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Not if Obama is the nominee (none / 0) (#36)
by Cream City on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 09:31:16 AM EST
as he has knee-capped our best vote-getter, Bill Clinton, and many others by Obama calling them racist.  It just won't work to put them on the campaign trail, as all the media attention would be to the charges that they're racist instead of to what they would have to say about Obama as a candidate.

This is another reason that I disagree with BTD on Obama's "electability."  If Gore had used Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, Gore could have won in 2000.  Obama can't use Bill Clinton -- and maybe not Hillary Clinton, either, with all the Obama smears on her -- or Ferraro or others who can get out the constituencies with whom Obama is doing poorly.  

I.e., Gore and Kerry both got 41-42% of the white vote and couldn't win in sufficient numbers (that is, Gore won the popular vote but not enough to win the electoral college).  Obama is getting little more than 35% of the white vote.  It's not enough -- and with the the Wright problems that will continue throughout the campaign, clearly, it's not going to be enough for Obama to win.

Not without the big-name Dems he needs, and Obama can't use them now, because of his racism smears.  That means because of his short-sighted strategy to win the primary, which would lose the general election.

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