I've said it already, Barack Obama is on the cusp of totally losing control of his campaign narrative. The media has begun to seriously clue into his flawed appeal with elements of the Democratic coalition, after seeing results in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. The combination of Jeremiah Wright and Obama's own theorizing on small-town America has only added fuel to the fire.
Now, if Hillary Clinton wins Indiana comfortably, if she can lower Obama's margin of victory in North Carolina (say 7% or less), and if the exit polls confirm Obama's now much-watched problems with white, working class voters then the narrative will be clear.
MSM denizen Ron Brownstein has already gotten the ball rolling for this pre-election weekend: Obama has a problem with blue-collar voters and it isn't going away.
Sure, Obama is still the likely Democratic nominee. Just how damaged he may be based on his own electoral performance since February is another matter.
Posted by Eric Earling at May 03, 2008 01:26 PM | Email ThisObama in 08!
Posted by: Nancy on May 3, 2008 02:47 PMum yeah, if you're counting on the "young voters" to turn out (which they traditionally don't), you haven't learned anything in your 61 years on earth. Feel free to tell us one thing that Obama has done to warrant serious consideration for president......oh, and the much ballyhooed "community Organizer" doesn't count as a serious accomplishment.
Please tell us what we're missing Nancy.
Posted by: Rick D. on May 3, 2008 03:27 PMPresident Lisa: The country is broke? How can that be?
Chif of Staff Milhouse: Well, remember when the last administration decided to invest in our nation's children? Big mistake.
Posted by: Cliff on May 3, 2008 03:38 PMThat is a problem, and Obama people burying their heads in the sand about it doesn't bode well for them.
Posted by: Mike H on May 3, 2008 03:40 PMLet me take a stab at it, since it appears that Nancy's gone AWOL:
Hope! Change!
Hmmm...er...no, I don't think I left anything out...
I could repeat it a few times. Or I could say it louder and with more punctuation marks. But still...that's about it.
Posted by: scott158 on May 3, 2008 03:42 PMThis key demographic controls the outcome in the critical states that a Democratic HAS to win in November -- Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. That's why superdelegates need to give serious consideration to Obama's failure to move this demographic.
Obama is 10 points behind McCain in Ohio and about 9 points behind McCain in Pennsylvania. Clinton pulls ahead or even with McCain in all of these states.
Obama's delegate total comes largely from his overwhelming (60%+) victories in states that Democrats have NO HOPE of winning in November. That's why Clinton's argument about winning the "big" states should be compelling. If Obama can't win those states, the Democrats are toast, no matter how great his Democratic support in states like Idaho and North Dakota.
Posted by: Chris on May 3, 2008 03:48 PMJohn McCain's remarks about the Pledge of Allegiance
In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California , with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate:
'The Pledge of Allegiance' - by Senator John McCain
'As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.
This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.
One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian. Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama .. He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.
As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing.
Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.
Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.
One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.
That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.
The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.
So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.'
'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisable, with liberty and justice for all.'
oh.....and then you have this clown, who refuses to place his hand on his heart and say the pledge..... combine that with his America hating racist pastor and his America hating terrorist pals.
Imagine a commercial showing a beaten, hostage Mccain counterpointed with this this clown and the voiceover of a child reciting the Pledge...
Good luck with that, Nancy.
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on May 3, 2008 03:50 PMIf you're basing your vote on the Pledge of Allegiance and a minor gaffe, you're not a patriot... you're a fool. This democracy is based on the participation of a well-informed electorate, and for people to be distracted by this minutiae is appalling.
Posted by: bma on May 3, 2008 04:42 PMUnfortunately for Mr. Obama, he doesn't have a resume to run on..........just associations with a lunatic,American hating pastor Wright and a domestic terrorist friend William Ayers.
my suggestion? put your big girl panties on and deal with it.
Posted by: Rick D. on May 3, 2008 05:17 PMAnyone that throws their grandmother under a bus, and has their Bias preacher on a 24 x 7 preaching show in another few weeks, won't have a chance.
If you search on any detail of the legislation he is planning, beyond the "Hope and Change mantra" he chants you will find a short list of accomplishment, a long list of massive tax hikes for globalism and social liberalism.
This economy cannot afford an Obama admistration.
