Obama charts an elective strategy that pushes class warfare to center stage as he tries to make up for the loss of the Independent vote.

The AP has this report:

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do." Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.

You know The Man is in trouble when he has to beg the Congressional Black Caucus, which votes in lock step for black leaders, to "stop complainin'." While he was busy trying to sound like an authentic black man, his speech reveals deep seeded problems with this constituency.

Notes: The AP did not print the words as written for the president, instead choosing to transcribe the speech with what might be considered a bit more accuracy. For example, the teleprompter read, “Stop complaining.“ But the president said ”Stop complainin’.” And that is how the AP reported it.

In 2008, Obama was the man who could transcend race and political ideology. Three years later, his campaign is one of uniting minority groups in a strategy of class warfare being called "Operation Vote." Moderate conservatives were willing to give him a chance, because of the historic nature of the 2008 election. Independents march in droves to his call for a national unity never seen before. Three years later, he has lost half the Independent vote and all of the conservative vote. In fact, it is beginning to look like this movement is fixed in time. Understand this, Independents are not ideologues and they hate harsh tones and incivility -- the two most pronounced aspects of the Obama rhetorical onslaught. Every time he or his minions, whether in the press or on the campaign trail, spew hate and the threat of violence, the Obama machine loses votes. The moderate conservatives have been shocked back into reality because of the radical nature of his collectivist ideology. Turns out, they do not want a "fundamental transformation of the United States," not at all.

In 2008, we really did not know this guy. Today, while revelations of his past are muted, there is no getting around the belligerence of his supporters and the radical nature of his reforms. More than this, there is the little matter of his inexperience and the totality of his failures.