Obama is vulnerable

Obama—who is portrayed as this pseudo-messianic, unstoppable juggernaut—is more vulnerable in November than is generally held. Many of you know several of the reasons.

Here are three more (actually, make it four):

The black thing.

NO, not the fact that he is black. There are very few people who will vote against him solely for genetic reasons involving skin color. But if this starts to become a thing where Obama's candidacy becomes a vessel for racial animus, black resentment, and a feeling of separatism, that will be a serious problem for Obama.

The vast majority of white Americans are not racist. Republicans, white Republicans, would turn out in droves to vote for Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell, for example. White Democrats are going to turn out for Obama.

But Americans, in spite of the left's efforts to balkanize us, still intuitively understand the American ideal: That America is a land of many peoples, but we are one America. We are a collection of individuals, not a collection of groups.

Americans rightly feel bad for our racist past (though it's Democrats who really should, since they're the ones who kept it alive for so long). However, Americans in 2008 are not going to be impressed if Obama's candidacy starts creating a climate of hostility and resentment. This is not 1960. Problems remain, and people know that, but they're not going to be impressed if some giant, angry, separatist thing develops in 2008.

Enter the National Anthem controversy in Denver.

Singer Opts for 'Black National Anthem' Over 'Star-Spangled Banner'

A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem...

It's straight from the Black Liberationist's Creed - and quoted on the home page of the obaminations's 20-year church -

." We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, "

The line "true to our native land" is the last line of the song she sang - it refers to AFRICA!

The intend to get reparations - and I say we give it to them,.,,and each envelope contains a ticket "home"

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