Get a big supply of liberal coolaide, you will need it, but he will not be successful!
Posted by: gs on May 3, 2008 06:26 PMThat is your penance, my son, go forth and spend!
Posted by: Rev Wright on May 3, 2008 07:31 PMThe war in Iraq is a huge millstone hanging around McCain's neck.
Andy has it right @ 13: you need a different nominee.
Posted by: Bruce Guthrie on May 3, 2008 08:15 PMOn the Hill
Special House Elections Could Reflect on Obama
By CARL HULSE
Published: May 2, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Most Americans have never heard of Don Cazayoux or Travis Childers, two Southern politicians with names that could have been lifted from a John Grisham novel. But the electoral fate of those two gentlemen could be of some consequence in the ongoing presidential race.
Mr. Cazayoux is the Democratic candidate for a Louisiana House seat centered around Baton Rouge that will be awarded in a special election on Saturday. Mr. Childers is the surprisingly strong Democratic candidate in an upcoming special House election to represent a swath of northern Mississippi.
Since both seats were vacated by Republicans, Democratic victories would be good news for the party, padding the House majority and providing Republicans with even more reason to worry about November.
But wins might be better news for Senator Barack Obama, since Democratic successes would be interpreted as evidence that his candidacy is not an anchor for Democrats in conservative parts of the country. Conversely, Democratic defeats in those races could create real problems for Mr. Obama's campaign.
Why will the races have implications for Mr. Obama and not Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton? Because Republicans have sought to tie both Mr. Cazayoux and Mr. Childers to Mr. Obama through ads that paint the Illinois lawmaker as an extreme liberal and resurrect his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Mrs. Clinton's name has not come up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/politics/02web-hulse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Has anyone ever considered talking about issues, like the economy?
But having said that
I will not vote for him, because he is just plain to liberal for me. I need some of my daily earnings left with me.
Having said that I could easily vote for a Colin Powell, but he's not running!
If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of "BITTER"!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary’s than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)
Best regards
jacksmith... Working Class :-)
p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you don't know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering...
You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. :-)
Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. And I could go on, and on...
OBAMA AIDE: "WORKING-CLASS VOTERS NOT KEY FOR DEMOCRATS" :o
DEBATE! DEBATE!! DEBATE!!!...
Posted by: jacksmith on May 3, 2008 09:40 PMIt's time for everyone to face the truth. Barack Obama has no real chance of winning the national election in November at this time. His crushing defeat in Pennsylvania makes that fact crystal clear. His best, and only real chance of winning in November is on a ticket with Hillary Clinton as her VP.
Hillary Clinton seemed almost somber at her Pennsylvania victory speech. As if part of her was hoping Obama could have proved he had some chance of winning against the republican attack machine, and their unlimited money, and resources.
But it is absolutely essential that the democrats take back the Whitehouse in November. America, and the American people are in a very desperate condition now. And the whole World has been doing all that they can to help keep us propped up.
Hillary Clinton say's that the heat, and decisions in the Whitehouse are much tougher than the ones on the campaign trail. But I think Mr. Obama faces a test of whether he has what it takes to be a commander and chief by facing the difficult facts, and the truth before him. And by doing what is best for the American people by dropping out of the race, and offering his whole hearted assistance to Hillary Clinton to help her take back the Whitehouse for the American people, and the World.
Mr. Obama is a great speaker. And I am confident he can explain to the American people the need, and wisdom of such a personal sacrifice for them. It should be clear to everyone by now that Hillary Clinton is fighting her heart out for the American people. She has known for a long time that Mr. Obama can not win this November. You have to remember that the Clinton's have won the Whitehouse twice before. They know what it takes.
If Mr. Obama fails his test of commander and chief we can only hope that Hillary Clinton can continue her heroic fight for the American people. And that she prevails. She will need all the continual support and help we can give her. She may fight like a superhuman. But she is only human.
Sen. Hillary Clinton: "You know, more people have now voted for me than have voted for my opponent. In fact, I now have more votes than anybody has ever had in a primary contest for a nomination. And it's also clear that we've got nine more important contests to go."
