340 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographywould have given Obama a shred of military credibility. Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, who
had an impressive machine, said that he was no good at being second banana and therefore would
have to beg off the veep spot. Then came Senator James Webb of Virginia, a strange militarist
ideologue who was wrapped up in his pugnacious Scots-Irish identity trip, and also had a soft spot
for the Confederate States of America. Senator Jack Reid of Rhode Island also opted out. Even
former Senator Bill Bradley made a public statement rejecting a run for veep. All of these open
rejections were very ominous indeed, since each was a powerful vote of no confidence in the
viability of the Messiah at the polls.^179
THE NORTH CAROLINA DEBATE THAT NEVER WAS
AND OBAMA’S WIMP FACTOR
A Democratic presidential debate had been scheduled for North Carolina, this time moderated by
Katie Couric of CBS. The Perfect Master had gone into contortions to avoid a format in which he
was now – after his Philadelphia debacle — manifestly a failure, to say nothing of his fear of new
questions about his hate-mongering and terrorist personal associations. Lanny Davis suspected that
DNC chair Howard Dean had connived with the Obamakins to get the North Carolina Democratic
Party to call off the debate, which had become a serious embarrassment to Obama and Axelrod.
Davis demanded that, if Howard Dean had indeed intervened to get Obama off the debate hook, he
should resign his chairmanship on the grounds that he had violated the neutrality and impartiality to
which the DNC leader is formally pledged. If Obama and Axelrod did not in fact fear a debate, they
could easily prove it by offering to show up. How could Obama continue as a viable candidate if he
were afraid of his opponents? Would he run from McCain as well? How could such a political
coward command voter support? Larry Johnson obtained an internal document of the North
Carolina Democratic Party which attempted to motivate the cancellation of the debate by arguing
that “While there was great interest in the debate, there were also growing concerns about what
another debate would do to party unity...” Larry Johnson then offered an “Uppity Translation:
There are growing concerns that any more hard or revealing questions might not be so good for
Baby Jesus Obama.” (Noquarterusa.net, April 23, 2008) By May, Obama had virtually stopped
campaigning. He skipped West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico, which had very different
demographics, but in which Clinton beat Obama 2:1 each time. Clinton even won South Dakota;
Obama could only manage Oregon and Montana.
HO HO AND THE WAR HO
In 2000 and 2004, Democratic activists had demanded that every vote be counted. Now Obama
and his friend Ho Ho (as Howard Dean was known in Vermont), both defenders of the politically
correct-elitist-neomalthusian status quo that had caused so many defeats, were demanding that
Florida and Michigan, two indispensable megastates, not be counted. For any professional pol who
wanted to win an election, it was sheer madness. But many careers and reputations had come to
depend on the Democratic Party as a multicultural, politically correct crazy quilt of racial identity
groups, and sexual preference lobbies, with elitist, radical environmentalist, anti-working class, and
neo-Luddite components generally retaining the upper hand. This chaotic congeries, of course,
corresponded to the multiple fault lines along which the Ford Foundation, its satellite foundations,
and its domestic counterinsurgency apparatus (which had produced Obama) sought to split, divide,
slice, and dice the old FDR New Deal Coalition so it could not threaten Wall Street again. It
mattered not to Dean, Brazile, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy and so many others that the politically correct-
multicultural rainbow coalition model for the party was an incurable, incorrigible loser. The