Barack
Obama and the Democrack-up party leaders who are behind his candidacy
seem to have overplayed their hand and have royally pissed off Team
Clinton.
And Team Clinton has every right to be PO’d.
Just when it looked as if the schism in the party between the Obama and
Clinton Camps was winding down, Obama, whose hubris appears to be the
stuff legends are made of, took to the stage in Iowa last Tuesday night.
And exhibiting that audacity of which he titled his book, virtually
declared himself the winner of the Democrack-ups Party’s nomination
contest, a slap in the little lady’s face, the LADY, Hillary Clinton,
who had been willing to go gently into the good night on June 3rd,
after every last voter had been given the chance to have their say.
Losing is never easy, and surely not for egocentrics of the type who see
themselves as presidential. But, even so, Hillary Clinton had contrived
for herself a graceful, dignified exit leaving the stage a heroine, the
first woman to nearly become the party’s nominee, and it appeared that
Obama was going to be respectful of her terms.
But then va va voom, Barack Obama announced that he would head back to
Iowa, the place where it all started for him following that Tuesday’s
primaries to begin his victory lap.
Bad move, Barack.
So, why would Barack Obama who appeared to be sitting pretty in his slim
delegate lead and with the press bolstering his nomination by declaring
him the winner before he actually won, risk it all by returning to Iowa
on a premature subjugation victory lap, knowing that to do so would
incur the wrath of HRC’?
In his mind, he had no choice.
Because that Tuesday night Obama knew he was facing a possible
catastrophe for his candidacy, and yet may be.
Obama was about to take
a whippin’ in the Kentucky primary and the ugly numbers coming out of
that contest, were going to show that HRC wasn’t just whistlin’ Dixie
when she said Obama had a real problem with the let’s call them what
they are, white voters.
Yes, Barack Obama would win the primary in Oregon, where yes, there are
white folks, but the white folks in Oregon are uppity white folks, and
he’s already got them in his corner.
But those regular folks, the one’s that are barely making ends meet and
are hard-working, beer drinking, gun totin’, God fearin’, bowling-lovin’
regular Joe’s, those voters aren’t giving Barack Obama the time of day.
He just ain’t their kinda fella.
The fact is Obama’s big non-victory victory celebration was to give
reporters the story that he wanted them to write rather than leaving it
open for them to write as they might. Iowa, Mr. Obama wanted to remind
those reporters, a white state, voted for him in the famed Iowa
Caucuses.
Of course he didn’t want the reporters focusing on Clintons’ huge win in
Kentucky where Clinton earned the support of eight in ten blue-collar
whites in that state, about 20 percentage points higher than she did in
Indiana two weeks earlier.
Or this devastating fact that reporters still haven’t focused on:
Clinton even won a majority of blue-collar whites in Oregon, despite
Obama winning the state.
Well, Obama gave his Iowa speech, although in the last minutes he dialed
it down maybe because he had second thoughts about pushing the little
lady to the limit of her patience, and he refrained from actually
declaring victory.
But it was too late; the damage had been done.
Hillary Clinton, once again having routed Barack Obama this time in
Kentucky, following her trouncing of him in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and the State of West Virginia, as well as her narrow, but
still upset-victory in Indiana, turned into a filly feeling her oats.
Kickin’ her heels, prancin’ like a winner, she decided to teach that
young colt a lesson -- and the party, too. Treat me with respect or you
won’t know what hit you, she whinnied.
And hit them she did, when she announced that even if she costs the
party the election, she ain’t puttin’ up with anyone’s, well, you know
- horse dung. The horserace, she declared, will continue, even if it means she
has to take her argument to seat the delegations of Florida and Michigan
all the way to the convention … or at least until Barack Obama names her
his V.P..
The lesson for Barack Obama? Don’t mess with Hill.