Good luck Barry. Sorry, Barack.
Posted on 08/21/2008 6:05:27 PM PDT by SJackson
Nothing makes me feel sorrier for the once powerful local bosses of each political party than the spectacle of a modern nominating convention. In their glory days, these wily neighborhood sloggers would listen to speeches, size up the appeal of each candidate against hometown tastes, wheel, deal and finally make the thousands of individual decisions that would eventually choose the nominee.
Today there is only one big decision to be made, and the job belongs to a TV programmer, not a political boss. Conventions are little more than soundstages now. Everything from the backdrop to the musical choices asks the question, Who is the convention trying to reach?
For Barack Obama and the Democrats, it all comes down to this: Should Obama try to win by running up big numbers among the young liberals and well-off independents who cheer his hip style of designer politics? Or should he concentrate on recapturing the older and decidedly unhip working-class voters who rejected him in droves during the primaries?
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Good luck Barry. Sorry, Barack.
I dont see how he’d pull that off, never having been a member of the working class.
Or should he concentrate on recapturing the older and decidedly unhip working-class voters who rejected him in droves during the primaries?
I’m glad to see them say that these voters rejected Obama during the primaries. Hillary and her boys spun those elections in West Virginia, Kentucky, Penn. etc. to say that they all loved Hillary, and that she could win those states. She won them in a Dem. primary, but she would have had a tough time in those states in a general election. Obama will have a hard time in these states and those voters too.
Barry the babe magnet
In fact I don't think I've heard him claim to ever have been a member. Relatives maybe, but I don't think even then, he usually describes them is "oppressed" terms, goatherder, on food stamps. I'll have to pay attention for that, but I don't think he's bragged about a working background.
Future cabinet members?
Didn’t you know that Barack Obama is veritiable George Jefferson. He moved on up!
(Alan Jackson/Don Sampson)
A callused right hand
Holds a shiny gold watch
For thirty years spent on the clock
But you won’t see no tears
>From this workin’ class hero
He’s always been hard as a rock
But he knows he’s too old
To really start over
Besides he just wouldn’t know how
I guess he’s just glad
That he’s not alone
But he’s got to wonder what now
‘Cause there’s no hall of fame for that working class hero
No statute carved out of stone
And his greatest reward is the love of a woman
And his children
So after he’s gone
That old working class hero lives on
That three-bedroom house
He built in the ‘50s
Seems so much bigger today
With just him and mama
And not many bills
‘Cause all of the kids moved away
What he’s done with his life
Might not be remembered
But he’s got every right to be proud
‘Cause the blood sweatin’ years
Of this workin’ class hero
Is really what livin’s about
‘Cause there’s no hall of fame for that working class hero
No statute carved out of stone
And his greatest reward is the love of a woman
And his children
So after he’s gone
That old workin’ class hero lives on
Yes, that workin’ class hero lives on
That workin’ class hero lives on
Better than Lennons tune
Obamas’ hands would bleed tying his shoes,he ain’t any kind of hero.
i thought you actually had to WORK once before you could be a working class hero...
I think you're allowed to worry about them now, that's good enough.
Can you imagine Barack Hussein "organizer" Obama as a union organizer last century.
I can imagine him as a Chicago politician.
he's certainly crooked enough to be both...
Obama can be whatever the media wants him to be. His entire political creation is of and by the media. He has done virtually nothing to get where he is, with exception to being born black, and he wasn’t even responsible for that.
Yes, I think our enemies know that.
That was good....
A Harvard Lawyer as Working Class hero ?....Or a rookie Senator ?...even the dimRATS know better than that...They can make Heidi Fleas into a working class heroine, or even a golden Rooster weather vane, but BHO?...Never...
“Better than Lennons tune”
Exactly.
Lennon’s tune here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Thanks for posting the lyrics to Alan Jackson’s great tune.
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