{"id":10961,"date":"2008-02-04T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2008-02-04T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T14:52:23","slug":"jong-hillary-vs-teh-patriarchy-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10961","title":{"rendered":"Jong: Hillary vs Teh Patriarchy [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another condescending twit (Erica Jong-Hill) \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0uses Kristol’s remark <\/a>as a jumping-off point for a leap over the shark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. And mothers and children — of all colors — are the most oppressed group in our country. I trust her to speak for our children <\/a>and grandchildren — and for us. She always has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A more absurd case of special pleading and, well, condescension<\/em> you will be hard pressed to discover anywhere.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama’s candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can’t you just smell the changeyness?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Greenwald(s), “On Credibility<\/a>,” and this special announcement:<\/p>\n

The galleys for my next book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Myths of Republican Politics<\/em>, were sent out last week, and Alan Colmes, who received a copy, became the first to review the new book here<\/font><\/a>. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Colmes bit is entitled, “Glenn Greewald has done it again.”<\/p>\n

I should note that, speaking generally, I find the productions of multiple authors inferior. The major exception in my experience is Ilf & Petrov.<\/p>\n

More: Captain Ed repulsed by McCain-Clinton-Wallace three-way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another condescending twit (Erica Jong-Hill) \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0uses 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<\/p>\n

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