Emasculation proclamation

Obama may well have nothing to lose by running with Clinton. His electoral base will increase exponentially during the interim between 2008 and 2012-16, and he will set down roots and make killer connections. All told, when he finally makes it as commander in chief, he will have had 12-16 years in the White House, perhaps achieving in the end double what he could have otherwise. He's a winner and he can't lose.

Talk about role reversal! Hillary is more masculine than Barack while Barack is more feminine than Hillary. Hillary represents the modern American woman who climbs the rungs on the corporate career ladder doing whatever it takes to get ahead. In her case, it's putting up with a serial philanderer in exchange for his granting her access to the corridors of power and conference rooms in Little Rock and Washington. In her rise, she "identified with the aggressor" and adopted as her own many masculine traits that are now evident in her campaign. Barack's life from birth to present -- from 1961 on -- has seen the typified American male go from being a rock-solid, tradition-directed and sexually straight good provider and good citizen to the Peacock Revoution of the late 1960s when men began to indulge what was in prior years called "the dandy" in themselves. The feminization of the American male, including the metrosexual phase and the undignified and disrespectful so-called "girlie-man" mannerisms all have occured in Barack's lifetime. The end of the military draft in 1970 or so took away from the male a rite-of-passage in going from boyhood to manhood. Perpetual adolescence may well have been a result. A lawyer, Barack is more mediator than litigator. Underwhelming, not overwhelming. Seductive, not domineering. Comfortable in expressing his feelings. While many women are comfortable with Barack, many men are not as he threatens the male role as traditionally defined. All well and good. Standing in the opposite corner is one John McCain -- Machine Gun McCain -- as tradition-directed as they come, third generation Annapolis grad, decorated war hero, a "man's man" he'd be called in an earlier time. The 2008 election provides the first clear liberal-conservative choice since Johnson-Goldwater in 1964 if not Carter-Reagan in 1980. Yet, cultural changes and challenges -- building up as they have for years -- may well influence the voter in his/her choice.

Simply to clarify above comments. The term "girlie-man" - - as spoken with derision by Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 2004 Republican National Convention with Rudy Giuliani shown chuckling along - - is meant by its user to be disrespectful and disparaging.

It may be that, for all her machismo, Clinton is just the picador for "No Drama Obama." Clinton will tire herself out, while Obama charges forth with restored energy into the small of the Republican back.

The question Indiana voters have to ask themselves is, do they want to take away the black man's birthright for a thirty-dollar gift certificate to the Exxon convenience store--a pack of cigarettes, a liter of Reunite, a Slim Jim, a pint of Ben and Jerry's, a nickel and a dime for Jerry's kids--just enough for the city.

With the dust settling in North Carolina and Indiana, a most disturbing and continuing occurrence is the racial divide among primary voters. If'n I 'member rightly, Obama's early primary victories had his getting around 60% of the Black American vote. Now, it's over 90%. Clinton, more and more, is the candidate of the white working class. If bridges are not soon built between the two, the growing and embittering division could spell doom for the Democrats in November.