The Shocking Truth About Obama Revealed

Dear Daniel Koffler and Jewcy Staff,

This is getting annoying. All these shrill articles weeping over any criticism of Obama or cheering at his slightest success lack insight, nuance, or any willingness to look beyond the destructive horse-race we're stuck in.

Yes, the election is important. Yes, Jewcy writers should express their opinions. Its just that we all clearly know Koffler's opinion by now, he's getting quite predictable. If he offered new insights on the election, or how the Dems could pull together this summer, or, well, anything that wasnt a teary defense of his preferred candidate, you could justify publishing it. But lately Jewcy's political coverage has devolved into a "why I love Obama" blog of Koffler's, with nothing particularly new or interesting going on.

Please try for some innovative politcal coverage, something that might advance the discussion beyond the eye-poking we're currently engaged in.

(An effort to bring a slightly Jewish angle would be nice, too) 

Speak for yourself dude!  I quite enjoy Koffler's commentary and insight.  I find it refreshing.  Whats more, it obviously stirs debate and discussion.  Each of his articles are followed by many comments by third parties.  Much more than the average article.

Is it really necessary to insinuate that those who are opposed to Obama are racists?  Can't we just chalk all these "controversies" up to normal political machinations that would occur regardless of the candidates' skin color?  I do not doubt that were it the case that Hillary was an avid rap fan, or attended a church of the same tone as Rev. Wright's, the right would be just as quick to use that fact to rile up the Republican base as they have been against Obama.

But don't you see, Jon? What other reason could there be not to vote for him? None that Dan Koffler will cop to, anyway.

I agree, incidentally, that all this sturm und drang that accompanies any perceived slight to Senator Obama have become completely ridiculous.

And the worse things get, the more Koffler is pulling the race card. It is unfortunate that this stuff has become so much a part of the race, but on the other hand, Obama is hardly an innocent bystander in this regard. 

The fact that Koffler suspected that someone would misappropriate a Jay-Z reference actually reveals that Koffler himself may have worried this was a questionable judgment, which indeed proved slightly true, that is, if you are concerned with the likes of a periodical whose conservative readership will not be voting for either of the Denocrats running period. 

And if Obama really has the Democratic nomination sewn up as Koffler insists he has, then exactly why is Obama pulling out rapper references at this point? Strategically, it gains little, and risks more.

Perhaps the Senator is courting the "Choose or Lose" vote? You know, the segment of the electorate that has chosen to lose interest in every election it has been exhorted to participate in? Because if there's one things the kids go crazy for, it's a mainstream politician name dropping popular entertainment figures. Just ask all the Hollywood and music industry bigwigs who came out for Kerry and Gore!

At any rate, as Dan Koffler might realize if he weren't so swoony over Senator Obama, Jay Z is so fucking five years ago it's not even funny. Nas would have been a slightly more relevant bet ... if his new album wasn't named "N****r" with a single called "Fear of a Big Black Dick", that is. That's the sort of political plutonium that even a platitude slinging mediocrity like Senator Obama knows well enough to run far, far away from.

 And seriously, Dan - this sort of public love affair with Senator Obama might play well on the Huffington Post or Salon, but it's downright tedious (and bordering on irrelevant) in Jewcy. Are we to infer that embarrassing public displays of affection for Senator Obama are somehow synonymous with Jewishness?

Koffler, who huffs and puffs over Gahr's use of the word "complicity," left this part out,

“I haven’t just singled out rappers,” Obama told Al
Sharpton’s National Action Network conference last year, according to
the New York Observer. “I’ve said I’ve heard those words
[used by rappers] around the kitchen table in some homes. I hear them
in the barber shop. I hear them on the basketball court. All of us have
been complicit in diminishing ourselves.”

So...Obama can use the word "complicit" in regards to rap, but Gahr can't?

Hey Koffler, what other terms is Obama allowed to use but critics of Obama are not?