……..(Note to self: Do not hug perfect stranger when feeling good about Barack in the future). But wait, during all my feeling good did I miss something? Maybe, that little fact that if Obama gets the nomination he has done so by perverting democracy in order to get the nomination.
Obama would be nowhere if it were not for caucuses. So we may do well to realize what actually a caucus is. A bunch of people in a political party meet in one place at a specified time and vote publicly in front of everyone. Hillary Clinton does very well in primaries, where voters are allowed to vote privately as we normally do in any general election. So why does Barack win when the right to a private vote is taken away from ordinary people? Easy, his campaign (directly and indirectly) shames good people who don’t want their neighbors to look down on them and worse call them racists. It’s not a mistake, a fluke or anything else other than the fear of being caused the New Hampshire (Bradley) effect in which he polled through the roof yet when the voters actually cast their ballot privately many went for the superior candidate Clinton.
Caucuses are a basic affront of democracy in every way, from the obvious violation of privacy to other more sinister actions. Such as the fact that it purposefully disenfranchises the working poor who have to work the night shift. Stories came in such as one about a waiter who favored Clinton but had to work serving food to Obama supporters after they decided to have a bite out from their caucus. And while being shamelessly smeared by the mainstream, it is true the rich liberals favor Obama while the blue-collar folks desire Clinton. The same ones left out by the caucus system. But many victims abound such as the disabled and elderly who often can’t make the trek to vote due to their age and medical conditions. The same people poll after poll tells us favor Clinton and who would have cast their vote for her if allowed.
Besides benefiting from a system that by designed doesn’t allow the poor, elderly or disabled to vote. Besides the fact that Obama’s candidacy relies on the violation of the private ballot. There are other factors such as his campaign making sure that Michigan and Florida which both went to Clinton do not get counted. However they have been flexible enough to say they may, mind you may, be open to a revote but only if the states vote by…you guessed it…caucuses.
I would have thought a half black Democrat would be nicer to Florida but that’s just me and Al Gore. Now with the final primaries/caucuses on their way, Obama feeling confident now won’t allow debates between him and Clinton. Effectively making sure that voters in those states do not get to fully assess the candidates. And with talk of the general election coming already, McCain has said that he will do public financing if Obama does as well. That shouldn’t be tough since Obama pledged to do such a move, if the Republican agreed. Now that McCain agrees, Obama is going back on his word made just a month or so ago.
For all the Clinton loving that I espouse, do not think me a fool. I know very well that the Clintons would be doing the exact same thing if in the same position that Obama is in now. But they are the Clintons. Are we suppose to set the ethical standards of political campaigning from them? God help us. Something is very clear, Obama is not change or a different type of politics he is much more of the same with better teeth and bigger lies. Much of his book title seems true not the “hope” part but the “audacity”.
