Buyer’s remorse was beginning to afflict supporters of Barack Obama before Tuesday’s primary election returns showed he had delivered a knockout punch against Hillary Clinton. The young orator who had seemed so fantastic, beginning with his 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech in Iowa, disappointed even his own advisers over the past two weeks, and old party hands mourned that they were stuck with a flawed candidate.
The whipping Obama gave Clinton in North Carolina and his near miss in Indiana transformed that impression. The candidate who delivered the victory speech in Raleigh, N.C., was the Obama of Des Moines, bearing no resemblance to the gloomy, uneasy candidate who had seemed unable to deal with bumps in the campaign road…
Clinton’s failure Tuesday was a product of demographics rather than Obama’s campaign skill. Consistently winning more than 90 percent of the African American vote, Obama is unbeatable in a primary where the black electorate is as large as it is in North Carolina (half the registered Democratic vote there)…The test of Obama’s strategy may be his friendship with and support from William Ayers, an unrepentant member of the Weathermen terrorist underground of the 1960s and ’70s. Instead of totally disavowing Ayers as he belatedly did his former pastor, Obama potentially deepened his problem by referring to Ayers as just a college professor — "a guy who lives in my neighborhood"…
Democrats abhor bringing up what Obama calls Ayers’s "detestable acts 40 years ago," but they will be brought into the public arena even if that is not McCain’s style of politics. A photo of Ayers stomping on the American flag in 2001 has been all over the Internet this week. That was the year Obama accepted a $200 political contribution from Ayers and the year in which the former Weatherman said: "I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough"…
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Democrats were down on Obama, but he rallied after Tuesday’s big win.
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Tuesday’s big win was really only because of the African American Vote – he’s a black candidate.
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Obama has misplayed his relationship with William Ayes, former Weatherman, a 60’s SDS bomber who is a modern flag stomper.
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John McCain is a good guy, who won’t attack Obama about Ayers [but someone else will].
Novak has always puzzled me. I remember reading that he was born Jewish and converted to Roman Catholic. I having been in the convent for a short while wondered why at such a late age [1996]. It seems he became a friend with a lawyer turned staffer to Senator Domenici who later became a priest. This same priest helped Robert Bork and Robert Novak become catholics. The priest, Msgr Vaghi was a college classmate of his friend Clarence Thomas. The Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his family are parisheners of his. I forgot to add the Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia is also a friend of his. It’s funny, when I use to watch Capital Gang when it was on CNN, I used to wonder how the priest that baptized felt watching this seemingly mean-spirited man. Of course, that’s just my opinion of him.