[lbo-talk] Ehrenstein on Obama

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 23 16:07:08 PDT 2007


On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> On 3/23/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>> All I'm saying is that Democratic voters can't complain of not
>>> having
>>> an anti-war candidate in the caucuses and primaries.
>>
>> Sadly he's a funny-looking oddball without a prayer of getting into
>> the mid-single digits.
>
> If Democratic voters prefer a good-looking candidate to a candidate
> who is against the Iraq and Iran wars, that's their choice.

It's a fact of politics, no matter where you are - funny-looking oddballs are more likely to lose than attractive charmers. It's not just Democrats.

Doug



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