Sincerely
Jacksmith... Working Class :-)
Posted by: jacksmith on May 3, 2008 09:42 PMThe USSR went down in the 80's, but revisionist historians has underreported the reason here, because of liberal bent of the MSM. Even Europe is starting to elect more conservative smaller government leaders in their already advanced socialistic governments. Why can't people in this country realize that socialism does not work ? Ignorance, corruption and greed are three reasons why, fueled by liberal/progressive elites who want to control people with the tool of big government.
Posted by: KS on May 3, 2008 10:32 PMMCCAIN LEADS OBAMA; CLINTON STEADY - Friday, May 02, 2008 1:54 PM
The daily Gallup tracking poll shows McCain continuing to open up a lead over Obama (48%-42%) and holding steady with Clinton (46%-45%) as he has for at least two weeks. The Democratic match up remains essentially unchanged with Clinton maintaining a 48%-46% lead over Obama. Clinton led yesterday 49%-45% and 47%-46% the two days prior. Obama had held a 10-point lead a week and a half ago.Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on May 3, 2008 11:21 PM
Help me out here. I've read The Constitution three times before replying and I can't find anywhere in there where the President is given responsibility over the economy. Can you point it out? Or was simply a case of being in office at the right time?
It is not possible to know even the most rudimentary principles of economics and believe that to be true. Or of the constitution, as you said.
Then again, cognitive dissonance IS one of the defining characteristics of the left.
Posted by: scott158 on May 4, 2008 12:32 AMBut a Marxist disaster is not something we need right now. And most Americans see Obama for what he is. Not only is he not a post-racial candidate, he is a retro-racial candidate that will set race relations back 20 years.
Democrats put arrogance and emotion first. They'll back a losing horse based on their feelings. We didn't even have to give them the rope this time.
Posted by: Jeff B. on May 4, 2008 12:33 AMNobody attends a church for many years and makes large contributions to that same church without being in full agreement with the teachings.
the leftist media is playing us all for fools.
Again and again...
Posted by: Independent Voter on May 4, 2008 07:10 AMYour statement:
"I've said it already, Barack Obama is on the cusp of totally losing control of his campaign narrative."
You just show completely what an amateur you are when it comes to politics. You really think, especially in the age of the internet, cell phones and digital video, that a candidate controls their campaign narrative? Please. Your statement has 'amateur' written all over it.
Campaigns are mostly controlled by the media executives, like Rupert Murdoch. At any point in time, they could politically assassinate ANY of the candidates, Obama, Clinton or McCain.
By all indications, they've already selected McCain and that's who the next President will be, with someone like Bloomberg as his running mate. The rest of this stuff is just a side show to keep the TV crowd and bloggers busy, letting them feel important for a few more months.
Richard
Posted by: Richard Borkowski on May 4, 2008 11:36 AMThe national GOP had to dump a million dollars into the race in the final days, buying substance-free attack ads. Reichert, an incumbent with great name recognition, kept his seat by 7500 votes against a previously-unknown challenger.
Guess what? The GOP now has far fewer dollars than do the Democrats. They won't have any last-minute tricks for either Reichert or McCain. As with last time, every candidate with an "R" after his or her name will be umbilically tied to the Worst. President. Ever. and his many failures of policy. Even the seat held by former Speaker Hastert now has a Democrat. THAT is the future you face.
Enjoy telling each other how badly Senator Obama (or Clinton) will lose the general election. And, in mid-November, just repeat to yourself the neverending refrain of the Bush Administration: "No one could have foreseen..."
Posted by: tensor on May 4, 2008 11:38 AM... although I would note that Jeff left out an important word in his above; i.e.:
''... with UNREPENTENT domestic terrorist ...''
And regardless of netroot blathering, Eric had it right in the 1st sentance of this thread:
Obama's long-time associates and friends have become THE issue in his campaign.
Obama was on Meet the Press this morning, and Russert hit him with some pretty good questions for a good part of the hour. Right now I'm watching Hannity's America, which is devoting the entire hour to exploring the ''Wright record''. In doing so they played extended excerpts from past and current statements and ''sermons'' by Rev. Wright. There is no other way to say it:
Wright is a blatent race-baiter. And I think Newt Gingrich was on the mark, when a few days ago he commented that Wright is not a representative of black churches in general, but rather of the extreme political hard left that preaches outright hatred of America and just about everything this country has ever done.
