[kjo]

Obama would probably be a disaster as President; I’m still not voting for McCain.

[NavyCanDo]

Going to do a little research when I get home so I can back this up, or if one of you do so before be by all means do so. Michael Medved has been talking about phony staged events at Obama rallies to make him look good.

Staged Incident - Obama speaking - woman near the front roll faints, Obama throws to someone next to her a water bottle and says some comments comments about his concern for her. Sounds nice - but this has happened at at least 4 speaking engagement including here in Seattle.

Google: woman faints at obama rally or Obama water bottle.

[neverdem]

bump & a ping

[The Forgotten Man]

Obama is a complete train wreck. His idea of America is nothing short of a socialist state designed to eradicate the USA as we know it. He has no allegiance to this country and seem unlikely to be interested in preserving the fundamentals of the founding fathers.

I am not a mccain supporter and frankly do not see any of the three candidates as being good for the country....

[cgbg]

If the establishment Pubbies think McCain can beat Obama they are in for the shock of their lives.

The polls show Obama up by seven or eight. After months of media bias it could be seventeen or eighteen.

McCain will be an unbelievably bad candidate--and he will crack under media pressure and start flip-flopping on a wide range of issues to try to placate them. McCain has had a free ride for many years--he is not prepared for what is about to happen to him.

Obama will be able to shout "change" and "hope" all the way to the White House. By the time the weaklings at the RNC start to attack it will be far too little and too late.

[Siberian-psycho]

“Putin’s comment that Hillary didn’t have a head...”

Hmm, wow I find myself agreeing with Putin.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"Since the agendas and past voting records of Obama and Clinton are nearly identical"

Some freepers would disagree with this statement. But Hanson is a decent journalist/analyst.

Still, McCain is the least bad of the three, and if he is running against Clinton, he has a greater chance (though that depends on how long Obama can run on charisma and not get into the details and specifics of how he intends to bring about change).

[Rome2000]

Barry will bring out the "McCain Democrats" in spades.

That Marxist won't hunt.

[DoughtyOne]

It's been my observation that Obama supporters seem to be content for him to spout empty phrases while they cheer enthusiastically at each new offering.  But what are they cheering?  There's very little substance.  And what little there is, is quite troubling, certainly nothing to cheer about.

Obama is merely this year's tired old retread on a gimmick that has brought the democrats some measure of success in the past.  In 1972, voters went to the polls to vote for a guy they knew very little about.  That brought us the malaise years, the incredibly destructive Carter administration.

Once again in 1992, we were offered up another governor this time from Arkansas that voters knew very little about.  That year they voted in the slickmeister, perhaps the closest thing to a (dixie) mafia stooge we'll ever get.  Where do you begin to describe those years, watching the democrats defend a guy for having sex with a woman thirty years his junior in the Oral Office, while not having more than five minutes conversation with her during the first year of their deeply fulfilling relationship.  The guy even made phone calls from the Oral Office talking to politicians about deploying U.S. toops, while getting serviced.  And that was by no means the worst of it.

Here we are again with an unknown.  The guy offers up some great speeches, it's just that they're calorie free.  It's as if his supporters see him as some modernistic version of Yoda.  When he speaks they close their eyes and rely on the Force.  The question is, which side is that Force on?  Is it the Alican Skywalker Force, or the Darth Vador Force?

Folks need to read about Obama.  If ever there was a guy that folks should get to know before voting, this is the one.  The vacant see him as a benevolent sage, but I'm thinking it will turn out to be a more like Derth Maul.  The vacant hammer of this year's left.

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[mtntop3]

“Hope and change” - ??...to defend this nation, our families, ourselves against an fanatic enemy intent on killing us all no matter how long it takes?????

Obama needs a video of the Twin Towers behind him when Obama mews this, with never-to-be-forgotten men and women dropping from dizzying hights in horrible sequence after sequence to concrete below....

“Hope and change:” A CHARGE AGAINST OUR OWN SOCIETY AS THE ENEMY SEEKS TO DESTROY IT....

Go to hell, Obama. Go to hell, Clinton. With you - either of you - we only LOSE hope.

[Tolik]

http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/victordavishanson/2008/02/16/the_tragic_self.php

Obamiana

Barrack Obama’s team should begin to worry that in the popular culture and even the mainstream media, people are beginning automatically to associate his set speech with vapidity, “hope” and “change” with saying nothing. If not curtailed, that Pavlovian identification will take on a life of its own.

