Monday, March 31, 2008

Now this truly is laughable...

Evidently, Barack Obama doesn't want Montana to vote. Or so says Hillary Clinton. To be honest, even though I feel she should leave the contest I am not unsympathetic to her position: as long as there's some remote chance, why not remain in the race and see what happens? That's what I'd do. But if she's just going to make stupid-ass remarks like this one (isn't Montana believed to be an Obama state?) instead of holding Obama's feet to the fire on domestic issues there really isn't much of a point to her continued presence, is there?

And does anyone really believe this quote from HRC, with respect to her campaign's lack of success with superdelegates: "I don't even keep track of it, I can't even tell you that figure." I guess it's a forgivable lie, but I'm tempted to read more into it, since her campaign has become rather heavily predicated on denial of the current political situation.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.