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    Bonbons for the GOP

    Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 11:29 AM | By Emily Bazelon
    Great framing, Rachael, and evidence that the real beneficiary of Obama's comment will be not Hillary but McCain, for whom it is a bag of bonbons to be snacked on all fall. Part of what's prompting the wincing and deep doubts, I think, is that Obama sounded like an anthropologist talking about objects of study to an audience that he assumed has the same disassociated point of view. He'd never have talked that way to a group of actual angry, gun-toting churchgoers, it's safe to say. The generous interpretation of his remark is that he can easily slip into the shoes of whomever he is talking to. The ungenerous one, courtesy Bill Kristol this morning, is that his mask slipped, and he revealed his inner patronizing elitist. My guess is some of both. I know all of this matters in terms of getting elected. I wonder, though, how much it matters in terms of how he would govern. What does it reveal on that front? I'm not sure much.
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