IX: Obama’s Triumph of the Will: The 2008 Primaries 343Truman, Kennedy and Johnson, and in with the bright, shiny party of Obama - or what the formally
“undeclared” Donna Brazile, a member of the Democratic National Committee and of the party’s
rules committee, has hailed as a “new Democratic coalition” swelled by affluent white leftists and
liberals, college students, and African-Americans.’ (Sean Wilentz, “Barack Obama and the
Unmaking of the Democratic Party,” Huffington Post, May 23, 2008)
It was a slow motion tragedy unfolding before the eyes of the public: the bosses of the
Democratic Party, because they were controlled by the Wall Street financial elite who demanded
Obama and nothing but Obama, were throwing elementary political prudence out the window to
nominate a candidate who was doomed to defeat under all normal circumstances. At the same time,
the Obama fanatics attempted to motivate their hysterical persistence with the idea that the old
voting blocs were irrelevant, because the Perfect Master was going to bring in hordes of new voters.
‘This year’s primary results show no sign that Obama will reverse this trend should he win the
nomination. In West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania, blue collar white
voters sent him down to defeat by overwhelming margins. A recent Gallup poll report has argued
that claims about Obama’s weaknesses among white voters and blue collar voters have been
exaggerated - yet its indisputable figures showed Obama running four percentage points below
Kerry’s anemic support among whites four years ago. Given that Obama’s vote in the primaries,
apart from African-Americans, has generally come from affluent white suburbs and university
towns, the Gallup figures presage a Democratic disaster among working-class white voters in
November should Obama be the nominee. Yet Obama’s handlers profess indifference - and, at
times, even pride — about these trends. Asked about the white working-class vote following
Obama’s ten-point loss in Pennsylvania, chief campaign strategist David Axelrod confidently told
an National Public Radio interviewer that, after all, “the white working class has gone to the
Republican nominee for many elections going back even to the Clinton years” and that Obama’s
winning strength lay in his ability to offset that trend and “attract independent voters... younger
voters” and “expand the Democratic base.”’ (Sean Wilentz, “Barack Obama and the Unmaking of
the Democratic Party,” Huffington Post, May 23, 2008) It is clear that the attempted radical de-
emphasis of blue-collar workers and the white working class in general reflects the characteristic
class hatreds of Obama’s base of support among affluent suburbanites and Malthusian fanatics.
What Axelrod says here also reflects the doctrine which Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorn, and the rest
of the Weathermen had been professing for four decades, and that is that the white working class is
the enemy and has to be destroyed.
OBAMA: CANDIDATE OF ELITIST CLASS HATRED
AGAINST WHITE WORKERS
As Wilentz points out, the notion that Obama is going to bring in masses of new voters is a
utopian fiction concocted by spin doctors like Axelrod and his ilk: ‘Apart from its basic inaccuracy
about Clinton’s blue-collar support in 1992 and 1996, Axelrod’s statement was a virtual reprise of
the Democratic doomed strategy from the 1972 McGovern campaign that the party revamped in
- The main difference between now and then is the openness of the condescension with which
many of Obama’s supporters - and, apparently, the candidate himself - hold the crude “low
information” types whom they believe dominate the white working class. The sympathetic media
coverage of Obama’s efforts to explain away his remarks in San Francisco about “bitter,”
economically-strapped voters who, clinging to their guns, religion, and racism, misdirect their rage
and do not see the light, only reinforced his campaign’s dismissive attitude. Obama’s efforts at
rectification were reluctant and half-hearted at best - and he undercut them completely a few days