Mr. Hope Plays Divider
23 January 2008 9:42 pm by Taylor Marsh
My big brother always told me that you can tell more about a person after a
defeat. Obama has lost New Hampshire, Michigan, then Nevada. One thing is clear.
This guy is bitter.
From the Christian Broadcasting Network interview shown on Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown” tonight:
Brody: Will Hillary be a drag for down-ticket races as a presidential candidate?
Obama: I think there is no doubt that she has higher negatives than any of the remaining democratic candidates. That’s just a fact and there are some who will not vote for her. If you look at the results in Nevada, for example, she eked out the popular vote victory over me, but I ended up winning more delegates because she got almost all of her votes from Clark County, Las Vegas and some of the traditional democratic areas. We got votes there, but we also got votes in northern Nevada and rural conservative regions of the state that traditionally don’t vote Democratic, but were excited about my campaign.
I have no doubt that once the nomination contest is over, I will get the people who voted for her. Now the question is can she get the people who voted for me? And I think that describes sort of one of the choices that people have, just a practical choice, as they move forward.”
Brody of CBN fed Obama a question meant to divide and hit Clinton. Obama obliged. Playing ball with the media in order to hit a fellow Democrat and send a message that Clinton is unelectable, especially with independents.
Another clip on “Countdown” showed Clinton simply saying, “As
soon as we have a nominee, we will be strongly united because the most important
thing is to put a Democrat in the white house starting in January 2009.”
John Edwards, in an interview on “Countdown,” said he intended to
be the nominee, but that he absolutely believed everyone should rally around
the nominee.
But it’s Mr. Obama’s statement to David Brody that rings in the air. It played out in an earlier part of the interview not shown on “Countdown.” The sour
grapes after Nevada. His nasty tone of Monday. His whining about Bill Clinton.
Brody: You say it’s a strategy. You think a lot of this is done on purpose to kind of get you off your game a little?
Obama: There’s no doubt. I mean, look, up in New Hampshire President Clinton was making stuff up about my opposition to the war in Iraq. We had the Clinton camp repeating that we were in favor of the Yucca mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada, even though I consistently said I wasn’t.
The latest episode where I praised Ronald Reagan’s political skills and they suggest that somehow I had complimented Ronald Reagan’s economic policies and said they were superior to Democrats. I mean these were all things that were just made up. And I understand that’s the political tactics that we’ve become accustomed to.
There’s a resentment showing from Obama that is quite telling and lacks all grace. As long as everything
was going along smoothly and the press was loving him, and there was no real
scrutiny and he wasn’t being challenged, he was all for a different kind of politics and change. Now, not so
much. The second he started losing we got another glimpse of the man. He sounds resentful after he’s lost a couple of tough battles. He seems to resent the possibility that someone would consider voting for Hillary and almost goes out of his way to scoff at the notion. Who would vote for her? Not my people! It’s the same type of attitude he displayed when he said about Clinton, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
I think we’re finally getting a look at the man who stepped on Alice Palmer,
and pushed Bobby Rush aside. It’s not pretty.
But about those Clinton voters Mr. Obama is so sure he’ll “get” when he wins the nomination. Right now he’s just ticking people off.
