Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

What's a Southerner to do?

This is clearly the most repulsive set of choices for president I've ever seen. Judging by the remarks of other bloggers, even those who still support the Neocon Wars, and conversations with other activists, I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Yes, it remains true that we cannot look to DC to restore our stolen liberties or preserve our way of life -- not when DC is the chief threat to both. But we cannot ignore what goes on there. Every independence and autonomy movement is and has been a reaction to the goings-on in the seat of an oppressive government, and we need to know what to expect from it.

Clearly, we don't want John McCain, the Neocon dauphin who promises to accelerate the multicult and militarist agenda under the cover of conservatism. Southerners in particular feel betrayed by a candidate who seemes to go out of his way to spurn us and our concerns.

Here's just one example:

"The Confederate flag is offensive in many, many ways, as we all know. It is a symbol of racism and slavery." — John McCain, January 9, 2000, South Carolina

Since supporting McCain was out of the question, I considered either Democratic prospect to be useful to our long-term goals. So at first, I felt a victory by either Hillary of Obama would rile enough folks to jump-start a healthy backlash against the Democrats' socialistic agendas, which we could expand into a larger movement toward self-determination. After all, the League grew nicely under the first Clinton administration, and languished during W's reign, especially in the immediate days after 9/11 days when "we were all New Yorkers." I saw a Hillary Rodham Clinton regime as a reprise of the good ol' days of taking in new members angered by an openly hostile and leftist Federal government, and a Barack Hussein Obama regime as the same, only super-sized.

But here's what I'm afraid of now. Supporting Obama may be over-reaching. His voting record is the most liberal in the US Senate. While Obama may do well in Democratic primaries, he's poised to fall flat on his face in a national contest -- and the Republican knives will be dangerously sharpened and shining by then. Besides, the demographics indicate he really doesn't have a chance:

What do you call a candidate who wins 90 percent of the African-American vote, between 30 percent and 50 percent of the Hispanic vote and 40 percent of the white vote in a tight Democratic primary race? A general election loser.

Even Hillary agrees that Obama's success will be pretty much confined to the racial and ethnic groups that have already gravitated to the Democratic party:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Yes, and it isn't a very pretty one. While Hillary would have a good chance to win in a general election, an Obama candidacy could very well guarantee that Mad John McCain would be a shoo-in.

Bottom line: I'll vote for Obama before voting for a man who will very likely blow the world up. The question is: does he have a chance?

Will we?