Reply #40: If Obama were white and an insider, I think she'd be gone by now. [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

I think she continues to feel that because he's black she can use that against him and turn people away from him. She would never admit it, but she knows that his position is more precarious because of it. And the fact that he's a relative newcomer to Washington and she feels she has institutional connections she can rely on.

Same thing with TV media--they somehow just can't believe that an African American is getting all this support. They think it's all going to collapse like a hot air balloon and that HRC will then be the only one left standing. This was the understood scenario a year ago and they just can't accept that it might not turn out that way. They know how to cover the Clintons--Obama wouldn't be as easy. They don't know him and don't know how to cover an African American frontrunner.

If the media would just stop propping HRC up she'd be the one deflating like a grounded hot air balloon. As it is, she looks at her money, her connections and the coverage she is able to get and figures she's still got a good shot even though she hasn't got the math on her side.

Out here in the real world, Obama is getting the people's support. I hope it's enough--hope the power of the people will be able to defeat Big Media and the Beltway this time.