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why it's still obama's to lose and how he could
Apr 23, 2008 | 7:52 PM
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The Pennsylvania primary is now history.  We're reminded one more time that some white voters...particularly women over 55 and lower middle class white men are still not convinced Barack Obama is the best choice.  His campaign spent more than $11 million dollars there...some of it on negative advertising...and he still got whacked.  He told me he didn't expect to win there but his campaign didn't expect to lose by nine points either.

Conventional wisdom says Hillary Clinton needs a "narrative" to reinvent herself for the super delegates...give them some reason to look closely at her for the top spot again.  That may never happen.  If Obama wins as expected in North Carolina and Indiana the race is all but over.  She can't really catch him in the delegate count or the popular vote.  But she has done damage to his candidacy, perhaps not irreparable, but real.  His speech in Evansville last night was flat, he looked weary and the soaring rhetoric wasn't there.  The politics of distraction and personal destruction are wearing on him and giving some voters pause about where it all goes from here.  The so-called "angry white man" vote will never be his nor will the women Maureen Dowd calls the "shoulder pad feminists."  But in this age of ever shortening attention spans and the American Idol syndrome of instant voter gratification, Obama and his people have to worry about a sense of voter fatigue and over exposure.  It all appears to be getting too petty, too similar to the politics he says he got into this race to change.

Pat Buchanan suggests Obama "has peaked" and like a ballplayer after a hitting streak  gone sour he's taking too many pitches with two strikes.  It's not good enough to back into the nomination, he has to impart the sense that he's won it.  For lack of a better phrase, he has to "keep the dream alive."  And it would help if he could find a narrative that convinces those "angry white man" that he understands them as well as he understood the anger of his pastor Jeremiah Wright.  He does, of course, but he's got to make the case with his gut as well as his head.  Hillary and Bill Clinton can't let their dream go no matter how implausible it becomes.  Barack Obama can't let the Cllinton  politics destroy his.    

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drerunner read my blog
Apr 25, 2008 | 12:43 AM

This is what gets me about white liberals. This is not an angry white man issue that's going on with Obama. I am American black guy and I am angry too! I am angry about illegal immigration ,outsourcing and political correctness gone a muck. I think the wacky liberals want and need negative stereotypes to exist on a larger scale. It helps in their crazy revolution. These loons have been obsess with this since the 60s. I am also bittered about crazy(white)liberals using the black guy to do their dirty work. They want people to believe the "angry white man " theory. It keeps minority scared that these white angry guys revert back to KKK uniforms and ride on horses in their neighborhoods. So blacks act according, the vote for left wing nuts. Well, I am angry too! I am angry that our country is setting back and letting these wackos from the left push agendas that will ruin this country . Obama supporters are trying to create social chaos and race batting to accomplish their goals. I support Mccain. I am not supporting Hillary, but I have come to admire her courage and steadfastness in this race. Every time the women wins ,the stupid and deranged democratic leadership keeps calling for her to drop out. What a screwed up way of thinking coming from the democratic party. This party has been hijacked by nuts! Bill was right , Obama and his wacky white elitist friends did try to play the race card on him . Obama is being push as an affirmative action presidential candidate and I totally disapprove of the tactic. I would rather see someone more qualified. Secretary of sta
drerunner read my blog
Apr 25, 2008 | 12:46 AM

continued -
Secretary of State -Dr .Rice. She is more qualified and would do more for this country than some guy form Hawaii.
JimAllen read my blog view my photos
Apr 29, 2008 | 5:11 PM

I think Senator Clinton has a good point when she says "I've won all the Big States", those are facts that no one can dispute.

I don't think Obama has the ability to change the minds of "Angry White Men" or the minds of those who are "Poor, Bitter, Clinging to Guns and Religion".

