Obama’s candidacy and his popularity are premised on the fact that the whole American empire is in a time of restructuring and rupture and therefore great danger.
Obama is not sitting on the verge of becoming the Democratic nominee principally because he is charming, smart and articulate. He has received, from the start, exceedingly generous attention by the mass media and the Democratic Party leadership’s blessings. It has now become even more apparent than before to them that another privileged white male or even a privileged white female isn’t going cut it for a majority of the people.
The Democrats have had to reach further, much further this time.
But they will not go to the point where the fundamental premises and nature of the empire that they share with the GOP are called into question. No one gets to this point in a race with a real chance of winning a nomination without being vetted by the individuals and organizations that actually run things in this country.
White supremacy has been, and continues to be, a central factor in the nature of American imperialism.
The solid social base for reaction that the Bush regime has been cultivating – the plutocrats and the white racists, the ones who think that Ann Coulter is hot – are fit to be tied over Obama’s candidacy, and also, the fact that Hillary’s a woman. For these people, there’s Bush’s Third Term Replacement: John “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” McCain.
Many people, especially black people, are alarmed by this talk of assassination, and fear for Obama’s life.
Who can blame them?
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