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Morning After Roundup: Is Obama Toxic?

Yep, many “news” outlets and pundits continue to spin the increasingly preposterous “fact” that obama is a popular president.

Looks like the Center is reasserting itself. (Well, excepting Maine, where they appear to be clinging like Neanderthals to their radical primitivism. And yes, not supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians IS a radical position in this day and age. For crying out loud, the Catholic country of Spain, where a rightwing fascist dictator ruled for 60 years has nationally legalized gay marriage.) Join the 21st Century Maninacs.

But, remember, that while obama and what he stands for got smacked around last night in Virginia and New Jersey (ouch!), Sarah Palin and what she stands for also got smacked around in upstate New York. Message to Party Leaders: Back Away From the Extremism. Real, admirable, and arguably needed Republican values, like fiscal restraint and aggressive foreign policy, may be very welcome with voters right now, Radical Primitivism is not. Real, admirable, and arguably needed Democratic Party values ALSO continue to be popular with voters, but more in theory than in practice these days as voters lose hope that obama and his administration will actually deliver any of the great things they promised.

These pitched battles are really not about the politicians anyway (HP is right: they ARE all bums, or at least so many of them are year after year in race after race that we may as well paint with a broad brush and call them ALL bums.) It’s laughable to believe obama is a communist-socialist-radical. He’s just as much a corporate lackey as he is a union-lackey. He’s a POLITICIAN, playing to a certain mix of voter bases and being bankrolled, like they ALL are bankrolled, by big business. obama is not socialist or radical or evil or muslim or even particularly racist. But many of his supporters are.

What these battles are really about is the VOTERS. Which sorts of voters are asserting themselves? Which group is holding sway? Toward whom is the pendulum swinging?  Last year it was the obamabots who had the power. This year they see it slipping quickly out of their hands.

One thing is clear: radicalism, race-baiting, and racism are out. Reasonable, responsible, and regular are in. And religion is where it should be, mostly neither here nor there in the minds of voters. Voters want to know that who they are voting for has “normal” religious views. Just don’t be wacky about it. That turns people off.

But don’t get me started about where women stand in all of this. I swear, we will have a Half-Asian-Half-Hispanic-Mormon-Gay-Married-Parapalegic-Man President before we have a woman president in this country . . .