And it's not just Rev. Wright; and maybe not even primarily him (even though the media is focusing on Wright now because of the huge amount of video evidence going back many years): It is the collective weight of Obama's long-term WARF problem; i.e.:
Wright, Ayers, Rezko, and Farrakhan.
You liberals continue to scorn middle America, laugh at the "fly-over country" folks and sneer at "blue-collar"... forgetting they have enough clout... and intelligence... to control your destiny.
"It's the stuff about his preacher ... and the thing he said about Pennsylvania towns, how they turn to religion," Keith Wolfe, 41, a supermarket food stocker from Parkville, Md., said in a follow-up interview. "I don't think he'd be a really good leader."
Real people, real opinions, very real votes.
Exit polls show they have comprised three in 10 voters in Democratic contests so far, a group that cannot be ignored in a contest that has seen Obama maintain a slim lead. They made up 43 percent of all voters in the 2004 presidential contest, when they heavily favored President Bush over Democrat John Kerry.
And they despise phony, pretentious snobs.
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on May 4, 2008 01:37 PMOne of the more bizarre developments of this campaign season has been to see Hillary Clinton, of all people, turned into an electoral favorite of blue-collar white voters. The reality is that very few people in politics have more contempt for white workers than does this product of Park Ridge, Wellesley, the Senate Watergate Committee, and the super powered Rose Law Firm.
This is the woman who, according to three, independent, respected, credible witnesses, at least one of them a strong Clinton supporter, responded to Southern whites workers voting Republican in 1994 by telling her husband: "Screw 'em. You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
OUCH!... I see an ad in nominee Hillary's future...
This is the woman whose mentor and philosophical guiding light, Saul Alinsky, wrote that the white working classes were always "[s]eeking some meaning in life, [so] they turn to an extreme chauvinism and become defenders of the 'American' faith. Now they even develop rationalizations for a life of futility and frustration."
Bitter Barry, Bitter Hillary... is there a difference?... I see another ad....
Lesson: The Clintons are for the Clintons, and only for the Clintons. They will abandon any voter group the moment such abandonment can gain them an advantage. The Hillary Clinton who is suddenly the champion of white laborers today can just as easily be saying "screw 'em" again tomorrow.
Their votes for her are votes against their own interests and values.Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on May 4, 2008 01:57 PM
Seems to me people are beginning to realize what a bunch of creeps these people really are. And what would the Dems do once they're in office? The same dumb things they always do that never are successful...raise taxes on people that provide jobs. Increase the size of the government. Throw more dollars into their pit of failure they call public education.
When people finally get sick of liberals their day will be over.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on May 4, 2008 02:07 PM"To put this in perspective, this is a seat the Republicans have held since 1974, in a district President Bush won in 2004 with 59% of the vote..."
(Read Goldy's entire piece, no doubt your second-favorite web site.)
I sincerely hope Rep. McDermott and Speaker Pelosi send a stem-cell research bill to Worst. President. Ever. in the Fall. Watching "independent, moderate" Rep. Reichert lick the toes of Rev. Hagee, in a district which includes many techies from Microsoft, Boeing, UW, and South Lake Union bioscience firms, should make for great theatre. (I'll understand if you find it less enjoyable than will I.)
Posted by: tensor on May 4, 2008 04:33 PMWhat is next? Will Hillary's pick of the philly in the Derby who unfortunately had to be put to sleep after the race be the next nightly newscast topic? Everyone here, except Duffman, Cato, and a few others, wants to jump on the Democrat Front-runner of the week pile-on. Before the Republican race was decided, it was also a jump on all the other Republican candidates except their own pig pile. Instead of pig piles, which I believe you encourgage Eric, why don't you start addressing topics of the election. There are plenty to choose from, like economy (which could be several on its own: e.g., gas prices, housing costs, inflation, trade) or foriegn policy (McCain's continue the same, Obama's call for diplomacy, and Hillary's lets create a NATO like Middle East Unilateral Alliance Pack to protect against the big meanie's in the region). Sorry Duffman, I couldn't keep the post totally civil. I just think her new Middle East positions are pandering just like her Tax Rebate plan (not only offer the rebate, but get Big Oil to pay the tax this summer -- like that is really going to happen -- plus, she want's a Bush-like call of Congress are you for the working people or against).
