Via Andrew Sullivan, Nate Silver asks:
How can someone being portrayed as “the biggest celebrity in the world” also be painted as radical and out of the mainstream? Either Obama is like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton: a fluffy, substanceless, mass-consumed but empty celebrity-for-celebrity’s sake, or he is an unfamiliar and dangerous other with a hidden anti-American agenda.
Since when were vapidity and treachery mutually exclusive? Just to be clear, I don’t think Obama is an anti-American airhead. But it is certainly conceivable that one might lack substance and despise America at the same time.
