Erica Jong Warms to Obama

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/8/08 at 12:46pm

Her short columns on Huff Post continue to express the feelings of many Hillary supporters. Not the PUMA freaks, but the REAL Hillary supporters who supported what Hillary stood for and voted for and are now supporting Obama.

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My admiration for Obama has grown. Not only for his lucid intelligence, his excellent preparation, his understanding that eight years of deregulatin' dudes (as Sarah Palin might put it) has accelerated this financial mess, but also his amazing ability not to grunt, sigh or punch his opponent. When McCain lies with a straight face and pretends he has never had anything to do with the GOP, I'd slug him. But Obama is a prince among debaters. He just smiles elegantly and awaits his chance for a reasonable response. His calm blows me away. I'd hate to debate him. I'd be raising my voice and tearing my hair (as we did at Jewish dinner tables on the Upper West Side when I was a kid) but he'd be cool as the proverbial cucumber. He will make a great president. His temperament is superb.

McCain looks old and ill to me. He seems to have no circulation under his papery white skin. He always looks like he is suppressing a fart. He has no cool at all. Even though he tried to correct his curmudgeonly reputation tonight, he was unconvincing. It seemed as if he had taken a Valium and it was wearing off. I wouldn't trust him to look into Vladimir Putin's eyes anymore than I trusted George W. Bush. He's the bomb-bomb King, no question. Erratic and rageful, condescending and insincere, he seemed to be auditioning to play Simon Legree in an antebellum bodice ripper.
Erica Jong: Is John McCain Really Our Friend?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 10/8/08 at 12:54pm

I've mentioned at work that McCain always looks constipated.

[blueroses]

Posted: 10/8/08 at 1:47pm

I love Erica.