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Hillary is right Obama can never carry the big White Blue Collar post industrial states. He has not been able to penetrate that market. They will stay home or vote for McCain who is more in line with what they believe than an "Elitist" Obama.

Those White Blue Collar guys don't want to hear "Yes we can" they want to hear about putting food in their lunch bucket. They want the practical, meat and potatoes. They don't want a Twinkie with its sugar high values.

We should all strive to live by the better angels of our nature. However the reality of this world is that our circumstances don't always allow us to do so. Sometimes toes get stepped on in the process of achieving our goals and ambitions. It is disingenuous for one to eat the fruit of the tree that was grown in the soil of the attainment of those goals and ambitions and cry foul at the same time. That is where the American Left is at today, crying foul while eating the fruit.

The Republicans want to face Obama in the fall. With Hillary's exit McCain gets a healthy percentage of her supporters right from the get go. The Republicans also have something on Obama. They are going to Swift Boat him. The name that is going to be splashed on every campaign ad is the name Louis Farrakhan. The Republicans are going to associate Obama with the Black Muslims which will drive the Jewish vote right into the hands of McCain. Also you might expect the name of Senator Lieberman as being a VP candidate.

In 1860 the Democratic Party split in 2 parts, one of the parts was the southern radicals who gained the upper hand after John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 and the other more moderate Northern Democrats. Both factions fielded their own candidates and assured that the Republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln would win the election.

The question is does the United States still have the intestinal fortitude to be a Super Power? When the British occupied Iraq back in the 1920s and their troops were fired upon by the Iraqis, they would go into the village and take out 10 men and shoot them. That sent a message to the Iraqis not to mess with them. To be a Super Power means dirty deeds have to be done dirt cheap or you cease to be a Super Power. Being a Super Power is not a popularity contest. To keep enjoying the fruits and perks of a Super Power means getting your hands dirty sometimes.

I refer to ex president Jimmy Carter as being "Citizen Carter." Some might think that the reference is from the recent media reference to him being a "private citizen" who has singlehandly undertaken a diplomatic mission to Palestein to talk to Hamas. My reference has nothing to do with that media reference. It is based upon the egalatarian salutation that the French gave each other during the French Revolution. A time of virtual chaos and loping off of the heads as it were.

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