Pat Buchanan has been the biggest ass when it comes to Obama and the 2008 presidential race. He has consistently tried to box Obama in under the label of the 'black candidate.' This term negatively suggests that Obama does not have appeal outside of the black community. On January 22 of this year, Pat wrote and said the following:
In three weeks, Barack has been ghettoized. The crossover candidate, the great liberal hope, has become a Jesse Jackson, who is ceded the black vote and a few states, then given a speaking role at the convention, as the party moves on to the serious business of electing a president.
One cannot deny that Bill Clinton was right. Nominating Barack would be a "roll of the dice." But nor can one deny that Bill and Hillary helped make sure the risk would be one the party would not take.
Ghettoized? Pat's seriously flawed thinking after the South Carolina primary got a dose of reality on February 5th.
Jesse Jackson ran a decent campaign in '88, winning 11 contests and garnering 6.9 million votes. However, similarities between Jackson's campaign and Obama's campaign ends at the color of their skin. Super Tuesday illustrated Obama's appeal into demographics no other black candidate could lay claim to.
For all of Pat Buchanan's hot air on how Obama could not get the white vote, Obama handily exceeded those low expectations. Obama won Utah which has a white population of 93.5%, he won North Dakota which has a white population of 91.9%, he won Minnesota which has a white population of 89.3%, as well as Idaho, Kansas, and Colorado which all have white populations that are 90% or greater (Source: US Census Bureau).
Pat Buchanan cannot accept that Obama is defying his absurdly low expectations so he continues to rant on MSNBC on how Obama can only garner the support of the black community. Therefore, Mr. Buchanan gets this latest Obama smackdown courtesy of the citizen ad community: