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Entry: Obama: Stuff Non-White People Like? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/obama_stuff_non_white_people_like#26144 Post contents: What you forget about Obama is that he's not black, but beige. He was raised traditional, white and Midwestern...he's had one foot in Nixon/Reagan's "Middle America" all his life. He is the black politician that whites don't seem to be afraid of, unlike Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. It is undeniable that he knows how to talk the soothing talk that working class white Americans like to hear. "Conservatives" and Republicans have been relying on the resentments of white working class folks to the McGovern era "identity politics" for 40 plus years. Now Obama comes along and busts that up. Certain elements within the Democrat Party along with the old "Blue Dogs" have recognized this for along time...most prominent among them is Rudy Taxeria, whose book, "America's Forgotten Majority" outlined the problem the Democrats have had since 1968---getting votes of white working class Americans. The "Conservatives" have been defending "laissez faire"--which really only applies to government policy that benefits Middle America---for years, yakking like social populists, but governing like Wall Street plutocrats. Now we have a Democrat candidate in Obama that talks the soothing talk that appeals to Middle America, while most likely he'll govern like a McGovern Democrat. Yes, many in the Democrat Party know it can't win elections with only "people of color", poor destitute immigrants, unmarried women with children, government workers, college professors, Hollywood Tycoons and well-to-do urban sophisticates. But the Republicans/"Conservatives" can't win elections with only Wall Street bankers, CEO's, real estate speculators, and well-to-do suburbanites either. Both need the white working classes to win. Ironically, McCain has nothing to offer them, and Obama at least talks their talk. Don’t’ write off Obama, he can win. Sent at: 2008 12 02