How Hillary Can Still Win It
AIM Column | By Roger Aronoff | May 16, 2008
The problem for the Democrats and the media stars that love them is that Hillary has emerged as the stronger candidate with wider appeal, but only after the media had abandoned her for the “Rock Star” Obama.
As Hillary Clinton won a huge victory in West Virginia last Tuesday, the political pundits began to change their tune. Ever since the previous week’s primary returns, in which Hillary lost big to Barack Obama in North Carolina, and barely squeaked by with a win in Indiana, the assumption was that the race was over, and it was just a matter of how she would make her exit. Perhaps she would wait till she could go out on a winning note in West Virginia, suggested NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Or maybe she would finish out the primaries on June 3, and bow out at that point, for the good of the party, when enough Superdelegates chose Obama to put him over the top.
But it now seems clear that Senator Clinton intends to be in it to the end, and that she has a strategy to take the Democratic presidential nomination away from Obama. This will make for exciting media coverage.
“We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it,” said Tim Russert on MSNBC the night of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries. “Those closest to her will give her a hardheaded analysis, and if they lay it all out, they’ll say: ‘What is the rationale? What do we say to the undeclared Superdelegates tomorrow? Why do we tell them you’re staying in the race?’ And tonight, there’s no good answer for that.”
Time magazine declared Obama the nominee with a cover story that said, “And the nominee is…” with a picture of Obama. On “The Early Show” on CBS, Bob Schieffer said, “Basically…this race is over.” On ABC, George Stephanopoulos said, “This nomination fight is over.” And Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel said that “I think the Clinton people know the game is almost up.”
Andrea Mitchell is reporting even today, that “for the first time now, her [Hillary] people, her closest aides, are saying, ‘she knows the reality, we know the reality.’ They’re acknowledging that she’s not going to win this―that she is really just going through the motions. And that’s a big change.” But there is little indication that Hillary has accepted this notion.
Comedy of Errors
In a column last summer I took Russert to task for stating with certainty that we would know on Super Tuesday who the nominees were going to be. There he goes again. The pundits have been wrong before and they will probably be wrong again.
Indeed, they are singing a different tune this week. Terry McAuliffe challenged Russert on Meet the Press last Sunday, asking, “Did it become an avalanche after Tuesday, when you and others were all on the air saying it was over?” Russert got defensive and said that he was only quoting others. “The Clinton campaign says it’s the media. What we did,” said Russert, “is add up the delegates, call Clinton supporters and say, ‘Is the math there?’ Clinton supporters said ‘No.’”
But what it would take for Obama to get “over the top” was in flux. It has been, and the networks’ graphic still says, that the total needed is 2025 delegates. But over the last couple of weeks, Hillary’s team has abandoned that number. The new number is 2209, or 2210, which is one more than half the delegates, if Florida and Michigan get to seat all of their delegates. This is supposed to be decided at a May 31 Rules committee meeting, but up to now, Howard Dean has been too weak of a party chairman to be able to engineer a compromise that would satisfy both Obama and Clinton.
Another Russert Error
On Tuesday night, during the coverage of the West Virginia primary, Russert said that “48 hours ago on Meet the Press, Terry McAuliffe said he was willing to seat half of the delegations of Michigan and Florida.” But in fact, McAuliffe didn’t say that. When Russert asked him on Meet the Press if he would accept that compromise, McAuliffe said, “We certainly might, you bet. But in fairness, the Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet on, on the 31st to make that decision.” When pressed on the issue again by Russert, he again deferred to the Rules and Bylaws Committee and said, “it’s up to them to make that decision.” That is a distinction with a significant difference.
The problem for the Democrats and the media stars that love them is that Hillary has emerged as the stronger candidate with wider appeal, but only after the media had abandoned her for the “Rock Star” Obama. It is now apparent that Obama has serious weaknesses on policy matters, like the reason for and effect of raising capital gains taxes, and his willingness to meet unconditionally at the presidential level with some of the world’s worst tyrants.
