This is a great thread of comments on the simon article and clearly articulates a mainstream and repentant former radical left critique of Obama. I can’t say much for the Obama supporter’s responses. They sound childish, petulant, devoid of facts and full of ad hominem attacks that are not swaying many people here and won’t in the general elections. It is sad that the quality of the democratic nominees are so…..thin and it is shaping up to be Obama v. McCain and it won’t be pretty when the 527 groups start tearing into Obama like pit bull on a steak, doing the job the mainstream media should have done.
Obama is an attractive and interesting young man but his past associations are highly suspect and his penchant for hanging onto them is …..weird. Why can’t he say what needs to be said? “I associated with these people because they provided what I thought healthy critique of America but when I found out more about them I realized that their critique of America was not the one I wanted to associated with.” Instead we get, “typical white person” and grandma thrown under a bus in the quintessential smarmy political manner that is the cliché come to life.
Why can he not verbalize the dissassociation? Because it is not true. And instead we get pure lies and drivel and evasions and half truths and shading from one who I would expect better from. It is amazing that people who have such intelligence, and Obama has that, can be so blind or are getting such bad advice.
What does that say about a commander in chief? Tone deaf and bad advice, hmmm give me more of that.
How can he be so blind to the millstones that are Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers that are hanging around his neck?
The Rev Wright association is unbelievable? A twenty year association with this kind of race baiting, hater who married him, baptized his kids and preached this stuff for twenty years to his children and the happy couple. Then he has the nerve to tell us that he did not hear, he was not aware, he was not in church…..what a load of horseshit. It’s like Clinton in the early years, like yesterday when she would lie and lie, except now her advisors polled some people and told her that people don’t like people who lie to their face over and over again and won’t vote for them for president.
As far as the race angle…..Stanley Crouch has the flip test and you can read a profile here
http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=30
“Black kids who dress like gangsters complain that they get bad service at restaurants and stores. They say, “Hey, we aren’t thugs, we just dress that way.’ Well, let’s flip it over. Let’s say a white guy comes into a store wearing a K.K.K. outfit, and everybody is horrified. And he says, “I’m not really a Klansman, I just like the look.’ Now, with ninety-nine percent of those black kids it is only style, but we just don’t have time to go around interviewing them. “Excuse me, young man, are you actually carrying a 9-mm pistol or is your outfit just a cultural signifier””
Does the Obama association with Wright and Ayers pass the flip test?
Let’s see….what if McCain had an long twenty year association with a race baiting hater and an admitted bomber of abortion clinics who was making a bomb to kill doctors at a social dance and who only escaped prison due to illegal wiretapping by the FBI and is now a college professor (whoa… how did that happen?)
Ouch….that does not look so good.
Obama cannot disown these people in a clear intellectually honest manner and his current explanation rings totally false, even to the rubes in Peoria.
This election is shaping up to be a 49 state McGovern type blowout unless…….unless……what? He suddenly gets honest now? NOT.
The superdelegates are the 1000 most powerful people in American and this is shaping up to be a very interesting election.
More will come out on both sides but the slow trickle of death with continue for Obama.
The superdelegates will never give the nomination to Hillary against the will of the people and alienate the radical left and the blacks, however this is shaping up to be a massive case of buyers remorse for the dems.
Obama has not and probably will not have a John Kennedy moment where he declares that he does not take orders from the Pope (Rev Wright and Ayers)
And it is probably too late now.
America will stick with McCain, a war hero who they see a his own man, flawed but not fatally so.
