Seven Reasons Democrats Have Been Stupid About Obama

So I’m reading the media hand-wringing about Obama’s poll slide and laughing to myself. This is where willful ignorance gets ya. I have long supposed that Obama has little chance of winning and that the Democrats have been snookered because they’ve been willfully stupid. And I’ve also said that the reason for his loss will be explained away as racism, but that racism will be the least of it. Still, it will salve the collective Leftist consciousness. Since they don’t have religion, at least they’ll have something: unbridled hate for stupid Americans has fueled them thus far, I see no reason why it won’t continue to give their lives meaning.

CBS has seven worrisome trends for Obama. Shriek! He’s on vacation and the bottom is falling out! We’re here to help anyway we can, Barack. So here’s the number one concern:

1. Race. “The idea that Obama was going to win in a blowout was always preposterous,” says former Nebraska senator and onetime presidential hopeful Bob Kerrey, an Obama backer. “A big piece of this, of course, is whether white people are going to support a black guy… If [Obama] is a tall, skinny white guy named Paul Jones it’s a different story.”

Okay. I’m going to write this really slowly so you people can get it. It’s been said before, but I’ll write again, because the Democrats don’t want to see:

If Barack Obama was a white, skinny, first-time Senator with no experience besides community organizing, he WOULD NOT EVEN BE CONSIDERED as a presidential candidate. It is BECAUSE he is black that he enjoys the support he does. His policies are typical leftist, quasi-socialist tripe. There is nothing new in Obama, except that he is “post-racial”. Whatever. He gives liberals of every stripe an opportunity to salve their guilt.

Obama’s skin color is the only thing keeping him in the race and the only reason Hillary Clinton isn’t the Democratic nominee. If the Democrats could see beyond their obsession with identity politics, they would have nominated Hillary Clinton. But no. They love the new, the fresh, the young,….the BLACK. Black is better and trumps ideas, policy, and even appealing to the more moderate electorate.

So that’s mistake #1. There are more:

2. Obama seems shady. There are unanswered questions such as his dual citizenship with Kenya that just hang out there and make him seem like he’s hiding something, or that he doesn’t really want everyone to know, or that he wants some people to know but not others.

3. Obama seems socialist. Americans are more open to having the government save their bacon, true enough, but there does seem to be a stopping point. Not with Obama. There is not one American problem that can’t be solved by American ingenuity government interference.

4. Obama just can’t say that he loves America. He can’t do it. I know this is strange, but Americans love America. They want their president to love America, too. When Obama was questioned by the little girl about why he wanted to be President, a softball question that’s eluded even regular journalists, Obama stumbled. If Obama gets tongue-tied with a seven year old, how is he going to defend American values to the world? Answer: He won’t.

5. Obama seems unprepared. The more the campaign goes along, the more inexperienced he looks. Well, he IS inexperienced. His knee-jerk response to Russia and the UN demonstrates his naivité. I don’t like Hillary Clinton, but I have a good idea about how she’d respond to Putin. Obama compared with McCain on this? There is no comparison.

6. Obama acts like he’s better than everyone. His sanctimony grates. Both in affect and content, Obama seems to think he’s above it all. Ugh. He’s not the Queen of England. The Presidency isn’t just a figurehead. It’s a working job where the people need to be represented and not by some effete fluffy-headed idealogue.

7. Obama has pissed people off. Here’s what did it for me, as far as not liking him as a person or potential president and I don’t think I’m alone among women on this issue: When he called the reporter sweetie it crawled all over me. She is not a friend or relative. She is a reporter. Calling her “sweetie” was dismissive and inappropriate. There are reasons why the Hillary supporters aren’t coming around, this is one of them.

That’s just seven things that have Americans worried. The Dems and Obama supporters want to fallback on race as the determining factor of Obama’s success or failure as Presidential candidate. Overall, I’d say Obama’s blackness has been a net positive and the only thing that’s gotten him this far. But it won’t be why he fails to win the presidency. Not by a long shot.

UPDATE:

Via Memorandum, Marbury says this:

But, the facts remain…Obama’s campaign is a better-run and more effective organisation than McCain’s, especially at ground level. McCain still hasn’t really found a theme to match the resonance of Obama’s ‘change’. Many of Obama’s natural supporters are younger and will only tune into the race – and start answering pollsters’ questions properly – in the autumn.

Nope, McCain hasn’t found an empty slogan, his organization is slipshod and he STILL is neck in neck with Obama. That should concern you Democrats. Keep telling yourself that the younger people will “only tune into the race”. They won’t vote. A few will, but not enough.

Ed Morrissey addresses Obama’s “experience” about working across the aisle:

Matthews himself called the question, “What has he done?”, a show-stopper. No one could point to a single effective action he has taken to cross the aisle, while everyone acknowledged that John McCain has taken actual risks to do so. David Brooks tells the room that Republican Senators and staffers insist that Hillary Clinton works across the aisle and keeps communication open, but Obama has never bothered to do that, and both Democrats and Republicans on the Hill agree on his arrogance.

But Americans will be stupid for noticing these traits and not voting Obama in November. They’re just racist.

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Tags: Democrats • Election 08 • Obama • Race • Socialism