Thursday, March 06, 2008

Rolling Stone Endorses Obama

"Rolling Stone is backing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, the first time the music magazine has endorsed a contender for the White House during the primary."

6 comments:

Mr. Cooper said...

Politician, or rock star? I keep getting confused.

CJ said...

I know, how dare Obama not have tepid support, what does he think he's doing bringing all this enthusiasm to the Democratic Party?

Mr. Cooper said...

http://nationaljournal.com/brownstein.htm

CJ said...

Exactly...both Obama and Clinton have brought untold amounts of enthusiasm to the Democratic Party this year, but Obama is singled out and mocked for being a "rock star". Just seems to be both a double standard and antithetical to the idea that electoral enthusiasm is a good thing for the party.

Mr. Cooper said...

You don't see a difference between the way that Clinton and Obama are received and reported on, or in the way that their supporters or rallies look?

CJ said...

I do see that the enthusiasm, both from a supporter position and from a media position (although, I think the media enthusiasm with Obama has diminished over the past couple of weeks), is greater for Obama than for Clinton, but I don't see why that is something negative that Obama deserves to be mocked for.