Obama’s Dan Quayle Moment

Maybe he’s counting GAMAL as five double states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. I understand some of his friends and supporters have had long standing plans for GAMAL.

But because he and his campaign are ignoring the primary elections in Florida and Michigan, that would bring the total back down to 55, wouldn’t it?

Maybe some folks in the national news media ought to discuss some of this with him. On prime time.

Considering this is in fact a national election for a president of the United States.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Tyrone,
 
I think Senator Obama, if nominated, won’t win the US presidency against Senator McCain regardless of what questions he asks or answers.

The results of all the Democratic Party primary elections to date show that he attracts the vote mostly of black Americans and a relatively narrow coalition of white American leftist liberals of the type who always are found hanging around the fringes of every black cause, and who — unsurprisingly — often try to compete with black Americans for who will be in charge of these causes.

He attracts few working class whites; few Roman Catholics; few Latinos; few small-town and rural people. The Jews he attracts are mainly self-hating types who are the first to condemn and the last to support the rights of the jewish nation in the Land of Israel.

A liberal quasi-black candidate running with the backing of a bunch of rich and well-connected leftist whites probably can beat snarling old Hilary Clinton and cop the Democratic Party nomination.  But that sort of man will never beat a moderate Republican such as Senator John McCain, who forte is attracing independent and non-aligned voters. Above all, people trust that man in a way they never trusted either of the Bushes, neither of the Clintons, and certainly not Senator Wonderful.
 
Maybe you’re wondering what the hell my particular interest is in this senator and his campaign. So here goes.

I grew up around black kids, worked beside them in low-paying jobs such as setting pins in bowling alleys (long before automatic pin-setting machines were installed), served with them in the US Army. Went to school with them at the University of Illinois at their old Chicago Navy Pier campus and downstate in Champaign-Urbana.

But this Senator Obama doesn’t remind me of any kind of black American I ever hung out with.  There’s something about him that’s a little too slick and phony for my tastes.

And frankly, I don’t trust him, because I think he has a presidential agenda that is not right for the USA, and because I think that six days a week,  he makes a conscious effort to become an integral part of some sort of flashy elitist crowd, but Sunday he’s Mister Chicago Southside black politician. 

In other words, he’s a black guy when he attends that Sunday church in Chicago with this or that foul-mouthed minister for going on 20 years, swaying back and forth, nodding his head in agreement with the hate talk, and swaying to the soul music. 

Then he puts on another face altogether and becomes an ivy league white guy in his slick looking movie star suit when he mixes it up with the rich wine and cheesers in their great houses and in their gated and protected surburbs.  

Frankly, I would have trusted Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson and even the Reverend Al Sharpton more than I would ever trust a Senator Barack Hussein Obama, because I think that man has a problem of personal identity that never can be resolved, and I cannot relate to folks who have that kind of problem.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI