The New Obama Strategy

Obama has now, by all actions, proclaimed himself winner of the Democrat party nomination, and now a new side of him emerges. SOMEONE in his party has finally told him to stop acting like Oprah- full of apologies for having bad people on his show- and start acting like a true MoveOn liberal. SOMEONE has told him to stop being so affable, and seeming so nice, and well, so "BARRY", and start acting like President Barack. It has been a shocking turn around for a man who seemed lost and confused by the fact that a lot of Americans, and a lot of Democrats, found him easily led by the nose by people like his minister, his wife, and his bomber friend. Of course, Obama's questionable friends really should scare all of us. But illusions of the great biracial success story that most of America welcomed with open arms and hearts were just that- illusions. The biracial man, whose very lineage was synonymous with uniting two races, has proven to choose to be black. And not just black, but angry black. As if we, the American people, are still after half of him. And now, to prove he is no shrinking violet, he has taken to responding to his future opponent, McCain, by calling McCain "Bush and McCain". Obama's advisors have told him that he MUST absolutely, positively, come out swinging and link McCain to Bush with every breath he takes. In fact, he is to always call McCain "Bush McCain", as if Bush was the first name of McCain. It's an interesting tactic. Perhaps Obama could be called "Rev Obama Wright". And there will be more to come out of his woodwork. But he does believe now that the best defense is a good offense. And he is pretty offensive to a lot of people right now. McCain is an incredible man. He has children - but you don't hear about them or see them, do you? Not because he hides them, but because he will not exploit them. His son, James McCain, is in the military and is headed to Iraq. McCain wouldn't take years to admit he shouldn't be in a radical church or be friends with radicals. McCain, in fact, reassesses his positions all the time. And admits when he is wrong.
Bush is not running with McCain. In fact, they disagree on many things. But this is Obama's message- "I am the nominee, and my opponent is George Bush". That is not the message he should be using. Yet again, he is not about uniting, but dividing. His advisors are of the old school- they are ready to throw Obama to the wolves of political campaigns- but they don't realize that this is the one time in ALL of our political history where you'd catch more voters with honey than vinegar. It's just that Obama, like all politicians, is truly incapable of that. It's too bad. Until he turned mean, and let his face get all ugly and blue with anger, he seemed to have it all.