A couple of items from the blog Powerline

Taliban Man: Obama doesn’t cut it with “core white Americans”

Politico reporter Ben Smith discovered that Yale’s infamous Taliban Man joined a university friends of Obama Facebook group, but that TM is not necessarily high on the candidate:

Guessing from my experiences in America I don’t think he is going to be a strong leader who could bring important changes. Because, I think as a black man, with a muslim name that is similar to Osama, and a foreign born father he is not going gain the confidence of the core white Americans. I know some liberals support him. But liberals are usually shaky shaky–not– die-hards as the conservatives.

It appears that Yale has not had much of a moderating influence on TM so far, but that (or perhaps therefore) he might make a contribution as a CNN or MSNBC commentator on the ‘08 race.
Let’s hear from TM on Dennis Kucinich, for example. Kucinich’s father was a truck driver and Kucinich is white, does not have a Muslim name, supports the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, opposes any military operation that can cause civilian casualties, and can even claim the experience of having sighted a UFO. Wouldn’t Kucinich bring important changes, Mr. Taliban Man?

Ya see this is why those of you who are smart enough to scope out this blog from time to time know I’ll tell you the pure truth; I’ll give you my honest 100% opinion.

On October 26, 2006 I had this post: Can Barack Obama be president? Only if he changes his skin color and name

I also said this December 7, 2006:

However what I am tired of is having seemingly credible individuals continue to sound off about Barrack Hussein Obama.
Forget about his politics, his best selling book, his appearances on Oprah and the love fest from the rest of the leftist media.

As a black man I continue to be amazed at how intellectually bankrupt most people either pretend to be or not to care that you know it when it comes to sizing up various political issues.

Barrack Obama has absolutely no chance of being president of this country. Zero, nada, zilch. I have said it before and I will keep saying until I start to read either blogs, newspapers or other websites speak honestly on the issues of race and politics.

I recently had a new grandbaby and she will not see a black man as president in her lifetime, nor will her sons or daughters.
So why do you people keep writing and speaking to audiences as if a second sun is rising in the east.
Stop yelling at your computer screen, I know it’s to sell books, magazines, newspapers and for people to read various other websites.

I’m a very simple guy and see things very plain and clear and I hate to waste time discussing or listening to people babble on about pointless shit.

White people don’t want a nigga occupying the White House, period.
And as I have stated before his name automatically disqualifies him.

Any Negro who will tell you otherwise is not being honest.

 New poll shows Clinton trailing all five main Republican rivals

So reports the Washington Post. The poll is by Zogby Interactive, so take it for what it’s worth. Having polled nearly 10,000 individuals, Zogby asserts a margin of error of one percent.

According to the poll, Barack Obama and John Edwards lead all Republican rivals, so these results tend to bolster their claim that Clinton is a bad bet for Dems when it comes to recapturing the White House.

JOHN adds: Much as I would like to believe it, I suspect that this poll result means little. Zogby’s Interactive Poll is conducted on the internet, and I would guess that the Democrats who participate in the survey are more or less representative of the Democrats we encounter on the web. That is, they are far out, as John Denver used to say. Most likely, a number of the Democrats who have signed up for Zogby’s interactive poll are netroots types who dramatize their support for more statist or more pacifist candidates by pretending that they won’t vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 11:40 am and is filed under Blog Watch, 2008, Obama Watch, Hillary Watch.
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