Saturday, November 5, 2011
"... an electorate is an unstable amalgam of loose sentiment, emotional noise, inchoate cultural signifiers and untold half baked ideas to begin with... throw astringents like fear, anger and resentment into the mad jumble and you have a recipe for complications that can easily escalate towards the worrisome and unleash forces that any sane person would view with great circumspection... Obama is an example of this... Hillary was obviously the superior candidate but she was overrun by a wave of sentimentality, a dream of a wish of a desire, that carried Obama forward... expertly guided by him of course... and lent to the illusion of the man the pretense of a truth that people wanted very much to believe in... Cain is cut from similar cloth, although in this instance colored red and not so cleverly woven... even though my dislike of Obama is plain, he at least looked and sounded presidential... his game was quite polished and I understood how people could be seduced by what he was selling... Cain on the other hand comes across as a congenial yet still foppish huckster, a sideshow charlatan, a guy whose unabashed arrogance has landed him on a playing field that looks to easily overwhelm his limited skills... all the more reason I guess to be deeply troubled that so many seem so willing to be so easily fooled..."
