[lbo-talk] Dennis Perrin on the ecstasy of the Dems

Mr. WD mister.wd at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 09:22:33 PST 2008


On Jan 4, 2008 11:56 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> I'll post my Obama-bashing interview with Glen Ford later today, but
> I'll say this: the key to Obama's appeal, says Ford, is that he makes
> white people think that race doesn't matter anymore, which makes them
> feel good all over. A white politician couldn't get away with that
> argument; Obama can.

Maybe I should wait for the interview, but it seems to me that if you're the Ivy educated son of an Ivy educated Kenyan, race probably doesn't matter all that much -- certainly not nearly as much as it does if, say, you're a working class descendant of slaves with a high school education.

I'm as wary of "Obama's post-everything, togetherness-via-neoliberalism message of ambiguously described tommorowhood" as anyone else here, but damn, it _is_ nice to see Hillary lose, no?

-WD



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