Pushed over the edge by his peers’ polite chatter about Mitt Romney’s sermon on “Faith in America,” Mr. O’Donnell branded the speech “the worst” of his lifetime. Then he went on a rampage about Mr. Romney’s Mormon religion, shouting (among other things) that until 1978 it was “an officially racist faith.”
Yes, I knew about the Mormon faith's racism. Even today, Mormons are the whitest of the religions.
I have said this before.....there is not one Republican candidate for whom I would come close to voting. If this is the best the GOP has to offer, then the party is in even worse shape than I thought.
Beltway hands thought they knew how to frame the Romney speech because they assumed (incorrectly) that it would build on the historical precedent set by J.F.K. When they analyzed the three-state Oprah-Obama tour, they again reached for historical precedent and were bamboozled once more — this time because there really was no precedent.
Most could only see Oprah Winfrey’s contribution to Barack Obama’s campaign as just another celebrity endorsement, however high-powered. The Boss, we kept being reminded, couldn’t elect John Kerry. Selling presidents is not the same as pushing “Anna Karenina.” In a typical instance of tone-deafness from the Clinton camp, its national co-chairman, the former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, said of Oprah, “I’m not sure who watches her.”
Yup. This really cracked me up. Women love Oprah. Her endorsing Obama so openly has got to help him. Not only does her good character reflect on him, but the fact that she tries to deal with each race fairly even as she is very supportive of the black race, helps Obama's image among some whites who worry that he will put down whites in favor of blacks.
So far, the only major mistake I've seen Obama's compaign make is blaming today's problems on the boomer generation. That opened him up to attacks about being inexperienced and I believe will plague him all the way through his campaign.
In the meantime, the Des Moines Register endorsed Clinton today. I am not sure how much that will hurt him. One thing is clear he's got a hard road to hoe to the nomination, and then an even harder one to the presidency. |
