July 27, 2008 (LPAC)--How to tell a "world leader": Sen. Barack Obama "met for hours" with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday, according to U.S. press reports--even as all the British press were debating exactly on what early day Brown will be forced to resign, due to multiple economic and political failures. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche describes in her incisive political commentary on Obama's presumptuous world tour, his is a "souffle" of media popularity set to collapse as Brown's has.
The findings of a just-released Quinnipiac College poll of U.S. electoral "swing states," taken from July 17-25 while Obama was posing as President abroad, are that his putative November candidacy is sinking in those states. The large poll (more than 1,000 surveyed in each state) found that matched against Sen. John McCain, Obama's 17% June lead in Minnesota had disappeared; he is now even with McCain in that state. In Colorado, Obama had gone from 5% ahead to 2% behind; his Michigan lead had shrunk from 6% to 2%, and his New Hampshire lead from 4% to even. Only in Wisconsin was a double-digit Obama lead holding up. Republican "mastermind" Karl Rove noted on Fox TV Sunday morning, that "In the Quinnipiac poll, only 75% of Democrats are for Obama."
Showing fear of the outcome of the Democratic Convention in one month, the Wisconsin State Democratic Committee on July 26 took the unusual and outrageous step of stripping the credentials of an elected delegate pledged to Hillary Clinton. Debra Bartoshevich, a 41-year-old nurse and mother of two, was "removed" as a delegate because a reporter published her statement that she would not support Barack Obama in November--even though Obama has not been chosen, as of now, the Democratic nominee!
Across Texas, for example, many Hillary delegates and supporters are saying publicly that they will "sit out" November if Clinton is not nominated on a roll call vote at the Convention. Will Howard Dean's DNC next try to have them "removed" as delegates as well?
`Screamin' Dean was confronted again in Charlotte July 25 by the PUMA group, supporters of Hillary Clinton who demand an open convention. Dean abandoned his speech and "promised" them Clinton would be allowed to speak to the convention "if she chooses to." But in fact, the DNC's position is that Hillary will have to organize 300 delegates at the convention to sign a petition demanding her nomination and speech, in order for that to happen.
