Why in God's name did The Flat Hat feel it necessary to endorse primary candidates? First off, given the paper's open hostility to anything right of Ted Kennedy (hereforward and forever known as TK), why would they bother endorsing in the Republican race? As if Republicans are going to change their votes because a rather left-of-centre editorial staff endorsed a candidate? If anything, they'll vote for the other guy. Now, the endorsement of Barack H. Obama was predictable (I suspect the same in early November), and since I would wager most who bother to read the Flat Hat op-eds are practicing libs, it may shift a vote or two. But the one thing I have against Obama's candidacy is that it is dishonest. The National Journal found Obama the most liberal Senator in the Senate over the past year (rating: 95). He is left of Hillary, TK, Feingold, Webb, all of them, but the media let him come off a centrist. Obama is not a centrist, he just plays one on TV. "Post-partisanship" in Obama's world is really more along the lines of "We are all Keynesians now" (BTW, that quote is from Nixon) than "Let's disagree with civility."
Oh, one more thing: I'm glad to see that The Flat Hat is committed to ending stereotyping. Really, I am.
Basketball home vs. Hofstra-this one's a must win, plain and simple.
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