342 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographygoing to get any easier for Obama. While he should win easily in North Carolina, where he benefits
from a large African-American vote and support in the state’s college communities, he is going to
have trouble in Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, where he will once again be faced by a large
white working class vote. He can still win the nomination and lose these primaries. Pennsylvania
was the last big delegate prize. But if Obama doesn’t find a way now to speak to these voters, he is
going to have trouble winning that large swath of states from Pennsylvania through Missouri in
which a Democrat must do well to gain the presidency. That remains Obama challenge in the month
to come.’ (John B. Judis, “The Next McGovern? — Obama may still get the nomination, but his
loss tonight deals a harsh blow to his electability arguments,” The New Republic, April 23, 2008)
Judis was flayed and vilified by the true believers among the lemming legions who saw this essay as
an act of unspeakable lèse majesté.
A right-wing commentator stressed that Obama was showing signs of mental disintegration even
as his vote totals deteriorated, and that there was always the possibility that he might be quickly
taken down by a scandal of the Spitzer type. ‘Hillary won just enough to show that it is ludicrous to
oust a 10-point winner at this late junction, but not quite the blow-out that might cause a stampede
to her in the next few states. The Democrats are tottering at the edge of the abyss. They are about to
nominate someone who cannot win, despite vastly out-spending his opponent, any of the key large
states — CA, NJ, NY, OH, PENN, TX, etc. — that will determine the fall election. And yet not to
nominate him will cause the sort of implosion they saw in 1968 or the sort of mess we saw in
November 2000. Hillary won’t quit, since she knows that Obama, when pressure mounts, is starting
to show a weird sort of petulance, and drops the “new politics” for snideness. And at any given
second, a Rev. Wright outburst, an Ayers reappearance, another Michelle ‘never been proud’
moment, or another condescending Obamism can cause him to nose dive and become even more
snappy.’ (Victor Davis Hanson, “The Second Coming of McGovern,” National Review.com, April
22, 2008)
OBAMA: ALWAYS THE RACE CARD
Professor Sean Wilentz elaborated on his penetrating diagnosis that the most basic technique of
the Obama campaign was to accuse any critic or opponent of being a racist, all the while denying
that any race card was being played at all by Obama. As the skein of Obama’s defeats lengthened,
the media whores at the Washington Post and other financier controlled press organs began putting
out the line that the problem was not with Obama, but rather with the American people, who were
now being exposed as unreconstructed racists. Here again, we see the logic of the Carter malaise
speech, which is the eternal template for every Trilateral puppet politician: when you get into
trouble because of your own incompetence, treachery, and stupidity, turn the tables as fast as you
can and blame the American people. Wilentz wrote: ‘In fact, all of the evidence demonstrates that
white racism has not been a principal or even secondary motivation in any of this year’s Democratic
primaries. Every poll shows that economics, health care, and national security are the leading issues
for white working class voters - and for Latino working class voters as well. These constituencies
have cast positive ballots for Hillary Clinton not because she is white, but because they regard her
as better on these issues. Obama’s campaign and its passionate supporters refuse to acknowledge
that these voters consider him weaker — and that Clinton’s positions, different from his, as well as
her experience actually attract support. Instead they impute racism to working class Democrats who,
the polls also show, happen to be liberal on every leading issue. The effort to taint anyone who does
not support Obama as motivated by racism has now become a major factor in alienating core
Democrats from Obama’s campaign. Out with the Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson, F.D.R.,