BARACK OBAMA AND THE RMS TITANIC

April 14, 1912 the RMS Titanic is making her maiden voyage to New York when at 11:40 the largest and most luxurious Liner in the World, thought to be unsinkable strikes an iceberg. 2240 passengers and crew are on board with only enough life boats to handle half that many. The damage to the ship is not the problem but a fault in her construction which allows water to over flow from one compartment to another despite water tight doors. It becomes inevitable that the shear weight of the water in her bow will take the Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic and at 2:20 AM the , " unsinkable, " Titanic makes her final plunge into the Atlantic and history.

Many of you by now are wondering how in the world the RMS Titanic and Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama can possibly have anything in common. Several weeks ago as the Primary season was in full swing Barack Obama surged past Hillary Clinton and this Senator from Illinois was thought to be unstoppable as he marched with a full head of steam toward the Democrat nomination. Nothing could possibly sink the campaign of Barack Obama.

Then comes Jeremiah Wright, former pastor and continued mentor of Obama. Revelations began surfacing concerning controversial statements made by Wright about his belief that The United States government worked with Al Qaeda to bring about 9/11. He stated that our government created the AIDS virus to kill blacks. And of course the most revealing of them all calling for God to , "damn, " America rather than bless her.

The RMS Obama struck an iceberg by the name of Jeremiah Wright. The , "unsinkable, " Barack Obama began taking on water and as time has passed and Wright continues to create controversy while Obama, though distancing himself from some of Wrights statements but not the man himself, finds his campaign is beginning to take on enough water from the Wrightberg, sinking it by the head just as the Titanic.

Now the , "preacher, " is making the celebrity tour starting with Bill Moyers, then the NAACP and the Washington Press Club adding fuel to an already out of control fire by stating that the , "attacks, " against him for his statements are not aimed at him but, "the black church." Well the black church did not make the statements but Jeremiah Wright and ONLY Jeremiah Wright.

So now the once unsinkable RMS Obama has found its iceberg in the form of Jeremiah Wright and is foundering in the political ocean of the 2008 Presidential campaign. Wright's statements along with some made by Obama himself about gun owners and religious Americans damaged him greatly in Pennsylvania. As Wright makes his celebrity tour, Obama's numbers are dropping and for the first time this year polls show that Hillary Clinton actually leads on a National level with Democrat voters.

Obama's unfavorable rating has risen from 26 to 42 percent with half of Clinton supporters, (up from one third), stating that if Obama wins the nomination they will either vote for John McCain or stay home. The RMS Obama is quickly sinking by the head and continues to take on water and unless the damage from Wright and other Obama revelations can be dispersed or repaired, the weight of the water in the bow of the RMS Obama because of hitting the Wrightberg will inevitably find his campaign foundering in the political sea.

Just as the great Ocean Liner RMS Titanic was sunk by an unforeseen iceberg while steaming at full speed through hazardous waters, the RMS Obama in like manner has steamed into its Wrightberg through hazardous political waters with the end result looking to be the inevitable sinking of the Obama campaign and the end of not only Obamamania but the Presidential aspirations of a man whose inexperience and lack of foresight will finally sink his, "hope, " for a , "change, " of address in November!

Ken Taylor