“Chaos” or Obamania?
I’m generally sick of thinking about the presidential horse race; however, I do have one observation about this evening’s results. Rush Limbaugh, who’s officially dropped his anti-McCain independence and returned to GOP shilling, organized his “Operation Chaos” again in Indiana, which is supposedly going to send the Democratic Party into internecine indecision. (I’ve been skeptical of the plan.) Anyway, according to CNN’s exit polling, of self-identified Republicans who voted, 53% went for Clinton, 45% for Obama. So, either Operation Chaos was so tightly organized that Rush was able to get Ditto Heads whose names begin with A-M to vote for Hillary and N-Z to vote for Obama, or else Republicans who crossed over voted much like the state as a whole. Not only does this polling discredit the argument that a protracted primary will hurt the Democrats--to the contrary, it’s attracting new crossovers--but more importantly, it suggests that Obamania still has some life. Perhaps a few are making the “Iraq war trumps all” calculation of the paleo-libertarian Obamacons (Justin and Bacevich), but more are simply still fascinated with the man, Rev. Wright and all. The Great Transcender is not just popular among students and blacks but still has appeal among Republicans who buy into the “making history” stuff just as much as the Left. No wonder NR has decided that now is the time to come out against the menace of Black Nationalism.
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“Operation Chaos” was just a way for a self-absorbed narcissist named Rush Limbaugh
to keep himself in the news. Nothing more. Barring a bizarre change of events, Barack
Obama is the Democratic nominee due to a groundswell of black votes combined with
a strong surge of white, deracinated liberals who are dying to vote for a black
candidate for president despite that black candidates’ apparent black ethnocentric views.
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white, deracinated liberals who are dying to vote for a black
candidate for president despite that black candidates’ apparent black ethnocentric views
You sure it’s not partly because of?
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Richard,
Obama got over 91% of the black vote here in North Carolina, and blacks made up over one third of the Democratic turnout--the reason Obama won big here. But he got only 38% of the white Democratic vote. Unafiliated voters could vote in either primary, and they broke for Obama, but not by a large margin. Registered Republicans could not vote in the Democratic primary. If the black vote had been evenly proportioned Clinton would have taken this state. What happened here is the clearest identification that race, gender, and class, now more than ever, determine political outcomes. Those who pretend that isn’t true, are dreaming. This nation is a fragamented bunch of competing interest groups--divided racially, as well as by income, region, etc.--and the “great black hope"--Obama--is not the “messiah” to change that. Rather, he only deepens those divides.
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Derek,
“Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee due to a groundswell of black votes combined with
a strong surge of white, deracinated liberals who are dying to vote for a black
candidate for president despite that black candidates’ apparent black ethnocentric views.”
Lets not forget that many of these white voters are young men and women indoctrinated with egalitarian ideals who do not yet comprehend that a vote for the most liberal candidate this country has ever seen is a vote for redistributionist tax policies that will take money out of their pockets in the form of entitlements to a black underclass that is “owed” these entitlements as atonement for historical grievances and contemporary white prejudices that continue to prevent blacks from achieving social mobility.
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I agree, Mike. The Dewey schools are doing a good job of deracinating the children.
They are being not only molded to hate their past and their ancestors, they are
molded to hate themselves.
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I find it interesting that Obama is winning in a similar manner to McCain: winning in states he is unlikely to carry in November (e.g., the South).
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I still think the Politburo of the party is going to pick Hillary. The mainstream would have a choice of Bush in a dress or Crazier Bush.
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Limbaugh is crowing how he won Indiana for Clinton and he’s right. I believe he also won Penn. for her. The neocons of both parties hate Obama and Rush is their willing stooge. With the enemies Obama has, I could almost vote for him. The usual suspects at Free Republic are pushing Clinton, what a disgrace.
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