Last week we were treated t a perfect example of "guilt by association" from Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby.
This week we are blessed with a text book case of "guilt via fantasization"from the Boston Phoenix' political columnist Steve Stark.
This week's issue contains the following gem:
"...Obama may be the harbinger not only of a biracial but a "feminizing" trend brought on by the huge gender shifts in American life"
To quote the olde Misanthrope "What Rubbish!"
If Steve Stark wants to call Senator Obama a pussy he should just come out and say it and skip all the tedious halfwitted psycho-babble. Never mind the fact that Stark offers no evidence to support his thesis other that the vague notion that us Americans like our presidents to be tuff -n- manly acting.
Nope...a cartoonish fixation on manliness politics seems to be a regular Steve Starkian theme, one he loves to project onto the electorate with the least provocation.
However it is as with so many other aspects of his writing, nothing new. I can recall with the simplest nostalgia that Steve was writing the same dross about the feminizing trend fostered by Bill Clinton way back in 1993.
With Steve Stark, the names change but the obsessions remain the same.
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