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Mickey Kaus loses it

Maybe you thought Barack Obama's fake presidential seal was just a stupid gaffe, kind of like Mitt Romney's podium screw-up back in 2006. But no! It's much, much more than that. Mickey Kaus, take it away:

[T]he faux seal was a disaster not just for the reason I gave (that it suggested Obama is "stuck up"). It also carried this counterproductive connotation: that there is a separate Obama Nation, grown up in opposition to Bush's nation. Obama Nation has its own insignia and its own reality. It is somewhat alarmingly devoted to its leader. And this blue tribe is about to completely conquer the current ruling red tribe. ... Voters didn't much like this kind of revolutionary swagger in the 1960s. They may not like it now.

Whoa.

Even without the Dylan link, that's some wild shit.

  • Rick said:

    It's not that Obama isn't doing what every other political hack from Chicago has done. It's the insulting, simplistic "you can trust me, I'm not like the other guys" BS. He may accomplish a lot in the election. Making us all less cynical is unlikely to be numbered with his accomplishments.

    June 26, 2008 10:54 AM
  • JacobWeisberg said:

    You could have written that headline once a month for the past 9 years and it would have been accurate every time.

    June 26, 2008 11:33 AM

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