I agree with the rest of what you wrote… The problem is, the attraction of Obama for many voters (i.e. not so much leftist as centrist-moderate) does draw on good, traditional American values (if it didn’t he couldn’t attract enough of the middle to win)– the problem is that this Obama is a mirage, stage-managed by an obsequious media & a shameless campaign (e.g. not above using the race card in the most cynical way, using strong arm tactics to suppress or block free speech by the opposition, etc.). I do worry that we may well have as our next president a man who has found congenial company (& mentorship, ideological affiliation, political collaboration, spiritual sustenance) among the most virulent, radical, hateful, extreme anti-Americans imaginable. I shudder at the thought. (How is it psychologically possible for a human being to be, as he presents himself, completely untainted & intellectually detached– indeed, intellectually/ spiritually opposed– to all that, the milieu of his political & ideological development, including those who are to this day (or at least to the start of his candidacy, e.g. in the case of Wright) his friends & peers? How is that possible unless you’re, like, a sociopath? (It says something that I’d prefer that to be the case… that our likely president be something of a sociopath… to the alternative…)

Yes, there is a real statistical phenomenon to be accounted for. But is the women/men ratio re Obama/McCain that different from what it’s been in other electoral years re Dem/GOP? It’s a genuine question; I don’t know. But if the phenomenon is more general, then it’s unwarranted to conclude it’s something specific about how women respond to Obama, no? (On the other hand, look, I don’t deny there’s a lot of Obama-infatuation going on… but, as Karen says, there’s plenty of Obama infatuation among men, too. Cf. the tingles running up Chris Matthew’s legs…)

While I concede the fact he cites – that women, especially young women, are overwhelmingly for Obama, I just can’t stand the harping on the high-testosterone Alpha male as the never-failing chick-magnet while all the Beta-boys are contemptible. The reason why I hate it so much is because it portrays women as if they’re merely responding to some pre-determined biological imperative. It makes women sound sub-human. Like animals. Answering the call of the wild, or whatever.

The first time I ever saw photographs (probably in some nauseating National Geographic) of African tribal women with their necks grotesquely elongated by the gradual addition of metal rings; or photographs of some other tribe’s women with preposterously and weirdly distended lower lips achieved by the insertion of wooden(?) disks; or the first time I ever heard about the old Chinese practice of hobbling (crippling) women; or the first time I ever heard about female genital mutilation in the Muslim world… well, that’s when I knew that culture trumps all else. Can’t you just admit that the toxic culture women grow up in has everything to do with their bad choices – and not all of them do make bad choices (miracle of miracles).

Whiskey himself admits that men have a “habit” of taking whatever sex they can find. Now we’ve had a generation’s worth of exhortations to women to be more like men – finally! men get to have it their way! – and suddenly the breakdown of society is all women’s fault due to single motherhood.

Nevertheless, it depresses me greatly that so many women are all gung-ho for Obama. But then again, it depresses me greatly that so many of whatever gender are all gung-ho for Obama.