Liberals Remain Blind to Obama's Weaknesses—and Dangers
DENVER—This is another tale of two conventions. I posted earlier from Denver on how Democratfest felt to me just like the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City where Gerald Ford narrowly squeaked by Ronald Reagan to win the nomination. No, in Denver there is no contested nomination as there was in Kansas City. But Sen. Hillary Clinton's presence weighed mightily and at times it felt like there were two Democratic candidates at the convention.
Uber-libs and party regulars seem completely blind to this and in fact seem to be trying to bury it down to the earth's core. Witness this post from left-leaning Salon.com's Rebecca Traister on a PUMA (or Party Unity My A**) protest:
But this is how media fantasy gets made, a miniature tableau of political discord, played out in front of a couple of well-placed television cameras and a television host who finds fetishistic, hyperbolic meaning in everything having to do with the defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her still-sore supporters.
I spoke at a panel with Traister, one hosted by the Women's Media Center, and found her to be a thoughtful person (and gifted writer). But her pro-Barack Obama leanings blind her to reality. She portrayed the pro-Hillary, anti-Obama protesters as a hysterical, PMS-ing minority. True, at the convention Obama folks dominate. But a look at the polls and in discussions with honest pro-Obama delegates in Denver, it's clear Democrats are worried and they have plenty to worry about.
A Gallup poll out this morning shows Obama wins more points from voters than McCain on handling of economic issues and in terms of "caring" about voters' problems. But he falls way behind on the question of leadership and on voters' questions about whether he can handle the job of Commander -in-Chief. Meanwhile, as I posted earlier, conservative Democrats are still not behind him, and guess what: There are more conservatives in this country than liberals. Guess what again: Clinton's supporters are more conservative than Obama's.
This race is far from over. But as I've noted repeatedly, liberal Democrats ignore and belittle conservative Democrats at their peril.
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Liberals Blind to Obama Weaknesses
It's no secret that the liberal press is in the tank for Obama and continuously demonstrates it by their failure to report his shortcomings, his voting record, his liberal bias, and his indecisiveness. Furthermore, their ongoing and incessant attacks on Sarah Palin and her family has gone beyond good taste and common decency. Obama is arguably the weakest candidate to appear in many years and his unqualifications will very likely be his Waterloo. The Achilles heel of the liberal press is its distain of the American public by their belief that they blindly accept what they're told and that they don't pay attention. The loss in ratings by liberal TV and the plunge in subscribership by the liberal press should be a wakeup call. Perhaps a sound thrashing of their anointed one in the voting booths will be a wakeup call.
Obama's Candidacy
Obama is abyssmally short on practical experience, a theoretician, whose lack of substantive knowledge in every conceivable area makes him unfit to serve as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. This is a man who as a state legislator simply chose to vote "present" 123 times and has been the champion of "Pork Barrel" politics as usual in his brief service as a U.S. Senator. His chief accomplishment as a Senator has been to run for an office for which he is singularly unqualified. Only those determined to have change for the sake of change will remain blind to the obvious truth that an Obama candidacy is nothing but political fluff. Obama does not have the wisdom or grit to be pitted against Russia's Putin or to deal with the "War on Terror". He is certainly no Colin Powell. I am a lifelong Democrat and I would not vote for Obama for for Animal Control Officer.
Put Obama's resume'and life experience against that of John McCain's. Only the politically ignorant or naive would come to the conclusion that Obama is equal to John McCain in any category.
Obama-NOT
McKinney is the only one I would consider voting for. I don't like Obama, never have and find him to be full of himself to the extreme. He represents the wannabe upper class of Blacks who think that light skinned is superior to others. Just look at how they rolled over McKinney- an AFRICAN-AMERICAN, not a hybrid who calls himself uniting then speaks to us like we need correction. He should start talking to Whites that way and see what happens. Oh, wait. They are in the majority so I guess the table crumbs are much more important than us. Had enough of the BS speeches that mean nothing. He should be coming out of an AFRICAN temple, not a Greek one. But, then again, what does Obama know about being descended from slaves. His mother is white and his father came from privelege. No, he certainly doesn't represent me or my family. We will be supporting Cynthia who doesn't have the need to doubletalk.
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