Oh that sweet talkin’ guy has been talkin’ sweet kinda lies
with his stump speech talk of change lo these many months. And while
certain demographics of the Democratic Party electorate are buyin’ into
Barack Obama’s sweet talk, the mothers and daughters of America recognize
a sweet-talker when they see one.
Don’t you believe in him, if you do he’ll make you cry Democratic
women voters said as they pressed their touchy-feely voter screens for the
smart, thoughtful, seasoned, pragmatic Democratic candidate, Hillary
Clinton on Super Tuesday.
Those white male
pundits who told us Barack Obama is sweeter than sugar, his kisses like
wine, and said he’d send us flowers should we cast our vote for
him, took a bit of a whippin’ when they saw that Senator Hillary Clinton
wasn’t down and out as they tried to have us believe in the days leading
up to the vote. Senator Clinton not only took the big important states
crucial for the general election, but in California, took it big, even
when some of her sisters came out singing for that sweet talkin’ guy.
In Massachusetts, the home of that other sweet talkin’ guy Ted
Kennedy who had launched a vitriolic assault against Hillary Clinton along
with his surrogates, the voters didn’t give Obama their love today
even after he spent a great deal of his time and money sweet talkin’
the Massachusetts electorate. Instead, that great Commonwealth painted the
town with their girl, Hillary.
The Obama
Campaign, knowing their candidate had problems in the northeast and west
as well as that Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee corridor of America, smartly
targeted caucus states in generally Republican strongholds as the places Obama would mine his delegates.
But Obama’s
problem is that if he were the Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency,
most of the places that he won Super Tuesday would in the general election
swing Republican and stay away from him, stay away from him,
particularly if Senator John McCain is the Republican’s sweet talkin’
nominee.
In the general
election it seems that Obama’s strength to the Democratic Party lies in
the South, where the voting population is largely African-American,
Obama’s strongest constituency, and where he continues to trounce Senator
Clinton. And in fairness to the sweet talkin’ guy, where he even
pulled away some white male voters away from Senator Clinton, who as a voting bloc of course, relate
to a sweet talkin’ guy.
That is the reason
why the idea of the Dream Ticket that has been tossed around of late might
not be such a silly idea after all. With Hillary Clinton at the top of the
ticket bringing her core strength of the super states vote with her
candidacy, Barack Obama as the Vice President could prove a valuable asset
to the Democratic Party for his strength in the south.
The Democrats are
going to need that strength against John McCain and his probable running
mate, Mike Huckabee, who wrenched the south from McCain Super Tuesday with
his stronghold, resistant to a McCain candidacy, the evangelical voters.
But that’s jumping
ahead. That sweet talkin’ guy is already back on the trail talkin’
his sweet kinda lies. The man who paints himself as the change
candidate, but who plays the same old party politics setting up alliances
with the likes of Ted Kennedy and his left of left cronies, and portrays
Hillary Clinton as a hyper-cautious poll-driven candidate with lines like
"If you choose change, you will have a nominee who doesn't just tell
people what they want to hear," just released his latest campaign finance
filings that reveal that it is Senator Obama not Clinton who has spent
more on polling and surveying.
Still, with the
press behind him, and it is, Senator Obama is going to take his
press-driven momentum, his vast pocketfuls of money, and his qualified
machine into the Potomac Corridor come next Tuesday, and mine a few more
delegates with votes from his African-American and white male sweet talkin’
constituents in Washington, D.C., Maryland and, perhaps, Virginia, which
will make him look like he’s got the juice.
But Ohio and Pennsylvania are coming up. And you can
be sure Hillary Clinton will be singing to her sisters those time honored
lyrics: Don't let him under your skin, 'cause he'll never win, ‘cause
he just a sweet talkin’ guy, telling sweet kinda lies and stay away from
him...la la la.”
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