Why no to Obama ?

Fresh after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, I re-evaluated by support for Hillary against Obama.

Whatever the spin doctors may say, Obama has withstood the onslaught of the past weeks to win NC and to come within striking distance in Indiana.

So is the game over finally ? Obama supporters have been screaming for the past few months asking Hillary to quit so that Obama can sprint to the finish line and begin the race for the general election.

Personally I think the above is all bullshit. If Obama really thinks he is the nominee of the democrats then he should have done what McCain did to Huckabee. He should have a knocked her out of the ball park long time ago.

Instead he crawls around, allowing her to make repeated comebacks, leading to a suspicion that he lacks the deal closing trait.

Well supporters will argue that he did that this time. Well, I dont think so.

However this does not mean that Hillary is winning either. She still swings between near death and life. So her claim to the nomination is still weak.

Its interesting to note that for the democrats, choosing between two strong candidates battling it out, is not much different from choosing between two weak candidates who are not able to knock the other one down.

What a year for them when all assumed that the Presidency was destined for the democrats.

Just the other day, I was talking to my friend after Obama publicly distanced himself from his pastor in the strongest words yet.

Think about it. Whether it was last year when the Obama campaign began or the beginning of this year when the Jeremiah Wright controversy broke out in the press or even the recent speech by the pastor, I did not see or hear anything new that the pastor said or did that he has not said before from the pulpit.

The Obama, who did not find it necessary to condemn him last year, or even this year in this "race speech", suddenly found it necessary to condemn him after his recent speech at the press club. Why ? His pastor did not say anything new, except calling Obama a politician !

That did the trick. Obama got offended for being called a "politician". A term he uses for his opponents while declaring himself above such things.

It is shocking that this candidate who would not distance himself from his pastor earlier, would instead throw his grandmother under the bus just to prove that he straddles across races.

A person who doesn't loose half a chance to portray his so called non-politician credentials, plays politics when it comes to his association with his church and pastor.

A typical Barack Obama style of denying any wrong doing at first then making an almost apology before defending his earlier comments as a misread of what he actually meant.

No Sir. Even if I could, I would not vote for Obama.