“The mayors of Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh sort of represent what people are thinking here,” [Meeker] said. “All of us, of course, are for Barack Obama.”
Well, goodness, if the mayors of Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh are true conduits of what I’m thinking, then when I read of Mayor Meeker’s gush that all of us in the Triangle are “of course” for Obama, then they would have suddenly received the collective thought that Charles Meeker must be the very picture of blinkered, overly presumptive, self-congratulatory arrogance.
Criminy. When a pre-teen girl squeals and fawns over her dreamboy du jour, it’s exceedingly annoying, but at least you know she’ll grow out of it. What consolation is there for when a grown man does it?
[Obama]’s bringing a lot of new people in the process. He’s got a great campaign. He really provides the kind of hope that our country needs,” Meeker said. “We’re actually in a fair amount of trouble. We need a leader now.”
All I can say is, I hope for the mayor’s sake that Raleigh has yet to ban smelling salts.
