Sunday, September 21, 2008

Obama As "Other"

Again. Truthiness. The fog of misinformation is staggering and is leading to wildly uninformed voters. Kristof elaborates on the GOP's efforts to "other-ize" Obama.
Quote:
Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first wife, had regularly displayed an explosive and profane temper, and had referred to the Pakistani-Iraqi border ...