Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

Rush Limbaugh has a point. He said, "Obama is now the weakest of the Democrat nominees; he can win the educated, the snob elites, and the young, but not the working class, blue-collar voter".

Only in America is being an "elite" politician a bad thing. We hope that if and when we should get operated on, that we'll have an "elite" surgeon. Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan we love, because they are the "elite" in their fields. We want our kids to have the best and most "elite" teachers, hopefully. But Republicans have turned the word on it's head just as they've turned the word liberal on it's head over the last few decades. Nevermind that modern conservatism in America actually means neo-liberal-facism, what with invading countries on a whim, or spending taxpayer money more liberally than any other time in the history of the country.

So what gives? When I imagined Obama going to sleep next to his wife these last few weeks, I imagined a reasonned and intelligent man admitting to his wife that his problem is the fact that he's not dumb enough for most Americans. I wonder how he's dealing with that? I wonder what Barack and Michelle's intimate moments are like, right at this moment. What a hard truth they are having to face about their own country. A nation filled with fine and very hard-working people who mostly don't pay enough attention to the big picture.

Limbaugh has a point. The only constituency Obama hasn't won over in the Democratic primaries is the working-class vote, which Hillary has won handily. How? By pandering. What a sad statement it is about a country that so many of her voters are convinced that eliminating the gas tax for the summer is the best option. What a con.

I like Obama. If he becomes President, the world will at least be able to admit that America chose better this time. But you can't win the White House without the "hick" vote. The working-class vote. The blue collar vote. Whatever it is that you want to call that huge swash of Americans who work their asses off for the smallest piece of the pie. They've been conned for so long that the only candidates they respond to are the ones who con them the best and in the most clever ways.

It isn't about what you stand for or your ideas to these people. It's all about if you walk and talk like them. How sad. Obama is a really good man. He's "with it" about most policy issues, and he's very brave for having as part of his stump speech the fact that the problems in America are so huge that gay marriage ought to really take a back seat right now.

I think it's laughable the idea that if Hillary loses that her supporters won't fall in line with Obama, but on the other hand, I wouldn't put it past many idiots these days to just stay home or to vote precisely against their interests by going with John McCain.

I don't agree with Rush on much, but on the working-class vote, I completely agree with him.