As an armchair spectator to the Democratic primary race I’m genuinely impressed by both contenders for the nomination. I like them both a lot more than I liked them at the beginning.
I started out contemptuous of Clinton. I gained sympathy for her as Obama showed his stuff came up unexpectedly from the outside. Finally Clinton earned my respect by gathering her strength and responding.
Obama is a magnificent performer. Audacious. Cool under fire. Thoughtful and articulate. And now, wonder of wonders, when cornered and left no other option, he turns and shows he has teeth. Booting Wright took courage. The old witch-doctor will surely have his revenge.
I’d vote for Clinton if she wasn’t irredeemably elitist-left. If she were more reliably committed to vigorous, long term of national security strategies abroad and less reliably committed to government solutions at home.
Obama remains tainted. Credible only the willfully credulous. I’ll believe Obama when he goes before the cameras and states plainly that Black Liberation Theology is fascist, racist, shame-based shuck.
(BLT is a big, messy sandwich of Catholic-Marxism [Marxist-Catholicism?] cooked up by [white] Latin American Jesuits called Liberation Theology; African Theology, an Afro-Protestant amalgam of ostensible “African religious traditions” and traditional [white] Christianity and; African-American Christianity both Protestant and Catholic.)
I’ll vote for Obama when he publicly elaborates on some of his wife’s startling comments about what life would be like for us ordinary Americans under President Obama. Just how radical are these changes Obama plans that according to Ms Obama won’t allow any of us us to remain complacent? What are these pro-grams Mr. Obama has in store for us? Will lazy stick-in-the-muds like me have to report for re-education?
