Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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Female? How sexist of you.... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pcg Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:27 PM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding... > Quoting Althouse: > > I'd say, the reason Obama did not release the long-form birth > certificate before is that he thought it was to his advantage to allow > other people to look bad or crazy in one way or another by going on in > the birtherist mode. Right, well, that's how she sees it, and I guess since she's "inclined to give him a pass," it's fair enough, but I think that's a very... um... "female" way to interpret it. (Yes, I'm aware of how misogynistic that sounds, but I don't really know how else to say it. I can't imagine any self-respecting man [particularly one regularly described as "arrogant" by his detractors] giving a rat's hind-end about what some miniscule group of loonies thinks about him, much less go out of his way, collecting controversy along the way, just to stick it to 'em.) > But there was a tipping point, as Trump got traction and polls showed > huge numbers of American's entertaining doubts. So, it was all > political strategy. I agree with the first sentence, but feel the second sentence is a real leap. In other words, I think Obama was as surprised as every other reasonable person that this silly conspiracy theory gained any traction at all, and when some major media figure started fanning the flame, he rolled his eyes, and put an end to it. That's not a "strategy," it's just what anyone would do. > You could criticize Obama for wasting our time by not just releasing > the damned thing earlier. Heh. Or you could criticize those who wasted their own time worrying about it. :) -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot