It looks like Time has another hardhitting piece on Obama. The chosen prince has finally been coroneted! In a shocking turn of a events Obama was able to win a state that was never really contested and that had a huge African-American population. Yes, that’s sarcasm folks. It appears that a primary win is only huge news if Obama wins. Needless to say my home state of North Carolina will not be selecting Obama for president this November, but I guess that doesn’t matter. It’s funny how quickly the mainstream press is ready to push a candidate out of the race that could have 48% of the delegates come convention time. It is worth remembering that Senator Ted Kennedy had a much smaller portion of delegates when he went to the convention in 1980 against President Carter. Obama doesn’t have enough delegates to secure the nomination and had Florida and Michigan been allowed to vote it’s not likely Obama would have won either state against Clinton. Not that I’m complaining, Clinton has a better chance against McCain in the general election.
Has President Bush damaged the Republican Party so badly that an inexperienced, neo-liberal candidate can win? That is the true question of 2008. Many Clinton supporters have told pollsters they will not support Obama, but I expect Democrats to fall in line after considering the the prospect of a McCain administration. Plus the issue of the judiciary is polarizing. The are some really old liberal judges on the supreme court and the next president could seat three new judges.
A couple of years ago President George Bush nominated John Roberts to the supreme court. Roberts is one of the most qualified candidates to be nominated to the court in decades. It was no surprise that he was overwhelmingly approved by the senate to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Senator Obama however, voted against Roberts. It appears that Roberts stiff anti-gulag philosophy didn’t fit into Obama’s “worldview.” When Obama voted against Roberts he stated that a judge should share ‘one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.’ Conspicuously absent from that vague objection is the constitution. Personally I don’t care if a judge shares my deepest values or core concerns as long as he/she interprets the constitution correctly. Obama’s nonsense rhetoric is just a justification for being out of the mainstream. Unfortunately the country is faced with a bad choice in McCain and terrible choice in Obama. Thanks to Bush the terrible choice has a chance.
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