tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post5734218415791886308..comments2024-03-05T05:53:36.239-07:00Comments on The Masculine Heart: How This Election Could Change the Meaning of Masculinity in Americawilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-11044045031052288392008-11-08T17:27:00.000-07:002008-11-08T17:27:00.000-07:00I believe that you have to be able todisplay both ...I believe that you have to be able to<BR/>display both McCain's and Obamas characters when appropriate. It's not a matter of one or the other. I relieve people will grow tired of Obamas approach over time. Let's see of this rhetoric is backed up by equally principalled action.<BR/>ColinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-40642965305115480642008-11-07T17:00:00.000-07:002008-11-07T17:00:00.000-07:00Relevant post from Ulrich Mohrhoff:http://koantum....Relevant post from Ulrich Mohrhoff:<BR/>http://koantum.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/the-power-of-not-moving-from-the-still-center/<BR/><BR/>------<BR/><BR/>Stanley Fish made the campaign’s most audacious — also the most thoughtful — attribution of a certain aspect of divinity to Barack Obama. Fish was a Milton scholar before he became a culture warrior and, more recently, the New York Times’ “Think Again” blogger on the life of the mind, on campus and off. When Doctor Fish pictured the taunting John McCain and the imperturbable Barack Obama as a version of Satan’s contest with Jesus, he was drawing on Milton’s Paradise Regained — “a four-book poem in which a very busy and agitated Satan dances around a preternaturally still Jesus until, driven half-crazy by the response he’s not getting, the arch-rebel (i.e. maverick) loses it… The power Jesus generates,” in Fish’s reading “is the power of not moving from the still center of his being and refusing to step into an arena of action defined by his opponent. So it is with Obama, who barely exerts himself and absorbs attack after attack, each of which, rather than wounding him, leaves him stronger. It’s rope-a-dope on a grand scale… Jesus is usually the political model for Republicans, but this time his brand of passive, patient leadership is being channeled by a Democrat.”<BR/><BR/>------Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-53488959784499170012008-11-07T08:22:00.000-07:002008-11-07T08:22:00.000-07:00I agree, and so did some of the American voters - ...I agree, and so did some of the American voters - 4 years ago, a more old school man would have won, but I think people have grown tired of the Bush/McCain style of masculinity - it's a new world in need of a more grounded and calm masculinity<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>Billwilliam harrymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-46653320375230992062008-11-07T08:19:00.000-07:002008-11-07T08:19:00.000-07:00What amazes me is how McCain's brand of stubborn, ...What amazes me is how McCain's brand of stubborn, belligerent manhood can pass off for manhood at all (as opposed to what it is -- the childish masculine egoism of a teenage boy). It seems to me that Obama's approach is much closer to the ideal. People who actually have strength and power are always very calm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com