Our Work Cut Out!


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As democrats savor their win, the republicans have been getting their message across and raising money.

Democrats should look at the money raised by our opponents as a barometer of what we have to face in the weeks and months ahead to the election.

In May, the republicans raised 45 million dollars.

That’s a lot of bullion, troopers.

But what does it mean.

It means to me one of three things:

That the republican followers are so put off with the prospect of a democratic win, that they are digging deep.
And it is the issues that determine their level of giving.

I mean what republican insider worth his salt is willing to give up generous tax cuts? Or other economic benefits?

The second scenario, as I see it, is that a large percentage of givers to republican causes cannot even begin to contemplate a liberal, progressive agenda with a black at its head and all of the baggage that represents to those who are genetically incapable of changing their views….

Or it means some combination of the above.

We are not deluded into believing that transformation is going to come easy.

Jimmy Carter learned that.

And Obama is relatively new to the wheeling and dealing that goes on behind closed doors.

There are some in the subset mentioned above who will never vote for a person of color no matter what.

What do they represent of the population? 10%? 20%?

We don’t know because those who participate in the polls will never tell you what really motivates them.

There are those, too, who will never not believe that Obama isn’t a Muslim no matter what you say or do!

Obama doesn’t have much choice in the color of his skin; but what he can and must do is get out there. Meet the rank and file and educate them as to what he’s about.

Admittedly, he can run backwards and forwards and float upside down, to some people he will not change a damned thing.

Like a new brush sweeping clean, it is not all bad news.

And its up to Obama how he taps into these resources.

They are the ‘cross-over’ voters who’ve about had it with republicans and their empty promises….

There are Independents who straddle the fence and will go with anyone who strikes the right chords….

And there are the young and uncommitted who never even considered anything political before.

They will make up the difference.

But we must be cognizant of the fact that this is not going to be any walk in the park.

McCain is raising money.

So we know what he is saying or doing is working for at least his target markets.

We must not however commit the sin of over-confidence.

Remember, we have shot ourselves in the foot before.

In the meantime, we must do all that we can do to change perceptions, to convince the public at large that a transformation in politics is needed to rescue the dying patient, an America that seems to have forgotten what it’s all about..

How well we do this will determine whether democracy makes a comeback in a world that is very weary of the past and very leery of trying something new especially in the kind of world where nuclear weapons are only moments away from launch…..


Les Aaron