On May 27, 2008, at 8:48 AM, David Cake wrote: > I'm not sure whether she just hit a nerve, or whether one > dumb comment has become the focus for a whole lot of anger against > her for unrelated things, or whether its all a cunning manipulation, > but it just seems odd to (emotionally uninvested, and currently not > that interested) me that this one tiny thing is getting such a > reaction, which seems to me quite out of proportion.
I think it's because of the different dynamic in the election. In March, she had multiple (not completely impossible) routes to winning, so this was just part of the static, and nobody noticed (I never heard about it until now). At this point in the election, really the *only* plausible way she has to get elected is if Obama gets killed. So it becomes easy to interpret her comment as "I'm staking my election chances on the other guy getting murdered", which is kind of more offensive. You're right of course that she's said lots of silly things to keep her campaign going. Part of it may be just that everyone's so damn sick of her nonsense at this point. -Patrick _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
