Posted on 04/24/2011 3:07:21 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Edited on 04/24/2011 5:26:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
MOD NOTE: WALTER E. WILLIAMS DID NOT WRITE THIS!!
Walter E. Williams, (born 1936 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is a conservative American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University , as well as a syndicated columnist and author.
Can President Obama be defeated in 2012? No. He can't.
I am going on record as saying that President Barak Obama will win a second term. The media won't tell you this because a good election campaign means hundreds of millions (or in Obama's case billions) of dollars to them in advertising. But the truth is, there simply are no conditions under which Barak Obama can be defeated in 2012.
The quality of the Republican candidate doesn't matter. Obama gets reelected.
Nine percent unemployment? No problem. Obama will win.
Gas prices moving toward five dollars a gallon? He still wins.
The economy soars or goes into the gutter. Obama wins.
War in the Middle East ? He wins a second term.
America's role as the leading Superpower disappears? Hurrah for Barak Obama!
The U.S. government rushes toward bankruptcy, the dollar continues to sink on world markets and the price of daily goods and services soars due to inflation fueled by Obama's extraordinary deficit spending? Obama wins handily.
You are crazy Williams. Don't you understand how volatile politics can be when overall economic, government, and world conditions are declining? Sure I do. And that's why I know Obama will win.
The American people are notoriously ignorant of economics. And economics is the key to why Obama should be defeated. Even when Obama's policies lead the nation to final ruin, the majority of the American people are going to believe the bait-and-switch tactics Obama and his supporters in the media will use to explain why it isn't his fault. After all, things were much worse than understood when he took office.
Obama's reelection is really a very, very simple math problem. Consider the following:
1) Blacks will vote for Obama blindly. Period. Doesn't matter what he does. It's a race thing.
2) College educated women will vote for Obama. Though they will be offended by this, they swoon at his oratory. It's really not more complex than that,
3) Liberals will vote for Obama. He is their great hope,
4) Democrats will vote for Obama. He is the leader of their party and his coattails will carry them to victory nationwide,
5) Hispanics will vote for Obama. He is the path to citizenship for those who are illegal and Hispanic leaders recognize the political clout they carry in the Democratic Party,
6) Union members will vote overwhelmingly for Obama. He is their key to money and power in business, state and local politics,
7) Big Business will support Obama. They already have. He has almost $1 Billion dollars in his reelection purse gained largely from his connections with Big Business and is gaining more everyday. Big Business loves Obama because he gives them access to taxpayer money so long as they support his social and political agenda,
8) The media love him. They may attack the people who work for him, but they love him. After all... to not love him would be racist,
9) Most other minorities and special interest groups will vote for him. Oddly, the overwhelming majority of Jews and Muslims will support him because they won't vote Republican. American Indians will support him. Obviously homosexuals tend to vote Democratic. And lastly,
10) Approximately half of independents will vote for Obama. And he doesn't need anywhere near that number because he has all of the groups previously mentioned. The President will win an overwhelming victory in 2012.
GOD HELP US!
-- Dr. Walter E. Williams, George Mason University
Williams is also a much-respected FReeper!
Please come back to the five and dime, Mike Pence.
Someone at MoveOn.org.
A lot of the elements are true, but I hate see it falsely attributed to Williams, who is a much better writer than that. Right now, there are no Republican candidates available to beat Obama in 2012. Let’s hope some step up and improve their standing soon.
The same can be said for every incumbant who lost last time but the independents voted him out.
Pray for America
What part of the rest is wrong? The right is disorganized, but the left has a person they *know* to be hard-left who just happens to not be getting it done for the moment. That's because he isn't a leader and hasn't ever had a responsible job (until now) but I digress.
Again, what part of the rest is wrong?
Obama cannot be defeated in 2012
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Apr
I just got an automated reply from MoveOn.org that they had mistakenly posted the article as authored by him. Sorry, folks. -Peregrine Their apology states as below:
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We owe Dr. Walter Williams an apology.
We published an article that we thought was written by him and we have subsequently found out it was not. The title of the article we published was “No Matter What” and it was published on April 1. Please be informed that this article was mistakenly attributed to Dr Williams.
We admire Dr. Williams work and the article we published was not written by him and was, in fact, a “phony” that fooled us also. We hope, by way of this explanation, to inform those who took the article as genuine to know that it was bogus and that Dr Williams had nothing to do with the writing of the article entitled “No Matter What” that appeared under the column entitled “A Bad Dream” published on the RiteOn web site on April 1
Surely you jest.
Oh, I get it, you’re joining the April Fools joke.
From your link:
“We owe Dr. Walter Williams an apology.
We published an article that we thought was written by him and we have subsequently found out it was not. The title of the article we published was “No Matter What” and it was published on April 1. Please be informed that this article was mistakenly attributed to Dr Williams.
We admire Dr. Williams work and the article we published was not written by him and was, in fact, a “phony” that fooled us also. We hope, by way of this explanation, to inform those who took the article as genuine to know that it was bogus and that Dr Williams had nothing to do with the writing of the article entitled “No Matter What” that appeared under the column entitled “A Bad Dream” published on the RiteOn web site on April 1.
We erred in not researching the real source of the article prior to publication and we erred in publishing it. We try within our means to avoid publishing phony material of the sort represented by this article and we are sorry we failed to catch the mistake prior to publication.”
Chuck MacNab, Editor and Publisher, RiteOn.org
It was written by a lefty from moveon.org!
“...right now we have no strong GOP candidates.”
Wouldn’t matter. Just look at threads at this site alone. Romney is a RINO; Trump is a clown; Palin is unelectable... fans of one can’t find a good word to say about the others. So how do we come together by 11/12 to support the eventual nominee against an unopposed candidate in a united Dem party? Conservatives and Republicans will assure their own defeat against a very vulnerable incumbent.
I didn’t know WEW is a FReeper. I already have the utmost respect for him, but that makes him more Cool.
You are wrong.
Were you born stupid?
That's what the debates are for. All these argruments are too early. We can't come to any intelligent conclusions yet.
Deeply grateful. You still have to wonder why it did not link to Move On.
This article immediately raised a red flag with me because it seems so out of character. Williams usually comments on economics, education, law and social issues. Electoral politics is out of his ballpark.
My point is that on these threads, fans of any potential candidate (none having yet so much as announced), only attack the others without setting out a case for their own candidate. The snipes are already past boring and, again, not ONE has yet announced. Whoever emerges from the primaries as the nominee is going to be awfully bloodied up, while The One is unscathed. November ‘12 is a long way off.
Protocol is that when one steps on himself with a BS post like this, he mans up with a correction/apology.
Long time no see, TMMT. (Post #5). Tick, tick, tick.
i.e., a Trump card.
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