Barack Gets A Beat-Down
For a guy who is on his way to the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama sure does show a alot of weaknesses. Hillary Clinton got 68% and thumped Obama by 41 points in West Virginia. It looks like Obamamania is running out of steam. Back in December, when Obama was the 'flavor of the week', I asked people who were going crazy for him, including my mother, what he stood for. All I heard from her and others was about how handsome he was, and how great his speeches were. No Democrat in a hundred years has won the presidency without carrying West Virginia, and Obama show great weakness here. He is also going hammered in Kentucky next week as well, since it has similar demographics as WV. As he limps towards the finish line, he looks more and more like Mike Dukakis, another notorious loser of 20 years past. This was noted by no less a person the Susan Estrich, Mike Dukakis" campaign manager!
