Is this perhaps the unraveling of the Obama campaign? Were he now the nominee I, for one, would think that he could overcome the events of last Friday's news. But he is engaged in a titanic struggle with perhaps the most ruthless political machine we've seen in some time. Worse, the canidate of change and hope has revealed himself to be the same old-same old when it comes to the liberal Democrats. "There they go again", treating the poor little fly-over people like wards of the state again. People can only take so much of being told how they think and feel by complete strangers with a misguided sense of paternalism before they start to figure out that it's all about those Democrats desire to be in power so they can implement what they feel is best for those little people. The little people have the quaint notion that they themselves know what's best for themselves and rather than being bitter about it they thank God for it. Odd.
Apparently the New Republic, a liberal mainstay of long standing, thinks that Obama has really stepped in it, electorally speaking. It's quite possible that Madame Clinton can pretty well run the table, especially in the midwestern states remaining. And while she may only be tied or near tied in the end, she will have a strong case to make for Obama's fade and unelectability.
TNR explains it rather well.
Woe Is He
Meanwhile, Mr. George Will's early ardour for the Obama campaign has cooled measurably. Mr. Will seems to recognize within Obama the distressing liberal intellectual condescension so familiar from Democrat canidates dating back to Adlai Stevenson. For a concise primer on the liberal crack-up of the last quarter century under the onslaught of a muscular conservatism that holds resonance with the American people you cannot do better than Mr. Will's latest.
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