Replies

Arugula, inflating tires, and herbal wheatgrass colonics won't win this election.

HMBA....

You are funny!

Good Synopsis, I spent some time with my wife's (Jewish) relatives at a cook out in the Northern Chicago burbs and the topic of discussion turns to the Presidential Race.

One of the 4 is a Staunch Republican and will pull the lever for McCain. The Aunt and host of the cook out notes she would have voted for Hillary, but was miffed that she voted for Obama locally and had broken his promise not to seek the Presidency, chalk one up for maybe not in the Obama Camp. Her husband was harder to read, played devils advocate and talked about facts and Snopes...

But the last voter was the Aunt's Dad. of the 2 elderly gents, he surprised me the most, He couldn't stand Bush, I didn't try to change his mind, but gave him a different perspective. But it is what he said, again he would have voted for Hillary, but their was something about Obama's wife that he didn't trust and would vote for McCain!

I relayed the same sentiments from another gent his age, someone he could relate to and I asked is this your and his gut feel, and he said yes.

The point is this....

This is Obama's backyard, and a voting block that should be his (Liberal Jewish vote) and McCain has a 2/4 split if not 3 out of 4.

I know this is anidotical, but you tell me what is truly going on here. IMHO he can't close the deal. Your line of the condescension rings true, the way this guy holds his head at rallyes scares the bat snaught out of me, he body language reeks of Mussolini.

When John Kerry's wife spoke at the convention in 2004 there was a freaky Evita quality that scared a lot of people. It cost him some votes. When the candidate's wife is a stage mother who is just dying to tell everyone what she thinks - hogging the mic - it's a problem. Americans don't like Dragon Lady types as First Lady. It's not part of our culture. That's part of the reason why Hillary is not the candidate.

Michelle comes across as a little too domineering, too cranky, too much attitude. Americans don't like that in a First Lady. When a guru Messiah is married to a Dragon Lady with ATTITUDE, that may be asking some Americans a bit too much in one election. Those kinds of things belong in a therapist's office, not the Oval Office.