No, there is plently of lively discussions outside of which pig pile can all the readers pile on this week.
Posted by: tc on May 4, 2008 04:57 PMHe has some 'splaining to do about some of his policies and has been inconsistent lately. Most of all, I'd like to hear him modify his position on our Energy policy, how we secure the border and how we reduce the budget deficit.
Posted by: KS on May 4, 2008 06:02 PMI don't need to go on about it. We just read this garbage and shake our heads. Over at HA they do this day after day.
Reading almost any leftist blog makes one wonder if indeed our civilization is collapsing. I don't think they make waders large enough to enable anyone to slosh through the verbal sewage that leftists are so adept at spewing.
The good news is that liberals' behavior and track record is catching up with them.
Getting "tensor" to actually explain how liberal programs are so magically beneficial instead of talking about "toe licking" might be too much of an intellectual exercise.
Nobody really cares what Rev. Wright said except those who think it will harm Barack Obama.
All the rest of us who really do love this country and know the important issues are the economy and the wars want to hear about them and could not care less about Wright.
Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 4, 2008 07:37 PMYou are full of garbage, as most leftists are. Defend your turf. Explain your ridiculous statements. Lets hear you talk about the wonderful record of accomplishment of the left. Lets hear about your marvelous plans for the future. Bring it on. I'll be your huckleberry.
Conservatives should also be clarified better (i.e. Traditional conservatives are still somewhat favorable - wherever they are and then there are Neo-conservatives or big government conservatives who are not favorable and currently killing the Republican Party in case you hadn't noticed.
I sincerely apologize for having offended your extraordinarily fine sensitivities. I should have known, from the comments concerning Governor Gregoire, the very high standard to which conservatives hold their political dialogue. Should ever anyone here have referred to her by anything less than the full respect due to an officeholder whose election was certified by a Republican Secretary of State, and re-certified, at the explicit request of the Republican Party's highest officers, by a judge from an extremely conservative county, I know how doggedly you would pursue such a vulgarian. Luckily, such a thing would never, ever, happen here, (due to the high standards set by the posters) and I apologize for being the very first to ever utter an indiscreet comment.
To demonstrate my sincere reformation, I will recast my comments, in better language. Rep. Reichert will follow orders blindly with no questions asked. He will do so even when those orders come, ultimately, from persons so ignorant as to proclaim publicly their belief in our universe having existed for less than twenty thousand years. Such blind obedience, to such abject ignorance, suits ill a district with a highly educated constituency. I sincerely hope the Democrats give Rep. Reichert many, many chances to show his true colors to his voters this Fall.
Again, I apologize, for suggesting that any member from the Party of Senator Vitter, Senator Craig, or ex-Rep. Foley would ever engage in a practice containing any suggestion of deviant sexuality. Such things simply do not happen in a Party of such high moral values. I envy the great pride you must feel in your conservatism!
Posted by: tensor on May 4, 2008 11:52 PMOn topic: Obama supporters are upset that the reverend Wright story had legs and are just livid that the William Ayers story is about to become just as big of a story. They've bought into the "change" and "hope" utopian society that Mr. Obama says he will bring despite having no experience in creating this in his own life. If he couldn't convince his racist,anti-American preacher to convert, how can we, the American electorate, take him seriously as some kind of agent of change?
Bottom line: we can't....and he'll find that out in November should he be the nominee.
Posted by: Rick D. on May 5, 2008 07:00 AMBill C.; Neo-conservative = A social conservative who favors a bigger federal government and expansion of democracy throughout the world. (e.g. George W. Bush). Your intentions seem OK, but seems like you have drinking too much of the Republican Kool-Aid to be able to see the uphill struggle that the Republicans face in November. The only way they can win is to get back to their fiscally conservative and smaller government roots and restore their credibility with those who voted in Republicans in Congress before 2004.
The jury is out on how much of an improvement McCain is over Bush as far as being a fiscal conservative. He understands supply side economics, which is part of the puzzle and supposedly spending cuts to balance tax cuts. I would call him a centrist.
Posted by: KS on May 5, 2008 06:53 PM