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In reply to the discussion: Your anti-Obama memes are wearing thin. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)People make assumptions about how others feel and what they believe based on how they look. They spend less time listening to what they say, and more time focusing on how their appearance fits into a paradigm or a desired representation. Obama is cool. He plays basketball, he can sing Al Green, he's smooth, he dresses sharp, he doesn't let bullshit get to him. Oh, of course he's got to be left of Stokely! Never mind what he says, he isn't really a moderate, he doesn't mean it--he's WiNKING at us, don'tcha know....
Oh wait--that winker was Sarah Palin!!!!
And she was another individual whose appearance belied her attitudes. Just because Sarah Palin said she was a "hockey mom" didn't make it true. It's pretty obvious now that she's a power hungry nutcase who spent little time with her children (one of whom had a sleep-over boyfriend as a young teen and ended up a "teen mom" as a consequence) and failed to adequately supervise their development. But, oh, didn't she play the part of the "MILF" (I do dislike that term, but I believe she was shopping the theme), your next-door-neighbor, "I'm just like you" in designer clothes--and stupid people believed her--wink, wink!