[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue May 6 08:31:05 PDT 2008


Michael Pollak wrote:
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> It sounds like antiobamamania is getting to be just as perceptually
> distorting an experience as obamamania.

I really think leftists have no business commenting on the relative merits/demerits of DP/RP candidates for president. Such comments almost inevitably degenerate into obscurely grounded _personal_ reactions to _pesonal_ attributes of the candidates. There is no principled ground for leftists to prefer or opose this or that candidate. The argument is over whether Obama's charisma is real or faked; over whether HRC is likable or not likable (and the latter _always_ exhibits distressing elements of sexism}. They are all war criminals. Their personalit traits are irrelevant.

And we can't affect the election. So we are only talking to one another with the same relationship to reality as a quarrel in a bar over Cubs vs White Sox.

Carrol



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