Just as important, perhaps, are his links to and handling of the situations with his controversial former minister Jeremiah Wright and the unrepentant terrorist and former Weatherman William Ayers. These have hurt him in immeasurable ways. The exit polls in West Virginia showed that 50% of the voters believe that Obama shares Jeremiah Wright’s views to some degree, and nearly half of those who voted for Hillary said that if Obama is their party’s nominee, they won’t vote for him. His radical ties are showing, and his efforts to distance himself without seeming to repudiate his past have been unconvincing.
In this 12-round heavyweight championship fight, Hillary spotted these cuts over Obama’s eye and has been pounding away. The problem for Hillary is that in a 12-round fight, to extend the metaphor, if one party wins the first seven or eight rounds, the other party needs a knockout punch to win. In determining the winner, the early rounds count equally to the late rounds. At one point, immediately after Super Tuesday on February 5, Obama won 10 straight primaries and caucuses, by an average of about 30 points each. Those count too.
Plus, Hillary, while becoming a better candidate, has continued to make mistakes. Earlier it was her lie, or as Larry King called it, a “mistruth,” about running to avoid sniper fire in Bosnia. More recently, she has been brutally criticized for her comment to USA Today, in which she cited an Associated Press story that referred to an exit poll that “found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.” Clinton had a valid point, but she was politically incorrect to refer to “white” voters.
Bob Herbert, the black columnist for the New York Times said that those comments were the equivalent of saying, “He can’t win! Don’t you understand? He’s black! He’s black!” Added Herbert, “The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and Superdelegates for the longest time. It’s a grotesque insult to African-Americans, who have given so much support to both Bill and Hillary over the years.”
She’s a Fighter
But now, if we are to take her at her word, Hillary appears determined to fight on. She told the crowd in West Virginia Tuesday night that “…I never give up. I'll keep coming back, and I'll stand with you as long as you stand with me.” Money isn’t a problem for the Clintons, other than the appearance of weakness for having to dip into their personal hundred-million-dollar kitty. There is no Federal Election Commission watching because the two parties are fighting over who will be seated to fill the vacancies. The Clintons also have potential access to funds from other accounts, although dipping into them could pose legal problems. Millions of dollars have been raised by Bill Clinton for the Clinton Library and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Using money from questionable sources is not new for the Clintons. During the 1996 election cycle, Bill Clinton and the Democratic National Committee took at least $3 million from sources linked to China, and claimed to have paid it back after getting caught. Even NBC’s Andrea Mitchell questioned the Clintons’ trustworthiness on money matters, saying on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “We don’t know and won’t know whether their claims of having enough money [to continue on with the campaign] are accurate and truthful.”
Regardless of what happens with Michigan and Florida, and even if Superdelegates appear on paper to give Obama the number of delegates he needs to win, Hillary still probably won’t get out. For one thing, as Politico has reported, there is little agreement among the various news agencies exactly how many Superdelegates are committed to whom, and how many remain uncommitted. They point to the argument that counting Superdelegates is an art, not a science. Hillary could go to the convention in Denver the last week of August, where the delegates actually vote, and count on their ultimate support. If she can somehow get enough delegates to switch to her side, or hold back support from Obama, she might make it through the first ballot without Obama securing the nomination. Then all delegates are free, and this is where the Clintons may see their opening and chance for victory.
While it seems that the Clintons have lost their magic and the fear and respect they used to have in the party, they just might be able to succeed. It would certainly come at the expense of any sort of party unity. But does anyone really believe that if Obama gets the nomination, Hillary will want him to win? If she loses, the party might be so split that it can’t possibly win the White House.
The Clintons say the process has been good for the Democrats because of all the voters registered, and all the enthusiasm generated. But is that true or just a rationalization for Hillary to stay in the race?
