Holy shit!

Looks like we have a job of work to educate some Party officials about the candidate.

The following appeared as a reason for Fred Hobbs of TN not to endorse Obama:

Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

You might think that Mr. Hobbs was a died-in-the-wool Republican or at the very least an Independent, but you'd be wrong. Fred Hobbs is a member of the TN State Democratic Executive Committee and a superdelegate.

If this is how the mainstream southern white Democratic leaders see the presumptive nominee this far into a presidential campaign the party is in deep shit. Obama is going to need to dust off all of his considerable skills and speechmaking prowess to drill into the southern/appalachia states that he is a true blue American, and he needs to do it fast.

It will remain to be seen if there will be any traction in those states with mainstream whites but I know that this comment will spur on the conversation about who Mr. Obama is and why he would make a great leader. Not to mention that calling the leader of your party possibly "terrorist connected" may result in some "reshuffling" of the local superdelegate and committee membership in the future.

Get ready for an interesting next few months in the south!