Irony Watch

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Somehow I’d missed the fact that Andrew “Fifth Column” Sullivan was an Obama supporter. I really have no idea what to make of that, but really, when Sullivan isn’t picking his ass, he’s talking out of it. A reader sent me this link today, where Sullivan, above the comment “The race is not over,” quotes Obama differentiating himself from Hillary Clinton:

But I can tell you this: when I am President of the United States, the American people and the world will always know where I stand.

That’s rich. I’ve been following his campaign since before it started, and the best I can come up with is that he stands halfway between any two parties who happen to differ on any subject. No thanks.

Comments

  1. sarabeth says:
    October 12, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    You’re disagreeing with Obama’s statement, though?

    Sounds flawless to me. When I am President of the United States, the American people and the world will always know where I stand. But since I’ll never be president, you’ll never know where I stand. (Or, if you want to be nice to him, till then you’ll never know where I stand.)

  2. matt says:
    October 12, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    he’s the future of this party, and he always will be.

  3. eponymagain says:
    October 12, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    I was in my neighborhood tavern at one point during the last presidential election and overheard another patron actually say, “I may not agree with everything Bush says, but at least I know where he stands.”

    For a politician to posit that his position is actually something that is already known a priori and it is therefore somebody else’s burden to disprove is truly rhetorically unbeatable. That Obama makes the equation a hypothetical to boot is supernaturally evasive.