Historians will wonder at what point the post-racialist Obama, who, it was alleged, “was not black enough”, transmogrified into “The Black Candidate” and began winning 85-95% of the black vote, even when head-to-head with the wife of the honorary “black” president. The downside, as Hillary’s campaign seems to be trying to exploit, is that racial identity politics married with appeals to upscale yuppie whites, is beginning to turn off other minorities such as Asians and Hispanics, as well as working whites. One lives and dies with appeals to the tribe, whether intended or not. A good example was Cruz Bustamante’s run for governor during the California Gray Davis recall. Suddenly commercials ran with crowds of Mexican-Americans shouting and waving red flags, and his ratings nosedived with each spot that aired.

Obama may well capture the nomination, but there is an outside chance that he will lose to Hillary all the key states so important in the general elections—California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Not a good sign for the November elections.

Much of the rhetoric of the Obama campaign concerns mortgage and student loans, with the clear implication that the borrower has been victimized, and is need of federal redress. Two observations: prior to the mortgage meltdown, the rhetoric had been “home ownership” or the notion that the “non-traditional” borrower had to be accommodated to get him into a first home. Now such marginal borrowers apparently were “tricked”, or coerced into buying more home than they could afford.

The same logic will apply to student loans, as we begin to hear all sorts of bail-out programs aimed at those “burdened”. Perhaps true, but in a great many of cases, many had no business going into debt for college, since they were not yet motivated and only limped through the undergraduate years, attending class haphazardly in a holding pattern, unsure whether to graduate or work or sort of both.

It may be a conservative canard, but the common theme of the Obama rhetoric is that the US is a depressingly oppressive place, where the poor citizen has not much income and gets no help from an uncaring government. It all sounds like 1929, not the entitlement colossus of 2008.

[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
                His website: http://victorhanson.com/
                NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
                Pajamasmedia:   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

[oust the louse]

"Obama would probably be a disaster as President; I’m still not voting for McCain."

Look at what you are saying...seriously...you don't even know McCain's running mate plus you'll choose disaster just to stick to your principals. Props to you for having principals,(as do I) but I'll be damned if I let this socialist muslim kook with the middle name of Hussein disgrace the same office x42 got his BJ's in...

[hosepipe]

What the campaign releases is bull sperm..
Democrats Alzeheimers disease makes them forget after beng elected.. And since democrats cannot remember or even CARE what happened last week.. They will not notice either..

[dennisw]

bttt

[Paradox]

The Obama Candidacy is one of the most embarassing things foist upon us in a long time. Not because Obama is a terrible person, but because his CANDIDACY is based on smoke and mirrors, the triumph of style over substance. It is everything we all, including Liberals (at least they USED to say) hated about the American Electorate.

We have fought our battles over our Republican candidate, we got no traction with the conservatives. Thats it, I lost that battle, but the war against Liberals and even worse, this "Oprafied Candidacy" goes on. I WILL be voting for McCain in the general election. I will have to hold my nose, yes, but I will do it.

Freepers are DREAMING if they think that they are going to teach the Republicans a lesson, and that history will repeat itself and the NEXT Republican will be the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, and he will win because the Democrat will neccessarily be disasterous... that all will not matter, because by then, Obama and the Liberal congress will stack the courts, they will enact HARD socialist policies that would make FDR blush. They will be able to do this because the ELECTORATE is different than it was 25 years ago.

The voting electorate is at a weak point and primed for Socialism, and as we all know, once the government giveth, you will NEVER take it away later. Income tax? Social Security? Medicare? Folks, if Obama makes it to the White House, we will see Liberalism run amok for the next 4 to 8 years in a way that we cannot imagine. The things that THEY feared WE would do over the last 8 years (but never really did), THEY will do to us.

[dowcaet]

The problem with that is illustrated by Hillary’s last-ditch appeal to win Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with working-class whites and Hispanics. Since the agendas and past voting records of Obama and Clinton are nearly identical, and since he is the far more inspirational candidate, she hopes to tap into a growing resentment that his appeal is boutique for whites, and based on racial solidarity among African-Americans; the former turns off the working classes and the latter other minorities as well as poor whites.

LOL. The Clintons are playing the race card in a last ditch effort to pull the nomination away from Obama. This whole thing is completely laughable. That being said, don’t count out the Clintons just yet.