The title of this post refers to this blog, not to the Obama campaign, which I will get to in a second. I started off the year fearing that I would hardly post at all (see, e.g., December 2007), and here I am blogging my butt off. Only not about my typical whimsical and lovely nonsense. I have been very centered on the Democratic primary campaign, and I have more to say. On one hand, I recognize that this may be boring-ish for some people, but (on the other) I think I know my readers, and you are as rabidly interested in this as I am, or else we wouldn't be such dear friends. So, back to New Hampshire.
First of all, this is hardly a loss for Obama. Less than a few weeks ago, he was down by double-digits, and instead he lost be 3 percentage points. Isn't that less than the typical margin of error in a statistical poll? Right on, Obama! And as I said before, I think that if Clinton is going to win this ultimately (although I hope she doesn't), she needs more of a trial than she was prepared for. I gotta say, I am SO annoyed by this idea that her little teeny fake nervous breakdown gave her a bump among the Women Exactly Like Her voting bloc. She can cry on command! What a skill for our President to have. You may recall, I am NOT down with the "Girlfriend in Chief" model of campaigning. Please don't tell me that "women" love this, or I may forsake my gender.
And as a tangential correllary*, this reminds me how much Baby Boomers annoy me. Don't ask me why I thought of this. Those of you who also hate Baby Boomers probably understand instinctively where I am going with this, and also can't quite articulate what the bridge is. Here's the bridge: Hillary. She's Woman. She's Boomer. The world is hers for the taking. She has so many "good opportunities" - she's just bursting to unload them on us. I am so tired of that generation (most of whom disavow the rest strongly) claiming they can fix things in this crazy mixed up world. No, you can't. Its messed up. Stop pretending you are a realist and then feeding us horseshit.
Okay, I have clearly lost my train of thought here. So back to an even more annoying obsession of mine: The Wire. Season 5 debuted this past Sunday, and I didn't even mention it because I figured, if you don't watch it yet, you probably aren't going to start now. And that's your damn loss. I will accept you back into my good graces if you watch just one other season of this show without me having to harangue you further. Then I will give you my generous and brilliant thoughts on this season 5. (Actually, I can't, because I watched an episode ahead, and I would feel bad if I accidentally spoiled it for you, so Mr. Scobie will just have to suffer my brilliance alone).
* Mathematicians: Can something be both a tangent and a correllary? Or are they the same thing?
4 comments:
So, while I haven't quite drunk the Obama Kool-aid (um, nothing gross meant by that) the way you have, I still just haven't been able to get behind Hillary, which Chris thinks is surprising. But I think you make a good point that dovetails why I don't like her. I saw this expressed really well in a post on a blog post on slate.com, too:
"Clinton critics like to describe her as power-hungry, but I don't know if that's the source of all the self-referencing. She's long given me the impression that she believes she knows what's best for me, for all of us, and we'll like it whether we like it or not. And no amount of humanizing or not-quite-weeping over coffee with the girls can get me past that."
Anyway, regardless of who ends up being the dem nominee, I am really enjoying this primary season so far and I look forward to seeing it play out.
Dowd called the crying 'Nixonian'
Dre, have you read the freakonomics blog recently? They watched some of the wire with NY gang members to get their take.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/
On a political note, I'm pretty sure your son isn't an obama supporter. In fact, he's displayed fairly negative views towards any man whom he catches cigaretting. I tend to think of him as a Ron Paul guy.
Who are you that was smoking in front of my son? "Man with Cigarette Butt"?
Since Ron Paul is nominally a libertarian, I assume that he minds his own damn business about cigaretting (but see his stand on abortion, so who knows). Unlike my son, who, as you note, is very nosy about it, and judgmental.
I read that Wire piece a few hours ago, and thought it was funny. Maybe I will run a few of my own predictions later on.
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