I think it's just a game: pretend to take great offense, and hope like hell you can get others to do it for real. I don't think it's particularly Republican or Democratic: it's what people much too often do when they'd rather win than be real and honest.
I thought Obama's camp made too much of Hillary Clinton's comment about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson, alleging disrespect or racial insensitivity or the like where almost certainly none existed. (Of course, big bad Bill didn't help with his pointer at Jesse Jackson after the South Carolina primary.)
Of course, there are lots of other games, but this is the one that makes me want some bacon--no lipstick, please.
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Date: 2008-09-11 01:58 pm (UTC)I thought Obama's camp made too much of Hillary Clinton's comment about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson, alleging disrespect or racial insensitivity or the like where almost certainly none existed. (Of course, big bad Bill didn't help with his pointer at Jesse Jackson after the South Carolina primary.)
Of course, there are lots of other games, but this is the one that makes me want some bacon--no lipstick, please.