Woody Allen recently observed that if Obama lost, it would be a “disgrace and a humiliation” for the country, dignifying himself at long last with a potent world view other than his wanton, dirty old man’s heart.
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I understand and appreciate the excitement around Obama’s commitment to choice, a topic that Al Gore, for example, parlously vacillated on during the debates, and I find certain of Palin’s views (on the environment, on same-sex marriage – okay, virtually all of her views) detestable, obviously.
Yet I am intrigued by Bernhard’s attack because – in its entirety, it merely excites our culture’s not-so-thinly veiled loathing of women with political power and ignites also scarcely latent views about religion and race.
