Friday, October 24, 2008

Rooting for Lying   [Jay Nordlinger]

Got an interesting letter from a friend yesterday — a marvelous academic. (Yes, they exist.) (Often, they are under cover.) She said, “I wanted to pass on to you a comment made by a friend. The occasion was Kenneth Adelman’s endorsement of Obama, along the same lines as Hitchens’s. My friend commented that Adelman, like others who’ve gone that route, actually hopes Obama is lying — or is at least insincere — about his intentions and plans.”

 

Continued my friend, “I was struck by the significance of this comment, since it represents a complete reversal of what traditional supporters of a candidate worry about: that the candidate will not keep his promises. I don’t remember encountering this odd phenomenon in any other election.”

 

Yes, a weird, weird election — which has days to run . . .

 

10/24 11:41 AMShare