High Ratings
Despite getting the facts wrong and making unfounded predictions, the media love the ongoing campaign. The liberal media hate seeing the Democrats fighting, but they love the high ratings and constant coverage they are able to provide, as they hope to influence voters. On the night of the West Virginia vote, Chris Matthews told Terry McAuliffe, who earlier in the day had called Matthews the unofficial chairman of the Obama campaign, that he, as a reporter and political junkie, wants more than anything to see this race go down to midnight on the last night of the Denver convention. Yet, Matthews had said that morning, “I think most people…understand that the fight is over for the nomination.”
The media preference for either Democrat over McCain is unmistakable, although McCain has traditionally been a favorite of the liberal media because of his liberal stands on such issues as campaign finance reform, immigration, and global warming. For example, Dan Abrams, in his prime time show on MSNBC on Thursday night, practically begged the Democrats to have a ticket with Obama at the top, and Hillary as his vice president. “My fear is that the Obama supporters simply hate Hillary Clinton so much that she’s simply got no shot [of becoming his running mate].” This is the main fear that the liberal media have about the race.
Hillary was the liberal media’s early favorite when she was the presumed nominee. But as Obama gained strength, and the Clintons began using race and his links to the far-left to try to stop his momentum, his popularity grew in the media. Chris Matthews talked about how after being in the presence of an Obama speech, he “felt this thrill going up my leg,” and he compared Obama’s message to the New Testament. This is what passes for journalism these days. The rock star treatment was obvious for all to see. There is hardly a pretense of objectivity by any of the networks.
The Obama Chorus
In a column in Politico titled, “Obama’s Secret Weapon, The Media,” Jim VandeHei and John Harris argued that “Many journalists are not merely observers but participants in the Obama phenomenon.”
So will Hillary bow out soon, and gracefully, as Andrea Mitchell is reporting? Not likely. She has been dropping clues along the way. Back in February, she made it clear that she looks at the letter rather than the spirit of the pledged delegate rules, which is that even they don’t have to vote on the first or any ballot for whom their state’s primary or caucus sent them to Denver to vote for. So until the delegates have a chance to actually vote, they are just stating a temporary preference. That is how the Clintons are looking at this process.
The Democrats are reeling because they don’t know how this drama will play out. Their allies in the media, while the Democrats are getting way more coverage than the Republicans, continue attempting to prepare the country for attacks on the nominee, whoever it is, by the Republican Party and conservative groups. An ABC article pointed out after last month’s Pennsylvania primary that two-thirds of Democratic voters felt that Hillary had attacked Obama unfairly, and 50% said Obama had unfairly attacked her. This shouldn’t deter Republicans from going after either of them this fall.
There is a lot of drama left, and with the Democrats so badly divided, it is possible that McCain could win a big victory in November. That depends on him attracting the votes of disaffected Democrats, and McCain appears to be courting the left, especially with his support for global warming treaties and legislation. In his recent speech on the need for conservative judges, he defended his vote for Clinton’s nomination of ACLU general counsel Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
The Republican Party is also in turmoil but it hasn’t gotten as much coverage as the problems in the Democratic Party. About a quarter of Republicans in recent primaries have refused to vote for McCain, and Rep. Ron Paul, the most popular Republican presidential candidate on the college campuses, says he won’t endorse the Arizona senator for president. While Ralph Nader is threatening to siphon votes away from the Democratic nominee, third party candidates such as Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party and Bob Barr, the likely candidate of the Libertarian Party, could take some conservative votes away from McCain.
There is a lot of suspense and excitement on both sides as the media prepare for the campaign ahead.
Roger Aronoff is a media analyst with Accuracy in Media, and is the writer/director of ”Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope.” He can be contacted at
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HILLARY SHOULD WEAR YOGI BERRA’S NUMBER. IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT’S OVER. OR AS THEY SAY AT THE OPERA. IT AIN’T OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS. HILLARY HAS NOT YET DONE THE FIRST ARIA. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE CLINTONS. THEY CAN MAKE YOUR CAT DISSAPPEAR.BESIDES BIN LADEN CAN CHANGE AMERICAN HISTORY. NOTHING SAYS HE IS WAITING TILL AFTER THE ELECTION. HAVE YOU READ OBAMA’S BOOK. CHECK OUT PAGE 261. HE MAY BE SWORN IN ON THE KORAN YET. I CAN HEAR THE EXCUSE NOW. I HAVE BECOME DISILLUSIONED WITH CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE OF REV WRIGHT. I FIND THAT I AM AT PEACE WITH ISLAM. ALLAH BLESS AMERICA. THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DON’T HAVE TO PICK THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. NOW WE GOT THREE.
