[lbo-talk] Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

[Sean Andrews]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 13:24, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> As I said in a post yesterday, "The RP eixts mostly to make the DP look
> good." But your point may be better. There's no way to make the DP look
> good, but perhaps the RP can at least distract attention.
>

Actually, I think the bigger problem is that the DP can be made to
look good to what Proyect called the "decent left"

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/obama-wins-over-the-decent-left/

he was referring to Sunstein and Power among others.  Now that power
has been reinstated as part of the Obama team,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802453.html#

it seems more likely that, to a certain contingent, the DP has a real
moral heft--much more than just "good" to those people's eyes and
almost beneficent compared to the RP.  In this regard, following the
Palin meme at this point is a distraction from praising the transition
team, etc.--hence it is unlikely that the latest on the preggers
controversy will get any more traction in the "MSM" than the Obama
birth certificate bluster.

s