Stanley Fish Tries to arouse us from our Obagmatic slumber
March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Obama“Hey, I’m Stanley Fish! The enemy of the conventional wisdom is my friend, regardless of the facts.” [Incidentally, this is the way that the sequence of counterintuitive fads that is humanities academia functions.] “So Obama’s political machine has proven itself to be much more well-organized and formidable than McCain’s? So what. So Obama will raise far more money than McCain? So what. So Obama’s and outstanding and charismatic campaigner? So what.”
The idea that Obama will not be able to saddle McCain with the fiasco that is Bush is simply laughable. And Fish doesn’t seem to be aware that McCain in the end succumbed on torture–which really just sums up Fish’s ignorance of the political landscape he’s pontificating about.
