Thread: THE POLITICAL WORLD RE-ASSESSES OBAMA

THE POLITICAL WORLD RE-ASSESSES OBAMA
by Former Congressman John LeBoutillier

Pennsylvania was the beginning of the end for Barak Obama.

His startlingly bad results among key groups - Catholics, white women, Jews and elderly voters - has shaken the Democratic world to its core.

And now the re-emergence of the infamous Reverend Jeremiah Wright will be the coup de grace for the already-hurting Obama.
Just when Obama has been trounced in the Keystone State the last thing he needs is Reverend Wright popping off on Bill Moyers on PBS, followed by a speech in DC at the National Press Club.

Clearly Bill Moyers - the Dean of the Left Wing Media - is trying to rehabilitate Reverend Wright in order to rescue Obama’s faltering candidacy.

What a mistake by these bone-headed liberals! Wright is way, way beyond political rehabilitation! He is radioactive - and the poisonous radiation is now spreading step-by-step down into the Democratic Party. State GOP organizations in North Carolina and Washington State are now airing TV ads using the explosive Wright excerpts against Democratic gubernatorial candidates there.

John McCain - in a typical McCain move - decries the use of the Wright sermons and asked these state organizations not to air the commercials. To their credit they have defied McCain - perhaps a sign of how little anyone inside the Republican Party believes in or cares about McCain; they are more interested in their home state prospects.

But the real story today is the almost sudden realization among the political cognicenti that Obama is un-electable in November and that Hillary is actually a stronger general election candidate.

The Pennsylvania results are what has brought this sea-change. For example, Obama lost Catholic voters 72-28%. This is a devastating result politically. The oft-mentioned ‘Reagan Democrats’ - who are in fact swing voters - are predominantly white Catholics (Irish, Itialian, Polish and other Eastern European heritage). When Obama gets blown out by Hillary, of all people, 72-28, that sent a shock wave through the political world.

The result? Obama rooters in the media like Joe Klein of Time Magazine, Howard Fineman of Newsweek and MSNBC’s Chris Mathews all did a massive 180 Degree Reversal on Thursday; they now realize that Obama is a mortally wounded candidate.

You can bet that the Democratic Super Delegates - the very people who will determine the Democratic ticket in Denver - are also re-assessing Obama’s deteriorating candidacy.

They, too, must now see that Obama is not their strongest general election candidate. In fact, he is their weakest.

He is now being called - in the liberal New Republic, of all places - “another George McGovern.â€

Power to the AM Radio listeners!!

This man was un-electable before he even began his campaign. Anyone who aligns themselves with racists, communists, and others with such an overall contempt of America and racial groups other than their own has no business being the president of this country.

He didn't wear a flag pin on his lapel and wouldn't salute our flag. These two things are important when it comes to someone running for President of the US. Maybe not to him, but they are to many Americans.

Originally Posted by Captainron

Power to the AM Radio listeners!!

We have had nothing but racial problems since him running. No one can say anything without it offending someone. Ferraro's fiasco was not bigotted. How the hell do you have a dialog if you don't know what will be misconstrued? Besides, he was a front runner in wanting to get Imus off the air. Let's see how he likes it. Bye, bye

Marxists, Weathermen, bigoted preachers, what's next with this guy! Everyday it's something else we learn about him. More debates are needed to see if he's tough enough. As of now, he isn't!

I defended him to my friends, even though I wasn't for him, on the lapel pin, the Star Spangled Banner moment, and the Muslim emails going around, plus other assorted trivial things.

I can see now that he will be nothing but MORE trouble. We don't need more trouble. Too many secrets in his background. He needs to be looked into more.

He reads a speech well but he is awful at being questioned. He stammers and stutters. He needs to work on that too.

Originally Posted by azwreath

This man was un-electable before he even began his campaign. Anyone who aligns themselves with racists, communists, and others with such an overall contempt of America and racial groups other than their own has no business being the president of this country.

You got it!

I guess he'll know what "bitter" feels like and Michelle can go back to not being proud of the US?

Obama is a symptom of how the Democratic party has been hijacked by the far left. I was once a democrat back in the Kennedy days when Dems were much more centrist and shunned the kind of anti-American garbage now being spewed daily, even by some supposedly respected high level Dems! IMO, this election could potentially destroy the Democratic party for the next two decades. But then, the Republican Party could just follow them right over the cliff! Gosh, wouldn't that be refreshing? Room for another Independent party?

Originally Posted by USA_born

He didn't wear a flag pin on his lapel and wouldn't salute our flag. These two things are important when it comes to someone running for President of the US. Maybe not to him, but they are to many Americans.

If you don't mind a little speculation:

I am wondering how Obama was able to rise so fast in the first place? For years a curious thing to me in American culture is how so many people that are apparently bright can rattle on and on and really not say anything. I've seen quite a lot of it. I guess they find some mutually understood codewords that certain other people appreciate and start going at it. Unfortunately, some of these people seem to end up in government, I've seen them in my city council, for example, and they seem to understand what they're talking about and mesh with each other, but a lot of the time I don't. So it would make a person with a pragmatic point of view feel left out and defenseless.

So maybe Obama is the candidate for people like that. As far as 'change' I thought we already had change forty years ago, and later Democrats like Clinton understood things had gone too far.

I am assailed frequently by people that are mad at me because they think I have something they don't, yet the reality is my family background is about impoverished as one could get. But don't these people know how to conduct themselves with dignity? And a lot of people that supposedly are "oppressed" have certain skills in their favor. But I guess enough people in this country had convinced themselves they had every right to be up in arms, that the government was excessively unfair to them, and that some wet-behind-the-ears activist would be the ideal leader.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

Captainnron...remember, the current far left of the Democratic party (which is the sector of Dems that are calling the shots for the entire party) rose to power and are keeping themselves in power by convincing their constituents that they are "victims" in America. Only the radical, socialistic Democratic party can deliver them from their "victimness" and make it all right in the world for them (by redistributing wealth by stealing from productive members of society and, of course, further inflating the federal government).