I JUST HOPE HE DOES NOT PULL A SADDAM ON THE SENATE. AFTER THE VOTE EVERYVBODY GOES HOME IN BODY BAGS. NO ADDRESS MIXUPS FOR FUN PLEASE. HOW DID YOU LIKE JOHN EDWARDS PLAYING OTHELLO? ALAS POOR HILLARY I KNEW HER WELL. OR IS THAT THE MERCHANT OF VENUS?
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This is funny! Sort of like that guy on Hardball talking about appeasement and did not know what he was talking about. Here we have a totally corrupt government from top to bottom and you guys are worried about race!
I said it before, and I will say it again, Obama is not here to help Black people, he is here to help white people from yourselves. Bush and his crew have been stealing everything that isn’t nailed down, hell some of the nails are gone too!
Half the congress, Dem’s and Republicans alike own stocks in all of the companies that are war profiteering in Iraq(But they are in trust funds so that the members don’t know anything about it Ha Ha) But, the Clintons turned Obama into the Black Man, and that is all anyone can see. I almost wish that Obama would lose so that people like you can get everything that you are asking for, you really deserve it.
I quit writing because of how dumb people really seem to be!
The president of the United States begging Arabs for OIL! Our you kidding me!!!!!!!!! Don’t you dumb people get it! If we had oil we damn sure would not have to beg anyone for theirs.
You keep worring about the Black Man! Because simply put, as an extremely good analysis, I know for a fact that the only chance that our country has is with him. But go ahead and vote for the guy who was an emeny collaborator in Vietnam!
Tyrone,
Just like Obama, keep on a talking so we get a clear picture of just how twisted you really are.
Thanks Mike, my thoughts exactly about Tyrone.
He is a prime example why the Founding Fathers were so worried about an illiterate electorate, as they would be so easily swayed by the first snake oil salesman that came along. Tyrone is correct that the government is mostly corrupt from top to bottom though, but he has it wrong about Bush stealing everything that is not nailed down, and even stealing some of the nails - he must be confused with the previous occupant whose wife is running this time as they did steal the White House clean upon the end of Slick Willies terms! I have lost almost all my faith in George Bush whom seems to be running as far to the left as he can, and he isn’t EVEN running, but when his terms are over next January, I expect that he will leave the nation’s house with all its furnishings.
I suppose when one considers that government has completely destroyed all schooling in America, from K to 8, the high schools and the colleges, and all the private and secular colleges they could get their hands on, where the kids are well versed in liberal doctrine and a thorough PC education, but got nothing in the three R’s except mostly lies, Americans should not wonder that snake oil salesmen like Obama, and Clinton, and McCain, should not hold sway with those that know no better! That illiterate electorate that the Founding Fathers so feared is here. At least God gave many Americans just plain common sense and if we are to survive as a representative Republic, we will need all the common sense, and those educated pre absolute government control and the home schooled, those that have not been indoctrinated, to save these United States from the coming years.
I think all of you are underestimating the Clintons.
...she was promised the white house next...snicker , snicker..Is everyone so dumbed down they don’t see the game? Makes me wonder how any of you make it thru the day.
Dear Kim Cigar: Perhaps someone will translate for you? In my first post, in the first sentence (if you did not get beyond that), you will see that I would never underestimate the Clintons - and that is why, when the last action is finished in Denver, she will either be the nominee, or the Democrat Party will be in one heck of a hurt worse than the Republican Party is. And even then, if Obama emerges as the nominee, there is still a few months to the November election, and people have a habit of dying around the Clinton’s? I would not ever be surprised if somehow Obama is not added to that list by HillBillary and in spite of the Secret Service?
