06 August 2008

Now It All Makes Sense

Don't you love that moment when one last piece of information drops into place and now you understand something that had been bugging you? I never quite understood why, early in the campaign, Michelle Obama was sent out to tell wifely stories seemingly undercutting her husband: he's stinky, he snores, he doesn't pick up after himself, etc. Apparently, the campaign does know its man. If your self-important, overly sensitive, humorless candidate can't be sent out to be self-deprecating -- an important trait for American presidential candidates -- you just have to suck it up and send out his wife to do it for him.

6 comments:

joe shropshire said...

We will make you a deal. You will never do another post on Michelle Obama, and we will never have anything to say about it.

David said...

Interesting, because I didn't see this as a post about Mrs. O.

Harry Eagar said...

I would have thought they could have safely left to the deprecating to, say, Charles Johnson.

erp said...

Harry, is it deprecating to quote someone's public remarks verbatim?

David said...

Harry: The problem isn't being deprecating. That's easy. Even self-deprecating doesn't seem to be much of a problem -- even that prig Al Gore could manage it for 5 minutes on David Letterman.

On the other hand, self-deprecating by proxy would really be a trick.

Harry Eagar said...

Strictly, you cannot self-deprecate, only self-depreciate.

But I thought Obama did plenty of that by his disgusting treatment -- 3 times! -- of his granma.