Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, pcg wrote:

> 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.)

That's an interesting response, and not without some merit.

One problem I have with it, though, is that Obama is often described not 
only as arrogant but as "thin-skinned", "prickly", etc.  So heaping coals 
on loonies' heads, and doing so as a way to make right-wingers in general 
seem guilty by association, does not seem so impossible for him, to me.

I mean, it's not like Obama was *unaware* of birtherism.  He's cracked 
jokes about it in his speeches, etc.

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