Is the Beginning of the End for Obama?

From A.J. Strata:

"It was the vague and vacuous ‘hope’ that revolved around his call for ‘change’. In the minds of a nation tired of the hyper-partisan sniping and stalemates Obama was going to transcend the ugliness and reach across the aisle to build consensus. Well, you can’t reach across to the opposition when your backers blame the opposition for developing AIDS so it can massacre people of color, or when the opposition is being blamed for being a empire bent on massacring the innocents across the world. How do you reach across the aisle with a Jeremiah Wright and his ilk wishing to put those on the other side of the aisle on the gallows for crimes against humanity?

But while that was the first spoiler for ‘brand Obama’, as Laura Ingraham so correctly notes Obama’s appeal, the real killer was the lie to cover it all up. Mark this down to Obama’s inexperience and his desire to dodge the hard issues instead of confront them. Obama now claims he had no knowledge of Wright’s comments, even while his campaign notes they have been trying to deal with it for a year at least.

Juan Williams was on with Chris Plant this morning and said Obama had to fix this by coming clean. Sorry, but it is too late. The window to deal with this right closed. Now, no matter how good the verbiage, Obama will be seen as trying to simply be the chameleon again. He will have no credibility trying to fix this after he put the blatant lie out first. There will be no credibility and there should be none. He is finished - but it will be a long slow death which takes the Dems down with him.

Obama will go to the convention with the most delegates, most states won and most votes - and he will be damaged goods. Polls already show him sinking against McCain and Clinton. His followers have been exposed to his spineless politician core, and are disillusioned. They put their hopes and prayers into a man who let them down. They did not buy into the dream to have it turned into the twisted world of Reverend Wright. And Michelle Obama has already shown, weeks ago, these anti-American views are at the heart of Obama’s campaign. The damage is done, there is no undoing it now.

Obama is too inexperienced to run a primary campaign, let alone the country. And his PR facade could not hold up forever. And now that Obama has been exposed as a spinning politician his bubble has burts and his campaign is over. It will just take a few more months for it to sink in to America’s psyche, and Obama’s groupies."

I don't know how he recovers from this. I think more stuff will bubble to the surface. It will get worse before it gets better - IF it gets better - and it very well may not. I think it will be a slow political death.

I heartily agree that it is too late to apologize and sweep it under the rug. The window of opportunity is closed. He will try to put it to rest tomorrow with his big speech on racial matters, but it will ring hollow to me, and I think to a lot of Americans.