NASCAR Democrats are the new Blacks.
Throwing blue-collar, Caucasian small town Americans , whom he described as Bible-thumpin', gun-slingin', "gay-bashin', presumably xenophobic and "bitter", under the bus has only raised Barack Snob-ama's status and support among his effete party's elite superdelegates.
Analysis: Time, delegate math working against Clinton
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 2 hours, 46 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.
Compounding Clinton's woes, Obama appears on track to finish the primary campaign fewer than 100 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to win.
Clinton argues to Democratic officialdom that other factors should count, an unprovable assertion that she's more electable chief among them. But she undercut her own claim in Wednesday night's debate, answering "yes, yes, yes" when asked whether her rival could win the White House.
There's little if any public evidence the party's elite, the superdelegates who will attend the convention, are buying her argument anyway.
In the days since the surfacing of Obama's worst gaffe of the campaign — an observation that small town Americans are bitter folk who cling to religion and guns out of frustration — he has gained six convention superdelegates, to four for Clinton.
The rats are abandoning the sinking Clinton ship. Do they know something we don't? Why is the liberal Democratic establishment rejecting Hillary Clinton so openly?
Two other Democratic elder statesmen, former Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David Boren of Oklahoma, also said they were supporting the Illinois senator.
Reich, who served as Labor secretary under Bill Clinton, said in a blog post that "although Hillary Clinton has offered solid and sensible policy proposals, Obama's strike me as even more so."
Reich also said Obama's plans for reforming Social Security and health care have a better chance of succeeding, and his approach to the nation's housing crisis and financial market failures are sounder than the New York senator's.
Reich is a longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. He ran for governor in Massachusetts in 2002 and now is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
A number of other former Clinton cabinet members have endorsed Obama. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was U.N. ambassador and energy secretary under Clinton, endorsed former rival Obama in March despite heavy wooing by the former president. Former Denver Mayor Federico Pena, who headed the transportation and energy departments under Clinton, became a co-chair of Obama's campaign last September. Former Clinton Commerce secretaries Norman Mineta and William Daley also have endorsed Obama.
The diminutive Robert Reich is a leftist of the nth degree. The former Clinton administration Labor secretary makes ultra-lefty NY Times columnist Paul Krugman look like Barry Goldwater by comparison. His endorsement of Snob-ama speaks volumes about the kind of policies the Illinois senator would implement should America be punished with an Obama presidency.
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