The Democratic primaries look like a Chinese fire drill.

While John McCain is looking presidential having nailed the Republican nomination for President, making a brief stop in Baghdad to visit with the troops and get an update on the progress of the war, with no publicity ops, on his way to a fund raising dinner in Europe; the Democrats are trying to resolve the race card issue that they raised among themselves before addressing the real issues that face our country and the world.

The Dems are clearly demonstrating that they can not run a primary election; therefore, how can we expect any one of them to run a country?

It appears to me that the Clintons’ (that’s plural with intent) plan was to inject the race card issue in their campaign strategy, and thus the Democratic campaign, from the outset.  Hillary always using third party operatives to throw-out a picture of Obama in Somali garb, to her husband making a comparison of Obama to Jessie Jackson in his primary win in North Carolina to Geraldine Ferrao saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were not black.  Then, of course, she denounces the statements.  How often are the denouncements credible?

The Clinton’s plan is to win at any cost and they will do what is necessary to achieve that goal.

Meanwhile, Obama is dealing with his own demons, which are also racial, again by association.   But it was a long term association of his choice.

It was only a matter of time before his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, would rise to the surface.  After all he knew Wright 10 years before he joined his church, he has been a member of the Church for 20 years, a contributor,  he refers to Wright as Uncle, he and his wife Michelle were married by the pastor and his children were baptized by Wright.

Obama admits that it was Wright that ‘helped me to find Christ.’

But Obama was put on the defensive this week on the basis of his association with Wright and at first seemed to strike a certain innocence about his message only to aqueous to condemnation.

Wright referred to the United States as the “U.S. of K.K.K.A.,” said 9/11 was the result of corrupt American foreign policy, told his audiences they should sing, “God Dam America” instead of “God Bless America” and accused the US of importing drugs, exporting guns and training murders.

At first Obama said, “The Statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.”

Later as the controversy developed he said, “I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”

If all of this were not enough the Democratic Party has the issue of Michigan and Florida to deal with, where they have disenfranchised the delegates from these states because they violated a primary schedule.  This has come back to haunt the party and it is still not resolved, while Obama leads in primaries won, and delegates committed to him.  Neither have the required number of delegates to take the nomination.  Therefore, it could very well go to the floor of the democratic convention where the party could implode — that is if the super delegates don’t come to the rescue.

Meanwhile, what about the issues?

Well I am not going to give them any more space here to air their collective liberalism, because there is little difference between Clinton and Obama.

The book, “Liberal Fascism” The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg, seems to strike some similar parallels of these two candidates.

It is interesting to note, contrary to what most people think, according to Goldberg, that the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”) They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs.  They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education.  They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new from of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.  The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control.  They lothed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities — where campus speech codes were all the rage.

Some similar parallels?