The Discerning Texan

Victor Davis Hanson captures exactly the reason that (for Republicans and Democrats alike) Obama seems more and more to be a deer in the headlights:

.... Much of the tragedy of the Obama campaign is how ever so steadily, incrementally its theme has devolved into a racialist message: the ubiquitous use of "they" who always in some way are to be faulted for an array of sins against the Obamas, from losing Pennsylvania to raising the bar on Michelle to such a degree as not to warrant pride in her country; the now serial snideness about what Obama called "a typical white person" and amplified with his remarks about Middle America's superstitious clinging to guns and church, its xenophobia and bigotry, and now most lately with the Axelrod dismissal of the need to appeal to the natural constituency of the "white working class" (e.g. 'this is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes.')—all of that superimposed on a landscape of a Rev. Wright's blanket hatred against "rich white people," Italians, Israelis, et. al.

I say "devolved," but in truth the campaign from the beginning had these elements within it; all that is changed is that the media at last has given Obama some scrutiny (much to furor of the liberal left who cannibalized their own at ABC News for asking routine questions), and that critics no longer fear the tired charge of "racist" in asking perfectly legitimate questions of their possible next President.

If this continues, the worry is not that a large portion of the "white working class" will defect to McCain, but that a large portion of Democrats who counted on incorporating the "white working class" will as well.

Read the whole thing here. And perhaps it is a "tragedy" from the perspective of the Obama campaign--but it is a Godsend for the United States.