Then Sen. Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Virginia in 2008, since President Lyndon B. Johnson did in the 1964 General Elections. As President, Obama won Virginia again in 2012. Bill Clinton a "Bubba" lost Virginia as a governor in 1992 and as a president in 1996. Al Gore also a "Bubba" who was born in DC but appealed to his Tennessee roots did not win Virginia either.
One of President Obama's problems is that he does not know how to talk to his "enemies". He neither had rural nor urban policies to appease those who had voted for him in these regions. Then Sen. Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Virginia in 2008, since President Lyndon B. Johnson did in the 1964 General Elections. As President, Obama won Virginia again in 2012. Bill Clinton a "Bubba" lost Virginia as a governor in 1992 and as a president in 1996. Al Gore also a "Bubba" , who was born in DC but insisted in his Tennessee roots did not win Virginia either.
In the South and "Bible Belt", Obama should have utilized the language that they recognized. On taxes he should have quoted Luke 20:25.
He should have enlightened them "that they could "cling to guns or religion", but at the end of the day if they are unemployed and could not pay their rents--if they live in apartments--they would be evicted; and their houses would be foreclosed if they do not pay their mortgages.
He should have also informed them though government is not the answer it adds about 20 percent to 25 percent to the GDP which is about $3.2 trillion to $4 trillion respectively of a $16 trillion GDP.
Obama should have also exposed the faux "Southern elites" who rail against the 'bureaucracy'--code word for uselessness--of Washington, DC, the waste, fraud and abuse of the federal government, the elimination of the departments of education, interior, and the EPA, and abolition of the Internal Revenue Service.
After former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R. GA) resigned from the House he did not move back to Georgia to cultivate Vidalia Onions, but he bought a house in Mclean, Virginia which is 10 miles from Washington, DC. Ditto Sen. Jim Mint (R. SC). When he retired from the Senate he did not return to South Carolina and produce cotton, but became president of the Heritage Foundation. Obama should have asked a rhetorical question that if Washington, DC was such a Sodom and Gomorrah these arch conservatives should not stay in that city.
During the 85th United States Congress the Democratic Party wanted legislation for Civil Rights. But to the contrary Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon B. Johnson convinced liberals and "Dixiecrats" that they must pass a Voting Rights bill. His logic was that if the Negras--he used this pejorative in the presence of liberals; but employed the 'n-word' when he was in the company of the "Dixiecrats" --were allowed to vote those racist senators would have to kiss their fannies (he used a choice word which I cannot place in this forum), and then the Democrats would then pass a civil rights bill.
Obama and the Democrats should have politically educated these "conservatives" that former President Ronald Reagan never anticipated that most low-tech manufacturing jobs would be lost and moved overseas. And that Reagan should have provided the training to educate them for the high tech jobs which would replace their manufacturing careers. But during his presidency Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education, so he would not have utilized this department to enhance the living standards of his conservatives and "Reagan Democrats".
Obama and the Democrats should have also enlightened these poor whites that they would not have the opportunity to attend the "Southern Ivy League Universities" because their "Southern elite" Republican and conservative representatives have and continue to use education to subjugate them.
William Bangura (Konkay)
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