IS SHE LETTING HER BROTHERS WRITE HER COLUMN AGAIN?:

High Anxiety in the Mile High City (MAUREEN DOWD, 8/27/08, NY Times)

[T]his Democratic convention has a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution, that I had to consult Mike Murphy, the peppery Republican strategist and former McCain guru.

“What is that feeling in the air?” I asked him.

“Submerged hate,” he promptly replied.

Except that you can inevitably see the hate poking through like Scylla. The Obama supporters (are delegates from caucus states called caucasians?) hate the 80s, 90s & 00s; Bill for forcing the Third Way on them; George W. Bush; and Hillary, for not bowing down to the Obamessiah. But if they turn loose the hate they're looking at a Dukakisesque blow-out, so they're stuck pretending and the pretense is too thin to convince.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 27, 2008 5:53 PM