Here at Road to the Middle Class we are not exactly fans of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). He seems a nice enough chap, son of a liberal anthropologist who turned to raciial identity politics. But we hate to see his campaign imploding. Somebody do something! Best thing to do is to write a letter.
Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
Washington DC 20510
Dear Senator:
I’ve never been a supporter of yours, but I just can’t watch and do nothing while your campaign goes down the toilet.
By my reckoning, your campaign has been dead in the water for nearly two weeks. No it wasn’t the introduction of Gov. Palin that killed the motor; it was the speech from the silly sophomoric Greek Temple. Whose brilliant idea was that?
The problem is that the GOP team of McCain and Palin have stolen your issues of Hope and Change, stolen them fair and square.
The further problem is that they make a better argument for representing Hope and Change than you do. After all, what have you ever done to buck the system? What have you ever done?
And for goodness sake, stop with the attacks on Gov. Palin. First of all, she’s not the candidate, John McCain is. And secondly, we are getting to the point where many Americans actively like her and they are not going to put up with anyone criticizing her. And that goes in spades because she is a woman. Women hate it when another woman gets attacked by a man. It activates all their protective instincts and there is nothing you can do about it.
Forget the Swift Boat narrative. A lot of Democrats are running around saying that we must never let the Republicans Swiftboat us again like they did in 2004. They are missing the point. The point was that John Kerry decided to run as a war hero. But John Kerry didn’t really have a very good story on his war service, at least, not in the sense of “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.” John Kerry made his bones as an anti-war political activist. That’s who he was in the 1970s. By 2004 he was just another undistinguished liberal Democratic senator with many years of service in the Senate.
You must learn from Kerry’s mistake. Your narrative has to tell the voters who you are, not who you are pretending to be.
Focus on the issues. The three big issues right now are: energy, the economy, and the mortgage meltdown. The American people want to know what you are going to do about these issues. You do have a plan, don’t you? Of course it’s true that we have an energy crisis because Democrats have spent the last generation standing in front of the oil derrick plafform, standing at the nuclear plant gate, stopping all energy development, but the American people don’t mind that. They just want someone to get gas prices down.
On the economy, you ought to be sweeping the floor with the Republicans. What’s with you guys? Here you are proposing gigantic spending programs and tax increases when you should be proposing to cut wasteful special-interest spending and cut taxes to get the economy moving.
And the mortgage mess. Today it is reported that you don’t like it that the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie are walking away with big severance packages. Very deep that. How about a real plan to solve the problem of unaccountable government sponsored enterprises going belly up?
Frankly, Senator, I don’t know if there is time to turn your campaign around. I don’t think you have the experience of dealing with a crisis like this. But if you can pull it out and turn your campaign around you will deserve to be president.
sincerely,
Christopher Chantrill
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