Irrespective of his efforts to duck and cover and move and shake...you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. You can also tell a lot by the positions they take.
Obama loses and loses badly on both of those counts when it comes to conservatism and traditional American values and constitutional principles.
His own past, his own freely chosen associations are catching up with him. They are associations of years, and decades in some cases. These people are virulently anti-American, admitted domestic terrorists, ardent black liberation adherants, and far leftists like Obama himself. They are not easily, and should not be easily pushed aside.
His positions in the state Senate and in the US Senate are among the most liberal and socialist of any representative in this nation and he espouses them time and again on the campaign trail. He is anti-military, willing to cut research, development, and deployment of weapons systems that keep us head and shoulders above potential enemies, willing to cut and run on the cusp of victory in Iraq, pro-abortion (proudly supporting partial birth and unwilling to even vote against life birth abortion), pro-every social and entitlement program imaginable, will put abject socialists and activist judges on the supreme court, he has not shown one scintilla of evidence of uniting while in office, etc., etc., etc.
I do not care what color or sex he is...it is the associations and stances on the issues he takes which mark him for what he is and that is a far left, socio-marxist politician. His "change" will not be good for America.
IMHO, his associations and his stances as a far left politician mark him as the apex of the domestic enemy in this nation when it comes to traditonal values and constitutional governance.
I will do all in my power to expose him for what he is (and that involves exposing his associations, the ideology and politics of the church he has emmersed himself and his children in, and the stances he takes on issues) and educate people within my own sphere of influence him to wholly reject him because of the damge to this Republic that he represents.
They forgot to add that Larry Sabato is a DNC operative.
Smarter? It took over 20 years of hating whitey and 3+ months of scrutinization by the media to finally get him to quit? Smarter is hardly what I would call him.