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| Letter from a young, hip, cynical former Obamaniac |
| 2008-02-16 |
| Dear Barack: I know it's kind of lame to break up with you on Valentine's Day. And on the Internet to boot. But it's also kind of ironic. And that's what I need to tell you. As an ironic, contrarian, so-hip-it-hurts Gen X-er, I just can't love you anymore. I can't like you because Â… because, well, everyone else does. And suddenly supporting you just seems soooo last week. Last week, my hip friends were all thronging stadiums and manning phone banks for you. Now they're all blogging against you and downing water and Tylenol like they've just done 12 Obama shooters in 20 minutes and then barfed in the cloakroom. I know this is going to sound strange, but it's not you, Barack, it's me. Really it always was me, but now it's really, really about me. I don't know when we started to feel weird supporting you, but: My friend Hanna thinks it started with that "Yes We Can," video. I mean, last week I was totally crying watching it. Now just thinking about how choked up I got gives me the creeps. I think I felt something at the time, but even if I did, I'm pretty sure I don't want to feel it anymore. Feeling inspired is soooo early-February. Or maybe it started when everyone began madly posting last week about how you are not the Messiah. And that got me thinking. Then, when commentators started accusing me of being a venomous drone in a "cult of personality," I just needed to get out. I mean cults are soooo 1970s. And cults of personality? So totally first century. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Dont' vote for someone because they can deliver a good speech. Hitler, Stalin and Castro could hold crowds spellbound for hours. They did it by lying. Obama's Rainbow Coalition redux is another lie. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-02-16 13:41 |
| #1 Er, Dahlia Kithwick and Slate Magazine are neither young nor hip. I will grant that hey are probably cynical tho. She cites the LA Dog Trainer, Time, and Mother Jones. And again they are not young, not hip, and in the case of the first two, totally cowed by the Clinton machine. Most of Obama's potential new voters are not reading Slate. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-02-16 10:01 |