I suppose my category might be paranoid nutbag neutral. Love the rhetoric, but I won't believe it till I see it. Back on point, though:
The first thing I thought when he made the comment about that policeman wasn't "oh he messed up there", it was a variation of "If God didn't exist, man would have to invent Him." It might have been an instance of unrestrained feeling bursting out at an incompetent representative of authority who came down on a fellow black man... but it might not have been. If instead he remained the same erudite, thoughtful man that so very competently played his political game across his entire adult life (~17 years without fucking up)... he'd have come to the conclusion that he should make that kind of statement, both for credibility with his electors and as a way to get involved, insert his name into what's already being publicly discussed.
For the record, I don't think he specifically engineered the mechanics of the more recent "leak". I think he took opportunity to disseminate a "your President feels as you do, Jon Q. Public" message to a room full of people with a public voice. The consequence was, to put it mildly, far from unanticipatable. Went out verbatim? Perhaps the goal, perhaps not precisely the goal, but works just fine.
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on 2009-09-19 08:02 pm (UTC)The first thing I thought when he made the comment about that policeman wasn't "oh he messed up there", it was a variation of "If God didn't exist, man would have to invent Him." It might have been an instance of unrestrained feeling bursting out at an incompetent representative of authority who came down on a fellow black man... but it might not have been. If instead he remained the same erudite, thoughtful man that so very competently played his political game across his entire adult life (~17 years without fucking up)... he'd have come to the conclusion that he should make that kind of statement, both for credibility with his electors and as a way to get involved, insert his name into what's already being publicly discussed.
For the record, I don't think he specifically engineered the mechanics of the more recent "leak". I think he took opportunity to disseminate a "your President feels as you do, Jon Q. Public" message to a room full of people with a public voice. The consequence was, to put it mildly, far from unanticipatable. Went out verbatim? Perhaps the goal, perhaps not precisely the goal, but works just fine.