Capitalism Kills Clinton - Socialism Wins Out
Dick McDonald www.riseupamerica.us

Barack won Wisconsin and went "Berserk". His victory speech after his win was straight out of the "Communist Manifesto". Barack is not dumb, just drunk with his new found power and the realization that catering to the whims of our liberally-indoctrinated anti-capitalist young Americans was as intoxicating to him as it was to them - they screeched and yelled at every "taking" of the property of the rich as if Jesus Christ had returned and was leveling the playing field with loaves of money.

And boy did he play that crowd for every emotional populist trick man has ever used - he won the day and the election because Hillary incorrectly calculated that Democrats were somewhat rational and would embrace some vestiges of capitalism - she failed - she's as dead as two-week old salmon. Everyone abandoned her like they will abandon Republicans for one simple reason - Obama understands and is playing the "income disparity card" and the discontent that over 100 million Americans "feel" about being left out of the American Dream.

Obama's speech proved one thing - the "creeping socialism" real Americans are worried about just turned into a full gallop with a very charismatic young leader steeped in far-left dogma and a voting record to prove it. The man is a civil-rights attorney who is nothing more than the social worker he was in his early days after law school - but he learned those lessons well and has taken speech lessons.

The man knows how to work the "street" and he has made fools of normally rational American citizens. He has successfully endorsed socialism as the economic tool to deliver the American Dream. His speech proved how disconnected the American people can be from reality. Taxing the rich has never nor will it ever make the poor rich. It will never close the income disparity gap. Russia's 70-year experience with communism proved that - yet here was Barack selling that old discredited tune to those too young to remember the Soviet Union and its implosion - and remember that that part of history has been rewritten by the modern-day liberal teachers who still advocate socialism over capitalism.

And if a charlatan can feint right while going left who knows what mischief he can visit on America believing in that failed philosophy. Obama's speech was the ax chopping down the tree of capitalism one huge chip with every swing. What Americans are missing is that Obama is mining the heartstrings while stealing from the wallet of the productive by taking their property and redistributing it to the unproductive. That never works except to buy votes and if his popularity is any measure, he will be coroneted in November as the last great hope of mankind.

What has really happened is that the American people are so deceived by a propaganda driven left-wing media they have no support for the reality of the exceptionalism that is America. They can be led to believe in any fiction they are fed. Today they are being fed the nonsense that spending money to solve a problem actually will solve it. Everyone should know by now that you have to build the product before you sell it. Democrats have fed us the pap that they can skip that step and go straight to the "confiscation of wealth" method. Apparently Hillary missed that memo and as a result - she is toast.

Clinton Is Over...

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Barack Obama's landslide victory in Wisconsin. The race is over. Hillary Clinton is over. Her electability is over.

Bill Clinton's political invincibility is over. The Clinton Restoration is over.

It's over.

Mr. Obama got to the far left faster than Hillary did. He out-organized her, out-fundraised her, out-speechified her, out-hustled her, out-dressed her, and out-presidentialed her. He outbid Hillary for votes, one promised government check at a time. His 17-point margin of victory in Wisconsin was incredible. It says he can't be stopped.

Outside of the whacko ultra-left Madison college population, which is even worse than the Ohio State population, Wisconsin is a lot like Ohio. And Ohio campuses will go for Senator Obama. Think faculty voters, grimly determined for a left-wing takeover of America "from the bottom up," to use the Saul Alinsky community-organizer phrase. As goes Wisconsin, so goes Ohio. Not even Hillary's last-minute bashing of business, free trade, and free-market capitalism — which was a complete repudiation of her husband's presidency — could save her. Mr. Obama got there first, with a style and elegance that Hillary simply couldn't match.

And it came out of nowhere. On the eve of the Wisconsin primary, Hillary did a hard-left imitation of John Edwards's populist and demagogic soak-the-rich rhetoric. She trashed some of the greatest businesses in America — oil, credit-card, insurance, and pharmaceutical firms. Wall Street and lending firms. It all must have come as quite a shock to the alumni of the Bill Clinton White House who are working for her campaign.

Robert Rubin may have been too busy tending to Citigroup's subprime collapse to keep Hillary on the reservation. But where were Wall Street's Roger Altman and Washington's Gene Sperling when Hillary discarded the pinstripes for the polyester lefty-union pantsuit?

Bashing business comes naturally to Mr. Obama. But for Hillary it was a complete failure. Exit polls from Wisconsin say the trade protectionists went with Mr. Obama. Union members? Obama. People who think the economy's in trouble? Obama. Folks who don't think it's in trouble? Obama. People making less than $50,000 a year? Obama. More than $50,000 a year? Obama.

And it only gets worse.

Voters went with Senator Obama on health care by eight points, on the economy by 16 points, and on Iraq by 20 points. Churchgoers and non-churchgoers went with Mr. Obama. Most qualified to be commander in chief? Obama. College degree or no college degree? Obama. Democrats, Republicans, and independents went with Mr. Obama. So did blacks and whites.

White women did in fact lean toward Hillary, by a small 52% to 47% margin. But Hillary only got 31% of the male vote while tying the female vote. White males? They went with Mr. Obama by a full 29 points. Mr. Obama won both married men and women, and he tied on unmarried women — a heretofore Hillary stronghold. Most likely to unite the country? Obama, by almost 30 points. Most interested in improving relations with the rest of the world? Obama, 56 to 40.

You think these trends are going to change in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania? I don't — no matter what last-gasp neutron-negativism tactics the Clinton team employs.

Bash Mr. Obama for plagiarizing Deval Patrick? That negativism backfired. Go after Michelle Obama's incredible anti-American speech? Women are coming 'round to Mr. Obama, so try again. Go super-negative over the next two weeks? That'll mean Obama beats Hillary by 35 points instead of 20. Lift the sanctions on the Michigan and Florida delegates? That's an Obama trump card. Bribe or rent the super-delegates? Make my day, Senator Obama is thinking.

If Hillary wants to preserve her career as a professional politician her best bet is to pull back in Texas and Ohio as a prelude to withdrawal. Bill will say no, 'cause his career is even deader than hers. But Hillary has more class than her husband. She also has some vague sense of reality — of the difference between right and wrong.

The Intrade pay-to-play prediction market showed Mr. Obama with a 10 point gain after Wisconsin, giving him an insurmountable 81 to 19 lead. It's as if Hillary has suddenly become a steeply inverted yield curve, with a rapidly declining credit rating and a liquidity pool that's quickly drying up. She won't be able to raise two wooden nickels going forward. not even Bill can raise enough money in Dubai to keep her out of bankruptcy.

The market officially has pulled the plug on Hillary, terminating her campaign. What's left for her now is to muster some grace, humility, and character and begin the process of pulling out. To do otherwise will destroy the Democratic party, and what's left of the Clintons' badly tarred and tattered reputation.

Mr. Kudlow is host of CNBC's "Kudlow & Company."