Seen on the rump of a car last week:
O’BAMA 2008
♣ Vote Irish ♣
♣ Vote Irish ♣
And today: Jeff Greenfield on the American preference for presidents with unchallenging (i.e., bland, preferably mono- or bisyllabic Anglo-Saxon) last names. Could a George W. Dukakis ever have been elected? George W. Kucinich (or Voinovich)? George W. Deukmejian? A “nation of immigrants”—yeah, so what?
Addendum 2008.10.31: “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama” (posted to YouTube in February ’08) [h/t to Thomas N.]
