Oh but it so clearly is. Because sooner rather than later Obama will be tied so closely to this fanatic that he will be unable to extricate himself. It’s far too late to throw the loon under the bus and the bus is now headed for the nearest cliff. Especially since everyone really ‘knows’ that at least Michelle Obama agrees completely with this loon, and suspects that a man cannot be somewhere for 20 years without getting a clue about exactly where he is. That Obama is STILL there speaks volumes.

This ‘pastor’ is so viscerally repugnant, that the general election voters will be viscerally turned off and vote accordingly. It is almost a subliminal process.

Goodbye Ohio.
Goodbye Missouri.
Goodbye New Mexico.
Goodbye Virginia.
Goodbye New Hampshire.
Goodbye Pennsylvania.

Goodbye Obama.

“I would say that any glee over Rezco and Obama’s pastor is also a bit optimistic and overblown. Both relationships are certainly valid areas for examination and discussion, but I’m still waiting to see any real meat on those bones that would move the needle very far in the general election. And let’s remember that pretty much every politician has had some pretty shakey “relationships” and actions in their past and somehow America gets over it. In fact, we have a president right now who had a DWI, faced suspicions of past drug use, and had a multitude of shady relationships with a series of failed business interests, both domestic and abroad with a cozy relationship with some high profile Saudis in the oil industry. None of this ultimately seemed to bother his electability.”

First off, I take exception to there being glee at the recent revelation that BHO’s pastor and mentor is an unreconstructed demagogic bigot. I don’t think there are many center-right adherents who want to see a full-on racial meltdown in this country. Yet that seems to be where the Dem’s are headed. Nominate BHO and get a repeat of the 1968-1972 electoral maps. Deny him and watch Denver erupt. That’s my prediction and don’t see how it’s avoided.

While I could be wrong, I don’t see how at this point. To say that, for instance, the DWI didn’t harm Bush’s electability, is to ignore the Florida-2000 fiasco. He had a five-point lead there a week from election day. Had Bush been associated with some white separatist nut-jobs, I dare say that not only his election would have been unlikely but so would even his Rep. nomination.

Denver had better make sure all its insurance policies are up to date and the deductibles have been reset to the lowest #’s possible. This could make Chicago ‘68 look like a picnic.

Anyone remember the letter he had written to his draft board in which he stated he “loathed” the military? That should have been fatal to a potential commander-in-chief, and those were his words, not his crazy pastor’s. Gennifer Flowers?

Obama’s nutty preacher is a problem, but I doubt it’s fatal. Though I agree that nothing scares the whites away faster than an angry black man, Obama himself is not an angry black man.

The collapse of Bear Stearns on Friday is the kind of event that will sway an election. A badly faltering economy is poison to an incumbent party. Ask George H.W. Bush or Jimmy Carter.

Now, except for a handfull of bloviating outliers, the GOP is resigning themeselves to the inevitable and lining up behind McCain. The Democrats will do the same. This is just the exciting season of rhetoric while the Dem candidate’s supporters launch their best hyperbole to get their person over the finish line first. The only difference is they are doing it later and taking longer than the Republicans did.

Another thing to remember is that the people producing new media and their followers still represent a slowly growing, but still very tiny percentage of the voter base. Most of America, sadly, is still barely aware of who’s in the running and won’t begin paying attention until August or September at the earliest, and by then we’ll have two nominees getting ready to debate in an effort to win over the nation for the general election in November.

I would say that any glee over Rezco and Obama’s pastor is also a bit optimistic and overblown. Both relationships are certainly valid areas for examination and discussion, but I’m still waiting to see any real meat on those bones that would move the needle very far in the general election. And let’s remember that pretty much every politician has had some pretty shakey “relationships” and actions in their past and somehow America gets over it. In fact, we have a president right now who had a DWI, faced suspicions of past drug use, and had a multitude of shady relationships with a series of failed business interests, both domestic and abroad with a cozy relationship with some high profile Saudis in the oil industry. None of this ultimately seemed to bother his electability.

No, in the end, I suspect that all of this media drama will be exactly that. And in November we’ll see yet another nail biter just like we have for quite a few years now, and it will all come down to who can GOTV the best, just as it has in the past. The KOS “writers strike” is just the latest piece of fluff in a new media machine waiting to be fed something - anything - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Obama is very damaged. In two days, he was caught in a lie over contrabutions from Tony Rezko and another lie about his knowledge of his spiritual advisor’s racism and anti-Americanism. Rank and file Democrats will either stay home or vote Republican if Obama’s the nominee.

If the DNC gives the nomination to Hillary, the African-American wing will defect, big time. Without 80 percent of that bloc, a Democrat cannot win.

The Democrats have played a really weak game of chess this year. Proportional delegate allocation and superdelegates make it almost impossible for good electoral politics to prevail.