"Why can't Obama close the deal?"

[EffieBlack]

Excuse me? They didn't ask this question about Hillary when she lost primary after primary. It's very clear that these arrogant, sanctimonious, bigoted, self-entitled know-it-alls just cannot - CANNOT - wrap their minds around the fact that a black man is this close to being a major party presidential nominee. So they treat him like an oddity, a curiosity, a rare species that they must hold up to the light and scrutinize carefully to determine how he managed to find his way into their domain.

It certainly can't be that a whole lot of people of all races and backgrounds want him to be president. After all, he's BLACK and AMERICA'S NOT READY FOR A BLACK PRESIDENT - or so these geniuses have been telling us for the last year and a half.

They said white people wouldn't vote for him. And then when white people DO vote for him, it's because of "white guilt" or they're just caught up in the hype. If white people don't vote for him, it's because HE failed to earn their support. They said black people wouldn't vote for him. And then when black people DO vote for him, it's because they're color-struck sheep (not that he earned their votes or that his opponent failed to do so).

Because his achievements contradict their deepest-held biases, he must be an aberration and treated as such. So every sign or hint that there's even a remote possibility that he might not make it is an opportunity to say, "AHA!!! SEE - WE TOLD YOU HE CAN'T DO IT!!!"

He's ahead in delegates, popular vote, number of primaries won, and the polls. There are still several primaries left to go, but because he hasn't "closed the deal," there must be something wrong with him - even though they never seem to apply the same standard to Clinton, who also has failed to "close the deal" even after assuring us that she would have this locked up by February 5.

This bigoted analysis of Obama is as sickening as it is transparent.

[mamalone]

1. I have nothing to add....

except I hear ya baby:hug:

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Michelle Obama is right when she talks about "moving the bar higher".

We know this. When you're black, you have to work twice as hard in order to succeed. A presidential candidate has the most pledged delegates, most states won and leads in the popular vote, but YET it's not enough.

Hillary loses 12 contests in a row, but, "She can still win it!" the media says. She's the comeback kid because she finally won one.

[polpilot]

10. Establishment politicos like the DLC Clintons are difficult to wean from the trough.

[babylonsister]

3. As a white, middle-aged woman (Hillary's 'base'), I'm more than

ready for him! GOBAMA!

[mamalone]

6. Another white middle aged woman...

and one from NY no less;)... for Obama!!

[Triana]

12. White middle-aged women for Obama here too! (n/t)

[C_U_L8R]

4. The deal's been closed... 31 times

Obama has won 31 state contests.. and with those, earned more delegates.
In other words, to the math impaired, Obama has closed the deal on the whole shootin' match.
He's winning and there's no reasonable way Hillary can change that fact.

[Saturday]

5. Sorry....

"They said black people wouldn't vote for him. And then when black people DO vote for him, it's because they're color-struck sheep (not that he earned their votes or that his opponent failed to do so)."

but when 80% to 90% of one color of people vote for a person of the same color it's NOT because he earned their votes. It's because of the color of his skin. You don't get those high numbers because of ideas. I might even agree with you if it was 50% to 60% but not 80% to 90%. It's because of color and that's why they predict every state with high Black populations to go to Obama.

[Voltaire]

18. That work for white folks too?

Just askin.

[Saturday]

20. 80% - 90% of white voters are not voting for Clinton. nt

[EffieBlack]

22. Of course not

When 99 percent of white voters vote for white candidates when a black candidate is running, it has NOTHING to do with race. And the fact that black voters are voting in large percentages for Obama is proof that they are voting for him solely because he's black, even though, until now, black voters had never demonstrated any pattern of voting overwhelmingly for black candidates in presidential primaries.

Right.

[berni_mccoy]

19. Is that true of Republican cross-over votes too? 80% going for Clinton? Is that because she's an R

What you are doing is racial stereotyping.

[Saturday]

21. What I'm doing is confirming what Michelle Obama said would happen. nt

[depakid]

7. They didn't ask this question about Hillary when she lost primary after primary

I'm not sure what forums you've been browsing....

[babylonsister]

8. She's still here, isn't she. Had the roles been reversed, Obama

would have been 'expected' to step down. I know that to be true whether you want to believe it or not.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Remember Hillary's statement "I'm In, I'm in to win"

certain portions of the Democratic Party believe that Obama is a nuisance but he'll go down .....but they have been a long time in putting him down (months).

[Sensitivity]

11. Clinton begins as the overwhelming favorite in many States. Only POWERFUL NEGATIVE attacks

could totally undercut that kind of unthingking support, and Obama is not willing to go there -- but she, and her campaign does in anytime he comes close.

[Triana]

13. K & R (n/t)

[Bucky]

14. I missed that part where someone said "America's not ready for a black president"

Which show were you watching?

[mod mom]

15. We are so fortunate that we have such an outstanding man of character who is willing to brush

the obvious bias against him. The powers that be are afraid of him and his connection with the people. I am sick to hear comments that suggest my backing of him has to due with white guilt or wanting to be cool. It is insulting to both Sen Obama as well as to me. It's the corporate media , who happen to be raking in the big bucks in ad revenue at a time when tv is failing, that are helping to prolong the inevitable.

[lakeguy]

16. i think part of it is the corporate media too...

the longer they can help keep her in, the better mccain will do. it was pretty obvious that this is going on after seeing the ABC debate.

[Medusa]

17. Why does HRC keep blowing 20 plus point leads

in every single state? Oh right, the more people know about her, the more they thoroughly dislike her. :rofl:

[EffieBlack]

23. Racial double-standard is so blatant it's breathtaking!

It's funny how every Republican pundit has been asking for the last two days, "Why can't Obama close the deal?

Obviously this is the latest talking point distributed to these people, who fan out over the airwaves to repeat this drivel ad nauseum.

Two weeks ago, Pennsylvania was going to be a blowout and these same pundits were saying that, unless Obama can close the margin to 10 points or below, he will be in trouble. Now it looks like he may have done that and so they've changed their tunes. Now they're saying that there's something wrong with him because he "can't close the deal."

Tim Russert is now saying that Obama is failing to draw white women whose support of Hillary Clinton is "rock solid." Therein lies his problem.

Excuse me? Hillary Clinton is so far behind that she probably can't ever catch up and, part of the reason is that she has little support from black voters. The response to that? Black voters are unreasonably rejecting Hillary in order to vote for Barack because he's black. In other words, it's the black voters fault that Hillary Clinton can't get them to vote for her.

Yet, they go on and on about how Obama is "failing" to attract white women who are voting for Hillary. And it's Obama's fault that white women aren't voting for him.

I'm waiting for someone to ask, "Why is Hillary doing so badly in this race, why is she so far behind Obama, why has she so miserably earn the support of black voters?"

Bullshit.