Panic

Yeah, we bloggers/blog readers have been hearing this for the past month, but this AP piece is hitting the wires and will be in every print newspaper this weekend (sad to say, even I still take the local Sunday paper). Lots of unplugged people are about to get up to speed.

"Nightmarish...Wreck...Wrenching...Infuriating...Excruciating..." Delicious:

For all their delight in soaring voter registration and strong poll numbers, some Democrats fear the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton might have a nightmarish end, which could wreck a promising election year.

The chief worry is that Clinton may carry her recent winning streak into Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and other states, leaving her with unquestioned momentum but fewer pledged delegates than Obama. Party leaders then would face a wrenching choice: Steer the nomination to a fading Obama, even as signs suggested Clinton could be the stronger candidate in November; or go with the surging Clinton and risk infuriating Obama's supporters, especially blacks, the Democratic Party's most loyal base.

Some anxious Democrats want party elders to step in now to generate more "superdelegate" support for Obama, effectively choking off Clinton's hopes before she can bolster them further. But many say that is unlikely, and they pray the final 10 contests will make the ultimate choice fairly obvious, not excruciating.

UPDATE: Thanks, Insta-Glenn and Ace. Here's some weapons-grade Hillary schadenfreude for dessert.

(3-30-08, Local Sunday Paper Update: Half page article, top of A5. Awesome.)

Comments

[cranky]

*rubs hands with feelings of evil glee*

[Tim]

Excellent. Blue on Blue.

More, please.

[MarkJ]

Meanwhile, in his secret underground lair, Karl Rove refills his snifter with Hennessy Ellipse, lights another Cohiba Behike, and chuckles as the encrypted e-mails furiously flow in from his undercover DNC operatives:

"I love it when a plan comes together."

[M. Simon]

Google (if you can make the black screen work)

"Is Rove Behind Obama"

There is evidence.

Heh.

[Ron J]

Hillary ain't quitting. Not until after Penn and SC anyway. And if she wins SC, she won't quit at all. Message to Obama: When you lay down with a dawg like Rev. Wright, you get up with fleas."

[B-Rob]

One thing I find interesting: conservatives always talk about the unimportance of race (Ward Connerly, etc.) and that Dems are actually more race conscious than GOPers. Yet, not a day goes by without conservative writers mentioning, over and over again, about Obama's supposed inability to reach White voters.

Hmm . . . . Reminds me of a corporate recruiter who asked Black students is they could function in a "race blind corporate culture" . . . not realizing that the fact that they ONLY asked Black students that question sorta proved that the corporate culture was not so race blind after all!

Let's get real, conservatives. Racism (i.e., use of racial stereotyping and decision making to subjugate individuals of that race) is alive and well. And, no, affirmative aciton, which so harms white males that they ONLY hold 90+% of the Fortune 500 executive level positions, is not the only racism out there. The sooner conservatives acknowledge the obvious (that, like Obama says, racism is alive an well but not as deadly or widespread as in the past) the sooner the conservatives will have a smidgen of credibility with minority voters. And guess what? With the race-baiting Clinton exploitation of Obama's minority race, this may just be the year where a wise, acknowledging GOP triples its percentage of the Black vote!

[Chris]

Simon,
Think you mean NC.

[Anna Keppa]

Per Ron j: "Yet, not a day goes by without conservative writers mentioning, over and over again, about Obama's supposed inability to reach White voters."

Say what? WHICH conservative writers are saying this over and over? Name them and cite their remarks!

If Ron J thinks Obama's vote tally thus far comes mostly from blacks, he's not paying attention.

Maybe Ron J is talking about a post-Wright Obama, who has p*ssed in his own whiskey by going all evasive and "nuanced" about his long and continuing association with a raving anti-white bigot. But before he made himself a racial candidate Barrack got the majority of his support from whites, including white college kids.

If Democrats objecting to Obama's association with Farrakhan-style black racism flee to Hillary in the remaining primaries, will that be the fault of conservatives, Ron J?

[Anna Keppa]

Oops! my comments were to B-Rob!

My bad!

[Shadow Merchant]

Excellent. Our cunning plan is coming to fruition. Neither Hillary nor Obama can possibly win now.

[sherlock]

"Let's get real, conservatives. Racism (i.e., use of racial stereotyping and decision making to subjugate individuals of that race) is alive and well."

I guess projection doesn't just happen in that little room at the back of the Cineplex, does it? My objection to Obama is not based on his skin color, but because I don't like people who consort with race-hustlers, and then try to make it everyone else's failing when they get called out on it. That is dishonesty, in any skin color.

