Things just aren't going too well for Sen. Obama lately and the poll numbers are showing the trend, as are the favorability numbers. Electability is the only game in this town. Everything else pales in comparison. Hillary is coming on strong as the best candidate for the fall election against Sen. McCain.
It isn't just one thing with Obama, it's a bunch of things. Right now, though, the media just happens to be concentrating on one thing--Rev. Wright. Once they get tired of that one, there are a bunch of other issues to focus on. That's why he can't be our nominee. Someone like Rove would have so many goodies to choose from.
Graphic by Pat Racimora, as posted on No Quarter.
I mean, they can take their pick. The Wright issue is a permanent problem because Obama sat in that racist church for 20 years and knew Rev. Wright for 23 years. Trinity UCC practices James H. Cone's Black Liberation Theology and it doesn't get much more racist than that. Look him up on Amazon and get a load of his books. This isn't something that just happened yesterday. Obama considered that church and Rev. Wright for three years prior to joining. Barack took Wrights sermons to Harvard with him in 1988 and listened to them the years he was there. He didn't have to sit in that church to listen to the sermons.
Sen. Obama gave that church $26,000 last year. The TUCC's Trumpet magazine gave Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award last year. He and Jeremiah Wright are old friends, having traveled together to Libya in 1984 to visit Qaddafi.
Sen. Obama can't put Rev. Wright behind him with a simple speech that tries to politically distance himself from the church he's still a member of. It isn't just about the inflammatory things the Rev. has said in his sermons and his public appearances. No, no, no! There's more to it than that. Obama disinvited Wright from his presidential announcement on February 10, 2007. It was reported in the NYT that Obama didn't want his church to receive negative attention. Though Rev. Wright didn't deliver the invocation as he had expected to do, he and Sen. Obama prayed together just before the announcement that Obama was running for president.
While you've all probably heard all of this many times before, should Sen. Obama become our nominee, there will be no end of it as the GOP, the RNC, the 527s, and Sen. McCain would drive home the point that Sen. Obama is way too far out of the mainstream to be considered as a president.
But wait! Just look into Obama's Candy Store window and you'll see a wide variety of treats for Republicans to drool over. So many issues, so many unanswered questions. There's Tony Rezko and all the slimy Chicago politics. There's Nadhmi Auchi, the Iraqi-British billionaire who gave Syrian-born Rezko millions of dollars. There's also the Iraqi power plant deal that fell through involving Obama, Rezko, Auchi, and Aiham Alsammarae, Iraq's former electricity minister. Too bad the Iraq war proved to be an inconvenience. There's also self-described communist and domestic terrorist William Ayers who helped Obama launch his Chicago political career. BTW, what did Obama do for 8 years in the Illinois Senate, exactly? Where are the records?
Oh, but wait, there's more! Every hear about Obama's Global Tax proposal? Might as well hear about it from a GOP source now, rather than later.
Yep, sure looks like Obama is swimming in troubled waters and he'll be treading that water for the rest of his political career.
This is my first diary and I'd like to end it with Flineo's latest awesome video:
The point is, we need to know who the best candidate is for the fall. It would be a shame to nominate the first black candidate in US history, only to have him lose. It'd be much better to nominate the first woman in history if she's the best one to beat John McCain. The upcoming contests will add further proof that Hillary is the one.
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