Democrats set for trench warfare

Financial Times ^ | Jan. 27, 2008 | By Edward Luce

[BamaTalker I]

You got it all wrong. Obama is the real deal here. Hillary is a diversion aimed at the right drawing their obsessive attention to her and away from Obama. She’ll not be nominated. Obama will, late in ‘08, too late for the right wing slime/hate machine to re-tool to meet the challenge.

When they do finally start criticizing him, Obama’s supporters will give new meaning to the term ‘racial code words’. The notion of what a racial code word will broaden to the point that meaningful criticism of Obama will be futile. Anything that can be remotely construed as a racial code word will be attached by Obama’s supporters.

Code words have children, descendants so to speak, iterations and such. It will truly be amusing to watch the Council of Christian Conservatives fashion them and feed them to the Republican party for use against Obama. Obama’s supporters will welcome them and use them to club the right and stifle discussion.

The right should be so lucky to have Billary to kick around.

[Dilbert San Diego]

But black voter turnout declining could help tip the balance in some states to the Republican.

For example, Michigan went narrowly for Kerry in 2004 due to overwhelming black support in Detroit, offsetting Republican majorities elsewhere in the state. Same thing happened in Pennsylvania, with Phila. supplying a big Dem. vote to offset Republicans elsewhere in PA. So while there won’t be a surge of blacks to the Republicans, if enough stay home and don’t bother to vote for Billary, it could make a difference.

[arthurus]

The Jesse Jackson comparison, while spoken as a compliment serves to tell white voters that Obama is the same as that obnoxious Black Man and I am sure that was the intent.

[arthurus]

I don’t think Obama will survive until November if he gets enough delegates to win the nomination on Super Tuesday.