The turn out was very low. 20% and the fact is she is bowing out within days.
Here's is why Obama will be a terrible GE candidate. It is somewhat the same reaction I had:
Obama's not responsible for what preachers there are saying now. But it is hard to get away from the fact that the incendiary comments that bring joyful noise to the congregation, whether coming from Wright or Pfleger, could not be suddenly different from those that Obama sat through for two decades. The other observation about Obama's retreat from Trinity is that it took him three weeks to distance himself from Wright and he departs now insisting that he'll not denounce the church. This is a guy who's indecisive or, worse yet, a potential President who can't turn a bad idea loose. He's been accused of turning his debate gaffes into foreign policy -- the pledge to meet with scoundrels and dictators without preconditions, for example. So now the picture of his leadership is becoming fuller. He's most likely a facilitator, not a decision-maker. And to cover that, he proceeds with misstatements and impulse pronouncements and makes them his policy positions. Not good. Not good at all.
The other observation about Obama's retreat from Trinity is that it took him three weeks to distance himself from Wright and he departs now insisting that he'll not denounce the church. This is a guy who's indecisive or, worse yet, a potential President who can't turn a bad idea loose. He's been accused of turning his debate gaffes into foreign policy -- the pledge to meet with scoundrels and dictators without preconditions, for example.
So now the picture of his leadership is becoming fuller. He's most likely a facilitator, not a decision-maker. And to cover that, he proceeds with misstatements and impulse pronouncements and makes them his policy positions. Not good. Not good at all.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/share d-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2008/0 6/02/barack_obama_whos_now_about.html
Iraq, $4.00 a gallon and health care are what is going to matter.
The church will matter only to Limbaugh and his ilk. They will whip up those who would never vote Democratic into a frenzy with this church crap, but its reach is really going to be limited. McCain's Bush problem is much, much bigger baggage than anything Obama is carrying.
And it goes without mentioning that the Democrats are on the winning side of every important issue, including immigration. You want to see a shit storm? -- wait until McCain has to start falling all over himself over his immigration policy. He simply doesn't hate Mexicans enough for the rabid knuckle dragging portion of his base. Those knuckle draggers are the ones who fund GOP Presidential candidates and McCain is going to have to kiss their ring and try and two-step on immigration. When he does he loses Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, and he puts Texas in play. McCain is the one that has to draw to the inside straight, not Obama.
Obama is going to absolutely crush McCain. It isn't even going to be close.
