't make blue collar Americans racist and because someone fails to mention another group as "hardworking Americans" it doesn't mean that any other demographic isn't "hardworking". Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:39 PM in response to Hillary's Shame

You can't even write it much less define it.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:33 PM in response to RE: Pretty Black and White