When he said he would “work accross the isle” that meant I will agree with republicans. We have heard all of his type of campaign retoric before, and we knew what he meant. That is why we oppose him. As president he will given in to republicans all the time to prove this “work accross the isle” and democrats in congress will follow as if he is the pied piper. Leading us all to another Bush term.

And I hope you are not saying that just because people dislike a Black candidate that they are prima facie racist. Give me Mayor Nutter or Cory Booker and I would be on board in a minute.

I am sick and tired of hearing Hillary supporters being called racists just because they support her. Worse yet, for the Obama campaign to suggest that the Clintons are racist is what turned me against Obama. Anyone who knows anything knows that was absolutely unforgiveable. That couple has been working for civil rights since they were VERY young and when it was not the popular stance to take. Shame on the Obama campaign!!!

The True Successors to the, “Some of My Best Friends are Negroes!” set. Strongly reminiscent of the Environmentalists of Convenience who premeate Florida politics.

(Nothing says Hypocrisy quite like spending 35 years as a Peabody Coal manager, then retiring to Florida to piss and moan about the demise of the Everglades…a place where you’d never be caught dead).

The cartoon made me think of magic. It is easier to perform magic when you have raw material and the public does not know what is going on. Magic is slide of hand and miss direction that fools the public into thinking and believing what the magician wants them to. As people become more aware that who they were influenced by the magician to believing Obama is, is not who he really is, then the same trick will be harder to pull off. And a new trick will be harder to sell which is why I do not feel Obama can win.

Early in the campaign, when reality of actually having the power of the presidency is like a game, playing it like a game without real life consequences can be fun. Just like magic can be fun. Magic is what Plouffe created with the Obama campaign. Since we knew very little about Obama, Plouffe could create any fantasy he wanted and we the people knowing very little about Obama could believe in the fantasy or even create our own fantasy about who Obama is and what he could do.

Now as we learn more about Obama and the magic, it will be harder to create the illusions. As we get closer to reality, we need to put away our need for fantasy and look for reality. That means we need a leader who is real and we can count on. A leader we know a great deal about and a leader who knows about the reality of government, the economy, foreign governments, world economics, the Democrats and Republicans together, and what it takes to create change. We do not need another unknown inexperienced person like what Bush was when he took office. With Hillary we have all that we need to believe in, without magical thinking.

Even Hillary though can not do it alone. We the people need to get real and realize that there is no quick fix to problems that have been ignored for years if not decades. We need to get behind Hillary, look truth in the face and make changes in our own behavior, our involvement with our government, demand change in the Democratic Party and from our government. We need to welcome previous Obama supporters back into the Hillary camp. And we need to do what Americans have always been able to do which is to put our thinking caps and get to work solving our problems and the world problems.

Rich

This is why issues don’t matter to them. They don’t care if it really isn’t universal health care (they already have there’s) and don’t get alarmed at real sexism or the calling someone a racist who has devoted his life to racial equality.

Obama is just a fashion statement.

The real genius of Plouffe, Axelrod, and the rest of his handlers is that they understood who to market Obama like he was Odwalla juice or organic fruits or the latest must-drink bottled water.