One of the problems for those sympathetic to Obama is that so many of his supporters, especially those in the arts and showbusiness, offer up such mindless, sentimental gunk in the name of his candidacy. Alice Walker's effort in The Guardian yesterday is one of the worst offences I've seen: unbelievably smug, narrow-minded, slimy and bigoted. Norm is on to something when he calls it infantile regression.
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