I guess the tears worked. Surprising possible victory by Clinton at this time (8:30 EST) in New Hampshire, but it’s neck and neck.
Looks like McCain, Romney, Huckabee (38%, 28%, 12%) on Republican side. Still open, but bad news for Romney.
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Maybe they were worried that Obama was going to address the racial disparity in prison by putting more whites in jail.
The confused symbolism of a strong black man oppressing a white woman is short circuiting the liberal brain.
Usually it doesn’t cause them too much confusion or much reason for pause so long as the oppressed victim is a white woman. Society made them do it, don’t you know?
Hmmm, over at VFR, Auster writes:
Or, as Irving Babbitt put it, liberalism since its origins in the 18th century has consisted of two different liberalisms, which are sometimes at war with each other: the rationalistic, aimed at re-engineering society, and the romantic, aimed at some collective experience of liberation or human oneness. Hillary embodies the first liberalism, Obama the second. And the two are now indeed in a war.
Plausible enough, I suppose, but in this case Hillary’s female vulnerability triggered a temporary role reversal. It’s also possible that the triumphalist scenes following the Anointed One’s victory in Iowa struck discordant notes even in the hearts of white liberals.
I note that Obama, for coming in second, received nine delegates from New Hampshire. Lady Macbeth, for her stunning, emotional, momentum-swinging comeback, got . . . nine delegates.
And the question is, did Hillary’s camp rig the circus?
Not another right wing conspiracy!