re: #72 goddamnedfrank

He’s still black tho’, and he hasn’t changed his name, or admitted to being the son of Sidney Poitier, so they’ll find a way.

/Six Degrees on the brain.

I’m wondering if this wasn’t Obama’s strategy all along: Just slowly creep to the right, agree to everything. As the ODS (veiled racism) gets deeper even as he moves right, slowly and surely, Obama takes the center, alienating bot the right and left wings, creating a centrist party that will dominate for a generation.

I mean think about it. Once your opponent has defined himself only in terms relative to your own position (i.e., “Obama is a radical leftist!”), then if you move to take the positions your opponent formerly held, then you leave your opponent no choice but to get continually crazier to distinguish himself from you.

At the end of the day, you have Obama standing in the middle of the field, with the GOP huddled on the rightmost edge, and his former base pissed off, but the vast middle of the field will find itself no longer identifying as much with either party, leaving Obama as the obvious centrist choice.

Could he be that fucking smart?