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March 19, 2008

Novick - Obama is a "fraud"

You can read the sordid details at Blue Oregon. Here's the money shot... er... quote:

According to a recent New Yorker article, Barack Obama of Illinois has stood with other Midwesterners in supporting the sugar industry. Doesn't this prove that Obama is just another captive-of-special-interests fraud who doesn't really care about global warming and doesn't deserve to be hailed as some great Kenya-Kansas hope? (emphasis supplied)

Here I'll just offer two observations and a question.

1. This sorta puts Novick's back-handed "endorsement" of Obama into context.

2. Just a few days ago Novick criticized Merkley saying, "He's running a very cautious, tepid campaign in a year when people prefer passion to prudence." A. that's an incredibly ironic charge given Novick's exceptionally tepid "endorsement" of Obama wherein he spent much of it praising Hillary Clinton. And B., I'm thinking that he's wishing right about now that he'd used a little caution before running off his mouth about Obama.

3. Anyone else here find Novick's "great Kenya-Kansas hope" quip about Obama... um... racially insensitive, to put it kindly?

Posted by Kevin at March 19, 2008 08:16 PM