In Terms of Geography, Obama Appeals to Academics and Clinton Appeals to Jacksonians

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As someone who is a warrior type (including military service), prior academic and retired public servant, I have to say this still makes perfect sense, even long after its publication. There has always been a terrible conflict between my different roles in this sense--and I gotta say, the warrior/Jacksonian wins. In the ultimate outcome, "no man can serve two masters".

During Obama's long campaign, his message has been consistently hijacked by non-whites who seem to think it is OK to be racially prejudiced in favor of your own race as long as it is not the Caucasian race. The other group of hijackers are the academics, as biased in their own way as any white supremicist--but biased on the basis of the political correctness points gained by supporting the black man. It is condescension masquerading as support--but it is tokenism.

I venture to think that Mr. Obama might have hoped as I had hoped--that somehow he would rise above the stereotypes to embody all of the people through his mixed heritage. He is just as much Scots Irish as most. However, those who think only of their own agendas have labeled him the "black man" who is the "messiah" for them all, as Farrakhan has said. .

I hope that now that he has the votes, that he has the warrior spirit to speak up and announce himself to be no man's token, that he is not out to to "save" any one group but to represent all Americans. That, in Scots Irish fashion, he has the courage to fight and be the burr under any man's saddle that seeks to tell him what to do.

But, sadly, I don't think he will. He is as much the victim of prejudice (reverse in this case) as anyone else. And like my black colleagues in the 80's, he will probably never get the chance to feel that he was valued for himself rather than as a token of political correctness.

Now, THAT , is a sad life to live, thinking that in the final analysis, it really WAS all about the way you looked and not who you were....

Saylorscreek of 11:39PM November 05, 2008

One of the silliest and most juvenile things anyone can do is judge only

by surface appearances. This is in reference to folks who think of Obama as

a wimp and a pushover. He has just won the nomination, and one reason

was that the Clintons consistently underestimated him--something I am

sure they regret. We are in the current Iraq quagmire thanks to an idiot

that a lot of people thought of as a man's man that they could have a beer

with.

It's worth noting that George Bush's policies have helpd to ensure that a lot

of the people who viewed him that way can't even buy the beer they would

like to share with him.

ANNE of DC 4:50PM June 06, 2008

There isn't even enough substance here to really attack. You haven't even begun to prove that geography, with all its attendant correlations (race, economics, etc) leads one to conclude what you have to the exclusion of those other correlation. You should have known to suspect your own reasoning when it led you to the hilarious assertion that people with a sense of liberty with honor will support Hillary. I put it to you that anybody with a sense of either is probably going to vote for McCain, or maybe even Obama, but off all the things that Hillary represents, I don't think anybody who reads a newspaper would mention "honor" or "liberty" in the same sentence as Clinton.

Jonathan of MA 4:52PM April 08, 2008