I can see how young voters would be fascinated with the propaganda hurled at them by the Obama campaign, but voters Obama’s age are seeing this thing get creepier and creepier as the days roll on. For one thing, take a look at how the “photo-ops” happen. You know, there is a reason why John McCain doesn’t need the Secret Service. This has ominous and sinister shades to it. Read about one reporter’s take of the descent on small town America from the South Bend Tribune.com and you’ll probably be as surprised as we were…there is something very non-apple pie about this. Especially about the “dogs” and the “getaway car.”
Then, Politico has a piece up about how Axelrod is changing the strategy midstream so that:
“…Obama, once the king of the arena rally, is downsizing. He came in contact this weekend with only a fraction of the voters he usually does in the lead-up to a primary.
It completes an almost 180-degree shift from two months ago, when the Illinois senator jumped from one massive event to another, attracting media coverage that focused more on crowd counts than his message or his biography. Obama’s approach in Indiana has been noteworthy for how far he has strayed from the formulation that, aides say, worked in earlier primary states, but not as much anymore.
“We were on a steady diet of large rallies,” said David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist. “And that can become a fatty diet.”
Despite more than a year in the public eye, Obama needed to go more personal. The campaign wasn’t “telling the story of who he was,” an aide said. So in Indiana, he aimed to reintroduce himself, at a time when his rivals were painting him as out of touch, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy began eroding his personal appeal and the campaign struggled to regain its footing after a sound defeat in Pennsylvania…”
the article continues…
“…In the last several days, Obama sat among campaign-assembled hay bales in a barn to chat with farmers, visited a retirement home to sit with seniors, talked about the economy with steelworkers and dropped by a VFW post to drink Budweiser with veterans. At each turn, he was attempting to appeal to demographic groups — white, working class and older — in which Obama has been bleeding support.
The campaign schedule cast each stop with quaint-sounding descriptions such as “Hamilton County Family Picnic with the Obama Family” and “Potluck at Dunham Family Homestead…”
But, it’s hard to imagine how Obama is going to erase Jeremiah Wright from this conversation. Because voters his age have too many questions about how he could listen to this stuff, growing up when did. It’s really all about the hate that we have seen. And that sort of hate is directed in huge ways at some of the target demographics the Obama campaign has tried to capture in this election. For instance, this read unpacks the whole thing for Average America. We need to know. Because we need to know about our candidates.
An Unholy Trinity of Hate
by Lin Farley
SavagePolitics.com Contributor
Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia are espoused, promoted and extolled within the black church in America today as a result of sermons from the pulpit and from the activist behavior of African American preachers opposed to Jews, Whites and Gays…”
After reading this article this morning, it makes me question why Axelrod would be target-marketing to gay people in the first place. But, in this campaign it appears that they will craft the marketing to appeal to “separate” demographics no matter what the belief systems are. It doesn’t seem ethical to be operating a campaign in this way, especially when it comes to fundraising. How easy to set up a logo with a rainbow motif on one hand, and appeal to this segment of the population, but really be listening to sermons on Sundays that denigrate them. It seems the height of hypocrisy. Not to mention Wright himself. Turning one’s back on a pastor? That is like turning on one’s people. This next story is very sad. In an attempt to salvage the Wright controversy is appears Obama is doing exactly that…
Obama Is Avoiding Black Neighborhoods »
By SusanUnPC on May 5, 2008 at 9:27 AM in Barack Obama, Race, Race Card | 227 Comments
Uppity Woman wrote a heck of a story on May 1 that blew my mind: “Obama Snubs Black Media.” Now, thanks to UPI, we find out that he’s also avoiding black neighborhoods:
RALEIGH, N.C., May 2 (UPI) — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been avoiding stops in black communities in his quest to become the first black major party nominee for the U.S. presidency.
The saddest line in this sorry story? “Isaac Onah, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina, told the Boston Globe that black voters appear to understand Obama’s campaign strategy.” Oh great, Barack. Even your hapless black supporters know you’re trying to win white votes by not being seen with them.
Then, Slate has the follow-up to end all follow-ups. In “Are we getting Two for the Price of One,” the writer asserts:
“…What can it be that has kept Obama in Wright’s pews, and at Wright’s mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations? Even if he pulls off a mathematical nomination victory, he has completely lost the first, fine, careless rapture of a post-racial and post-resentment political movement and mired us again in all the old rubbish that predates Dr. King. What a sad thing to behold. And how come? I think we can exclude any covert sympathy on Obama’s part for Wright’s views or style—he has proved time and again that he is not like that, and even his own little nods to “Minister” Farrakhan can probably be excused as a silly form of Chicago South Side political etiquette. All right, then, how is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children, and received donations from him? Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama…?
Like millions of other typical Americans this is the sort of backstory that the mainstream press needs to be informing us of. What Axelrod has done is pander to all sorts of various groups using logos and placards and strategies for the fundraising for this campaign. In reality, the public needs a lot more backstory about this man before we place our trust in him. You can’t turn your back on people like this, with Wright. It’s creepy.
Here is a link to Axelrod out of Chicago…
Obama guru’s moment of truth
David Axelrod’s above-the-fray political strategy turned U.S. Sen. Barack Obama from promising first-termer to presidential front-runner, but his game plan is starting to show its limitations as the struggle with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton drags on.
The Chicago-based chief strategist and media maestro for the Obama campaign crafted a message of change and hope that resonates with college students, urban professionals and political independents. But it’s falling flat with the biggest part of the Democratic base: blue-collar voters equally skeptical about their economic security and the sweeping platitudes of a relatively untested politician.
You just can’t try and do target marketing in the way Axelrod has, so fast, and expect that the bulk of the American Voting public isn’t going to see through the scheme. You can’t pit the American people against each other or try and overturn the social fabric of the country in a quest to be leader based on a platform of HOPE, when everything looks like the above.
That’s creepy, indeed.
Last is a totally cool video that Flineo did. About the song “Stand by Me” — well, yes, it makes sense that Alice Palmer wants to stand by Hillary Clinton to me. Because she isn’t using these hideous tactics, is she?
What we need is a slow, cool-headed leader who stands for America as a whole in non-divisive ways…
That is why I’m for Hillary Clinton.
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