August 06, 2009

Feelings of Warmth and Visions of Competence

This post is mostly about Susan Fiske's work and the growing diversity in people's perceptions of what I guess we could call "Black America". But I look at these numbers and mostly I remember yet another thing John Kerry didn't hit hard enough in 2004 - in terms of domestic politics (whether it's wise internationally is a different issue), it always makes sense to run against Saudi Arabia. Given the ease with which the Bush administration could be linked to the Gulf royals you'd really think Democrats would have hit that point harder. Of course these numbers also show that Democrats shouldn't cower from demanding "the rich" pay more taxes than "the middle class", and help explain Rudy Giuliani's popularity, his megalomania notwithstanding (since he took care of those icky homeless).

Posted by armand at August 6, 2009 02:53 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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Not to mention the ferrets and their "diseased" owners. Did you see the utterly juvenile response his people issued to the pre-Gatesgate-Summit beer thingie to an invitation for him to reconcile with the ferret guy over a beer? Seriously, he had his staff track down ferret-related beers just to tuck a couple of sneering puns into their statement declining the invitation. It was amazingly callow and so unnecessarily derisive. Sort of like Rudy, come to think of it, so I suppose it was apt. Is he on to his next wife yet? Putz.

Posted by: moon at August 6, 2009 03:36 PM | PERMALINK
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