Posted on 08/06/2008 8:06:09 AM PDT by IrishMike
Ten reasons why Barack Obama will not win the 2008 presidential election — and none of them have anything to do with his middle name.
Yes, I know it’s only August, and only a simpleton or clairvoyant would offer a post-election analysis about how Barack Obama blew the 2008 presidential race.
Needless to say I’m not clairvoyant. The jury still seems to be out — at least in some people’s minds — about whether I’m a simpleton, though. But, I won’t use any innate foolishness I possess as the basis for offering a judgment about the outcome of an election that’s still three months away. Rather, I’m going to do what any good political analyst should do; analyze the present situation and offer a (hopefully) informed assessment well before the trends I detect become so manifestly obvious that everyone will claim they too “knew” the outcome months in advance.
So here’s my top ten list of reasons why John McCain, despite running one of the most turgid and uninspiring campaigns in modern electoral history, will succeed George W. Bush as the 44th President of the United States.
Reason #10: Racist white voters will not support Obama
No, this isn’t a condemnation of white, Southern, toothless, gun-toting Republicans. It’s an observation about the rank and file of the Democrat party. Whether it’s angry older white women who feel that the election was stolen from Hillary by an upstart younger black man, or just your average Joe Six Pack union worker who made it clear in the Democrat primaries that Bill Clinton was speaking for him when he floated his racist trial balloons on Hillary’s behalf, the so-called party of the average guy has repeatedly shown its true colors; pure white, not half-white.
This shouldn’t be much of a surprise. A former Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan is now the respected Dean of the Senate Democrats. Any effort to break the cycle of black poverty and illiteracy through welfare reform and school vouchers has been repeatedly opposed by Democrat party officials who prefer their constituency to be completely dependent on the largess of their white elected leaders, rather than even the tiniest bit self-sufficient. Even Democrat fellow travelers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are less interested in bridging the divide between blacks and whites than they are in filling their own pockets with money from guilty white liberals and blackmailed corporations. Al Gore may have invented the carbon credit scam where his companies profit by selling hypothetical indulgences to hypocritical environmentalists who want everyone but themselves to change their lifestyles, but he doesn’t hold a candle to the organized race-for-hire politics of Jackson and Sharpton. The Democrat party is about preserving racial politics, not ending it, so it comes as little surprise that those who live by that sword may also die, at least metaphorically, by that same sword.
Take away the small cadres of limousine liberals and idealistic youth who will vote for Obama to assuage their guilt over being born wealthy and white, or just think it would be really, really cool to have a Black Guy in the White House even though it’s not all about skin color, and you have the naked face of race-based politics rearing its head in the Democrat party. The “Bradley Effect” is alive and well among Democrat voters, so named because they have a distinctive habit of lying to pollsters about their support for black candidates, only to act differently on election day. When their decisions actually count, all their progressive, liberal pabulum goes out the window as they reach for the lever and vote for the white guy like they did repeatedly in California, Chicago, New York and other cities. It’s why Obama needs to be 10-12 points ahead of McCain in the battleground states on November 4 — not statistically tied like he is today — or he’ll end up losing the election by double digits.
Im ok w #9
The more black militant surrogates Obama puts on TV to support him, The less white votes he will get. White people do not like being lectured by Black militant leftists.
#8 We i.e. we like the under dog
Yes, this should be common knowledge by now. Obama is completely unelectable, the whining and blithering on the part of the left come November third will be delicious.
What are you, some kind of racist?!!
I agree he’s on the wrong side of the issues and he can’t hide that from us. I agree too, that the people he keeps as friends will haunt him, and make him an unknown, dangerous quantity.
Excellent article
‘lil early to be patting ourselves on the back.
there’s truman’s photo holding the newspaper with the headline of dewey’s win.
dewey was the 1st person to use the term “democrat” in place of the adj “democratic”!
True...except Obambi and the DBM are Dewey...as we saw in his presidential tour of Europe.
Can’t overlook that two of Obama’s core constituents are notoriously bad about turning out; blacks and the under 25. Subtract out conservative white democrats from flyover and he’s not left with much but the liberal elite. So, he can win New York, Illinois, California, Oregon and ???
This is a fantastic analysis of why NOBAMA is going to lose. Thanks for posting. I passed it along to everyone on my mailing list.
Obama is toast because of the gasoline crisis.
To give McCain credit, I wouldn’t pronounce his campaign as listless or turgid at this point in time. Democrats always peak early, Republicans seem to viscerally understand that despite the breathless press reporting, there is no need to ramp up the excitement in August before the convention.
After the convention, I may have to concede he’s a bore, but right now I think he’s doing the right thing. And the Paris ad was great. As was her response.
Can’t forget Typical White Person (TWP).
Everybody wants change until they get it. Nobody likes change when it happens to them.
let’s hope so!
They DO! Ludacris’ latest is the perfect example. NO WAY does that do anything but hurt Obamer, but they just can’t help themselves. They feelin’ it, knowhwatumsayin?
mark for later
Not yet, anyway.
In an interview with Glamour magazine, Michelle Obama reveals that her husband, Barack, is so “snore-y and stinky” when he wakes up in the morning that their daughters won’t crawl into bed with him.
A snore-y and stinky BO?
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