RS Endorses Obama [View All]

[Tyo]

This comes as no surprise at all. "A New Hope" the cover reads. And there he is firm, purposeful, almost steely. A little more animation and he could be the lead comrade in one of those onward-to-the-future posters from 1950s China.

I haven’t read it yet because reading hagiographic articles about Obama provokes much the same response from my stomach that listening to George Bush does. Sooner or later though I’ll have to see what they have to say. And knowing Rolling Stone, I don’t think they’ll give him a totally free pass.

Or maybe I’ll just put it away until we are about three years into the Obama presidency. It might be interesting at that point to see how all the hoping and dreaming of 2008 stacks up against the reality of 2011.

By the way, I know this belongs in GDP, but I also know what will happen if I post it there and it will not be…. productive. But if the mods want to move it they can feel free.

Postscript
I had to read it. It’s worse than I expected. These two quotes sum it up…

Obama has emerged by displaying precisely the kind of character and judgment we need in a president: renouncing the politics of fear, speaking frankly on the most pressing issues facing the country and sticking to his principles. He recognizes that running for president is an opportunity to inspire an entire nation.

But it might be more to the point to view Obama as Lincolnesque in his own origins, his sobriety and what history now demands.

Lincolnesque? Sticking to his principles? Wenner has obviously drunk long and deeply. Obama's attitude toward gays represents a crack in his vaunted principles big enough to drive a Humvee through yet even Rolling Stone doesn't see fit to point this out.

If God had told Obama that I donno, say, Asians, did not have the right to marry RS would probably have said something about it. But when it's directed at gays, silence. Is there any doubt that when it comes down to it we count for very little?