Looks like the Michigan do-over is dead, The Politico is reporting.

“The headline from Michigan’s Hotline: ‘Ding-Dong, Do-Over Primary Is Dead — “Time of death for the do-over Michigan primary? Call it at about 11 a.m. today,”‘” March the 19th. “A Lansing insider IMs to explain the latest development,” and then this is on The Politico.com website: “‘The Senate Dems just had a long caucus meeting following their long phone call with the Gang of Four [as Carl Levin and others pushing a re-vote are called], and the result is that no one moved.”

There was no unity on the Democrat side! There just wasn’t, ladies and folks, there was no unity on the Democrat side. Because it’s an impossible concept! Anyway, we didn’t get any unity here in Michigan. Nobody moved, “Votes aren’t there. Thus, it will not go to a vote in the Senate. And barring some other last minute miracle that doesn’t involve those four, the governor and Hillary traveling to Michigan, it is dead as a doornail,'” and there’s an update from State Sen. Tupac Hunter.

“State Sen. Tupac Hunter, an Obama supporter, confirms the outcome of today’s meeting. ‘The caucus has expressed again today that there is concern about the proposal and a great deal of unreadiness,‘ he said, saying that sentiment is still ‘overwhelming.’ ‘We informed the four great Democrats who have worked very hard to come up with a solution,’ he said. ‘It’s one of those things where you can agree to disagree. The question then becomes, What do we do now?'”

So the Michigan do-over is dead, and this, folks… Let’s think ahead to Denver and the Democrat convention in August. Think of the potential lawsuits Michigan files. Think of the absolute chaos perhaps on the floor of the convention over Michigan being disenfranchised.

The game is getting more and more bloody exciting. A few more months till halftime, but, I have a feeling between Obama and Clinton, the fighting has just begun. We just may skip halftime and let the bloody battle that’s keeping us entertained so well, going and going and going…. To much fun… Loving every minute of it.

Nice to see Liberals exposing themselves on a daily basis to the American public. Something, we conservatives, have known forever.

One thing that Barack Obama has to recognize, folks — and the rest of us do, too — is I’m sick and tired of guilt.

I’m sick and tired of forced guilt brought on by the race business on the left. What we have to understand we are making great strides; the great progress we have made in all of this.

Reverend Wright sees none of it because he doesn’t want to see any of it, because to him it isn’t about race. It is about hate! Reverend Wright may believe in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, but where on the left do we see anybody talking about “life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” as distinctive human things that we are fortunate enough to have endowed in our founding documents?

What Senator Obama must realize, is he is not the agent of racial healing. He is the product of it.

We have for the first time in American history, a black man who is the likely nominee of his party, to run for president of the United States. Somehow, this is going to be turned and convoluted and contorted into some sort of misrepresentation of what it really is.

To repeat: Senator Obama is not the agent of racial healing. He is the product of it.

Too many people are going to look at him as the agent of it. I saw enough evidence on cable networks this morning following the speech to now know exactly what is meant by “white guilt.” Shelby Steele has a great piece, by the way, in the Wall Street Journal about this. As you know, he’s written a book called White Guilt, he makes a great point in his piece today in the Wall Street Journal: “The Obama Bargain.” Shelby Steele is a black man, folks, and he’s around Reverend Wright’s age — same generation.

Yet Reverend Wright is stuck forever in his hatred for America, and Shelby Steele is just the opposite. Obama would be better served to have role models such as Shelby Steele, than Reverend Wright.

So, asks today Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal:

“How to turn one’s blackness to advantage? The answer is that one ‘bargains.’ Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease. This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multiracial society. Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America’s history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer’s race against him. And whites love this bargain — and feel affection for the bargainer — because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence.”

He says that is the essence of Barack Obama, which, by the way, is now gone in this campaign. Barack Obama stripped away the mask today and made it plain that his candidacy is about race — and let’s not forget where he gave the speech. He gave it in Philadelphia. This is still presidential politics going on here. Some of you might think that this was a forerunner of an inauguration speech. I’ve even heard somebody say it was the most important racial speech since Martin Luther King. That’s a bunch of bunk.

This was a political speech in the state where the next primary is being held, where Barack Obama is running ads on radio stations urging Republicans to cross over and register to vote for him. “[I]n the end, Barack Obama’s candidacy is not qualitatively different from Al Sharpton’s or Jesse Jackson’s. … [Those two] were not bargainers.” They were confrontationalists, and when you confront, you lose. “Like these more irascible of his forebearers, Mr. Obama’s run at the presidency is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on substance.”

Amen.

Shelby Steele, writing today in the Wall Street Journal. Barack Obama, his campaign for the presidency, is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on any substance.

That nails it.

Referece: The Obama Bargain

I think the correct way to understand Jeremiah Wright, and the way people are reacting to him is not in a racial manner.

This is a man who hates the country.

So the idea that America began as imperfect and now only Obama can make it perfect — well, not only him, but his candidacy is about that. He said at the beginning of his speech, he said we need to perfect the union because it was left imperfect at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and he said that we all want to move in the same direction. Well, we don’t want to move in the same direction.

Of course we want to move in the same direction of prosperity and health.

The debate that liberals and conservatives have had over what kind of country we want to be has never changed, it’s just how do we get there. Obama laid it out pretty well today how he wants to get there. He is an ultimate liberal. He sees soup line America in every group of people. At the same time he’s talking about ending the racial divide, he still shows us how Democrats see people: The white woman who can’t bust the glass ceiling, the black this, the Hispanic immigrant there. He sees everybody as members of groups, while decrying victimology, basically promoted it in his speech today.

In my estimation, at least the way I heard it, the real interesting part of the speech to me was how this relates to his character and judgment, particularly in dealing with Reverend Wright. I don’t think he answered that question for a lot of people.

