BUT PEOPLE, I AM THE ONE MY PEEPS AND MYSELF HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
...and, I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know.
Posted on 04/17/2008 2:31:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What a horrible night for Barack Obama, and for the Democrats in general. George Stephanopoulos, along with Charlie Gibson, conducted a great debate on substance, showing any American willing to look that neither Democratic candidate is ready for the West Wing, and that John McCain clearly is.
In an exchange that will be played all through the general election season, Senator Obama was asked about his connections to unrepentent anti-war bomber/terrorist/Weather Ungerground member Bill Ayers. Obama was clearly flustered by the question, and in responding, compared Ayers to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's views on doctors who perform abortion. Here's the video:
The last time I checked, Doc Coburn neither advocated, participated, nor had a need to repent from any terrorist activity, unlike Bill Ayers, who to this day is proud of his activities forty years ago. If Obama wanted to unify America, he took another large step in achieving half of that goal with conservatives, who are not going to take this slander on Coburn lightly.
Both Clinton and Obama stumbled on taxes, especially capital gains taxes, on guns, and on foreign policy. Obama was clearly uncomfortable on the Wright issue that hasn't been put behind him yet.
The other exchange that's going to come back and bite Obama is him doubling down once again on the bitterness comment that has caused him so much grief this past week. Here's the video of that:
When people feel like Washington's not listening to them, when they're promised year after year, decade after decade that they're economic situation's going to change, and it doesn't, then politically, they end up focusing on those things that are a constant, like religion. They end up feeling this is a place where I can find some refuge. This is something that I can count on. They end up being much more concerned about votes around things like guns, where traditions have been on from generation to generation.
So if the economy is going great, especially if it's caused by action in Washington, people have no need to focus on things like religion or votes on guns? It sounds to me like he didn't walk back from what he said to the elites in San Francisco a week and a half ago. Instead, Obama's answer came out sounding something like, "I made a mistake about what I said in San Francisco, so let me be clear about what I really meant then, and mean today. When small town people get bitter, it sometimes drives them to guns and God. Hopefully, I cleared that up."
As has been said around the blogosphere, there was only one clear winner tonight, and that is John McCain.
Yes, let us be thankful the libs are FINALLY showing the world what they are all about, what they stand for, and who and what they are.
Keep up the good work, Osama (and Hillary). They are conducting McCain’s campaign for him, by default. :-)
True, if the American people are paying attention. I don’t see much hope in that when half the country doesn’t even know who the VP is.
Tom Coburn=typical white Republican Senator
Just like last cycle against Kerry. Time to pony up again.
This morning while driving my kids to school, the radio played an excerpt of Barack speaking...in which Barack says (to the effect) “China has 1 billion people and India has 700 thousand people”
My Daughter caught the mistake, India has now over 1 billion and China 1.3 billion...
Can someone confirm if this person was Barack or not him...I was half asleep If this is True, Barack is NOT smarter than a sixth grader...Hahahahahah and he might be president
McCain will win in a Landslide. Hillary is a Joke and Obama is a Racist, Bigot, Maxist.
John
I wish I could feel that way but I can’t.
I see people at work etc. that are bad enough when they don’t pay attention to the issues, and are allowed to vote but have zero idea what they’re voting for...
but worse are the morons that simply DON’T CARE about America, morals, freedoms...
they’re busily counting down to see Bush leave, or want “change”, or blame Christians, white people, conservatives, working people, Republicans...for their untied shoes!
Too many I come into contact with would literally vote for OSAMA let alone Obama.
I concur!
just like Grandma = Jerimiah Wright.
This guy is such an A-Hole.
My, my....it appears this Harvard educated and leftist anointed “genus” is simply a Potemkin Candidate to fool the ignorant leftist and black racist base of the DNC.
Obama hasn’t fooled the “REAL” Americans......
Obama’s facade, put up to obscure his ugly racist Marxist and America hating agenda, is being stripped away — slowly but surely..
I gently pointed out to him that Dick Cheney was born in January of 1941, and would've only been 12 years old when the Korean War ended.
What do you do with people like this?!
but you left out his radical muslim cousing Odingo, the new Prime Minister of Kenya
I couldn’t believe that when I heard that. He compared a decent senator to a terrorist. Simply unbelievable.
If I remember right, didn't Obama mistakenly talk about 10,000 people being killed by a tornado in Kansas last year?(Not to make light of that awful storm, but I don't think he quite had the numbers right).
Not much there...And whats worse, there are millions of Americans that adore him...I just don't get it...
The Dims just found last night that the press uses the so-called ‘gotcha’ questions. They may be right. Such questions usually are reserved for the Republicans only, especially if he is a POTUS.
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