Agora 27 May 2008 7:48 pm
Surnames
Seen on the rump of a car last week:
O’BAMA 2008
♣ Vote Irish ♣
♣ Vote Irish ♣
And today: Jeff Greenfield on the American preference for presidents with unchallenging (i.e., bland, preferably mono- or bisyllabic Anglo-Saxon) last names. Could a George W. Dukakis ever have been elected? George W. Kucinich (or Voinovich)? George W. Deukmejian? A “nation of immigrants”—yeah, so what?
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