John McCain Doesn’t Have What it Takes to Beat the Democrat Nominee

Barack Obama has an insurmountable delegate lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton. It would take a collapse of inconceivable proportions for Obama to not head into the convention with a lead in pledged delegate. However, he is trying his best to lose this lead. While losing this lead is improbable, there is still the real chance he will not get the nomination. This is a scenario that I thought inconceivable just a week ago, after all how could Democrat super delegates vote against the people’s choice? But that has all changed. With Barack Obama’s close ties to the racist, anti-American reverend, Jeremiah Wright the real possibility exists that the Democrat super delegates will turn towards Hillary Clinton because Obama will be seen as not being able to win a general election because of his ties to the deplorable reverend Wright.

The theory being floated is that the “all caring” Democrat opponents to Obama (Hillary) will need the black vote in order to win the presidency. Because of this, Hillary can’t go after Obama in a big way because if she were to win the nomination at the expense of alienating the black vote, she would be unable to win the general election.

The next part of this theory is the belief that because Republicans won’t get a majority of the black vote anyway, the Republicans will be willing to go after Obama’s perceived racist, anti-American pastor and in doing so will link his pastor’s opinions to him.

In theory, this may be a possibility, but we must remember that Republicans don’t have a real candidate in this election. They don’t have a candidate who is willing to “go after” his opponent and deliver a knock out blow. Republicans have John McCain. This is what happened to a John McCain staffer who posted a video of the reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermon. The same video which is circulating all over the blogosphere. From CNS News:

A McCain campaign aide has been suspended for posting a racially charged video using the controversial words of Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor on a blog. “We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy. He has been reprimanded by campaign leadership and suspended from the campaign,” Jill Hazelbaker said in a statement. The video sent by Soren Dayton to the blog-hosting site, Twitter, was described as a “good video on Obama and Wright.” McCain has already said he does not hold Obama accountable for Rev. Wright’s views. “What Sen. McCain has said repeatedly, is that these candidates cannot be held accountable for all the views of people who endorse them, or people who befriend them,” McCain adviser Charlie Black said recently. “I don’t think Sen. McCain wants to get in the middle of a discussion about Sen. Obama’s former pastor, or his faith. He believes that people who endorse you, people who befriend you are entitled to their own views, but you are not held personally accountable.”

There you have it, John McCain doesn’t hold the words that reverend Wright used against Obama even though Obama heard these comments and kept going to these sermons for twenty years. Surely Obama must have agreed with the words of the reverend because he kept going. Yet McCain doesn’t have the stones to call out Obama on this issue.

That is why I believe that McCain doesn’t have what it takes to take on the Democrat nominee.



