I was reading Free Republic and preparing one of my irregular "Freepology Today" posts. It was going to be entitled, "Obama's coming! Light the cross!" as that is the tenor of about 1 in 3 posts on FR right now. Reverend Wright? A footnote. It's just pointed out in passing that Obama's church hates white people (even the
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ioaChVw_pUw">white members?!) as we are told new horrors about the Scary Black Man™ running for President. Did you know that Obama is responsible for the militant New Black Panthers organization? Well, Obama's black, and they're black, so do the math, pilgrim! Obama's church also supports Hamas, BTW — did we forget to mention that Obama's former pastor hates Jews? (He does?)
The Obama bashing on Free Republic doesn't even need a basis in reality. One Freeper posted an excerpt from Obama's book about how Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan immigrant (I'm not sure why; I think it was to point out that Obama's bio-dad is a scary black, Muslim,
immigrant) and down-thread, there were Freepers who had misread that to mean that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and wasn't eligible to run for the Presidency. Even after someone helpfully pointed out that Obama was born in Hawaii, the conspiratorial whispering of "they lied about Obama's nationality" continued in the thread.
Overall the tone is overtly racist. There has been some posting here that has been called racist, but most of it was really just "racially insensitive," especially compared with what's posted on Free Republic.
How's Clinton faring? Not much better. Although she's not the leading target right now, the slings and arrows of Freeper bullshit are going full blast. Clinton talks about China as a security concern and the bogus charge about the Clinton's supplying military technology to China emerges (a Clinton supporter was fined for letting some classified technology fall into Chinese hands, but that's hardly the cause of China's ascendancy). Rest assured that in the unlikely event that Clinton pulls ahead of Obama, she'll be getting slimed 24/7 by Freepers and their ilk.
It just doesn't matter.
If it does, we're dead. We were dead before we started our primaries. We were dead when Mike Gravel had as much name recognition — and as many delegates — as Barack Obama. If the right wing noise machine is going to kill us, then we're dead, because it's not going to go away, ever.
Reading through the Freeper posts, I couldn't help thinking about how much worse things could be said about George W. Bush — who was elected; twice! Why didn't these astute observers of politics with all of their dirty background secrets on the Democratic candidates manage to miss out on what a crappy candidate Bush was? Why, for that matter, did the Freepers choose Fred Thompson as the candidate who would "go on to the White House in November," when in reality, Thompson barely bumped the electoral meter?
Because it just doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what the pundits say or what the facts are, people are going to believe what they want to believe. That's the "gift" of the age of Aquarius and its Information Superhighway™. Somewhere in cyberspace, there is someone who is ready to tell you that exactly what you want to believe is true, is, in fact, true.
Obama will win in November if the net psychology of the country
wants whatever they think he is. Otherwise, we'll get McCain. That doesn't mean that campaigning won't change things and that grass root won't change things. What it really means is that the people who wouldn't vote for Obama (or Clinton) in the first place are — surprise, surprise — not going to vote for Obama or Clinton and that — surprise, surprise — their explicit reasoning for this choice may be complete fucking bullshit.
So forget all this "electability" stuff that's based on what Sean Hannity and NewsMax have to say on the subject. Just forget it. It just doesn't matter. Also, dismiss a lot of the Obama-Clinton warring here that has the same tone. It just doesn't matter.
Something matters, but it's bigger than all that. Those gut feelings that say, "Wow, we (the Dems) are going to win this fall. The Republicans are going to get slaughtered." That matters. The sense you get when you're around your former Bush-loving friends, neighbors, coworkers and relatives, that they are ready for a real change. That matters.
And now, for your viewing pleasure:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FYHAEkaFThU
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