[Annie]

B-Rob - learn your history. Blacks were firmly in the republican camp because republicans were always for and pushed through civil rights legislation...whereas the democrats did everything they could to reverse it.
Until the 1960s. Where they succumbed to the victimhood and pandering of the democrat party. The black family was destroyed as government became 'daddy'. Standards were lowered, quotas implemented, and affirmative action did nothing but keep the black community where the democrat party wanted them. They were once again in chains.
Conservatives say work hard and you will be rewarded in life. Democrats say vote for us and we will reward you but don't you dare step out of your place.

[Bruce]

Do you think racism exists when there are more people of a certain color holding the jobs?

Does that explain the NBA?

[cubanbob]

Let the games continue! One day there will be a black president, a Republican and not the slick talking anti-American, Black Nationalist, crypto-Muslim communist candidate. Some day there will be a woman president,a Republican, but not the shrill,mendacious, sanctimonious self entitled candidate that is running today.
The only important question is who will McCain pick as his running mate.

[tom swift]

"And, no, affirmative aciton ... is not the only racism out there."
It's the only one which is official government policy.

For any government to have a blatantly racist policy about any matter whatsoever is a disgrace, and a blot on the entire country.

[Al Fin]

Oh, is Obama black? I thought he was mixed race.

Another thing hard to overlook, is that blacks are overwhelmingly over-represented in prison populations. That didn't happen until after the 1960s when victim-thinking took over the black leadership and left-leaning academics and social science bureaucracies.

[Lunatic]

One thing I find interesting: conservatives always talk about the unimportance of race (Ward Connerly, etc.) and that Dems are actually more race conscious than GOPers. Yet, not a day goes by without conservative writers mentioning, over and over again, about Obama's supposed inability to reach White voters.

There's no "yet" there; there is no contradiction. The problem is you skipped a key adjective when describing the voters — they're white Democratic voters. That is, the people that the conservatives specifically just got done telling you are excessively race-conscious.

You see, these are Democratic primaries, and so Obama is not competing for the votes of people in general. He is competing for the votes of Democrats. So any difficulty he faces in getting the votes of white participants in a Democratic primary would be trouble with race-obsessed white Democrats, not white voters in general.

Which means it's perfectly consistent to argue that whites in general and GOPers in particular are not racist, but that Obama is having trouble getting these race-conscious white Democrats to vote for him.

Now, that does mean I have to grant that, as Democrats are pervasive in our society, Democratic racism is similarly pervasive. But the solution is simple and logical; let the non-racist GOP write race-relations policy, instead of race-obsessed Democrats.

Obviously, you may feel this is not a factual description. But it is logical and self-consistent; there is no contradiction to set your "yet" in.

[cranky]

You know, I've never liked those B-Rob people.

[Max]

I suspect that HR's campaign knows more about Senator Obama than they're revealing publicly - i.e. there are other controversies that will emerge over the next few weeks and months.

This is why they're willing to continue to pursue the nomination in face of the statistical impossibility of her winning.

They'd known about his relationship w/ Wright, but hadn't expected that it would take so long for major media outlets to cover it - nor that these same outlets would work in tandem w/ Obamas campaign to squelch the controversy.

At this point the major outlets are working as an organ of Senator Obama's campaign. They'll likely do the same in the general election, but their bias is so over the top that it's calling into question whether the public will ever be able to hold him accountable as President. This recognition may cost him the election.

[You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet]

Obama's Limo Sex and Drug Party

http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/

[GK]

B-Rob probably hates in when someone points out the fact that Asians make more money than whites.

In fact, the two richest groups in America, Indians and Chinese, are not white.

No wonder left-wing racists hate Bobby Jindal and Elaine Chao so much. They destroy the leftist gravy train.

[Denny, Alaska]

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." So sayeth Will Rogers. And so sayeth many of us today, watching the Obama-Clinton train wreck.

If you Dems only realized what you're doing to your party, and your prospects in November. Heh.

John McCain, Jan. 20, 2009, President of the U.S.

[hutch1200]

Thers ia A conservaitive writer covering ObaMa, who brings race into the equation?? Name him/her. I double dog dare you. He'll be fired by noon Monday.

[Ron S.]

I'm just impressed that "cranky" has been able to refrain from using the "N-word" for so long. Gotta be some kinda record...

[Sean M.]

Hang the DJ! Hang the DJ! Hang the DJ!

[/stupid 80s joke]

[michael]

guess what? race matters, looks matter, big boobs and blonde hair matter. FBD. The idea is to have a colorblind govt that respects the God given rights, not govt given rights, to all citizens. That we are flawed and care too much about skin color (wish i had Tiger's, it is such a beautiful shade) is not amenable to anything but time and changing hearts. MLK's dream will come, but not yet. The dream of equal treatment will come much sooner.

[michael]

ps
my glee lessens when i consider the congressional prospects for pork barrel Repubs. Maybe divided govt is best?