‘Ghetto talk’? Who uses that term, anymore? As an aside, ‘squares’ is prison parlance, for those not familiar with jail.
Analysis of Thompson’s chances against any given challenger in the primaries—and assuming he wins the nomination—against the Democratic candidate in the general election is a topic for serious study and discussion, but not by this guy. The author grossly underestimates the efficiency of Hillary’s campaign machine, and the remarks about Obama make broad-brush assumptions about both the candidate and the electorate that don’t hold up intuitively and certainly aren’t supported by any poll data—or even anecdotal evidence. But that’s the thing: breezy little opinion pieces like this are flooding the blogosphere and detract attention from more substantiative argument.
Given the thinly veiled racism, sloppy thinking, and shoddy logic, I’m almost tempted to believe this piece was written by a Democratic operative pretending to be a Thompson supporter. It’s almost too amateurish.
Obama’s dad’s from Africa and he was raised in Indonesia. What the hell does he know about ghetto talk?
grossly underestimating his opposition...
Ditto. Good post.