Here’s what I think. Kay Hagan is on the phone to Democrat
headquarters frightened that Liddy Dole is going to retain her US Senate seat
because John McCain is going to cover North Carolina with a coattail so steep
dust mites will be swept into office. In other states, Democrat candidates are
jamming the lines with the same lament. “Obama is going to kill us,” they’re
saying privately. But in public they daren’t utter a cross word for fear of reprisal
by the radical Left of the Party. They’re taking names and kicking butt if
anyone in the race breaks ranks with the new Messiah of the Age of
Multiculturalism.
It’s as if DreamWorks Studio is designing the campaign with
only the recorded voices of the candidates who appear as animated puppets
programmed into the party line. Obama is the dream come true in this tableau,
so how do you criticize the man who means everything to the triumphant party
radicals? You don’t. You listen to National Public Radio and believe everything
they say.
But out there in the real world, reality is not a cartoon,
no matter how earnestly the nomination for president is sliced and diced by
media into politically correct nuggets — and then regurgitated back to the
pollsters. Yes, America has come a long way in racial rapport; yes, young
people are a new generation reared in multiculturalism; yes, George Bush is
down in the polls, thus setting the stage for “change” — whatever that means
exactly.
Statistics, however, will tell the story in the end. Despite
incessant reports that we live in a multi-racial society, the numbers beg to
differ. Nearly 80 percent of Americans today are European-descended; and a mere
12 percent classify themselves as black or African-American. Obama’s big
delegate victory in North Carolina is not indicative of the actual demographics
of the state. While over 40 percent of registered Democrats are black, the
percentage statewide is under 27 percent. Come election day…
This is not to suggest that Obama is an unattractive
candidate, or that a black man can’t win the presidency. But without a sound
platform and with the stats working against him, it’s not his time — even if
there has been a “subtle shift” in the electorate as I suggested could be
happening in this space last month (“Prince Obama” — June 2008 Metro). Nor do I think that President
Obama would mean the end of the world as we know it. Whoever wins in November
will be a different person when they take office in January. A visit to the
White House and Pentagon situation rooms will toughen the new president’s
attitude against terrorists and gird the loins for the need for America to be
ever-vigilant as the force that keeps the world secure. George Bush will rise
in esteem, and the new administration will hardly deviate from our present
policies.
The problem for Obama is Hillary Clinton. Husband Bill
curried favor with the black community while president and located his
post-presidency office in Harlem, increasing his reputation as the friend and
advocate of African-Americans. Thus the Clinton dynasty views Obama as apostate
for daring to usurp Hillary’s run for the gold and ungrateful in the extreme
for dissing Bill. The modern day political equivalent of Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth
are not taking Obama’s delegate victory lying down.
In Denver, as the Democrats convene to anoint Obama, they
will find a palace coup has been in the works since the last primary. Hillary’s
Mamelukes, led by the notorious scoundrel Terry McAuliffe, helped re-write the
rules of the Party in 2006 — and they can certainly unwrite them by the time
the RVs arrive at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
The main structural change the McAuliffe cadre created was
allowing candidates for president to win proportional delegates in each state
primary or caucus. They also created so-called “super-delegates” to use as
relief troops if things didn’t go their way. The new Democrat constitution
reads somewhere between The Communist
Manifesto and the Port Huron
Statement — meaning the Party was altered from a controlled free-for-all
into bureaucratic fine print in which every contingency is thought of and every
expression of individual volition is quashed.
For example, in the Texas primary it was revealed that
voters in certain counties had their vote cut in half as punishment for low
turn-out in previous elections. Or take Michigan and Florida where the entire
primary was disallowed, excommunicating millions of voters because the Democrat
Politburo wasn’t pleased with the dates these states chose for their
primaries. At least Michigan and Florida folks weren’t carted off to a
re-education camp or the gulag for their apostasy, but they certainly were
flogged within an inch of their political lives for daring to deviate from
orders sent down from Big Brother.
The party later split the baby and gave Hillary and Obama
one-half of the delegates each. But why should Hillary wear that when Obama
didn’t enter the Michigan primary at all? Plainly, the Democrat Party has
violated the constitutional rights of Hillary Clinton by arbitrarily divvying
up undeserved delegates to Obama.
In a cosmic intervention during the primaries, the HBO
docudrama Recount aired reenacting
the events in Florida during the 2000 election that pitted George W. Bush
against the Master of Space and Time (sorry Jerry Brown, he deserves the title
now) Al Gore. If nothing else, the film dramatized that it ain’t over until
it’s over in politics today. The Democrats tried every angle available to upset
the vote count, including demands for recounts, appeals to the Florida
legislature and courts all the way to the United States Supreme Court. And the
man stoking the star-making machinery for the Democrats? Terry McAuliffe,
currently Hillary’s campaign manager.
Poor Obama is out on the ledge fending off the push. I
suspect that as he dithers and dodges in an attempt to coagulate his views from
campaign hot air into actual campaign policy, Hillary’s Palace Guard is
watching intently, waiting to pounce with a law suit against the Party for
denying her delegates and polishing press releases stating she is the only
chance the Democrats have to beat McCain.
The road to Denver is paved with pitfalls for candidate
Obama. I don’t think he will leave town with the nomination.
(Read commentary by
Bernie Reeves in his online-only Between Issues column online at
www.metronc.com.)