Lucky? I can imagine few worse choices for the White House than Obama - perhaps Murtha, Hillary, and a couple others - but Barack Hussein Obama is a strong candidate who did not just get lucky. He planned, configured his campaign for the local rules, and won on organization. The GOP cannot afford to be overconfident, especially with the enthusiasm gap between Obama's and McCain's supporters.
I'll admit that I probably have less excitement over McCain than most of those who will vote for him (hard to imagine, I know), but I'll be there in the voting booth in November, voting for McCain. ~yawn~
You vote for McCain and I’ll vote for Bobby Barr or Chuck Baldwin...McCain is a big government liberal.
I agree. Barry’s terribly unqualified to be President, but being qualified and being electable are sadly two different things. I think McCain can win, but it’s going to be a very, very tough fight (though I’ll be the first to jump for joy if I’m proven wrong on this).
What were the odds on anybody stopping the Clintons? Hillary was an overwhelming favorite. Obama had a very narrow line of possibilities. He hit her hard when she had the Solis-Doyle “I am woman” network in place, and held on after her husband's power team nearly brought her back. He had very little room for error. He had Limbaugh and Hannity doing three anti-Obama hours a day. He had Jeremiah Wright in our living rooms every day. And the Clintons were behind all that.
By the end of the campaign, Hillary was the “tough,” “seasoned,” “experienced,” candidate of working people, rednecks, and white males. This was a media created fraud, but it pointed out Obama’s blackness at every opportunity. The Clintons can get away with things that would destroy anyone else.
Hillary is a conservative as far as being the candidate of the old Politburo. She's the Brezhnev. Obama’s the Gorbachev, the new commie on the block. They are both political correctness fascists who are dedicated to their revolution.
We are now left watching politics as in in the Soviet Union. Stalin over Trotsky. Khruschev versus Malakhov, Brezhnev over Kosygin. That's all we have here, and the new guy beat the old girl.