Posted on 06/09/2008 2:32:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, how could I have forgotten that. Seems in reality she just couldn’t help herself. This time the formerly adoring media had another hero to promote.
From my perspective, I can say “grudgingly” fits the bill.
Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are.Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.
This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world-- Iran-- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.
The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.
. . . we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.
Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done . . . The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.
Obama And McCain (Thomas Sowell)
GOPUSA ^ | June 5, 2008 | Thomas Sowell
Bingo! “....Black voters, sensing a historic opportunity, began moving en masse to Obama.”
BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The very nanosecond a black lib decided to run, he had 95% of the black vote sewn up. Period.
I don’t believe Queen Evita is really out. I believe she and King Bubba will work behind the scenes to sabotage Snobama-messiah. Nobody, but nobody ever denies the Clintons anything or gets in their way without paying a very high price for it.
BINGO!!! They WILL be BACK!!
Early on with Obama, the Black activists and MSM were questioning: Is He Black enough?
The longer the race went, the ‘blacker’ Obama became, from challenging Clinton in Selma and forward.
During the first half of Obama’s run, he was emphasizing that he was the candidate of change and unity and was above ‘race’ as an issue.
By the second half of Obama’s run, he had found the race card and was using it at every opporunity, at every opposition. And it worked. It caused the Clintons to cower. It caused McCain to cower. Neither the Clintons nor McCain wanted to be branded as ‘racists’. That gave Obama the edge.
You can bet Obama will continue to play the race card at every opportunity going in to November. McCain better be ready for it. It is coming.
The media does this with every Dem candidate only Obama is black so they love him more.
I will also note that the polls have Hillary beating McCain in most battle ground states and Obama either losing or wining within the margin of error.
She will join the long list of Dem losers who travel the globe, giving speeches trashing America. Obama will probably move to Africa, where his heart is, and start a dictatorship.
McCain has a big advantage. If and when he criticizes Obama on any issue-it won’t matter-McCain is going to be called racist. The more McCain criticizes, the more we’ll hear cries of racism. Yes, this is an advantage. People will get sick and tired of blacks playing the race card and they’ll see Obama as weak if he and his enablers don’t counter with substantive arguments, but instead just cry racism.
Astute people will realize that if Obama is elected President, no one will dare criticize him because the blacks will rise up in arms and call the criticizer racist. So there would be no way to hold Obama accountable-a very dangerous proposition.
No argument from me in the comparison; but it doesn't mean I have to like it.
Listen to Ray Talifero (KGO 810 AM out of SF at night) and his listeners. These people are American hating, socialists and....they think Osamaobama is going to get them HUGE reparations. I am afraid there are going to be riots if Obama isn’t elected Messiah/president.
mark
doesn't mean I have to like it.
It doesn't even suggest that you even might like it.
You have a good point regarding the obsessive coverage of Obama, but less of one regarding the balance of coverage of Obama/Hillary versus coverage of the GOP. The Dem primary battle is (or at least was until this past week) current news. The GOP nomination was settled a long time ago, so it makes sense that front page GOP coverage would all but disappear.
Unfortunately, now the coverage is bound to pick up in ways like the one that you described. If they can find a way to blame McCain personally for the gas prices, they will.
“Unless McCain goes totally bonkers between now and November, he will win handily no matter how many of us conservatives dislike the SOB.”
I would hope that you’re right, but I fear otherwise.
I predict a squeaker, perhaps as close as 2000. We will be durned lucky to win this one. We ARE NOT going to retake the Congress, and will probably loose seats in both houses there.
Whether McCain wins or not, it may be some years again before the Republicans can regain majorities in the Congress - if ever.
Wish I could be more optimistic. But demographics are changing the political leanings of the electorate from red to purple (and to blue in some places). Like the changing colors and complexion of those who live in America, I don’t see these colors shifting back in my lifetime - or yours.
The awful truth is that growing numbers of Americans are swooning over Obama EXACTLY because of who he is or purports to be.
And because another large cohort of Americans seem too uninvolved or uninformed (or perhaps dumbed down by an educatorial elite that has brought them up to be exactly that way) to make the proper choices required to sustain the Republic.
- John
“BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The very nanosecond a black lib decided to run, he had 95% of the black vote sewn up. Period.”
Exactly right.
I predict Obama will garner upwards of 96-97% of the black vote in November. We will probably see 25-50% of “registered Republican” blacks voting for the new savior. Now, why is that?
For even so-called “conservative” blacks, race still trumps politics, or ANYthing else.
Sorry if you happen to be black and reading this. I invite rebuttals.
Disclaimer: several election cycles ago, I voted at least twice for a congressman here in Connecticut by the name of Gary Franks. Mr. Franks was a Republican, and I voted for him because of that. He also happened to be black.
- John
You got it.
As Mark Levin (I think it was) said, “We could probably have run a porcupine against this guy and still have won.” (paraphrased) :)
I, for one, don't believe Hillary is "out".
I agree with Rush when he said, "We can't count her out until (like in the Wizard of Oz), we see the witch's feet prodruding out from under the collapsed house. We haven't seen that yet." :)
You know, it would >almost< be worth it to see Hillary finagle her way back into the White House just to witness the firestorm she and the cigar chomper would unleash on the feckless media and former Clinton disciples, like Bill Richardson, who have turned on them. I would pay good money to watch that flagellation by the vengeful dynamic duo if it didn’t mean we would have to put up with the rest of their foolishness for her term in office.
almost......she IS going to do SOMETHING...stay tuned!!
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