Camille is interesting in the way a bicycle-riding bear is. So, she occasionally says something true. Big deal. Thoughtful conservatives say MORE things that are true—and they say them all day long.
She is fundamentally an unserious and uninteresting person.
Who would be the conservative equivalent?
She can’t admit that Mr. Obama is no more than he seems to be: a salesman like Bill.
I always enjoy reading Paglia, even if I don’t agree with her very often. A keen mind and a sharp wit are always in style. Plus, she takes such delight in batting that doofus Naomi Klein about, the way my cat bats around his favorite catnip toy. :-)
I’d also suggest Pat Caddell qualifies as an open-minded liberal. He’s another one I always enjoy, even when I don’t agree with him.
On the “maybe list”...Doug Schoen and Diane Feinstein, though the latter only infrequently. Schoen is on Hannity a lot, and strikes me as a fairly straight shooter. He seems much more interested in the “nuts and bolts” of issues than spinning them. As for DiFi, well...she’s way down the list, but there *are* times when she “gets it”. It may be more out of politically necessity than any true conviction, but she is (IMHO) still light years ahead of Boxer or Pelosi...or most of the current administration.
Paglia is great at skewering liberal and conservative idiocy, but, typically, in a recent column, she went with pure emotional bias in her continued support of Obama. Liberals are fundamentally irrational.
I love this little ady...Sharp, witty, and so much wiser than some of her liberal friends, but she still believes in Camelot and the ideals of the hippies where war is immoral and the Military-Industrial complex was wrong; a benevolent liberal Democratic government is best for the country, and the name of the game was Kennedy...But unfortunately the world moved too fast and before we knew it nations had fallen, ideologies had crumbled, and during many of our years our nation just plodded along with no grand view of things..She is trying to pull the far leftists back towards the center and back to their senses...but the hole in the dike is just too big now and we have to suffer under the worst WH in decades..The pain she feels as a liberal is nothing like the pain we conservatives are feeling as we watch our country disintegrate...
My favorite liberal lesbian columnist. At some dinner party, somebody thought it would be hilarious fireworks to put Paglia and Rush Limbaugh at the same table. Turns out, they had a great time together...both have a disdain for government control of our lives, and a love for really fine cigars.
Think Juan Williams is the last open minded Liberal.
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What's her point here? It seems to me that she's saying get rid of those guys and the real Obama will come out: The post-racial, bipartisan one-for-all and all-for-one Obama.
However, I believe these people represent the real Obama. Sorry, I don't believe Ms. Paglia's reading the liberal tea leaves right. It sounds reasonable when you read it but when you stop and think about she's the one getting fooled.
Miss Paglia unlike most of the Left today loves Western Civilization an its achievements. If you remember she was going gaga when Pope John Paul II died because the world would get a close hand look at the glories of the Renaissance and the pomp of the Catholic Church.