Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate by Webster Griffin Tarpley

Author:Webster Griffin Tarpley [Tarpley, Webster Griffin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Politics
ISBN: 9780930852887
Amazon: 0930852885
Publisher: Progressive Press
Published: 2008-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

As for Rhode Island, here is another state where Governor Deval

Patrick’s personal greed and failed administration have tended to inoculate voters against Obama’s trademark demagogy. Obama’s

success in Vermont confirms the analysis offered here ex contrario: 158

Obama, The Postmodern Coup

Vermont is notoriously the playground of rich elitists and affluent exurbanites. Similar demographics were doubtless at work in

Obama’s success in the Wyoming Democratic caucuses: this is a state where the Democratic Party can meet in the phone booth, which

Democrats have no hope of ever carrying in the November election, and where the rich elitists who jetted in to Jackson Hole for the weekend also stopped off to caucus for the anointed one. Many

hourly workers who might have voted for Mrs. Clinton in a fair secret ballot election were doubtless working through the weekend and

could not take several hours to participate in a caucus in which they would be looked down on by Obama’s well-heeled backers.

This dynamic is becoming more generally recognized. A veteran

columnist for the London Times, concluding that Clinton was the only viable choice, wrote: “But Hillary Clinton now seems more likely

than Mr Obama to become the next president of the United States….

Mrs Clinton has won by decisive margins in every big state that the Democrats must win to send their candidate to the White House. Mr Obama’s lead in the delegate count is based on his success in small states with little electoral significance or in Republican strongholds such as Alabama and Nevada where the Democrats have no chance of

success. (Anatole Kaletsky, London Times, March 6, 2008)

As of this writing, Obama has failed to win a single closed

Democrats-only primary election. Of the Electoral College

megastates which are absolutely indispensable for any Democratic

candidate, he has won only Illinois, and he is unlikely to prevail in any other of these big states. Mrs. Clinton has now won California, Texas, New York, Florida, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey,

and Ohio. Obama’s dubious exploits in such reactionary strongholds as Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, Utah, and similar places

appear nugatory in comparison. It is nice to be popular with the rich elitists of Vermont or of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but this does not have much to do with winning the presidential election.

WITH CLINTON, DEMOCRATS RULE

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

The lesson of all this is that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign so far

adumbrates a durable winning combination for the Democratic Party among key sociological groups and in the Electoral College. Obama, by contrast, offers an odd assortment of states, an incongruous

slapdash coalition, a random congeries, a crazy quilt or checkerboard Elitist Obama Hysteria Broken by Votes of Working People 159

of states where he might conceivably muddle through. By now it

should be plain to all that 2008 will go down in history as a great watershed year in the latest party realignment of American politics, joining such landmark elections as the Jacksonian Democrats of 1828, the Lincoln Republicans of 1860, the Wall Street Republicans of

1896, the magnificent Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal of 1932, and the abominable reactionary Nixon success of 1968. The house

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