Here's a guy getting no bad press; almost no attention from the opposition. He's in total honeymoon mode watching his potential fall opponents tear each other apart.
And from this idyllic situation we find the polling shows:
Obama (D) 46%, McCain (R) 45%
Clinton (D) 48%, McCain (R) 45%
If he can't get above 50 percent in this atmosphere, then doesn't that say that his campaign is a failure so far? I mean, really. If he can't get above 50 percent now, how is going to get there when the Dems start to focus on him?
And what is going to rely on to get above 50 percent?
The economy?
The Bush presidency?
The Iraq War?
The strength of the GOP?
His ability to raise huge amounts of money?
His ageless energy and charisma?
What?
At this juncture I'd say Senator McCain better lube up now, because he is SOOO screwed.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
REGULAR PEOPLE FROM THE PAST.
So I'm sitting here watching the White Sox and the Angels. There are folks on the field named Orlando Cabrera, Jose Contreras and Maicer Izturis. I say this and remind myself of the AP video report from West Virginia at the beginning of the week in which a bunch of "Good Hard Working White Americans" told the camera that they could not under any circumstances vote for someone named "Barack Hussein Obama."
What we saw this week was America's past trying to reassert itself. West Virginia is generally a sad place where people are waiting for the return of jobs that have disappeared. Are they bad people? These put-upon white Americans? No. But are theirs the voices that America is listening to? Again, not really. The "Rust Belt" is a very sad place. Take a tour of the area inside boundaries marked by Buffalo, York,PA, Louisville, St Louis, Peoria, Green Bay WI and Sault Ste Marie, MI. You'll find some areas that are looking to the future (Chicago for one) but most of the areas are waiting for the return of a past that ain't comin' back; those good old days when white people ruled this country, when certain types knew their place. My family is in Cleveland. And I can make an argument that, apart from Continental Airlines, The Cleveland Clinic, a couple of law firms and two universities; there ain't much reason for Cleveland to exist anymore. The "iron into steel into cars and buildings" jobs that created Cleveland are gone. The area is rife with folks wanting those good old days because that's all they're prepared for.
The talented young people from these areas leave as quickly as they can and head to cities that help them know a larger world. New and threatening to those they left behind.
And West Virginia? It's ground zero for these old attitudes. West Virginia used to be the state that gave Cleveland and Pittsburgh thousands of its steel and assembly line workers. It was the state of coal mines. Now it's the state that time forgot, with an average income way below the rest of the country. Its one economic engine is 190 year old Senator Robert Byrd.
So what I'm saying is this: Hillary Clinton is the candidate of people who, sadly, are not the future of this country; the elderly, the unskilled, the parochial. These are not the Americans ready for a global economy. These are not the Americans who welcome the new and unfamiliar.
She's the candidate for those who do NOT want change, at least not the kind of change that takes us forward.
"Maicer Izturis? What kind of name is that? Sounds funny to me."
What we saw this week was America's past trying to reassert itself. West Virginia is generally a sad place where people are waiting for the return of jobs that have disappeared. Are they bad people? These put-upon white Americans? No. But are theirs the voices that America is listening to? Again, not really. The "Rust Belt" is a very sad place. Take a tour of the area inside boundaries marked by Buffalo, York,PA, Louisville, St Louis, Peoria, Green Bay WI and Sault Ste Marie, MI. You'll find some areas that are looking to the future (Chicago for one) but most of the areas are waiting for the return of a past that ain't comin' back; those good old days when white people ruled this country, when certain types knew their place. My family is in Cleveland. And I can make an argument that, apart from Continental Airlines, The Cleveland Clinic, a couple of law firms and two universities; there ain't much reason for Cleveland to exist anymore. The "iron into steel into cars and buildings" jobs that created Cleveland are gone. The area is rife with folks wanting those good old days because that's all they're prepared for.
The talented young people from these areas leave as quickly as they can and head to cities that help them know a larger world. New and threatening to those they left behind.
And West Virginia? It's ground zero for these old attitudes. West Virginia used to be the state that gave Cleveland and Pittsburgh thousands of its steel and assembly line workers. It was the state of coal mines. Now it's the state that time forgot, with an average income way below the rest of the country. Its one economic engine is 190 year old Senator Robert Byrd.
So what I'm saying is this: Hillary Clinton is the candidate of people who, sadly, are not the future of this country; the elderly, the unskilled, the parochial. These are not the Americans ready for a global economy. These are not the Americans who welcome the new and unfamiliar.
She's the candidate for those who do NOT want change, at least not the kind of change that takes us forward.
"Maicer Izturis? What kind of name is that? Sounds funny to me."
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