“I wonder how this strategy of calling voters racists will work out for 0bama. It can’t work in his favor.”
Sure it can. This election is about “sticking it to the man,” and some see themselves as being “oppressed” like the black man. Obama has done a brilliant job of selling despair to the American voters.
Excellent observation. My own son is a big-time union member of one of the most powerful unions in the US. He makes excellent money, has incredible benefits, he's good at his job but he probably couldn't be fired even if he were awful - but he believes all is lost, things are hopeless, he's barely going to be able to make it, the "rich" need to be punished, the government needs to control everything and make it better, etc.
He gets all this stuff from the union and the Dem environment in which he moves. Somehow they have instilled sullen resentment and hopelessness and dependency in people who have absolutely no reason for it. We had an enormous argument over this, and afterwards I realized that somehow, he really does regard himself as being at the bottom of the heap and he believes that it was the "rich," whoever they are, who put him there. And he's not the only one. Picture hundreds of thousand of white trade union members, many of them earning over $100,000 per year, who have somehow improbably come to identify with the sullen, alienated black uncerclass - it boggles the mind.