Poll: Why Isn't Obama Closing McCain Out? Putting Him away?

Poll: Why Isn't Obama Closing McCain Out? Putting Him away?

     Poll: Why Isn’t Obama Closing McCain Out? Putting Him away?

Americans are unhappy about the Iraq war. The economy is in falling apart, millions in default on mortgages, and banks and mortgage companies failing, People furious mercenaries allegedly slaughtering innocents in Iraq and elsewhere and about uncontrolled mercenaries offering their services to corporations ostensibly against consumers, a corrupt Supreme Court, a corrupt Justice Department, whose former head allegedly cannot even find a meager job now that he is deposed, Republicans leaving the sinking ship and writing repentances, gas at nearly $5.00 a gallon, jobs becoming more scare than a congressperson who is not a multi-millionaire, Supreme Court Decisions that have Constitutionalists thinking about ending lifetime tenure for the Justices, and a Republican president, is the most unpopular in president of either party in history and still is setting newer records for unpopularity. … All of this against a backdrop of most unpopular President in history who is still setting records for unpopularity. Moreover the chances of a two term Republican President giving way to a third term Republican presidency are historically less than extremely unlikely, why then is Senator Obama allowing Senator McCain who seems of late a clone of the Bush presidency, still hanging in close and even shaving points from Obama’s lead?

It's very difficult for one party to win three presidential elections in a row. Circumstances seem to be joining to create a Democratic victory in 2008. Therefore, why then is Barack Obama running virtually neck and neck with John McCain less than three months from the election and just days ahead of the Democratic Convention?

The Obama campaign has been faltering since Hillary has been dispensed with, but why? The problem with the Obama Campaign is exactly the problem of the pundits, which analyze it, which is generalizing what needs to be done, though most now admit his staff may be blowing it.

Some say it is because it is one thing to win in Illinois, it is quite another to win a national campaign. Most pundits I have seen/read/heard, speak in general terms when analyzing the Obama Campaign in “High Road” language. To win, one has to initiate some things and let one’s opponent initiate others, and the devil is guessing which to initiate and which to let the fool initiate.

For instance, in June of 2004 of the Kerry campaign, I called his headquarters and sent him emails after the Swiftboating began. “Challenge Bush to an immediate debate on your military careers, right now!” It was a no-lose challenge for Kerry; if Bush refused, he would be trying to undo, explain away his non-career in the military, and explaining away a charge is infinitely harder than making one. Sometime later, I believe it was Donna Brazile, who said that they considered such a debate, but rejected it as impractical.

Kerry beaten up in the press had no other means of winning, except to put Bush on the defensive. The person defending, explaining in an election is the one who loses because he is playing his opponents game, not his own. The path both Kerry and Gore, and now seemingly, Obama, is poor Chess playing, worse Kreigschpiel playing, and much worse election playing.

Tactics should be the focus of strategy and strategy should be that they look for errors by the others on which to leap while putting forth their own agenda. As General George S. Patton said, “Hold them by the nose and kick them in the can…”

That kind of amateurism and lack of ideas and initiative cast them the election. The very day I read that, I said “they will lose and bigger than Gore lost, fixed election or otherwise.”

Philosophies are fine for discussions like the above but they hold no real value because in this kind of atmosphere where tactical reactions and counter attacks are infinitely better and more effective than defenses.

All athletes know that when you have an opponent hanging in there who should have been easy prey, you are in grave danger of losing.

What should Obama do specifically right now to win, is the real question? Fire his staff and hire unknowns? Some say he should have done that right after the Convention. Dead horses can’t run and his people are dead horses-amateurs playing against slick professionals, who may not be the cream of the crop but apparently haven’t had to be theses last few Presidential elections.

The only way, using the Obama staff’s present seeming cluelessness-campaign approach, which included offering to rehire Blackwater, (where has he been all these years on this issue, have they read nothing about the Mercenaries problems, about the iraqi government wanting them out, and the American people wanting them out of business? Does he not comprehend the threat of a billionaire mercenary army selling out to the highest bidders?).

Where are the Obama assurances that he will rescind the Patriot Act, or the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the Bankruptcy Act, for not, announcing that he will impose a gas cap per Barrel at $25.00 (which is more than 1,000 times its current raw production and delivery cost) and a windfall profit tax which will return to Americans 85% of the more than $222 billions in profits stolen from the American people in a sinister redistribution of the wealth in an effort, Prescott Bush inspired, to undo the New Deal of FDR.

In order to win, Obama needs to condemn the use of mercenaries, promise to undo/recapture contractor profits ala FDR in the first WW I, as Undersecretary of the Navy and again in WW II as President. He also needs to initiate, now, a promise to look into the criminal activities of the bureaucrats, which led to this fiasco which put him in a position to run, instead of looking like the candidate of the High Road to Oblivion, rather of looking like the great White/Brown, any colored All-American Hope, at last.

His campaign reeks of appeasing the corporate interests and if so, that will lose the Democratic voter base forever. This is looking like the Apocalypse for Democrats, when twenty-five years from now people will be saying, Political Evolution works, the fittest survived, the unfit, expired, went extinct.

Did Obama beat Hillary, or did she beat herself? One of the largest problems the Democrats have had since the JFK era is putting into practice their philosophies with people who are not the best-qualified examples of those philosophies.

Too many are beginning to see a snobbish exclusionary staff, hostile to ideas they do not originate, as did the staffs of Gore and Kerry. They won’t listen those people who exhibit keener view of what is lacking than do the campaign staff, which is an awful lot of people. What a shame because McCain is yet another face of men trapped to the interests of unpatriotic global mercenary money grubbing/fascists.

The question then is:

Should Obama:
A)- Dump His Clueless Campaign Directors,

Or

B)-Simply keep plodding along unimaginatively, creating new ways to lose an election to a dead horse?

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