Andrew Sullivan: Karl Rove Wins the Pennsylvania Primary
"It's worth recalling what this primary came to be about, because of a self-conscious decision by the Clintons to adopt the tactics and politics of the people who persecuted and hounded them in the 1990s. It was indeed in the end about smearing and labeling Obama as a far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud."
Posted Apr 23, 2008
Jim Cowie
Responses to this thread:
Jim Cowie:
Now I really feel like making up t-shirts that say "far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud."
Arkansan:
But a single digit win against a young black man in a polarized race suggests that this compliment was past its sell-by date. It was an act of desperation, and one last grab back to the past. It didn't quite do what it was supposed to do. Nearly, but not quite.The past is receding; but the future has yet to be born. This is hard labor. Necessary labor. But the direction of this country is clear, it seems to me. And heartening.
todd:
I still worry about the latent racism (and sexism) that is playing out here. If a significant majority of white men vote for mccain, simply because he's a white guy and they are uncomfortable with anything else, that's going to be very difficult to overcome.
smckenzie23:
notgneiss:
