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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (41620)	10/31/2008 5:00:17 PM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Fun. You'll like this: fivethirtyeight.com "...Some, of course, will never come aboard, and one of these incidents presented a personal highlight for me. At the McCain event in Miami, a woman approached Brett and me inside the media area to ask what media outlet we were with, and subsequently to pitch her argument. She said she was a "blogger with No Quarter" and I thought, oh, this is going to be good. Sure enough, she proceeded to argue that there were many former Clinton supporters now supporting John McCain because they were outraged at Obama's lack of experience, a claim that is absurd on its face. (Nobody ever gets outraged about someone's "lack of experience." It doesn't drive anger. Bad policies might drive anger. Not inexperience.) Brett had to leave because he couldn't take the barrage of ridiculousness, and half an hour later bailed me out with the fake "phone call" move. For my part, I listened to her patiently. When she finally paused, I looked her dead in the eye and calmly told her that her site was "rancid." Everything about what Larry Johnson was doing was scummy, I told her squarely, his site was a grotesque disgrace. I'm not sure that was the reaction she expected, but I even got her complimenting me on my honesty and forthrightness and reasonable tone with which I explained how horrifyingly unacceptable the racist bile on Larry Johnson's site truly was. But then it just went on waaay too long. Eventually she thought she had me trapped. "I hear you talk about racism, but nothing about sexism." I replied that it is unacceptable to make racism and sexism into a race to see which one is worse, when they're both awful things. She asked me to think long and hard about whether I was a sexist, because I was in the media, and so was the sexist Chris Matthews and the sexist Andrea Mitchell, who had commented on Sarah Palin's clothes in a sexist way. Yeah, you heard me. For half an hour. Til Brett did the phone call thing. Later, catching up with the great Al Giordano over a pint of Guinness in Tampa, he recounted having a similar conversation with this same woman (by description) who trapped him next to a broken elevator in Denver during the convention. "Oh man, that woman was crazy!" he recalled..."