That’s an awful lot of white men
Bookworm on Feb 03 2009 at 12:04 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Am I missing something, or does Obama’s cabinet boast more than its fair share of old white guys. I know Daschle’s gone — thank goodness, give his ideas about health care reform — but that’s still a predominantly white, male cabinet. Indeed, if you flip through the Vanity Fair slideshow of the people he’s selected for his administration, you’ll see that a whole lot of the power positions (as opposed to the soft or symbolic ones) are lily white.
Now, as you know, I have no bones to pick with choosing the best people for the job, regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation, etc. If these are the best people (we’ll assume that they are for the sake of argument), then color, etc., shouldn’t matter. But I suspect had a Republican president chosen same sex and hue for his core leadership positions, there would have been more clacking and clucking from the media class.
Also, is it me being stodgy, or is there something unnerving about political types puffing and preening like Hollywood stars for an expensive, but nevertheless sleazy and partisan magazine?
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One of the ways I can tell I’m dealing with somebody who may be intelligent but does not know how to read or think critically is if he mentions subscribing to the New York Times, the New Yorker or Vanity Fair, or listening to NPR, and taking anything they say seriously.
I know somebody like Helen will protest this, but Obama is about as black as my boxer dog Lily. He is an upper middle-class metrosexual, with all of the affectations and effeteness that come with that class. He is comfortable around the white men he has chosen because they share his class biases and are as status-obsessed as he.
Thus, the pathetic posing for Vanity Fair.
There will be NO public contrasts with BushHitler’s cabinet, I say!!
None….Not One…..NONE!!