Despite the speech being flowery and fabulous and well delivered and so forth, if you’ve watched any TV commentators since the speech ended, you’ve heard that they are all gushing about it, so it is what it is, as far as that’s concerned. The superdelegates in the Democrat Party are going to have to ask themselves, do they want this presidential campaign to be about race?

Is that what they want the Democrat Party presidential campaign to be about? But what was interesting here was that we did get a little bit more insight into his views, which are pretty filled up with class envy and class warfare and a great misunderstanding of basic economics.

But this business we all want to move in the same direction. Yeah, we all want freedom, we all want liberty, although I don’t hear Democrats talk about it too much.

We all want opportunity for our kids. We all want a growing, expanding economy. The argument we have is how do you get there? The argument is very simply put, or the distinguishing aspects of the argument are:

Liberals want to use government based on a contempt and lack of understanding and confidence that average Americans can overcome things in life. Conservatives, like us, believe that if you just trust people, the inherent goodness and decency of people will come to the forefront if you don’t tamper with their freedom, if you don’t tamper with their liberty, if you understand what our Founding Fathers understood, that our freedom and liberty comes from our Maker, from our Creator. We are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

My view of the Democrat Party today is that those are under assault. We know that life is under assault. We know that liberty is under assault. Don’t make me give you all the examples. This is something that’s not even arguable. We’re talking about banning certain kind of lightbulbs; talking about how you can use your property, all these examples — liberty is under assault at the leadership level of the Democrat Party. Pursuit of happiness, they’re not happy; they don’t want anybody to be happy. They are miserable. They look out across America and they see misery and they enjoy it. These are people who are happily miserable. So all three of the basic tenets of our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, are under assault by the American left today.

Now, how can they say we all want to move in the same direction when that is where they — I don’t care if it’s Hillary, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Al Gore, they are all the same. Life is under attack; liberty is under attack, ’cause they don’t trust people with liberty. They don’t trust voters to do the right thing. They don’t trust you to drive the right car. They don’t trust you to have the right kind of anything.

And of course the pursuit of happiness, there’s an all-out assault on happiness. Nobody has a right to be happy in America today when there’s so much misery elsewhere. We, on the other hand, believe that liberty is part of our creation, freedom, natural yearning to be free is part of our creation, is what has distinguished this country in 220 years, from all other populations of human beings in the history of this planet. Our DNA is no different than anybody else’s on the planet, but how is it that we have come to be this awesome and for-good superpower? How has it happened? It has happened because of our founding documents; it has happened because of an inherent understanding that our freedom and ambition, who we are as human beings, is part of our creation.

ref. post: Explaining What Makes America Great

Obama is planning a major race speech tomorrow, according to Ben Smith at Politico.com.

“Barack Obama will give a major speech on ‘the larger issue of race in this campaign,’ he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now. He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. ‘I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign,’ he said. He added that he would ‘talk about how some of these issues are perceived from within the black church issue for example,’ he said. He also briefly defended Wright from the image that has come through in a handful of repeatedly televised clips… ‘The caricature that’s being painted of him is not accurate,'” Obama is saying.

Now, this is also going to be very interesting to hear this speech tomorrow. Well, if he does this, he’s going to be in Philadelphia tomorrow… Obama, you have no idea what they got planned for you in Philadelphia, by the way.

I’m just talking about the 22nd and the primary election. You have no idea what Ed Rendell is going to do to you. Don’t forget what Ed said: “I don’t think Pennsylvanians are ready to elect a black guy,” and they’re going to get all these blue-collar Philadelphia guys all worked up into a lather between now and April 22nd.

But, if Obama is going to give this speech, maybe go out and say: “It’s tragic so many Americans believe what Reverend Wright is preaching. It’s tragic that there are so many Americans who do blame their country first. It’s tragic that there are people in this country who have been made to feel and think these things,” and then, you know, bash Bush a little bit because that will go over well, and then say you want to be president to end this. You want to be president to stop this!

You want to tell people that we can all come together and unite once again, even though you’ve not shown anybody how you can do it. They don’t care right now. They just love hearing you say you’re going to do it. What happens if he does something like that in this speech tomorrow? I think he’s going to, because he says, “”I’m going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright but the larger issue of race in this campaign.”

He also said he’s going to talk about some of these issues and “how they are perceived from within the black church,” for example. So this is going to be interesting, friends.

Obama’s race speech tomorrow…

It doesn’t have be a long speech on race, but if it’s traditional Obama speech, people are going to love it. If he does his hope and future and all that sort of stuff and makes race the central theme of it. One of the things about the Obama campaign was that he was not a “black” candidate. He’d “transcended race.” His candidacy was not about race.

It was not about how we have overcome, none of those usual things. He was larger than that. Now, when he goes out to make a speech about race, he then thus becomes the Democrat racial candidate. We’ll see. He might be able to do this. Given whoever writes his speeches and how charismatic he can deliver them.

We’ll see if he can pull this off.

New York Times: “Delegate Battles Embroil Two States,” Michigan and Florida.

Now, I think Michigan’s decided to do a mail-in, June 3rd, for a primary do-over. But in Florida down here the Democrats are fit to be tied over Bill Nelson.

Senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, he’s out there urging a mail-in do-over, and none of the Democrats in the Florida legislature want to do this, very few in the Florida congressional delegation want to do it. They’re upset with Nelson because he’s out there trying to play a front-and-center role on this, get his name on television, face on television, name in the papers all over the place.

So they’re in a mess down here as to what to do.

Most people, particularly in south Florida, don’t know how to vote whether it’s a simple ballot or a mail-in ballot or whatever, and then when it comes to counting them, they don’t know how to do that, either. <Laughing> …just kidding Floridians, we still love ya!

So… this is ripe for fraud.