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• Friday, September 12, 2008 01:31 PM

  To notimpressed:

  Unless you are making an argument that Obama is likely to lose because of racists in America, then you are not a person who I am labeling an idiot. There were lots of good reasons that people voted for Obama. Nor does Hillary have anything at all to do with what I am saying.

  I am merely saying that it is illogical to believe that racism would keep Obama from winning and then turn around and vote for him. I am not even saying that electability should be the criterion for choosing. But certainly, the absolute inability to be elected should figure into one's choices if one lives in a state where it is possible for the Democrat to carry that state.

  Take South Carolina. There were many people who blithely assumed that Obama could win South Carolina in the general election. That's just insane.

  If a person recognizes the depth of racism in this nation and if that person is convinced that racism is the reason that Obama is losing crucial voters and if they thought that racism would impact the general election in a serious way, they have no right to now complain that racists won't vote for the guy they voted for.

  I guess people just like to whine. However, that is a pretty expensive whine if that sort of thinking means that John McCain wins.

  I will tell you frankly that I live in a small town with small town religious values. American is deeply conservative in its social values. Change does not come easily to the voters. They voted for George Bush twice.

  Why do the Democrats keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result? Did they think that just because people were tired of the war that they would surrender racial and religious prejudices?

  I know it sticks in the craw of progressives, but in order to assure victory, we needed a moderate white male with a plan to exit Iraq that he could make sound like honor and victory.

  Or maybe we actually need a third party that addresses the middle, because it is undeniable that the Democratic Party has a deep deep fissure between its moderate and progressive wings. When we fight the battle within, we lose the larger battle.

  —AKA Smith Read AKA Smith's other letters
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