Comments on: Camille Paglia has no buyer’s remorse.

By: blooch

blooch — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:16:11 +0000

By: Right_Again

Right_Again — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:08:17 +0000

after reading just a few of the comments to her article. What is about the radical left and the inability to express themselves without devolving into crudity.

By: janis

janis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:04:51 +0000

in a flashy costume Camille would go easier on him. On the other hand, her loathing of Nancy Pelosi, whom she formerly admired, was quite satisfying.

By: djemi

djemi — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:30:19 +0000

what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" -- a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

By: David_Rasbold

David_Rasbold — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:28:54 +0000

It continues to entertain me that she so perfectly twists herself in knots to believe that Obama isn’t actually responsible for what’s going on, that it’s his minions who should be thrown under the bus because they’re mucking it all up.

Having said that she does criticize Obama for his poor decisions and lack of leadership. It’s clearly a dissonance in her mind because I believe she WANTS Obama to be the ideal version of himself; a construct that is housed in a perfectly compartmentalized portion of her brain. Unfortunately for her, the other (think rational) side of her brain is battling hard to let in reality.

She has been entertaining to read. She can all at once evoke a fist pump from me in agreement and a head-shaking retort.

By: Steph C

Steph C — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:00:42 +0000

It’s just that some of us have resolved not to take it anymore while others are still making excuses:

“He really loves us but we’re so bad, he has to punish us…”

By: Jeff Emanuel

Jeff Emanuel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:10 +0000

But who would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing to propose but vague and slippery promises

That line is an intentional joke…right?

By: SG_Lominac

SG_Lominac — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:13:00 +0000

which is why I like her. The souless collectivism line in and of itself is one of the the best arguments in dislodging our youth from these people. Collectivism is anti-liberal. I didn’t understand her argument against the drift to “souless” collectivism subsequent to her departure from Roman Catholicism line, that would seem to lead to “soulessness”. Perhaps she was referring to the authoritarian part of it.

By: JadedByPolitics

JadedByPolitics — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:06:04 +0000

so much I cannot help myself. Paglia is a battered woman!

By: bk

bk — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:50:31 +0000

She’s still enthralled with Obama for the most part. But she has routinely criticized his staff and others around him. Let’s see … who is it who picked those folks to serve in those roles? How can you be a genius if you choose to surround yourself with idiots?

Paglia is as honest a person as you’ll find on the left, so I keep waiting for her to get more disillusioned with Obama the President as opposed to Obama the Candidate and Obama the Teleprompter Reader.