Posted on 05/31/2008 10:21:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With senator Barack Obama poised this week to clinch his party's nomination for President, there are growing fears in some quarters that the Democratic party may not be choosing its strongest candidate to beat Republican John McCain.
Senator Hillary Clinton has been making that argument for weeks. Now some recent polls and analysis, looking particularly at vital battleground states and support among white voters, have bolstered her case - even as Obama looks certain to become the nominee.
Obama supporters reject this argument and point to his record of boosting Democratic voter turnout, especially among the young. But sceptics in the party, already nervous about nominating Obama after the furore over outspoken pastor Jeremiah Wright, are growing increasingly concerned. 'There is an element of buyer's remorse in some areas. The question is whether it gets really strong now or in September - or even after the election is over, if he loses,' said Steve Mitchell, head of political consultancy Mitchell Research.
Another boost to Clinton's case came late last week after a pro-Obama preacher gave a race-tinged rant against her at Obama's church in Chicago. In a recent sermon Michael Pfleger - a long-term Obama backer who is white - mocked Clinton as an entitled white person angry at a black man having beaten her. His angry, red-faced speech, in which he mimicked Clinton weeping, was played repeatedly across American cable channels and the internet.
The news sent shock waves through Democratic circles; many had hoped Obama had put 'pastor problems' behind him. 'It is more of the same problem as Wright. It reinforces the image among some voters that Obama does not share their values,' said Mitchell.
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Shhhhhhh.
My wife’s whole family is blue collar Dems. Never voted for a Republican in their lives. They say they’re voting McCain this time. I know they aren’t alone.
Hehe ... the way we planned it.
They will burn if McCain wins. Some people like to riot.
This nation will have this confrontation at one time or another. Unfortunately, it’s only a matter of time.
I wonder where Farrakhan is lurking right now...
When he looses in the GE cities across the nation will burn.
Operation Chaos: Why Rush Limbaugh Was Right
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011242/posts
“His public persona thrives on a manipulation of whites (bargaining), and his private sense of racial identity demands both self-betrayal and duplicity. His is the story of a man who flew so high, yet neglected to become himself.”
This is what happens when you are treated like an affirmative action hire by the MSM.
Hussein just is not a man yet, he has some more baking to do before he can come out of the oven.
They did it to let Hillary stay in the race to beat Obama down to make him a weak candidate against McCain.
How about:
Fears grow that Obama can't win: People with an IQ over 75 and any shame at all won't vote for him?
“They will burn if McCain wins. Some people like to riot.”
Heck they may riot if he wins!
I don’t think cities will burn-—Obama doesn’t command that kind of following. But there WOULD be a lot of noise, and a lot of hard-to-take speeches from the usual suspects. ANYWAY, I have been saying for MONTHS that regardless of what the trend seems to be, Hillary will get the nomination in the end. And I still believe that. But, boy, would that have to be handled delicately, with lots of trade-offs and favors and stuff I don’t even want to know about.
Pleasepleaseleasepleasepleaseleaseplease.....
Best 3 word description of Obama: college campus demagogue.
They will burn if McCain wins. Some people like to riot."
Lock and load and BLOAT!
This is what happens when you cobble togeather a coalition of various interest groups with conflicting victim mentalities and an irrational sense of entitlement. They have met the true enemy and it is them.
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