It will be harder going from now on for Barack Obama
by Bob Hoig, Publisher
Midlands Business Journal
He’s up. She’s up. He’s up. She’s up.
After Texas and Ohio’s last Tuesday, who’s it to be, Hillary or Barack?
What seems to be shaping up is a seven month bloodbath right up to the Democratic Convention in Denver.
Obama still leads in the delegate count as we go to press 1,518-1,429, but Hillary has the Big Mo!
The feeling in these quarters is that Hillary has hit her stride. Off have come the gloves. She’s not going to get the black vote, so ditch the daintiness.
Husband Bill, the source of so much unhelpful campaign blundering, appears safely sidelined for the duration.
Saturday Night Live nudged the Hillary sympathy factor along two weeks ago in a skit needling the normally bloodthirsty media for being “in the tank” for Obama.
Coincidentally, maybe, the tough questions are now flying about Obama’s connections with the seedy side of Chicago real estate, about his affiliation in a racist Chicago black nationalist church, about his support from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, his friendship with a member of the 1970s Weathermen group of bomb makers who is married to another bomb maker, wife Michelle’s much quoted remark that only recently has she been able to be proud to be an American, even about his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.
Republican nominee John McCain isn’t likely to swing from the hips on these or other matters which might surface.
But to get to McCain, the young black man who speaks so well is going to have to get by Hillary and Bill.
That could be rough.
Obama had a limited appeal to conservatives and independents before he let fly with his post-Wisconsin victory speech in Houston. All the Big Government nostrums that have earned Obama the National Journal’s rating of “most liberal” senator were on display.
What came to mind as Obama wound down his 40 minute oration was the adage, “Any government big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take all you’ve got.”
March 2008
