The Source Checks In
It’s been a couple weeks since I received anything from The Source, my contact in Washington. Apparently he has been working hard though trying to chase down some rumors:
The Source writes:
Just to let you know, I haven’t gone dark despite a couple high profile politicians snooping around trying to find out who I am. They don’t seem to like me leaking information that I am finding to you and other sources around the internet.
What I have been working on is an interesting rumor that came across my desk a few weeks ago concerning why so many Super Delegates are defecting to Barack Obama as of late despite his inability to win convincingly and nail down the nomination. This rumor, as was told to me, is that there are two reasons for this.
The first reason is that liberals love Barack Obama’s far left ideas and if he can win the nomination and the general election then OK. But they highly doubt this. There are also some that really think that he should be elected simply based on the color of his skin.
The second reason is that many, while happy with his ideas, are not pleased that he has come from basically nowhere to trump their preferred candidate in Hillary Clinton who they believe is more electable. While just as radical as Obama, she is seen as better at hiding her far left ideas.
There is also a third group who, so I am told, don’t like Obama for reasons of his race and believe he will lose and are fine with that. As one staffer to one Super Delegate confided in me, “While [my boss] is certainly not in this camp, there are many in the party who believe that Obama has no chance in November if he gets the nomination. But it has been expressed that if he is nominated and looses then the notion of an African-American being nominated again for president by the Democratic Party can be essentially shelved for another couple decades at least.
“We believe we can work with a McCain Presidency. We know we can work with either a Clinton or Obama presidency. But there are still large contingents who do not want to see an African-American in such a high position of power and are willing to work to nominate him while scuttling him in the long term.
“There are also many who, and this is a quote, ‘think that it is time to shed the Democratic Party’s own demons with regards to our decades of continual racism against blacks before, during and since the Civil War.’”
This essentially amounts to a strategy by some, if I am reading this correctly, of we’ll nominate him but if he looses, we won’t have to worry about this subject (i.e. a black President) being approached for some time and a strategy of trying to prove their loyalty to a particular group despite years of acting contrary to such.
Remember, this is a report from my man/woman in Washington. It is not my opinion. Often The Source is right. Sometimes The Source is wrong. However I certainly would not put it past some liberals to actually think this way.
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