Bob Cusack at The Hill notes that the Tic Convention has its problems – and they go way deeper than Obama vs. The Clintons:<\/p>\n
Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) triggered headlines when he publicly criticized Democratic congressional leaders for the way they handled calls for more drilling amid high gas prices.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a Virginia delegation breakfast in Denver on Tuesday, Webb said, \u201cOne of the great mistakes that we made in terms of political strategy before we broke for this latest recess was not taking on the Republican Party when they started talking about offshore drilling.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI believe that our leadership made a very bad mistake. I don\u2019t think we should run from that issue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s almost like Webb is listening to – I dunno – constituents <\/em>or something.<\/p>\n
And I loved this part:<\/p>\n
Union leaders this week have complained that some of their members have privately said they won\u2019t vote for Obama because he is black. And a Democratic poll released Tuesday stated that Obama \u201chas yet to close the deal with many white, working-class voters who normally vote Democratic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wow. Conventional “wisdom” has held for 35 years that all the racists joined the Republican party. But I have yet to meet a Republican who even mentioned Obama’s race on their long, detailed lists of reasons they’d never vote for him. Perhaps, for argument’s sake, they ran out of breath before they could get there, after listing all the economic, foreign policy, ethical and experience issues that may well make Obama, on his hypothetical inauguration day, the worst president of my lifetime. I don’t know.<\/p>\n
Just saying.<\/p>\n