A Narrow Path

After his final address to the nation was complete, beltway pundits began exchanging predictions about what President Bushs' legacy would be. As predicted, liberals came out in droves and continued calling the President a war criminal...guilty of torture, murder and treason. By their one dimensional line of reasoning, the only thing Obama needs to do in order to make the country a virtual Utopia is to simply do the opposite of everything President Bush did.

Obama, while he is not nearly as brilliant or omniscient as his supporters claim he is, he is certainly not stupid, either. Besides knowing full well that the typical democrat party talking points that portrayed the President as a heartless monster was contrived, red meat fodder to feed their liberal cattle, he is also now doubtlessly privy to information that - if it was to ever become public - would embarrass and seriously damage the remaining credibility of anti-war moonbats everywhere. Obama is now in possession of inconvenient knowledge that makes it very difficult to deal with certain segments of his constituency. On one hand, he and other democrats have gained political power by exploiting the outrage and lunacy of some people who have embraced the lowest common denominator in politics. Likewise, they also know that those people have to be managed like a carefully orchestrated balancing act, because much of the base nature of their beliefs is not rooted in the facts.

At some point, when Obama decides to use more troops, continue detaining terrorists, not set a withdraw date, spy on foreign phone calls and act unilaterally, etc - he is going to start being assaulted by a lot of the people who put him in power. That will be a major problem, because of the potential use of the race card.

Obama could never have been elected without the votes of whites, but urban blacks who had never even seen a voting machine before came out in overwhelming numbers. This left them with a huge sense of pride and empowerment. They, in effect, see Obama's election as an achievement of theirs, not Obama himself.

Inevitably, when white liberals begin to voice strong opposition to Obama's decisions not to undo everything President Bush enacted or set into motion, the first instinctual reaction on the part of all of those urban blacks who would follow Obama off a cliff if he asked them will be to defend him at any cost. They as sure as night following the day will absolutely use the race card at some point. And liberal whites, having felt that they had purged themselves of the guilt associated with the past mistreatment of blacks by voting for Obama, will become extremely pissed off for being called racists for simply voicing disagreement with a President that just happens to be black. To give you a recent example of how quickly white liberals will turn on fellow black liberals, look at how quickly white homosexuals in California started dropping the N-Bomb as soon as religious blacks voted to defeat gay marriage.

Obama has to now take a path more narrow than the edge of a knife. If he reverses any of the actions and orders President Bush put into place, it will only take a single terrorist act made possible by a resulting lax in security to permanently shatter his mystique of infallibility. If he does what is necessary to win the war and acts responsibly, he throws every die-hard supporter over the cliff and must then deal with an internal civil war between the disaffected liberal supporters and the Obama loyalists who believe he is incapable of failure.