Baracking up the Wrong Tree

I'll never run out of Obama title puns. I've written three entries and I'm already recycling old blogs. I am now wondering if what we need is a Democratic, Black Bush. I don't mean the Bush presidency, I mean his speaking style. Barack has a tendency to speak in half sentences and recount folksy moments on the campaign trail. He's taken to telling stories of people who "whisper" that they support him because they're Republicans.

So I stand corrected.

This guy isn't a Black Bush, he's a Black Reagan!

There is another problem though, he still faces his own liberal demons, like being the number one, most ever, super duper, bleeding heart, patchouli-pit-stinking, Liberal Senator ever! According to the non-partisan congressional poll done by the National Journal.

Grover Norquist recently said, “Barack Obama has been able to create his own image and introduce himself to voters, but the swing voters in a general election are not paying attention yet. He is open to being defined as a leftwing, corrupt Chicago politician.” - This is my central concern with getting swept up in the messianic Obama fever, conservatives are already angling to paint Obama as a McGovern. The Democratic Party's Primary has made the liberal voter base in big cities and on the coasts become tone deaf to the realities of the general electorate, which has barely shifted Right-Center to Center-Center in the last two years.

Clinton on the other hand, has proved that her support erodes over the course of time and, her husband is real liability on the campaign trail. Sometimes a good idea only works once. Bill went from What's Happenin' to What's Happenin' Now and everyone knows you can't rerun Rerun.

So, after a Obama victory in Wisconsin, which was not a surprise considering it's proximity to Illinois. The debate tonight matters, it will make or break Clinton. Oh yeah, Black Reagan, well, really didn't wrap that up, but whatever.