Monday, March 19, 2007
Incoherence Watch/Idiocy Alert
As a service to dcat's readers, could someone please try to explain what the fuck David Ehrenstein is talking about in this absolute mess of an article in the L.A. Times? Ehrenstein's execrable "Obama the 'Magic Negro'" has to be in the running for worst column of the year. I honestly cannot even tell if it is racist or not, or if he likes Barack Obama. The Times' tagline for Ehrenstein says that he "writes about Hollywood and politics." I sure hope he is better at the Hollywood side, where he can also do the least damage.
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This is only more evidence some of the left is living an alternate reality. I found this rant to be extremely racist (not to mention, insulting) What? we could only like him to "assauge" our "white-guilt"?
and "the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded." ?? I had no clue whatsoever that the void in my life was a nobel, healing negro. who knew.
Anon --
You hit a lot of it on the head, though I'm not sure it is an argument of the left per se. It is simply a bad, incoherent argument.
I find it incredibly dismissive of a huge swath of Obama supporters who are probably a lot smarter than this jackass, if this piece is any indication. It really is just mindbogglingly terrible.
dcat
Well, I do know this, I've seen more on the left slam him.
They say he's not "seasoned", he "lacks substance" blah,blah,blah. Heck, I've seen more substance in five minutes of Senator Obama that Ted Kennedy's entire post-chappaquiddick career!
And I hear a lot of my conservative friends talk about how inspiring and unique Obama is and I think THAT is what scares some liberals.
I am going to say that you are cetegorically wrong if you are asserting that Obama's problem is a lack of support on the left. On that you are simply wrong.
What the hell does Ted Kennedy have to do with this discussion? Keep the nonsequiters to a minimum. ted Kennedy is not a candidate for the democratic nomination in 2008 and if you really want to say that Ted Kennedy's entire post-Chappaquiddick career has lacked substance I don't have to take you seriously.
I'm sure that anecdotally you do travel far and wiode among Obama praising conservatives. But I have more than a passing familiarity with the current state of the political dialogue, right and left, and will once again say that liberals are not responding to conservative views of Obama.
If you have actual evidence, please share it.
dcat
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