Comments on: Politically Induced Dementia

By: dpw

dpw — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:31:00 +0000

And, then there is Larry Johnson’s No Quarter, which offers a fantastic blend of delustional hope, racially charged anger, rumor peddling, and conspiritorial fantasies about Obama’s secret plan to institute some marxist brand of black nationalism.

By: daddysteve

daddysteve — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:44:58 +0000

Is it any less delusional for all these Obama supporters to expect real “change” from their candidate? As a 48 yr. old republican, I’ve seen plenty of election cycles and if there is one thing for certain, republicrats aren’t going to change. Why won’t Americans reject the two parties supported by “big corporation dollars” ? Talk about delusional!

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:02:38 +0000

Eh, I can imagine someone who puts a lot of weight on the idea of experience and views the president as a kind of vital “first responder” in emergencies considering Obama’s short resume a dealbreaker… though yeah, you really have to way actual policy differences at just about zero for this to make sense.

By: Kevin B. O'Reilly

Kevin B. O'Reilly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:56:28 +0000

You read about some of the tactics of 19th-century presidential campaigns and realize that this is nothing new. But … maybe now things are worse. As religion and ethnicity fade as identifiers, politics take their place. The seemingly hard-wired ingroup-outgroup dynamic just gets played out on a different stage in ways that don’t make much sense (e.g., what rational reason would a Hillary supporter vote for McCain over Obama? There is none; it’s about identity, not policies.)