Give the lady a Segar, Mike! I think we just may have taught her to read before she runs on at the yap? Maybe not? Besides, maybe she didn’t read the original fine article of Mr Aronoff? I seem to remember its entire premise was about the Clinton’s NOT being finished? In fact, was it not entitled - How Hillary Can Still Win It? Maybe we shouldn’t give the lady a Segar, only a Segarette?
Tyrone needs his head examined, he hasnt a clue as to the vast untapped energy reserves in this country. Also, to take issue with McCain for things he did during years of torture, but ommit Obamas ties to communists and terrorist who had no hold on him other than they truely are of the same mind. Sorry to observe another ignorant man but glad to expose it.
While both Clinton and Obama are damaged goods, the DNC is in a pickle.
One is amazed that Hillary didn’t promote Rev Wright’s racist, anti-American views("GOD D--- AMERICA” says it all; we’ll be seeing a lot of this in the months leading up to the general election if O gets the nod) at the beginning of the year and NOT saving this until she wandered into quicksand. She could’a nipped him in the bud coming out of the gate. Hillary makes strategical blunders just like Obama, but Obama is a wuss, where Hillary is the better man...and utterly amoral such that NOTHING is beyond her if it benefits her campaign.
Just because I loathe her doesn’t mean I don’t have confidence in her “dark side of the force” powers.
And if Obama does win - not a given with Hillary, whom anyone to the right of a RINO loathes and despises...but NEVER underestimates - and suffers the inevitable next example of his utter inability to craft any meaningful message beyond word jumbles (Change, Hope, Change you can believe in, Change you hope you can believe in, blah, blah, blah...), while his “talking points” are borderline-insane (no, Obama’s not going to win a debate with an omnipotent brutal dictator...who will then use the exchange as a chance to brag about how he and his country have gone toe-to-toe with an American president...and won).
I hope that Hillary will do her worst (ie, her best) to stick it out (hers is bigger than Obama’s without doubt) and go into the convention looking for a second or third round victory), and then we’ll just see if blacks (these are people who are black and, oddly enough, aren’t white: you heard it here first!) will go dem 90% as tradition dictates.
Obama does himself no favors by playing the race card constantly, using Hillary as an excuse to bring it up...playing right into her hands. (Have you stopped beating your wife yet?) Hillary has lowered Bubba’s volume a good bit and not a moment too soon. She knows when to fish or cut bait. And she’s fishing for white votes, so she’s fishing in a different lake from Obama’s.
Obama doesn’t have to worry about racism, but about most Americans being fairly pro-America. Colin Powell is a black man, but doesn’t carry the baggage that Obama has largely heaped on his own back! I could live with a President Powell, but not a communist president...and Obama was raised as a communist. (Regular AIM readers will understand this.)
“Racism”: the official motto of the post-Civil Rights movement since the *Republicans* put it on LBJ’s desk to sign. Thanks to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for turning Republican Martin Luther King’s “dream” into a nightmare. Can you imagine either of these guys wanting to be judged on the content of his character as opposed to the color of his skin? (If you can, you probably can’t read or type because you’re an utter moron.)
I think one of the most significant problems Obama has is that when faced with the hard questions at the hands of George Steponoffacliff during a debate (not media softballs) that the GOP will surely hit him with, he folded like a cheap suit, his “articulation” dropping to the floor with a thud...between his stutters.
McCain’s wife gets on TV and says that he won’t go negative. Surely, the bi-polar one told her to STFU. OF COURSE he’s going to go negative, perhaps a 50-50 split of pro-McCain and anti-Obama/Rev Wright ads, because his “negative” ads can be viewed another way: pointing out TRUE problems with Obama’s beliefs and utter lack of qualifications. Plus, McCain has betrayed his party a number of times, so he can easily play both sides of the fence.
