Letters to the Editor

• AND HERE'S WHY HE WON'T CLOSE THE DEAL EITHER...

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  Because he never had the wide base of support that his earlier victories indicated he might have. Small caucus states and Southern states that Democrats are not going to carry anyhow don't seem quite as attractive as California, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Massachusets (with the Kennedys no less!). And lets examine more closely what those wins mean.

  And I think the answer lies partly in the most telling thing that's happened to Obama in the last few months: His statement that people's faith, their love of hunting, their small town lives, and their less educated positions in life are not the result of their honest American values but some bitter "condition" that they can be "cured" if they just saw the light, made him their Messiah, or real a certain book by one of his favorite authors.

  Obama, and the leftist elitists who have helped to push him up the political ladder since his days in the Illinois state legislature, have a warped opinion of the Democratic Party. They have not so much sought to offer an alternative candidate for the Party as they have sought to quickly hi-jack it before anyone figures out what they are doing!

  The Obama campaign all but declared the Party as the enemy that needed defeating, reforming, and done away with! "Turn the page, we're the face of the new Democratic Party, when I'm head of the Party," and so on and so on. They sought to circumvent and dilute regular Party voters by registering new younger voters, who quite frankly could not find their asses with a GPS and have been doing nothing but trashing those they think are the Party Establishment, while conveniently forgetting they are the ones paying their bills while they live in their parents' basement and navel-gaze about "uniting the world" with their damn polluting pacifier water bottles that seem to grow out their hands.

  I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to trust the judgment of a bunch of kids. No, Obama's "base" is manufactured: Elitist, wealthy lefties who remain untouched by whatever economic downturn we are suffering this decade and who still remember when they were left out in 1992 by New Democratic Leadership candidate Bill Clinton who dared to dismantle welfare-as-we-know-it, idealistic kids with a normal generational beef against old people (anyone over 35), and African-Americans who quite naturally want to support a person that they think is one of them. Except he isn't. Sure, Obama and his wife had all the backgrounds and upbringing to suggest they might be like the rest of us,and the majority of African-Americans. But they shed that skin a long time ago. They they "got real religion" at Harvard not with Rev. Wright.

  So, Obama never meant to win the nomination by appealing to white, middle-class, working-class Democrats. That wasn't the strategy. As far back as the string of caucuses he won shows they were deliberately wooing first-time voters and young voters to offset the Party regulars. And they had organized for that ground game too. Now, that might mean a certain level of ingenuity, but it hardly represents the Democratic base and it hardly means the guy deserves the nomination.

  The Party might want or need a change, new blood, etc. But it should be done in the light of day, not through some campaign machine that projects one thing (uniting us) while it deliberately owes its existence to another (dividing us.) Bill Clinto had it right months ago. This campaign is fantasy. It is "smoke and mirrors" and if that makes us all racists, then so be it. Obama's campaign, and Obama, has not been intellectually honest with Democrats in the Party from the get-go.

  Now, it all comes out in the wash. It isn't Hillary Clinton's "scorched earth" tactics. It's Obama's original campaign strategy backfiring on him. It just took a little time to see it for what it is.

  To risk the White House on the "if come" basis is absurd. If Obama is the nominee, then working class Democrats will blindly vote for him is a risk that the Democratic party cannot take. It's easier to rehabilitate Hillary Clinton's negatives than to ask a large block of voters to shove their biases aside for Obama.

  As sad as that might be, it nonetheless reflects the reality.

  And Obama should have been thinking of that when he and his cohorts were "doing the math" and saw a crack in the process with the small caucus states and Southern states.

  Permalink Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:56 AM