It would seem Barack Obama has the nomination in hand. There is some pressure being applied to put Hillary Clinton on the ticket. And if some of the video that’s leaked out from the big DNC meeting is to be believed, there will be hell to pay if she’s not. The one thing that unified all liberal democrats was a visceral hatred of George W. Bush, and he’s not on the ticket. Senator Obama can try to place an equal sign between a McCain victory and a 3′rd term for George Bush, but even with the sycophant media culture lapping up everything he says as if a new gospel was being written, that’s a tough sell. Yes, they both would rather win than lose the war in Iraq, and they have some common ground on the issues, McCain’s history of working with Democrats (much to the consternation of conservatives) makes that story sound hollow.
John McCain
I’ve said he has work to do with conservatives so much I sound like a broken record. But it’s no less true today than when last I said it. Mark Levin said on his radio show that he’s concerned about the border, the disastrous cap and trade program that’s running through Congress, and expressed his fear that this is what we could expect from a McCain presidency. He also indicated that if McCain put a bonifide conservative on the ticket that that would ease his mind. (I’m paraphrasing of course) But it would make a lot of us less nervous about whether he would tack right or left. Hopefully he has Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal on speed dial.
Barack Obama
I was somewhat surprised to hear George Will on the Sean Hannity radio program to refer to the Illinois senator as Adlai Stevenson. (The democratic nominee that lost in 1952 and 1956 to Dwight D. Eisenhower) He was discussing Barack Obama’s weakness with other groups not African American or white latte liberals. Slowly but surely the comparison started to make sense. The democrats may still win the White House, but if they don’t it will be because while they carved out so many special interest groups over the years they can’t get them to all like the same person. Hillary Clinton wins with working class and women. Now the scorned women may come back and support Barack Obama but some may not. If at this time (or even earlier) for whatever reason the main players of the DNC tried to flex their muscle and take the nomination away from Barack Obama, the stranglehold that democrats have had over the black vote would likely crumble. Barack Obama as a candidate and potential president, is flawed on so many levels, but the democrats apparently would rather risk losing this election than risk alienating the vote of African Americans which none of them can win without.
Scott McClellan
Turncoat thy name is Scott. One of the worst press people President Bush had on his payroll. He obviously wasn’t getting any lucrative job offers, so he writes a scathing piece on his former boss, for a company owned by George Soros, that quite coincidentally rhymes with everything said about the President that you hear from the democrats’ taking points. Coincidence, you decide.