Racism? Let's Go to the Video Tape

Well, you knew it was coming, but maybe you didn't expect it from such an MSMer as Chris Cillizza (or maybe you did?!?!) who put his name to this patently ridiculous assemblage of words:

That President Obama lost roughly 40 percent of the vote in Democratic primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia over the last two weeks has drawn massive national headlines.
Those headlines have drawn a collective eyeroll from Democrats — and many others who closely follow national politics — who ascribe the underperformance by the incumbent to a very simple thing: racism.

No, none of these Democrats are willing to put their name to that allegation — either generally or for this story. But, it is, without question the prevalent viewpoint they hold privately.

Yup, nobody's said it but they're all thinking it.  Huh?  How would he know?  Anyway, let's move to quash the notion on the merits.  There is, of course, a mountain of evidence that Obama's economic policies have simply failed to encourage economic recovery at best or have actively inhibited recovery at worst.  Furthermore there are legitimate criticisms that Obama's foreign policy is counter to the nation's interest, dangerous, ineffective or all of the above.  Third, there is a mountain of anecdotal evidence that Obama, the man, is nothing of what he told the American people he was - uniter, no-drama, yadayada - during the 2008 campaign.  Finally, Obama has racked up an impressive list of regulatory strong-arming, cynical propaganda campaigns, and cronyism to say nothing of the brazen assaults on core constitutional rights and freedoms, which have launched a number of high profile legal challenges - the latest of which is the suit by 43 Catholic institutions over HHS's contraception mandate.  But no matter, voters' seeming displeasure simply has to be racism.

Also, as a famous NY sportscaster is fond of saying "Let's go to the videotape..."  Let's not forget that Obama's electoral rebukes started in New Jersey and Virginia in 2009 with the elections respectively of Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell as governors.  Obama campaigned heavily for Jon Corzine in the Garden State contest.  Obama largely stayed out of the Virginia race, but after going for Obama in 2008, not one year later, Democrats got completely shellacked in 2009 in Virginia.  Shortly after that was the improbable election of Scott Brown to the US Senate from Massachusetts.  Then Gov. Joe Manchin (D) ran for Senate with a famous campaign commercial where he shot a bullet through Obama's "cap and trade" bill.  Of course, in November of 2010, Republicans won an historic sweep into the House majority, where several long-time incumbents and key congressional Obama supporters got bounced. Simultaneously, Republicans won six US Senate seats and scored massive electoral wins in state houses and governors' mansions all over the country.

So, under Obama as the standard-bearer of their party, the Democrats have gotten slaughtered from 2009 through to the present, from Maine to Nevada, from the federal level down to the statehouses...but somehow these humiliations in Kentucky and Arkansas are attributable to racism?  Only in MSM-Land.  The truth is more simple, Obama is a terrible - dangerous even - President and voters are rejecting him.