Michael Gaynor
Obama's fatal weakness with whites
By Michael Gaynor
Rookie United States Senators and current Democrat frontrunner Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. rightly took a big hit with white voters after the media focused the nation on his relationships with the likes of Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr. and William "I bombed the Pentagon and wish I'd done more" Ayers and a videotape of Obama telling the elite as a closed-door San Francisco fundraiser that small town Americans clung to religion and guns out of bitter over their economic circumstances was made public.
By then, however, Obama had become the frontrunner, as Democrats forgot that Iowa picks corn and New Hampshire (won by Hillary Rodham Clinton) picks presidents.
Since then, Hillary Clinton has won nearly all of the primaries, with the predictable exceptions of North Carolina (where blacks cast about 40% of the vote in the state's 2008 Democrat presidential primary) and Oregon (where at least a third of the voters in the state's 2008 Democrat presidential primary don't do to a church, a synagogue or a mosque to worship).
Race and gender had worked FOR Obama, as 1984 Democrat vice presidential nominee Geraldine A. Ferraro astutely noted.
Blacks overwhelmingly supported Obama, even against Hillary and despite his obvious inexperience, because he's half-black and she's all white.
Many whites were eager to show that they are not racist by backing a candidate who was eloquent, smooth and half black.
More men supported Obama because he's a man than woman supported Hillary because she's a woman (although gender was not as big an advantage for Obama as race).
NOW Obama is the candidate of chose of blacks and secular extremists.
But blacks and secular extremists still can't elect a President of the United States if the rest of the voters pay attention to the facts and vote their own values.
Hillary blew Obama away in West Virginia, winning by 41 points.
In West Virginia, blacks make up 3% of the population.
In Kentucky, Hillary triumphed by 35 points?
Does that signify that Obama was getting stronger?
No.
In Kentucky, blacks make up 9% of the population.
In Kentucky, Obama won the black bloc vote, but only about a quarter of the white vote.
If the media had publicized the off-putting information about Obama BEFORE the Iowa caucuses, Obama never would have become the Democrat frontrunner and Team Clinton would have taken an insurmountable lead on the original Super Tuesday.
One Obama enthusiast emailed me that what was most important was that Obama be nominated by the Democrats. not that he win the election.
That's fine with Republicans, conservative and people who attend religious services.
Before the ugly truth about Obama became well known, Obama was generally considered to be the more formidable choice for the 2008 presidential nomination.
No longer.
Bill Clinton won West Virginia, Kentucky and the Presidency, twice.
Obama would not win in Florida; Hillary could.
Hillary definitely is stronger in the key swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan.
For personal political purposes, Obama has been trying to make the 2008 Democrat national convention a meeting at which only 48 of the 50 states can vote.
Floridians and Michiganders, this power playing does not amuse.
If the nominee, in Florida and Michigan, Obama will lose.
If the Democrats nominate their most extreme candidate instead of their stronger candidate, they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They've done it before, but not with a bi-racial nominee.
© Michael Gaynor
Rookie United States Senators and current Democrat frontrunner Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. rightly took a big hit with white voters after the media focused the nation on his relationships with the likes of Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr. and William "I bombed the Pentagon and wish I'd done more" Ayers and a videotape of Obama telling the elite as a closed-door San Francisco fundraiser that small town Americans clung to religion and guns out of bitter over their economic circumstances was made public.
By then, however, Obama had become the frontrunner, as Democrats forgot that Iowa picks corn and New Hampshire (won by Hillary Rodham Clinton) picks presidents.
Since then, Hillary Clinton has won nearly all of the primaries, with the predictable exceptions of North Carolina (where blacks cast about 40% of the vote in the state's 2008 Democrat presidential primary) and Oregon (where at least a third of the voters in the state's 2008 Democrat presidential primary don't do to a church, a synagogue or a mosque to worship).
Race and gender had worked FOR Obama, as 1984 Democrat vice presidential nominee Geraldine A. Ferraro astutely noted.
Blacks overwhelmingly supported Obama, even against Hillary and despite his obvious inexperience, because he's half-black and she's all white.
Many whites were eager to show that they are not racist by backing a candidate who was eloquent, smooth and half black.
More men supported Obama because he's a man than woman supported Hillary because she's a woman (although gender was not as big an advantage for Obama as race).
NOW Obama is the candidate of chose of blacks and secular extremists.
But blacks and secular extremists still can't elect a President of the United States if the rest of the voters pay attention to the facts and vote their own values.
Hillary blew Obama away in West Virginia, winning by 41 points.
In West Virginia, blacks make up 3% of the population.
In Kentucky, Hillary triumphed by 35 points?
Does that signify that Obama was getting stronger?
No.
In Kentucky, blacks make up 9% of the population.
In Kentucky, Obama won the black bloc vote, but only about a quarter of the white vote.
If the media had publicized the off-putting information about Obama BEFORE the Iowa caucuses, Obama never would have become the Democrat frontrunner and Team Clinton would have taken an insurmountable lead on the original Super Tuesday.
One Obama enthusiast emailed me that what was most important was that Obama be nominated by the Democrats. not that he win the election.
That's fine with Republicans, conservative and people who attend religious services.
Before the ugly truth about Obama became well known, Obama was generally considered to be the more formidable choice for the 2008 presidential nomination.
No longer.
Bill Clinton won West Virginia, Kentucky and the Presidency, twice.
Obama would not win in Florida; Hillary could.
Hillary definitely is stronger in the key swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan.
For personal political purposes, Obama has been trying to make the 2008 Democrat national convention a meeting at which only 48 of the 50 states can vote.
Floridians and Michiganders, this power playing does not amuse.
If the nominee, in Florida and Michigan, Obama will lose.
If the Democrats nominate their most extreme candidate instead of their stronger candidate, they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They've done it before, but not with a bi-racial nominee.
© Michael Gaynor
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