Obama’s Appeal Fading Even Among (Liberal) Blacks!....

 











WoW! If Al Sharpton’s radio show is any indication, there is a growing dissatisfaction with Barack Obama among many black Americans.

UNFORTUNATELY their dissatisfaction seems centered around the insane view that “Barack Obama ISN’T being LEFTIST ENOUGH!”

As Brian Maloney (The Radio Equalizer: http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/) notes, “Sharpton Show Callers Continue To Pound Obama,” adding “Sharpton Callers Increasingly Angry Over Obama.” (SEE: http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/04/sharpton-show-callers-continue-to-pound.html) but that should be small comfort to Conservatives and Americanists around the country, as those callers are almost universally frustrated at the fact that Barack Obama hasn’t been as far-Left as they’d hoped and that he hasn’t embraced a sufficiently “pro-BLACK agenda.”

As Brian Maloney notes, “Sharpton's callers are increasingly dissatisfied with Barack Obama, despite polls showing near-unanimous support for the president among African-Americans.

“More recently, however, the on-air tone projected by his listeners has begun to shift: polite dissent has now become outright anger.

“How does this fit with the mainstream media's narrative that Obama's detractors are almost entirely white (racists)?”

The Radio Equalizer gives this exchange between Al Shrpton-fill in, Dr. Ron Daniels and a caller, named Nathan as just one example;

NATHAN (CALLER) (3:34): Anybody with good sense don’t want to go to this convention. It’s nothing but an Obama fan club. It’s a total disgrace. Al Sharpton has no credibility and you either. You have no credibility cause you’re cheerleaders for Obama. You’re a total disgrace. (Daniels interrupts)

DR RON DANIELS, SHARPTON FILL-IN HOST: You got a problem with Obama? You got a problem with Obama? What’s your problem with President Obama?

NATHAN: He’s a thug just like George Bush. He’s bombing people in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s killing up people. There’s no difference between him and George Bush.

DANIELS: So you see no difference between he and George Bush?

NATHAN: No difference and black people done lost their minds.

DANIELS: Health care doesn’t matter? Unemployment and extending benefits doesn’t matter?

NATHAN: That was an insurance company bailout. That was an insurance company bailout and you know it.

DANIELS: Well, there are millions of people across this country who I think who feel a lot better because they’ll have health insurance my friend.

NATHAN: You are a total sham. You and Al Sharpton are a total sham you all ought to be ashamed of yourself.

DANIELS: Well I have my criticism of President Obama, but I think there are a lot of people who would think we’d much rather have him then having Bush in the White House. But look you have an opportunity to share your (Nathan interrupts)

NATHAN: You a total disgrace, you know that?

DANIELS: All right well, I’m willing to be disgraceful here on national radio. I appreciate your call. Nathan.

NATHAN: You’re a total disgrace.

DANIELS: Nathan, appreciate your call sir.

There’s an Instructive Lesson in this for Conservatives

What this shows is that as President Obama has reached out to appeal to America’s 40% moderate plurality, he’s alienated some in his base.

The same phenomenon would almost certainly plague a Conservative in office, who in trying to appeal to that large middle would almost certainly also risk alienating some of the Conservative base.

In fact, Democrats are poised to alienate their base far better than Conservative Republicans are. After all, Conservatives in America outnumber Liberals by at least 2 to 1 (40% to 21% in the most generous of existing polls), thus a Conservative politician would risk alienating a far larger base, as well as an increasingly traditionalist and Conservative “Independent” vote!

Democrats could easily alienate their liberal base to court the far larger 40% of Independents and Moderates, as Liberals literally “have nowhere else to go,” and even if they did stay home, that would have a far smaller impact on any given election than when Conservatives sit one out!

So, why don’t Liberal pols do what Conservatives and Republicans have easily and eagerly done – risk alienating their base for the hope of some “broader appeal?”

The ONLY logical reason is that Liberal politicians are far more ideologically driven “ideologues” than are their Conservative counterparts.

That’s been both a blessing and a cuse...mostly a self-inflicted curse, as they’ve routinely alienated the other 80% of Americans ideologically be not merely “courting their own ideological base,” but in following their own inane, logic-free ideology.


H/T to Brian (The Radio Equalizer) Maloney at:
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/04/sharpton-show-callers-continue-to-pound.html