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Blogger Indra Maghavan said...

Nice call, Steve. You seem to understand his mentality quite well.

8/12/08, 2:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bullseye.

He can still do the award thing, so you may have two in one.

8/12/08, 2:58 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damn, you're good. The Clinton campaign should have surreptitiously retained you for campaign strategy.

8/12/08, 3:03 PM

Blogger Danindc said...

actually Steve, I thought this before you wrote it

8/12/08, 3:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hahahahaha! Steve Sailer...you really are the greatest pundit alive. The only one who consistently makes novel and interesting predictions that *come true*. The contrast to Sullivan and Atrios and Yglesias and Podhoretz could not be more striking.

This is because you have a source of truth, the Maxim gun of h-bd, that the others do not.

Brilliant work.

8/12/08, 3:17 PM

Anonymous canson said...

"This is because you have a source of truth, the Maxim gun of h-bd, that the others do not."

Not to sell h-bd short but Steve gets it right more often because he is willing to observe reality without ideological filters and report without regard to conventional wisdom. His source for truth is caring about truth. I know it's circular logic, the thing is though, if you don't value truth you will never seek it.

8/12/08, 3:47 PM

Blogger ben g said...

As an Obama supporter, this had me worried. Did some googling thought, and, according to CNN.com and Essence magazine, it isn't true:

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/12/daughter-rev-wright-not-publishing-book-in-october/
http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

8/12/08, 4:16 PM

Anonymous David said...

ben g's link leads to a funky little story in which Anderson Cooper claims Jeri Wright claims her dad (currently in Ghana's "email hell") chuckled on the phone that no such book is forthcoming.

Curiously, in the comments section of the New York Mag piece, somebody called "attyforpositivechange" says:

"Rev. Wright has advised me that he is not coming out with a book about Obama. You have stated a vicious lie, which is clear defamation!"

If Coop ain't an attorney, and the commenter isn't lying, is the commenter Jeri? This Jeri?

(Since Jeri is interested in liberating people, how about freeing us all from the misery of ubiquitous head-splitting "hip-hop beats" polluting our formerly liveable civilization, eh?)

Thank you, Jeri, but I'll wait for the rev. to deny the story himself by telephoning a news outlet or even Coop.

8/12/08, 5:21 PM

Anonymous Luke Lea said...

If, in the final days of the campaign, we have dueling talking heads between Rev. Wright and Obama, then not only might this suck all the air out of the McCain campaign, but, I predict, Obama will come out on top. Wright is a perfect foil for his imaginative centrism -- which, by the way, is something you cannot fake.

Full disclosure: my batting average in presidential prognostications is zero.

8/12/08, 7:38 PM

Anonymous headache said...

"electronically inaccessible region of Ghana"

From what I've seen of Africa whilst traveling through there on my motorbike, that woud be all of Ghana except for the Hilton. WTF the place is at least good enough to source all our world leaders from, beginning with Kofi Annan, now Obama, maybe the next pope?

8/13/08, 1:35 AM

Blogger michael farris said...

Now, if Obama and Wright are really, really on the outs and Wright wants to sabotage the campaign I could believe this. But, I'm really not so sure they are.

I was travelling and away from computers when the second Wright shoe dropped and Obama supposedly broke with him. This means all I saw were snippets played in heavy rotation on CNN international.
In the CNN snippets, I didn't hear Obama make a definitive break. I heard him make a lot of open ended sentences along the lines of "what more can I say?" (not an exact quote) that everyone was interpreting as a break. On the basis of that I assumed that the whole thing was a put on, another "I have understood you" moment. After getting getting back on line I didn't follow up (partly lack of interest, partly the busiest time of my work year was coming up).

My take: The "Obama might have to distance himself from me" remarks were out there and Obama's "throw grandma under the bus" speech hadn't repaired the original damage. So Wright shows his ass in public enough that Obama can make an angry sounding so that people will believe he's cutting Wright off and (crucially) does so in a way that doesn't alienate black voters (note Obama's references to Wright's 'disrespect', a culturally appropriate reason for anger).
My prediction is that after the election, there will be a 'reconciliation' followed by more preachy condescension on Obama's part towards critics.

While I'm here. I'm interested in the typical white grandmother. What struck me in his speech was that he talked about how much his typical white grandmother loves him, but doesn't ever mention how much he loves her (which would have softened people's distaste somewhat). A small detail, but ...

Finally, I note that when he recently visited said typical white grandmother, he did so on his own without wife and kids. I guess that's just being considerate; what old woman living by herself would want to see her great grandchildren? My guess here is bad blood between the missus and the typical white grandmother.

8/13/08, 2:54 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What struck me in his speech was that he talked about how much his typical white grandmother loves him, but doesn't ever mention how much he loves her ... Finally, I note that when he recently visited said typical white grandmother, he did so on his own without wife and kids. I guess that's just being considerate; what old woman living by herself would want to see her great grandchildren?

This is what draws me back from my prediction that an Obama administration will be so laughably incompetent, no harm will result. Observations like this make me think an Obama administration will be militantly, aggressively, and effectively anti-white.

And it just occurred to me, this is what may drive whites to ally with Hispanics as a matter of mutual protection of group interests. I think this is Fred Reed's take on the situation.

--Senor Doug

8/13/08, 7:34 AM

Blogger Concerned said...

According to this website, the book is not happening.

http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

8/13/08, 7:46 AM

Anonymous David said...

Yeah, The New Yorker made it up out of whole cloth - purest whimsey! No one at the New Yorker is acquainted with anyone in the New York publishing world; there are no rumors; no one is even thinking of a book. Book? What book? Never heard of it.

How does one telephone one's daughter from an "electronically inaccessible" region? Well, white Jesus could change water into wine...

8/14/08, 3:13 PM

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