A nice lady I barely know overheard me raving about the PA elections, and said something like, “Well, at first I was a Clinton supporter, but then she went negative.  Then I was a Barack Obama supporter, but he just seems like such a whiner.  I’ll vote for whoever’s not McCain, but I won’t be happy about it!”

Obama’s a whiner?  I’d seen lots of blog comments where HRC supporters called Obama supporters “whiners”, but no actual Obama whining.  I could see thinking he’s arrogant or “weak” (of course if he was half as vicious as HRC or angry as McCain he’d be a terrifying angry black man)… but a whiner?  Huh?  Where the hell did this spin come from?