Here in Missouri I saw a car festooned with the most virulent anti-Obama bumper stickers, plus one that read: “I’ll be as gracious to your president as you were to mine.” That settles something I’d wondered about: a lot of the anti-Obama vitriol, I feel certain, is little more than revenge for decent peoples’ justified anger over things W. Bush actually did, and for the Right’s embarrassment for having supported a moron, while we have a nice, well-spoken, dignified president.
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
