I produced this letter yesterday in an earlier Wright Wrong treatise. Seems to go hand-in-glove with GG's righteous irony.

"I know that my intial gut reaction to Obama's candidacy was to think there is no way this country would elect him, given his race; and I feared for his life, given our history. So, the legions of racists among us got their opening with the good Pastor. His outspoken demeanor transposes into wonderful sound bites for consumption by those who were never quite certain that they could keelhaul Obama front & center.

As I watched the various corporate media types dance around his candidacy & campaign, it seemed to me that they were looking for any matter to be exploited in taking Obama down. Pastor Wright has provided what they needed in the form of words taken out of context and fed by the insulated, self-satisified & smug to incurious, indolent & ignorant people whose miserable lives lead them to a ready willingness to anger and hatred.

I think Obama's done, no matter what he says or does. This is confirmed for me by the media's relentless focus on Wright, with not so much as a word about McCain's "spiritual advisors."

So, it looks like it's onward to the other Clinton, whose current pandering ways are so revulsing, and utterly in keeping with the media-driven political process. Now the corporate/governance claque can look for ways to barely disguise their mysogonistic genetics with yet and still more sound bites and 527 attacks to come.

I noticed that a recent Gallup Poll indicated that a majority of its respondents wanted McCain as president. I was incensed at first reading, but it makes perfect sense on further thought. We apparently only take comfort in a candidate whose policy savvy is laughable, who embodies pandering to an even greater extent than Clinton, just as long as he is a white male.

We can't handle and don't deserve any candidate who suggests business-as-unusual. I fear that Obama is capitulating away from what seemed to be such an approach. Frankly, he would best personify what I took to be his approach if he opted out of this asinine, media-driven slog. Leave it to the panderers. We don't seem to want nor do we appear to deserve anything else."

It was painful yesterday observing the public geneflection of Obama to the myopic views of white liberals , black apologists and the predictible right wing suspects..

Obama's capitulation to the pc lords twisted interpetation of Rev.Wright's view of our country's flawed social, political landscape was truly painful.

Obama's willingness to allow others to define and force him to bend over reveals the side of being bi-racial the pc lords lke to avoid.

Obama's self inflicted agenda to castrate his Black personhood as a ploy to disarm the white voter brings with it certain liabilities. Obama's public back hand to Rev.Wright was more than a Sista Soulja moment it was a psa( public service announcement) that those negroes and coloreds have been put in thier place and from this point forward the agenda of people of color( Black Folks) is now invisible and not worthy of any attention.

The DEMS have played this script for decades they own Black voters..The DEMS play the card that we are not as lethal as the GOP therefore Black folks owe us and there is nothing they can do about it..impotent negroes and coloreds are the core bloc of the DEMS

Obama's public lynching of Rev.Wright sealed the deal..

Shouldn't you be in LasVegas raping Waves or something rather than wasting our time here?

What would Jesus say about all this?

"Seek ye the truth and the truth shall set ye free."

Hmmmmm.

One good turn & c.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know."

His littering South Carolina with brochures about what a committed Cbristian he is

That's the only item on your list that is actual pandering. I'll give you that one. But please heed the meaning of the word.

To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses

-- Baldie McEagle

How is telling people what they want to hear not exploiting their weaknesses? I'm good, I'm above the fray, I represent a new kind of politics, and most of all, I don't take money from oil companies! See http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html

As for his argument that everyone will be covered at an affordable price - see http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/theyve_got_you_covered.html

And the bowling photo op wasn't pandering?

Green Job doesn't even get that one unless he has some compelling evidence that Obama isn't really a committed Christian. Pandering in a political context is more specific.

In politics, pandering is to portray one's views to fit in line with a certain crowd of voters the candidate is attempting to impress, when often, these are not the candidate's true beliefs. A candidate may engage in pandering out of desperation if s/he is already losing a race, or if polls taken prior to an election show others as being in the lead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandering

-- L.W.M

The very definition you cited supports my contention. "In politics, pandering is to portray one's views to fit in line with a certain crowd of voters the candidate is attempting to impress...". The rest of the sentence is just a qualification that uses the word often, not always. If the word word were always, what would be the difference bewteen pandering, hypocrisy and lying?

And the second sentence is just one example of pandering, not a comprehensive list.

Green "Bob"

Sorry, should have been Green "Job."

What is that, something you can get in a bad part of the woods for $30?

-- DCLaw1

Admittedly it's a lame screen name, and I wish I could change it, but is that the best you could do?

For some folks it's a natural thing, for others it's a hard row to hoe. James Wolcott is funny, even droll. Michelle Malkin is funny, but unintentional

totally blase

You know, people laugh at me sometimes. They've said so and I've seen them do it. You might mention that.