> I am tempted to say that at least some of the Right's hatred of Obama > is simply racism. On the other hand, Krugman and others remember > Clinton facing something very similar to this in the 90's.. > -raghu.
In the US, at least, (psychological) racism almost always plays a role in politics, but there are almost always other elements to any explanation of what happens. (it's another example of over-determination.) Some African Americans consider Clinton to have been "the first Black President," so racism could have played a role there, too. In politics, the unscrupulous use all the weapons they can find. Sometimes the scupulous, too. -- 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
