A naked appeal to vote on racial and gender lines:
The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama’s express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”
So much for a uniter – he’s desperate to make up for the collapse of support among Independents and is now hoping that a surge of voters from preferred groups will stand forward and rescue the party. The real trouble is that when you play this sort of divide-and-conquer strategy, the people who back you demand their pound of flesh.
We can expect yet more heated, slanderous rhetoric about the TEA Party activists as well as more government goodies for those groups who will toe Democrat line. Its a nasty, disgusting development.
UPDATE: For some odd reason, I found myself doing a Rosary for the President and our leaders as I drove home from work today. I can’t help but think that I was moved to pray for those who hate me…hopefully, this will help. It helped me – a lot of bitterness rolled right away from me as I did it.
UPDATE II: Gay Patriot wonders if liberal gay groups will get upset that Obama also excluded gay people from his grand coalition?
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