You got damm right. You were in my head on that one.

But I think it goes far beyond that – white progressives feel that kinship with Obama too. And traditional “values voters”, the churchgoers who have gone with the Republicans for decades but realize the Sermon on the Mount wasn’t actually pro-business, anti-gay, etc. And immigrants who came here because they believed what we say about America, but haven’t yet lived up to. And flag-waving patriots who love this country but know something is terribly wrong.

He is a man (the first public figure I’ve ever seen in my life) who “appeals to the better angels of our nature.”

And I fucking love it.

I’ve been making this point elsewhere and I’ll make it here too:

A number of White So-called Progressives are choosing to ignore this canary in the mine called their fellow Black posters. They simply do not choose to understand why Obama, though not changing any of his campaigning, is being held close to the busom, especially by the Black Middle & Professional Classes.

They don’t even want to confront why, but I’ll say it anyway.

It’s because they see themselves in Obama.

Not just because Obama is Black; they try and simple simon it down to stooge level like that.

IMO, these Black Middle and Upper Class folks see THEMSELVES in Obama. They completely identify with him, and his ’struggle’ in White Corporate America. The Arena is Politics, but it’s just the same to them as the Corporate America in which they travel everyday.

They see in Obama, someone who is playing by a set of rules NOT for him, doing pretty well, and just as he’s about to truly succeed, THE RULES CHANGE.

The script is flipped and rules that never were there suddenly are.

Someone pointed out this week, on a board that, in addition to the attempts by the media to go along with the Three-Fifthsization of the South Carolina Primary, there was also other caveats that come out of nowehre, like, Obama just couldn’t win, but he had to win BIG in order for it to begin to ‘ actually count’. I was like WTF? Hillary Clinton can win NH by 3 points, and it’s the second coming, but Obama had to win HUGE in South Carolina, because, somehow, Black votes are less than others.

See – rules change out of nowhere.

The Black Middle and Professional Classes know this; that’s why this Dogwhistle Politics is ringing in their ears LOUDLY. They see themselves in Obama, and they understand TO THEIR SOULS how wrong he’s being done.

Another part of this is that, since Obama began this campaign, he has been criticized by some, for not ‘changing message’ for Black folks. I had always argued that he couldn’t. In order for him to win, he had to stay pretty consistent with his message.

Black folks are also mad at the Clintons because, though it took them nearly a year, for the most part, I believe our community had made peace with the fact that Obama had to be The Candidate Running for President Who Happens to Be Black instead of The Black Candidate. And, just when ‘WE’ accept that, here come THE CLINTONS….NOT Republicans, but THE CLINTONS, trying to turn Obama into The Black Candidate. It burns.

For months, the question was if Barack would win the black vote and the assumption was the Clintons would control a significant share of it.

Now if this trend continues Barack has the black vote on lock and he will not have to work as hard as his campaign may have anticipated to keep it. This allows him the time and resources to reach out to young votes, white male voters and try to carve into the Latino vote.

Blacks, youth, white males and just enough of the Latino vote. Obama can get those votes. He can win this thing.

and the only two states on February 5th with the numbers of Black voters that even comes close to south carolina are georgia & alabama… i assure you that the Clintons will continue to work their “southern strategy” until they’ve alienated even the most trustworthy “house negroes” on their payroll (john lewis, andrew young, pastor butts, bob johnson, magic johnson, etc.)!

I was thinking her next entry will be “ZOMG Barack + Michelle walked in to some 2 Live Crew crankin’! Who let the dogs out?” :-)

I continue to really be amazed at the thought Obama puts into his speeches. One of my fav bits from his victory speech:

“And what we’ve seen in these last weeks is that we’re also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation.”

He’s saying that the Clintons are like drug dealers, and the drug is racism. Like any effective dealer, they’re not racists (they don’t use the drug themselves), but they feed it (by playing the race card and keeping race issues at the forefront).

And need I remind everyone of what Bob Johnson said? Here Obama is taking the drug dealer imagery and skilfully turning it against the Clintons!

I really think this is clever and should be pushed out there.

We the people can’t let the MSM or the Clintons wield their power around. No more!

I got this from Andrew Sullivan’s blog:

Bill’s Advance Spin
26 Jan 2008 08:44 pm

In a simple phrase: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice”. Listen to it yourself. I’m not making that up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqd2dfjl2pw

I don’t think there can be any doubt about the Clintons’ racial strategy now. The people of South Carolina just rejected that logic by voting for Obama – white and black, male and female – in a diverse coalition in the face of a deliberate attempt at racial polarization. They threw the Clintons’ logic back in their faces. Kudos to Josh for noticing this. It’s revealing, and depressing.

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