And they haven’t yet gotten to Michelle Obama, who is an obnoxious female dog (I’m being polite) who’s clearly in it for the money. I don’t give a rat’s patoot as to WHEN she became proud to be an American. Her “official” bio is fiction...at least that part that isn’t left out entirely. You really have to dig a bit to find out why you don’t want this woman as First Lady. She simply can’t follow Laura Bush’s performance. Laura has class in spades, where Michelle is deficient in this area. NEVER trust a woman who describes herself as a “strong, powerful woman”: this should be self-evident and not necessary to point out.
It is the House and Senate that really concern me. The dems are digging up pro-gun, Christian candidates to out-republican the GOP...and seem to be pretty good at this, if nothing else.
Americans poll well for democrats handling education. This is a sign of how bad are schools have become. Today, some schools are giving multiple choice MATH questions! (And students discovered that they can pick answer C for every “problem” and probably pass.) Hope the IRS will do a meticulous investigation of political spending by the teachers unions, which constitute the worst possible threat to our public schools as the past 40 years of “experimentation” have been a record of failure. We need teachers that could actually pass the tests they give their students!
This is my first read of the A.I.M. society and it is quite disappointing. It is amazing to me how much ignorance some of you were able to espouse in so few sentences. It’s mindsets like yours that have led the US down the path to hell it’s on and destroyed it’s reputation within the World Community. The bible says, “it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open up your mouth and remove all doubt.” Quiet Man you should have remained Quiet because we now know all about you. It is also obvious to me that some of you have a lot of time on your hand to be able to concoct such preposterous notions.
To say that African-Americans have been living on the back of others negates the fact that there are more non-minorities on welfare than any other group. To say that the authorization of “No Contest” bids to companies like Halliburton for 7+ Billion and groups affiliated with FEMA’s reconstruction effort in L.A. in excess of 10 Billion dollar to companies where members of this administration are major share holders and not think there is corruption, back room deals, or payoffs under the table says your unable to see the forest for the trees. To say that Bush’s comments in front of the Knesset was not a direct attempt to discredit Sen. Obama on an International level and pander to the Jewish community is a blatant disregard for the obvious. To pass off one of the most inspirational unifying figures in this countries history since JFK as a “Rock Star” and dismiss the power of the message that he brings shows an inability to think for ones self beyond what they hear being said on TV or in the trailer park. To condemn the practice of opening dialog with every nation, ally or foe, for the sake of diplomacy and peace and then turn around and initiate or imply you will employ those same efforts yourself shows hypocrisy and a level of pandering beyond belief. The pandering is to a segment of society that bases fact on sound bites vs. truly examining the Historic facts, i.e. Russia, Cuba, Libya, N. Korea (now), and Iran (now) . To continually highlight a 2 minute sound bite, which was a recanting of what was said by the Iraqi ambassador, and not make one mention about the anit-catholic comments and rhetoric of a John Hagee is evidence of the one-sided double standard that has continually plagued this country and held it back from aspiring to its fullest potential. Understand, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and a nation will climb no higher while attempting to suppress one facet over another. We may have come across on different ships but we are all in the same boat now. The rich/well-off continue to get richer and the poor continue to be held down. The irony is that as you rationalize/justify this ride to hell in a hand, those that you defend have been blessed with the ability to leave and/or survive absent the worry for means. It will take strong, unifying leadership, Obama, to build this country back up vs. the apathetic attempts at pandering and empty rhetoric that have been exhibited by both Clintons and McCain. This is happening whether you like it or not. Archaic ideologies like those mentioned are on their way out along, i.e. the buggy whip vs. the Jet plane and car. Obama starts a chapter to a new story with a generation of educated independent thinkers that will enable this country to recognize it full dream.
Well at least I now understand how Hitler was able to take so many people under his spell and make them believe he was the reincarnation of the Messiah! First Tyrone, and now Cireal, have obviously fallen under the spell of OsamaObama. I am always astonished that people can be so hoodwinked and bamboozled into believing the rot that poors from Snake Oil salemens yaps.