Old Guard Separatists still control a large part of American Policies and Politics, our longest serving Senator is a former KKK Exalted Cyclops. Wonder how many other Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, and Statesmen are former Members of the Ku Klux Klan?
drerunner read my blog
Apr 29, 2008 | 9:41 PM

True jimAllen. But here is where history and motives are lost. Although many of the members of that group(KKK) were uneducated ,poor , unemployed bottom of the social scale white men . The 9 or so fellows who ,originally, started the klan were professional and educated. (if you read the the history of the Klan) , However, here is where the story gets good and also lost from popular circles. The majority of those originators were professional men and the pillar of their communities. Over half were lawyers-thus the hiding behind sheets. It made lots of sense too. Could you imagine how it would have been perceived if the masses knew who were really behind those robs? However, I think the small towns have gotten a bad rap. I have traveled to many and most aren't like how the media and the Obama campaign has defined them. Most of them are some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. Sure, there are some that are skewed but most do what's right. Interestingly, many white liberals love to tell blacks ,it's only in the small far away towns where this stuff takes place, but I disagree with that, some what. I think these kinds of hateful folks folks live in the large cities ,as well. Liberals (black and white) secretly used the "small town angry men " against blacks as an ace in the pocket(keep them spooked) just as blacks use the race card as an ace in their back pocket.
JimAllen read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 8:34 PM

You're right as it relates to the Founding Members of the KKK. I have to admit I love Re-reading (Morals and Dogma) written by you know who.

I have no problems w/people loving their Race, however, its when "WE" attempt to put Race over Race and Religion over Religion.

I love all Races. I've been blessed as a African American Man to have True White Friends, Hispanic Friends and of course African American Friends. I attended Spry Elementary in Chicago from 4th-7th Grade. Spry was and is 90% Hispanic.

I have also encountered Black Elites of whom I wish I never met. They are the worst kind of people who play the "Race Card" within their own Race. Sounds crazy?

Most African American Communities are hurting not because of Daley, or the "White Man", its African American Leadership that only looks out for themselves and their affiliates (Boule, Black Greeks, Girl Friends, Masons, Links, Old Guards, Order of Snakes, Jack and Jillers, etc).

In the End the Poor only have each other to care for and look after, which makes them BITTER, and CLINGING to GUNS and RELIGION.

Be blessed :-)
valentinemartin read my blog
Aug 13, 2008 | 2:15 PM

African American communities are hurting because everybody brings their criminal behavior here.

The whites that ran over police officers had drugs in their possession and the amount in their possession makes it clear they were in the mainly black areas selling drugs. There are now $3.00 bags of heroin available in the black ocmmunity.

Mayor Daley is enriching himself and his friends doling out contracts for millions of dollars to do stupid things like a study on violence.

The interrracial gang called "the hoodlums" are taunting and robbing, sexually assaulting women and girls including infants as I am typing this post. We have a parcial body count disguised under the label of "dead school children". This does not include the number of females raped and murdered or "missing." Visit areas where the residents are mainly black and you will see posters listing woman and girls kidnapped and never seen again.

An example of being black or black and female in the inner city.
Go to college - the hoodlums say pay them and have sex or be condemned to a life of poverty. The sex part is to insure that they are never prosecuted because they will say you are a nasty BLEEP who wanted to have sex with them so they made you pay them.
Get a job - train to get a job with the city - can not get a job with the city because the jobs are going to corrupt politicians' family members. Take a job in your community - the hoodlums and you are back to square one -"pay us and have sex or get your unemployment -
Enter Obama - staff comes to the mainly black areas to find out the concern
valentinemartin read my blog
Aug 13, 2008 | 2:15 PM

African American communities are hurting because everybody brings their criminal behavior here.

The whites that ran over police officers had drugs in their possession and the amount in their possession makes it clear they were in the mainly black areas selling drugs. There are now $3.00 bags of heroin available in the black ocmmunity.

Mayor Daley is enriching himself and his friends doling out contracts for millions of dollars to do stupid things like a study on violence.

The interrracial gang called "the hoodlums" are taunting and robbing, sexually assaulting women and girls including infants as I am typing this post. We have a parcial body count disguised under the label of "dead school children". This does not include the number of females raped and murdered or "missing." Visit areas where the residents are mainly black and you will see posters listing woman and girls kidnapped and never seen again.

An example of being black or black and female in the inner city.
Go to college - the hoodlums say pay them and have sex or be condemned to a life of poverty. The sex part is to insure that they are never prosecuted because they will say you are a nasty BLEEP who wanted to have sex with them so they made you pay them.
Get a job - train to get a job with the city - can not get a job with the city because the jobs are going to corrupt politicians' family members. Take a job in your community - the hoodlums and you are back to square one -"pay us and have sex or get your unemployment -
Enter Obama - staff comes to the mainly black areas to find out the concern
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