raghu: > The Right > seems to hate [Obama] even more than the Left, yet the more they hate him > the more desperately he wants to be be their friend.
of course, at the GOP's top, a lot of this hatred is strategic: they act _as if_ they hate Obama in order to get him to wimp out once again. It makes the political machine more powerful (increasing esprit de corps), just as the US armed forces used racist images to make the troops more willing to kill the Japanese during WW2. Of course, then the rank and file can't be expected to do anything but take this hatred literally and the GOP elite (like most people) believes its own propaganda. -- Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." - John Kenneth Galbraith _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
