Democrat’s Divisions Worsen!

I started to mention that the Democrat’s have some new problems but . . . actually the problems we will be facing in the upcoming Presidential elections have been with us for a long, long time. Events of this presidential campaign are really forcing these long-standing issues into the forefront now.

Last week the furor was over Barack Obama’s twenty-year discipleship of Jeremiah Wright, his friend, pastor and mentor, after Wright was revealed as a virulent racist. Then on Tuesday, Obama gave a speech that, depending on your viewpoint, 1) explained the relationship satisfactorily or 2) gave further reason to distrust Obama as a candidate.

I am now firmly entrenched in the latter category. You may or may not agree with my reasons, but I don’t believe that I am alone in my thinking.

As a member of the female persuasion, I resented Obama comparing private comments by his grandmother to the very public hate-filled ravings, and pelvic thrusts, of Jeremiah Wright from the pulpit. I also resented his comparing the comments and questions posed by Geraldine Ferraro with the years of Wright’s fanatical diatribes that made his Tuesday speech necessary in the first place.

Although I thought her comments were inappropriate, there is no comparison between Geraldine Ferraro calling Obama’s credentials into question, based on race, and Wright’s 20 years of stirring up hatred against whites and the USA. And what I found most galling was Obama continuing to sing Wright’s praises as a great man who had accomplished great good, while not extending the same courtesy to the two females he put on the chopping block.

Obama was very adamant about saying that his grandmother loved him. Why did he not bother to mention that he cared a little about his grandmother, rather than emphasizing that he couldn’t “disown her” and that some of her private stereotypical comments made him “cringe”.

When Michelle Obama made her comments about never being proud of this country until now, it struck a jarring note with me. I wondered why a woman who had made it so successfully in corporate America (and had the salary to prove it) was so unhappy with our country. After listening to just a few of the foaming-at-the-mouth anti-white rants that her pastor of twenty years made, it became much clearer to me.

Now the news for the Democratic Party continues to be even more unsettling. What had initially started as breakthrough potential for women and blacks, has deteriorated into a great divide between race and gender.

News today shows a real split among black and white feminists, with noted black feminists endorsing Obama. The rhetoric is becoming very unfriendly as black women are now saying that their loyalties toward a black candidate take precedence over supporting a woman candidate. And it’s just beginning to heat up because NOW just endorsed Hillary Clinton.

The Washington Post states today that super delegates are concerned over angering African-American voters (major voting block of the Democratic Party) if they don’t support Obama. And the voters in Michigan and Florida are not going to have any meaningful impact on the nominating process now that revotes have been ruled out.

Looks like the Democrats have more than just a “train wreck” coming up in August in Denver.

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