Another condescending twit (Erica Jong-Hill)  uses Kristol’s remark as a jumping-off point for a leap over the shark:
Obama is also a token — of our incomplete progress toward an interracial society. I have nothing against him except his inexperience. Many black voters agree. They understand tokenism and condescension.
I understand my hopeful friends who think an Obama button will change America. But I’m sticking with Hillary. I trust her because all her life, her pro bono work has been for mothers and children. And mothers and children — of all colors — are the most oppressed group in our country. I trust her to speak for our children and grandchildren — and for us. She always has.
A more absurd case of special pleading and, well, condescension you will be hard pressed to discover anywhere.
UPDATE: Michael Chabon, on the other hand, says there are no good reasons not to vote for Obama. If you don’t, you’re a Phobocrat.
There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama’s candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason.
Because I have come out publicly for the senator from Illinois, I am often called upon to listen as people offer up — with wistfulness and regret, or with a pundit’s show of certainty, or with a well-earned but useless skepticism — their bad reasons for not giving Obama their support. For a long time now, I have listened to these people with forbearance and with a sense of duty — not to some principle of open debate or of the inherent merit in the free exchange of even meritless ideas, but rather out of obligation to the candidate whose cause I champion.
Can’t you just smell the changeyness?
And when we all wake up on Nov. 5, 2008, to find that we have made Barack Obama the president of the United States, the world is already going to feel, to all of us, a little different, a little truer to its, and our, better nature. It is part of the world’s nature and of our own to break, ruin and destroy; but it is also our nature and the world’s to find ways to mend what has been broken. We can do that. Come on. Don’t be afraid.
Wow. Greenwald(s), “On Credibility,” and this special announcement:
The galleys for my next book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Myths of Republican Politics, were sent out last week, and Alan Colmes, who received a copy, became the first to review the new book here. The book addresses the standard manipulative electoral techniques the GOP uses to win national elections — with a focus on the fictitious personality-based mythologies and substance-free attacks which Republicans, in conjunction with our establishment press, perpetuate in order to dictate election outcomes. The last chapter will focus on how those myths apply to the 2008 GOP nominee. The book will be released on April 15, and I’d prefer that pre-ordering wait until the week before the release date.
The Colmes bit is entitled, “Glenn Greewald has done it again.”
I should note that, speaking generally, I find the productions of multiple authors inferior. The major exception in my experience is Ilf & Petrov.
More: Captain Ed repulsed by McCain-Clinton-Wallace three-way.
Mothers and children are the most oppressed? By what definition of oppression?
Everything topsy-turvy for special pleading.
Make the spinning stop.
(Obama) was lucky enough not to be in the Senate when the Iraq war resolution was floated after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell lied about WMDs. That was the true tragedy of race: a black man lying for a corrupt white administration that was using him as a token, much as they use Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now.
Obama is also a token … Many black voters agree. They understand tokenism and condescension.
You better hope none of them are reading.
I trust her to speak for our children and grandchildren  and for us. She always has.
Hmmmm… let me see, her husband is a serial cheater and she stayed with him so she could ride his coattails to a Senate seat and Presidential nomination.
Yes, sounds like a great role model for wommins and childrens everywhere.
btw, speaking of Teh Patriarchy … found this interesting
Hmmm…what are non-white normative notions of family?
Obama runs for President, women and children hit hardest!
Interesting that “Larry” argues that Obama is cultivating this image in order to suppress “white” ideas that blacks are rutting animals. And, Larry has a picture of (himself?) without a shirt on his blog.
Mixed messages. I AM NOT A RUTTING ANIMAL BUT HERE’S A PICTURE OF ME NEARLY NAKED.
If you didn’t seriously think they were pursuing little more than an Affirmative Action Presidency before…
Oddly enough, the creative class is often not reality-based.
Who’da thunkit?
I wish Jeff were here. It’s turning out to be a very special day.
We can do that. Come on. Don’t be afraid.
“Just stick your face in the pod. It doesn’t hurt much. Be one of us.”
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/erica_jong.html
I couldn’t pick just one. They all touched me so deeply. Almost as much as when Fonzie told Richie, “You ain’t nobody until you do what you want!”
..I just got goosebumps
Jeff’s only watching the game – controlling it.
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours –
Still, this grips me more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddha.
Heh. Bangkok.
We all knew the gender warriors would be storming from Hillery’s camp – it’s just amusing to see them prematurely deployed against a black man.
Cap’n Ed frowns on three-ways generally I think.
When I read comments by someone upset that Her Inevitableness’ inevitableness has been evitablized, I smell something, but it suggests that somebody needs something changed.
Oh wait, it’s just McCain’s Depends®.
(I’m just upset because in the Super Bowl, it wasn’t possible for both teams to lose.)
NPR this morning rediscovered Huckabee big time. They are doing their part to run Mitt down, and that seems to be all Huckabee’s campaign is about anymore. That and hey look at me I used to be morbidly obese and I made ugly babies. Whatever. The part where Huckabee’s hokey ass gets sent back to Arkansas is going to make me feel a lot better, even if McCain is the nominee.
That Chabon thing is actually a little embarassing to read. I’m not sure if it’s because of the self-regard he has for being able to spot latent racism no one else can, or if it’s because he’s apparently naive enough to believe (like many Obamaniacs) that you really can hope your problems to death.
Barry made a wheel stop in Boise Saturday. Filled up BSU’s arena with hopeyness and changeness. I didn’t go but the local news fairly beatified him. He’s just so…changey! And hopey!
“I find the productions of multiple authors inferior.”
Niven & Pournelle had some fine collaborations.
“Glenn Greewald has done it again.â€Â
I have no doubt this is accurate.
“There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama’s candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason.â€Â
Just like what’s happening to other countries, personal interest maybe is the first reason I see.
Erica Jong is just grumpy because she longs for a Zipless Politics. To her eternal frustration, people persist in distrusting the sleazy hacks she supports. What’s worse, they actually dare to express their opinions and advocate for the candidates they prefer, which is hateful and inexcusable. Why can’t we all be reasonable and submit like we’re supposed to?
When you get right down to it, pst314, people are awfully inconvenient.