And The Band Plays On?

Obama kicked Hillary’s butt in North Carolina. No surprise really with him winning over 90% of the black vote in a state with about 38% black voters. Lots of under-30s voted for him too - or the naivete of youth - but he lost big with working-class whites, including many of the working-class white males he had done well with in the past.

End result of North Carolina? Not much past probably winning him the nomination which he pretty much had sewn-up anyway. The Democrats will not carry North Carolina in the general nor will his monolithic black support help him much either, since blacks vote Democrat anyway.

Now on to Indiana. Hillary won, but barely, owing a big part of that slim percentage to the 91% black vote Obama captured. Again, Obama probably had the nomination sewn-up already so all this does is give Hillary pause about going on past Kentucky and West Virginia - both states she will win easily - and onto the convention. Again, the Dems will not win Indiana in the general and the same thing applies to the black vote there as it does everywhere.

And neither contest factors in the pissed-off Hillary supporters who have said they will vote for McCain over Obama - close to 40% in Indiana. A trend that will probably flow through all the states during the general although there will be some mending of fences between the two camps, of course.

All good news for McCain when you think on it, but there doesn’t seem to be enough Democrats thinking on it.

Bad for them, good for McCain.

So, all eyes are on Hillary. Will she stay or will she go. I hope she stays (and I think she will, but who knows) because watching the Dems tear themselves up is quite amusing and telling. Also, I can’t stand Obama so I do still hold some small hope he won’t be the nominee. Why, you ask, when his and her policies are pretty much the same - they’re both socialists after all.

Well, because Obama and his mentor Reverend Wright have done great damage to race relations in this country since he started running and I simply cannot fathom the increased damage he will cause during the general election. I would hate to see an election fought along racial lines (it already is as these primaries show), but frankly I don’t see how it will not be done that way. And it certainly won’t be McCain doing it; it will be Obama and his supporters who will call every attack on his policies and character and judgment a racial attack. And it will be because of continued stupid statements from the likes of Reverend Wright and the ever bitter and miserable Michelle “I had to pay back my school loans to Princeton and I am still pissed about it” Obama. It’s inevitable. There’s a whole deck of race cards just waiting to be laid out.

I could be wrong. I hope I am.

But I’m not.

QUICK UPDATE:

Here’s something interesting that sort of fits into my race card prediction above:

Question: Will white voters vote for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama in the fall?

Answer: Some will, but I predict most won’t. It’s not his race. It’s his politics. No Democratic presidential candidate has received a majority of the white vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. In fact, only 3 have since the Civil War (Samuel Tilden in 1876, Franklin Roosevelt 4 times and LBJ). I doubt Obama will. Of course, racism — or “fear-mongering” — will be blamed.

STILL ANOTHER UPDATE ON THE RACIAL DIVIDE:

At The Campaign Spot where they list a nice little group of media-types talking about whites not voting for him because he is black and, of course, not because of his lack of character, poor judgment or his socialist policies.

I don’t know whether they are trying to shame white voters into voting for him or simply preparing their excuses for a loss in the general election.  Either way, it is only going to get worse.

QUESTION: When Did Racism Become Trendy?

ANSWER:  When Barack Hussein Obama decided to run for president with the support of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his long-time mentor (we’re talking 20 years).

Now sit back and imagine for a moment. What would the response be, by blacks and the liberal elite media, if a white person were giving this speech about the innate differences between blacks and whites?  Come on, you don’t have to imagine very hard, do you?  It’s happened before in our history.  Racist whites used that excuse to segregate schools and diners and bathrooms not too long ago if you remember.

And good men like Martin Luther King, Jr. marched against that kind of thinking and policy.

But now, it’s okay evidently.  More than okay.  It’s the new trendy thing. 

The Obama thing.

Oh yes, and before anyone jumps on me for using the words of Reverend Wright against Obama, you should know that Barry himself said his relationship with this racist, anti-American, anti-Semite is a legitimate political issue. Of course, he then got pissed when McCain used it as such, but what do you expect from a guy who hangs with the likes of Reverend Wright.

Obama is not bringing us together folks.  He is driving us apart.

UPDATE:

Tons of stuff in the blogosphere about Wright’s racist speech (in the video above).  Most of it saying that it is killing Obama’s chances of getting the nomination, much less winning the general election, but then there is this.

