I feel sorry for Obama. In order for a half black, Ivy Leaguer from Hawaii to get somewhere in Chicago politics, he had to have the patronage of a traditional black leader. Traditional black leadership requires maintaining a distinctive black constituency. Maintaining a distinctive black constituency requires an enduring separateness. An enduring separateness requires a narrative of insurmountable injustice fortified with a mythology of white oppression (discrimination), ethnic cleansing (government created HIV virus) and global domination (resulting in “chickens coming home to roost after 9/11”): i.e., the “white devil” mythology.

Playing along with the charade that keeps these dinosaurs in power was bound to prove incompatible with appealing to a majority of Americans as is required of anyone seeking the presidency. Obama’s choice was either to justify a belief system based on this malarkey, probably by appealing to historical white guilt, or pulling back the curtain on this black kabuki or bla-buki theater (to coin a phrase) while explaining the necessity of, and asking forgiveness for, having “gone along to get along” in order to succeed as a community organizer, state senator and ultimately a U.S. senator and presidential candidate. He could have called up a Harry Truman – Pendergast machine analogy. He had a good chance to put it permanently behind him with the latter but only a hope and a prayer with the former.

Maybe it was his plan, once at the top, to destroy this archaic system of black power politics just by his very being. Unfortunately, that is no longer an option given the impact of the video. Dealing with this head-on and rocking the boat in a major way or out-Clintoning the Clintons in trying to explain it all away were his choices. He went the Clinton route with the bait and switch race speech. He was very eloquent but he didn’t do what needed to be done. He didn’t tell the truth: he doesn’t believe these things and doubts that the good Rev. Dr. Wright believes them either. It’s all an act. It’s all shtick. It is troubling that protecting the gaming of the black community that goes on vis-à-vis black power politics is more important to him than serving the country as president.

Conservatives should hold our noses and vote for John McCain.  I have a Democrat friend who can't stand W., didn’t much care for G.H.W. Bush either and practically loathed Reagan.  The only Republican I can imagine him voting for is McCain. Attracting such support will be essential for victory this time around.  Besides, it is impossible not to respect the maverick senator; he gave nearly all in service to our country at great personal cost to himself, which no one can deny.

I don't agree with him much of the time, but he clearly follows his convictions and is practically the anti-­Clinton when it comes to not being a focus-group driven opportunist and mega-pho­ny.  He is genuine to a fault.

Most importantly, McCain gets it with respect to recog­nizing the imperative, post-9/11, to dramatically change the Middle East.  His criticisms were tactical, and time has proved him more right than wrong.

He's the party's best, per­haps only, hope at keeping the White House and pre­venting the insanity that will ensue from a leftist Democrat trifecta of control over the legislative, judicial and executive branches.

Tampa Tribune – 19 January 2008

If it weren’t so funny seeing the Clintons floundering for an avenue of attack against Obama, it would be pitiful.  Smears by sycophants with one degree of separation fooled no one (since the press wasn’t willing to look the other way this time around).  Then the full frontal assault by Big Bad Bill misfired BBBBadly.  What to do?  Playing nicey-nicey is producing, at best, a draw and, at worst, a probable loss.  Now they’re thrashing about, attacking Bush (who isn’t on the ballot), in the hopes of swaying support currently creeping in Obama’s direction.  That won’t get it.  My guess is the gruesome twosome will soon revert to form.  It’s all they really know.  They’ll probably start launching salvos from various quarters with at least three degrees of separation (which will fool no one) though my prediction is that Bill and Hill will soon be treating the gentleman from Illinois like a King…no, not Martin Luther King…more like Rodney King.  Then they’ll pull the super delegate switcheroo or, abracadabra, Florida and Michigan delegates out of a hat and, after the carnage, throw Obama and his supporters a bone pleading, “Can’t we all just get along?” 

I wonder: Will his support in the black community refuse to be treated like Democrat property and instead turn towards McCain and the Republicans (who, after all, appointed the first blacks to the Supreme Court, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State)?  Or, will they dutifully take their place back on the DNC porch humming, “Swing Low Sweet Chariot?”  If McCain is smart, he’d select someone like Steele, Rice or Powell for VP and make that exclusion from the big house a very sore subject for Team Clinton.  Of course, he should wait till the dynastic duo puts Richardson on the ticket (so as to offset McCain’s standing with the Latinos).  Seeing the Republicans play their own race card will be sweet, particularly should it come, like this, from up the sleeve.