And for your information Cereal, I am one of the poor, and I am poor because of the bigger more controlling government that you want and that we WILL get should the head snake of this campaign Obama get into the nations house. It has not occurred to you that these handouts the liberal government gives to those that vote for them is taken from hard working people that have run out of any more resources and the pigs still have their mouths open and their hands out. Every opportunity that has come along, if government has their say, they will snatch opportunity from you and give you slavery and squalor - and Cereal and Tyrone want MORE of that.
The day will come when you will have to raise your hand and ask permission to go potty, and we get more of that with the likes of that racist Obama. America was a great place and then the liberals starting taking over, and now that they have us by the nuts, America’s greatness is behind her, and it is all downhill from here UNLESS we can rip the liberals out of control and take back our country from these swill. And you guys want MORE??? of these wolves in sheep clothing? When the Islamofascists start setting off bombs in America because the liberals appeased them, I hope they get you and yours first. We have already had to put up with the traitorous appeasements of that Peanut Head Jimmy and we still can shut that idiot up, and you guys want Jimmy Jr (read OsamaObama) at the helm? Sheer insanity!!
Picture this. A young american is on their 8th grade Washington DC trip, they visit and listen to all our wonderful history. They go to the memorials of FDR, Loncoln, Jefferson, see JFK’s eternal flame, then they go to the Archives Museuem and look at teh wall of presidents, they see Washington, Grant, Reagan, then go to the end and see BARAK HUSSIEN OBAMA and ask the teacher if he is related to Osama Bin Ladin. What has our country come too??????
When Kruschev banged his shoe on the table in 1962 and said, “We will bury you!”, Adlai Stevenson (US UN Ambassador said, “Premier, does that mean all-out nuclear war is inevitable?”, and NK replied, “No, we will infiltrate and corrupt your society from within because of the inherent weaknesses your freedoms invite.”
His words stuck with me as a child of 12, and they are becoming apocalytical reality today as I write this post. Marxist/Stalinist plants infiltrated American schools of education and social studies throughout the country in the 60’s & 70’s.
The result of this is that we have had a generation of brainwashed schoolteachers and History/English/Journalism majors that have literally destroyed education and the media in this country.
One day after talking about uniting the party does Hillary launch into another attack that Obama can’t win the white vote. What a uniter Hillary is.
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Dear Roger Aronoff: Excellent excellent article, and mostly spot on. I wholeheartedly agree that the Clinton’s are not finished and it could go down to the very end in Denver. The liberals chickens have come home to roost - and their PC agenda is now dividing them badly. Obama does not seem to understand just how much Wright hurt him. Democrats wanted a race uniter not a divider, and he is certainly a divider and West Virginia certainly showed that. Obama’s tirade over Bush’s remarks in Israel show he has not learned his lesson. He showed offense, and demanded apologies when even a first year journalist could not possibly see the remarks were directed towards him (if they are being honest)!
Obama has been raised that black people get their way by being offended all the time, and America has bent over backwards to get them un-offeneded, and herein lies the problem Obama has. Americans that have had to pay the price so undeserving blacks could get a free ride, Americans who had their lives and their futures destroyed, so the black could get what they did not deserve are now hitting back. The government’s control of everything has kept them silent until now, but they know THEY rule in the voting booth, and far to many Americans have paid a price, and to them it is payback time.
Obama does not see this, he is like Hillary in the sense he thinks people OWE him. She started the election cycle assuming she deserved the Democrat nomination, and Obama now assumes it is his because of his color. The Democrat Party, that billed itself as the uniter of the colors has always been the disuniter and used color to gain ascendantcy and now they are finding the color faction and the feminist faction, and those that have paid a price so that these two factions could exist all fighting each other.
Obama had best get the color chip off his shoulder real quick, and get the I am offended all the time attitude out of his speech (so he sees no offense when offense was not given), or the regular joes of the Democrat Party, the blue collars, are going to rebel big time, as seen in West Virginia. After the vote in North Carolina and the black turnout for Obama, the average white voter sees just who IS the racists in America - and the racists are turning out to be black and NOT white.
Quiet Man in Minn