And now, for a really far-out theory… Wright goes out, makes even more outrageous remarks, and it gives Obama the opportunity to finally sever the ties. A statement like, “I loved this man, but I cannot abide what he is saying now… I am leaving that church and must disavow Jeremiah Wright.”

Issue resolved. Obama is given credit for being a healer, for a courageous move, for standing up against divisiveness at great personal emotional expense, etc. …

Hmmm, stranger things have happened. And while it would certainly help him with the media and his supporters in their talking-points, I don’t believe the typically bitter, gun-toting, God-clinging, white person is going to buy it.  What with our brains being wired differently and all.

** I also corrected some typos and added some clarification. 

UPDATE - 4/29/08:

Obama threw Wright under the bus today. You just knew he would now that he is a real threat. He’s lying though - he knew what kind of man this guy was long before this got into the public eye this year. He has known it for two decades. And nothing Wright said yesterday is any worse than what he said earlier this year, yet Obama didn’t react then. Now it’s all politics.

He’s no better than Wright as far as I am concerned. But let’s see how this plays out. The media will no doubt say he has finally put it all behind him now, but frankly I don’t see the American people buying it. I’m beginning to think Hillary has a very real chance.

Listen Up Jews**

You better support Obama or we won’t be your friends anymore. (NOTE: They pulled the post from the Obama’O8 site. Predictable and typical. And what I quoted down below was just a quarter of the ranting that was there. A link to screenshots of what was posted in total down below in the update.)

Enough is enough.

America has suffered enough of Clintonitis.

Americans have spoken loud and clear: they do not want political business as usual that Clintonitis represent.

They want change and they want it fast.

They have chosen and anointed Obama as the agent of change.

He is the new political Messiah who shall continue where JFK stopped.

Americans seem to be in slumber and in complete denial of the present dangerous and volatile world situation.

This is where Jews can help.

By supporting Obama to win, they would cure America of Clintonitis and thereby be able to find a permanent solution to the Arab-Jewish problem in the Middle East.

Jews must support Obama or face grave consequences. You cannot afford not to.

Africans have been nice and helped Jews for more than 2000 yrs.

Now, I say to Jews all over the world, it is time to show your gratitude.

Well, now, if I were Jewish that would certainly sway me. I just love friends who threaten me if I don’t do what they say. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

This is posted on the official Obama’08 website, which I assume means he approved it. If so, how sad. If not, does he have any control over anyone in his own campaign?

I’m not sure how long it will be up, though, once people start hammering him on it. So check it out now. There’s lots more.

Hat-tip to Ace.

UPDATE:

They pulled it from the site. What did I tell you? However, if you want to see screenshots of what this anti-semitic screed looked like check em out over here. (Click the link and then scroll down some to see links to the screenshots.)

** BTW, I don’t like this title. It grates on me for some reason. But it conveys the attitude of the moron who wrote this now “disappeared” post over at Obama08.

Celebrating Spirit Through Shadow

Is it just me or do the upcoming Olympics seem to be coming off about as well as a Chinese fire drill?

My second question is - do you think the phrase “Chinese fire drill” is racist? Because I certainly don’t harbor any racist feelings towards the Chinese people either as individuals or as a whole and I don’t want my use of it here to be interpreted as such an attitude. It’s just a phrase that I heard and no doubt used a few times in my younger years and, because of this growing “chaotic exercise” that are the Olympics, China, and Tibet, it came to mind.

If ever there was a situation that begged the use of the phrase I suppose this would be it, is what I am saying.

But that explanation aside, I should make it very clear to everyone that I believe it is racist because it implies that the Chinese as a people are “confused, disorganized, or inferior” (as noted in the Wiki article), which, of course, is nonsense.

In fact, I would argue the opposite as would, well, everyone with any common sense really.

No, it’s the Chinese communist government that is confused, disorganized, and inferior and, it appears, incapable of carrying-off the Olympic games without no small amount of embarrassing controversy, not to mention the violent repression of human rights.

Which is too bad. Both because it overshadows the spirit of the Olympics and the spirit of the people of China.

Both of which should be celebrated.

Here’s hoping they can pull it off.

UPDATE:

I don’t think the USA should boycott the Olympics. I think back on the Miracle on Ice of the 1980 Olympics and the boycott that would have denied those young men, and our country, that tranforming event, and I would hate to see our athletes denied their opportunity to make history today. So, let’s go and let’s win.