Obama just not a likeable guy

Barack Obama's elitist, upper crust mentality is catching up to him, as John McCain has caught him in the latest polls. McCain has even moved ahead in the polls in key battleground states like Ohio and Florida.

Obama comes across as cold and forbidding, and fumbles almost any verbal message when its not printed out on a teleprompter in front of him. He lacks a sense of humor and ability to relate to the everyday difficulties of the common man. This has proven particularly intractible with white blue collar males, and women over the age of 50--who could swing the election to McCain on their votes alone.

Off-hand cracks like, when asked about food prices, Obama said "have you checked the price of argula at Whole Foods lately," are hardly something average Americans can relate to. Nobody but the yuppie upper crust shops at Whole Foods, and argula is a very expensive vegetable beyond the means of the average family.

Similarly, at a big dollar Hollywood cocktail fundraising party, Obama took a shot at the blue collar workers in Pennsylvania, accusing them of being obssessed with God, beer and guns. There's way more blue collar guys like that, than wealthy Hollywood liberal stars, that will cast votes in November.

This is to say nothing of Obama's brassy, angry wife Michelle, who has caused him no end of grief on the campaign trail, complaining about the cost of student loans and day care, when she was making over $300,000 a year at a Chicago Hospital and Barack has taken in over $4 million from writing and selling his two books.

He won't be helped by shunning veteran Democratic politicians who could help him, like Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland or Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, to favor Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine for his vice presidential running mate.

Kaine has been governor two and one-half years, and was Mayor of Richmond before that. He has an even thinner political resume than Obama has, and neither has any foreign policy or national security or national defense experience. Against McCain's impressive pedigree in these areas, an Obama-Kaine ticket would look weak indeed.

That's why Obama is languishing in the polls and the "Nobama" bumper signs are becoming more prominent.