I went to a hip party in New York tonight. Well hip to me anyway, I live in the sticks. People were talking about Obama. To wit:
"Who do you think Obama’s favorite character on The Wire is?… Omar, the gay black gangster…"
"I went to a MoveOn rally in ’03 and heard Hillary speak and everything she said I was cheering for. Now I see her and that’s all gone. I feel like the 15 percent of them that was conniving and dirty, that’s all of them now, and the part that cared about actually changing things, that’s gone."
"I will vote for McCain before I vote for her. At least with McCain it will thoroughly discredit the Republicans and Obama can win next time. Where with her things will limp along for another 8 years and then the Republicans will get to come back in."
"Have you read his first book. It’s great. I feel like he’s a Jew. He talks about his confused identity the way a Jew would."
"Why do our politicians have to be made into our parents like they’re perfect. It’s so oedipal. We build them up, people are building Obama up and then they’re going to be disappointed."
"We are testing him. We are trying to find out if he is truly a great man."
