Came across this brief comment by MacRanger on his blog this morning and thought I would share it unedited.....

"Is Obama just another Marion Barry without the Crack?
11 Aug 2008, Posted by macranger as 2008 Election, Barack Obama, News

Ok, it’s a crappy title, but the point is that many blacks I’ve talk to have been worried that it might just be the case.

No, not that Obama would be caught with crack (although he has a reported history there), but that after all these years of waiting for the “Great Black Hope” to run for President of the United States some blacks are concerned that Obama may not be the best or brightest hope.
Signs are beginning to point to a severe deflation in the Obama campaign. I personally believe it has run it’s course. In fact if his megalomanic campaign continues the “Look at Me!” approach it’s asking for disaster in November.

It’s not hard to figure out why. No one likes a showboat and Obama’s plan to “email” his VP pick, plans to load a stadium in Denver, and yet another European tour with Hollyweird heavies may all just backfire, much as his last world tour has. Polls have already shown that people have heard enough - in fact too much - of Obama. Fact is that he’s overstayed his welcome. I believe that this is one of the reasons his handlers (for that is what they are) forced this so-called getaway to Hawaii in order to take him out of the public eye as much as possible until the convention.

Speaking of that previous world tour, have you noticed that just two weeks later no one is talking about it? The greatest fact out of that trip was how it had little effect on his campaign one way or another. Much more that it didn’t give him anything other than a burp of a bounce.

In fact outside of Speed Racer it’s truly the flop of the Summer. No one remembers much about it, and not many care either way. For all intents and purposes he might as well have stayed home.

When you look at his campaign from it’s beginning althrough it’s numerous scandals - Rezko, Wright, Ayers, “Typical White People”, etc, it’s amazing that it’s still together. I’ve said it before, the only reason that Obama got this far is that he wasn’t Hillary. Progressives that have had it with the Clintons and all the embarrassment that entailed found what they saw as a replacement in Obama. At least at the outset. As time goes on however the buyers remorse is beginning to settle in and we’re not even at the convention yet.

As for blacks, many of them can hardly give a reason for voting for Obama except that he is black and how they feel “compelled” to vote for him on that basis alone. Jessie Jackson’s “N-Word” moment wasn’t an isolated feeling, many blacks are feeling the same frustration.

All of this combines in the minds of many blacks that Obama just might blow this thing and do it in such a way that it will be years until another black candidate reaches this point again.

The most recent and clear example came a week ago when young black man stood up during an Obama speech and ask him what he planned to do for blacks. Obama gave him a polite but inconcise answer that infuriated the young man so much that he told a reporter afterwards, “There is no way I’m voting for him, he ain’t showed us nothing!”

Again, he’s not the only one with those feelings. "

Who knows? There might be enough bright, educated, and well read folks in this old Country to save us from this Dimocrat Chicago street 'organizer' yet! We can only hope!