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...for me is just looking at the mugs of these two candidates.
Indulge me for a moment: In the context of the candidate winning by the mandate of God Obama always struck me as more naturally Aristocratic than Clinton. That is what the mandate of heaven is I suppose. Aristocrats lording it over the commoners.
He has a look in his eye that suggests the world was made for him and that's that.
It's a bit uncanny, she actually seemed like the one faking the Duchess act and Obama cold as ice knowing he'd beat her cocking his eye from under his top hat as he lounges around his Club drinking Brandy and smoking cheroots.
"It's a race to decide who the British goverment will follow blindly for the next 4 years" Kennedy/Kerry '08
by Salo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:22:32 PM PDT
It's in self-possession, in delivery and in attitude. I'm sure you saw it in Obama's 'race' speech. It's the (paraphrased) question Carville asked: "Do you see any other president on that stage?"
by DelicateMonster on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:26:23 PM PDT
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it's called the vanity of an Eton Duke.
by Salo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:29:34 PM PDT
In Bloomberg's polls of Obama a lot of people w/racialist attitudes stated the same thing.
In my life experience the jauntiness of an educated black/brown person was just a new way of saying "uppity". It seems to be a subtle even subconscious idea that Obama doesn't know his place.
You even name things that you know Obama doesn't do, (like longue around in a country club). Even though he's rival does do those things.
I'm sorry you might not be pushing this meme (and I have seen it pushed on HRC 44 and Taylor Marsh), if you are not, you might have some underlying resentment.
Some people do this when they see a Black/Brown person achieve some lofty goal (that they themselves have/can not achieve).
If you are just pushing the meme, then you are truly a sick individual that hates America.
The definition of insanity is voting the same way and expecting a different result. I'm talking to you FL,OH, KY, WV!
by Shhs on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 07:28:37 PM PDT
when "white" people are in the room.
It is amazing what some people project of their own imagination and bias onto others.
"The United States will always do the right thing, after trying all the other options." ~ Winston Churchill
by Gregory Wonderwheel on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:30:43 AM PDT
by Gregory Wonderwheel on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:29:06 AM PDT
wide narrow
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