Obama has 8% Chance of Beating McCain
Hominid Views
A couple of days ago, Sen. Barack Obama had a 9.1% chance of winning a general election against Sen. John McCain. With the addition of one new poll today, Obama slips a little further behind.
It seems as Obama’s chances of winning the primary increase, his chances of winning the general election decrease exponentially.
Oops, it looks like the Dems did it again.
Conservative Elitism
In Pennsylvania Obama was characterized as an elitist. I referred to his “clinging” and “voting against their best interest” comment as “liberal elitism”. While Obama’s elitist comment got a lot of attention, this one didn’t.
Fred Barnes, representing conservative, corporate, elitist thought, attempts to explain that working class is just the politically correct way to say lower class, or even less politically correct white trash.
Corporate, conservative, elitist thought has always been more comfortable with the notion of upper class, middle class, and lower class, than working class and capitalist class. The latter are concepts of populism and socialism.
Thomas Frank’s general thesis is this type of “conservative elitism” generally goes unchallenged because Democrats and liberals are uncomfortable with the language of class, populism.
Obama and the Class Action Fairness Act
TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
In 2005, Barack Obama voted for CAFA, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. Who voted against it? Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer and other progressive Democrats.
It really befuddles me how so called progressives “can stand by their man” when he broke with progressive Democrats to support this anti-consumer, anti federalist, anti-worker bill. I am sure this was partly “payback” for his Senate seat, but that leaves the question that if by some miracle he becomes the next president what will the payback be to corporate America .
Maybe, he was not paying attention, or simply made a mistake because he was green. No, as recently as last Sunday he bragged about it to Chris Wallace.
I would point out, though, for example, that when I voted for a tort reform measure that was fiercely opposed by the trial lawyers, I got attacked pretty hard from the left.
