Let the Dance Begin

So, Obama is going to try to diffuse the race issue he has so far benefitted from. How? By giving a  speech. The trouble with that idea, of course, is that the speech comes almost directly on the heels of everything else that has gone on in his political career…

It will be entertaining, I think, to watch him dance around the facts.   It will be more entertaining to see him torn apart by the jackals on the far side of this journey he will attempt today.   Those troubles all center on the fact that not only has Obama been playing the race card to his own advantage, thus making him a racist, but that he also demonstrably has a less than full relationship with the truth.  In all honesty, it troubles me that Hillary Clinton will be the beneficiary of Obama’s troubles. Then again,  she presents a target that’s almost as easy.

I think he knows he’s not going to be able to sway any fence sitters.  And anyway, this isn’t the general eelction, this is the primary.  I think the biggest concern of the Obama camp is their base slipping.  They’re acting like their internal polling numbers are telling them they have a serious  hemorrhage in supporters. It seems to me that the base are the ones who take this race card thing far more seriously than does the electorate as a whole.  The Obama base got involved because they thought he race thing was finanly beind them.  Imagine their thought processes as they find that their hero, centers his entire campaign on it.  In the end it’s that anger he’s dealing with more than anything today.

Obama can give a great speech when he feels the need. The question that now is being asked is whether or not anyone will believe him, anymore. Some of the “true believers” probably will. they were already predisposed to believe him anyway.  It’s not going to take much convincing to get them over this hump.  As to the rest of the American voters, I to question that won’t be answered.  For some time, November specifically.  Assuming he gets quite so far.

Addendum: (Bit)

 I admit not having read Obama’s book, so didn’t get this one. Neal Boortz does, though:

 Now … let’s see if I remember all this correctly. In reading excerpts from Obama’s first book, “Dreams From My Father,” I thought I read about all of the personal anguish he went through trying to deal with his racial makeup. Then I could swear that I though I read of the extreme discomfort he felt living in a white world, and the scorn he felt for whites.

Well .. I guess that has all changed now. Today we are going to be blessed with a major Barack Obama speech on race.

Well, this certainly desn’t run afoul of what I’ve been saying…. Obama is trying with the desperation of a drowning man, to run away from his own past, and put an Orwellian spin on his own history. Neal’s confirmed that much.

We look forward to Obama’s speech with much anticipation. Maybe he’ll explain why he was so quick to call for an apology from Geraldine Ferraro and has yet to call for an apology from Jeremiah Wright? Of course the very fact that I’ve brought that up here means that I’m … a racist!

Me, too, I suppose. Then again, it wouldn’t be the first time I was called that for demanding actual equality and accountability in such matters, as opposed to race-based hiring, admissions, loan poliices, and so on.