Quotes of the day, 10/9
These have kicking around the blogiverse for a few days (so you may have seen them already) but they finally filtered down to my bottom-feeding level of awareness and I figured I’d share them for anyone who was equally out of the loop. First, from Ben Smith of Politico:
An Obama supporter, who canvassed for the candidate in the working-class, white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, sends over an account that, in various forms, I’ve heard a lot in recent weeks.
“What’s crazy is this,” he writes. “I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are f***ing undecided. They would call him a n—-r and mention how they don’t know what to do because of the economy.”
And, explaining the phenomenon, Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic:
Racism is a luxury that, at this point, a lot of white voters can ill afford. I think a crucial number of them know that.
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October 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Other good quote from writer Hendrick Hertzberg of the New Yorker magazine:
“I think McCain is down to seeds and stems”
November 12th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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