Cedarford — your argument falls apart if NYC gets nuked. THEN people will long for GWB.

Obama’s weakness is as Wretchard points out, he has to govern. But it’s more than that. In my Blog I point out that Obama has run as a messiah, aiming to “transform America and the World” as he put it. He’s not running to give out middle class goodies, as Clinton did in 1992. He’s running to “redeem” America. A task doomed to failure. He’s more Jim Jones, or David Koresh, than than Bill Clinton.

And so is his team, filled with utopian true believers, eager to drink up poison Kool Aide in “revolutionary suicide” than hard-eyed triangulation for political advantage ala Carville or Begala.

The vast majority of the country, the White Working/Middle class, will expect great things from him and turn on him the moment he fails. Biden’s warnings to his supporters to keep drinking the Kool Aide are part of that.

White single women form the demographic basis of Obama’s victory should he win. They don’t like war, or fighting against Jihad, and are sympathetic to Islam. Fred asks why? White Single women lose power when it’s a matter of soldiers, cops, spies, and firemen. They gain power when it’s a matter of political correctness and the “correct” opinions in a new Aristocratic society of manners and connections. It’s why you see women in Law and Medicine, and almost never in Electrical Engineering and such.

It’s simply a question of political power. Peace no matter what sacrifices gives single women far more power — the power of manners and PC. Eventually that balance becomes unsustainable as threats become so existential that they cannot be denied. But this explains the appeal of pacifism, and the rise of it among Western societies dominated by Single Women as the “swing” or decisive demographic group.

Of the huge hostility towards the majority of single men by single women (and vice-versa I think) I will simply note it exists. And forms another huge political faultline in the West, able to be exploited by anti-Obama forces.

For every teen idol beloved by girls, or “hunky” actor beloved by women, he’s hated by the same amount or more of boys and men. Obama’s worship by his female followers creates the same backlash that Leonardo Di Caprio found after “Titanic.”