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January 8th, 2008
12:59 pm - Election stuff.
I have been sitting around trying to think of what this whole experience vs, err..!experience, I guess, reminds me of, and why it seems like that dog doesn't want to hunt right now.
Remember when that guy who wrote "The Cult of the Amateur" was on Colbert and was basically soundly thrashed and the internet at large pronounced him a douchenozzle? I think that meme is why invoking "experience" isn't working for Hillary. All Hillary's talk of experience just makes her sound like she's trying to bar the gates to anyone who hasn't "earned" the right to be called an expert by her own circle. Young people, though, have grown up to prefer a meritocracy. Now, whether or not Obama would come out on top in a strict meritocracy is irrelevant. The point is that by stressing this idea that you have to have put in a certain amount of time lingering in the company of political insiders and powerbrokers in order to claim to be experienced, she looks like she's anti-meritocracy, and that makes her look like all those aging Baby Boomers that the younger electorate have to work with who frustrate the heck out of them and who they perceive as being resistant to good ideas unless they come from someone who has already been pronounced The Authority by their age group peers. It identifies her with a group young people see as anti-change, people who bar the gates, and yes, status quo maintainers.
I wish Bill didn't seem to be getting so upset over this. I know, of course he's upset, but he's totally killing my fantasy wherein he's Secretary of State to President Obama, with Gore as UN Ambassador. Think of my fantasies, Bill. However, I have to admit that his anger seems to be coming from a husbandly place rather than a purely competitive place, which is actually quite sweet.
In other news, is somebody going to relocate Obama's Kenyan relatives to the US? I'm worried about them already, after seeing his nice little old...err...stepgrandmother? And uncle, on CNN last night, I think it was.
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October 17th, 2007
12:56 pm - Andy, 2002-2007
Andy died yesterday.
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