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What's really amazing is the ability of Salon to continue to write the same article for four months straight and still have the "moxie" to pretend it's fresh journalistic perspective. I guess that wouldn't be so bad if the article were a decent one, but once more we're treated to an oversimplified thesis wrapped up in over worked rhetorical analysis: "This is one thing, but what if it's really THIS!" or "That is the case (did anyone say case?) but, maybe it's not, maybe, just maybe, it's THIS!."
But I have to comment at least on the ridiculous false choice set up between "those who get it" and "those who don't." What a first class piece of drivel and thinly veiled, catty attempt to lash out at people like me (under forty, PhD, Hillary supporter). Some of us just don't think that Obama is what you apparently blindly accept him to be. It's not that we don't hear the claims and appreciate their political potential; it's rather the case that we take in the whole story and understand that Obama is pretty much unicorns and pots of gold (albeit with some very ernest glares of outrage and sincerity amid his speeches). Hillary is not perfect but what Salon incessantly bitches about is just plain old political necessity.
