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Obama: Nothing has changed

The Hypnotoad endorses Senator Obama!
All Praise to the Hypnotoad!

Look folks, I know you’re all excited because it looks to you like Senator Obama has revealed his true self to the world, but let me warn you that nothing new has happened here because of this new statement.

Why?

1. Because if what he said is offensive to you – but you weren’t going to vote for him anyway. If it wasn’t offensive to you, you were already voting for him.

2. Because if to you, this was a wrongheaded and stupid thing to say you weren’t going to vote for him anyway. But to a large number of people in his party, this is precisely what they believe and of course they would vote for him even after he said it . Reverend Wrights ideas are anathema to you, but to Democrats, he speaks the truth and they can’t honestly figure out what all the hubbub was about.

3. Because despite the rather large opportunity to make headway against Senator Obama, Senator Clinton will fail to be able take advantage of it. If she tries too hard to drive this home, it will backfire and by the end of next week, her party will blame her for the situation. Political campaigns are the first show of an executive management style. What Senator Clinton has shown is that she has no ability to execute any sort of plan. This is not a new revelation; we saw this lack of skill displayed in 1993. She is completely unable to deal with competition of any sort; again, this is not new.

4. In the next 48 hours, someone will remind the voters that James Carville once said “Pennsylvania is two big cities with Alabama in between” which will be twisted into something that was not said, but implied. In 7 days, Clinton will be on the defensive for what Obama said rather than the other way around. We saw this phenomenon on display after the Reverend Wright non-apology apology.

5. Obamas numbers will go up, and Clintons down. She is the anti-particle to Bill Clinton. Where he could charm even his enemies, she can only annoy; even her friends and allies.

Senator Obama is past the point where he can be criticized for anything he says. He has become the “hypnotoad” where everything he says is correct, simply because he says it.
Senator Obama could offer to sell Louisiana back to the French, and a large part of the Democrat party would praise his unique foreign policy stance and the consequences to the country be damned.

People in the Democrat party say that they want change, but as I like to remind them, change doesn’t necessarily mean good and it doesn’t always mean ‘sunshine and lollipops’; for example, cancer is change. Simply wanting change for the sake of change is childish and dangerous. It’s like the sort of emotion that comes from a 7 year old when they say they want to run away from home and join the circus because “mommy and daddy” didn’t buy them a “tickle me elmo”.

What is remarkable about Senator Obama isn’t that he says what he says or that he is getting away with it. What is remarkable is that “Senator Inevitable” has become so reviled by her own party that she cannot beat this guy even given every opportunity by him to do so. The soul of her electability is the ethos of victimhood, and being betrayed as a wife is the core of her constituency. The only strategy she has left to try is to have Bill Clinton come out and endorse Senator Obama, which would restore to her victimhood at the hands of Bill and recharge her campaign.

Could Hillary become “the comeback kid”? Sure, anything is possible, but come back or not, she comes back wounded and her party divided, and you can thank Howard “Early Primary” Dean for all of that. Think of all those big party player endorsements who will have to eat their words if she were to win. Yes, that’s a good message to send, the public voted for Hillary, while the party elite stood by Obama. If you cant run a campaign or a political party, how are you going to run a country?

Democrats are the strangest group of people I have ever known. They speak diversity and yet are shocked to find that half the electorate doesn’t agree with them. This is precisely because they don’t tolerate the presence of Republicans or “right wingers” around them, nor do they watch evil Fox News. Diversity is for other people I guess.

If Democrats shopped at wal-mart, went hunting and maybe joined the military now and then, they might find themselves winning elections again.

Be aware that they aren’t voting for Obama because he’s the best candidate to win the general election, they are voting for him because it makes them feel better about themselves for being who they are, which doesn’t do anything for the rest of us who don’t feel that way about him. He offers the Democrats a sort of “moral car wash” for their souls, which is fine if all that is wrong is that your car is just a little dirty, but if the problem with your car is that you are missing a distributor cap and its out of gas, taking it to the car wash doesn’t much help matters, no matter how good the car wash makes you feel.

John McCain should tell his campaign staff to run just one day of advertising each week between now and Election Day, just to remind all voters that he is in the race. The ad should simply play Obamas ads and speeches on a split screen, and on the right hand side show John McCain simply standing there, shaking his head in wonderment at the outright childish palaver that they both say and believe in that party. At the end of the ad, John McCain could say “ Please vote for me so we don’t all have to spend every single day of the next eight years listening to this drivel. For the love of God and all that is holy, please don’t make the people of this country have to crawl though this. Life is too short.”

McCain will win 49 states, not because he’s a great candidate with a lot of great ideas, but because he’s the only adult in the race.

And for that, we can all give a big “Thank you”, to “Howard Dean – Master Strategist”.

Posted @ April 13, 2008 11:00 AM | Current Affairs

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