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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Well, as Freud might say, “Sometimes a meatloaf is just a meatloaf.” Your emoticon is just fine........;^P
How about:
Fears grow that Obama cans’t win, thirteen percent of Americans think Obama is a Muslim...and the other eighty seven percent are too stupid to figure it out.
“Primitive people riot over political issues like elections.”
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And we have plenty of primitives, you don’t have to live in a cave or a mud hut to be a primitive.
Sure they will.
Don’t believe this for a second. As soon as the convention is over and the candidate officially chosen, 98% of these folks will be back on the Democrat side, screaming for nationalized healthcare and whatnot.
I’m going to bookmark a few of these threads for reference after the election. I think that the Rats will come home to the party and, combined with Bush hatred and gas at $X a gallon, this will result in a comfortable Obama victory. My predictions (guesses) on the future are as valid as anyone else’s.
Hope he does.
I don’t think national security will be the issue in this campaign, but rather - no more Bush, and economic issues.
The Republicans won’t hit Obaam hard; they usually ruin weak, “above the fray” campaigns, while Dims get in the dirt - and win.
I would love to be wrong; I think Obama is very bad news, but I think the odds favor Hussein.
“Sobotoria” is the plural of “sobotorium,” an inclusive, diverse place on various university campuses, where like-minded libs can get together and sob about the unfairness of it all.
You mean in states with large urban populations where:
- Whites have grown up seeing never-ending crime in their states that were mainly perpetrated by blacks (on other blacks, mostly, but that’s not the point)
- Those same whites have grown up being blamed for the ills of urban society even though they don’t live there
Naaaaaaaaaaah. White blue-collar voters would NEVER feel resentful at that. They would NEVER feel that someone like BHO might loot their paychecks and take away their guns like his inner-city supporters have screaming FOR DECADES.
They would NEVER vote against BHO because they KNOW HIS SUPPORTERS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY CAN.
Sobotorium. Did you make up this word? I love it! They could join forces with the sob-sisters of the journalism profession and all wring their hands together endlessly.
Yes, I made it up. But it seems to fill a need, at least in my limited vocabulary!
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