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I disagree, Jeorb.  There is a huge amount of a symbolic power in Americans electing a black president.  I think the gay dude running in the Davie riding is closer to McCain having picked Palin to get the woman vote.  Obama’s story is very inspirational both in its symbolic power and in that he genuinely worked his way up from the bottom. The humour needs to cover the low-brow, simple-mindedness? jordanhudson: The thing about bring low-brow simple-mindedness into humour is the humour needs to cover for it.  Fail.  I think getting excited about having a black president is about as dumb as that time someone ran a gay MP in Vancouver Centre because Davie st happened to be in that riding. (via shmooshmoo)

I disagree, Jeorb.  There is a huge amount of a symbolic power in Americans electing a black president.  I think the gay dude running in the Davie riding is closer to McCain having picked Palin to get the woman vote.  Obama’s story is very inspirational both in its symbolic power and in that he genuinely worked his way up from the bottom.

The humour needs to cover the low-brow, simple-mindedness?

jordanhudson:

The thing about bring low-brow simple-mindedness into humour is the humour needs to cover for it.  Fail.  I think getting excited about having a black president is about as dumb as that time someone ran a gay MP in Vancouver Centre because Davie st happened to be in that riding.

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