On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:16 PM, // ravi wrote:
> This is why I think Doug is wrong in the claim that it was plain to see what Obama was going to do once elected. What black and other youth got was not a crystal ball but one of those mini biosphere ball with a lot of organic stuff floating around from which, it was promised, life would emerge. And they bought it and we can’t blame them.
Of course, people who are not obsessive political junkies could have no idea what Obama would do. They don't really understand the set-up. But they were certainly prodded in that direction by the pundits:
> However, I don’t see Doug blaming them (despite your quoted section above) based on the full context of what he has said here: he is blaming some dudes called Younge and Schmitty (or something like that) - I presume well-informed elders of revolution and punditry - for their stumping/energy-waste/bloviation about Obama (and his greatness).