[nathanbedford]

As the administration lurches from gaffe to blunder Obama is likely to become increasingly desperate and with desperation comes the temptation for the October Surprise.

[Buckeye McFrog]

As the administration lurches from gaffe to blunder Obama is likely to become increasingly desperate and with desperation comes the temptation for the October Surprise

Given his most recent string of gaffes, I really don't think Obama is smart enough to pull that off either. He is proving to be every inch a man made by Affirmative Action.

If he were really the Sooooooper Genius the media makes him out to be, we'd already be a Communist Dictatorship by now.

[Kaslin]

I think you got something there. Now it depends October surprise for what side?

[caww]

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other........ War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.....

.... In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended;... its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;... and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.....

..... The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud,... 'growing out of a state of war',... and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both...... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."...... "source: "Political Observations" April 20, 1795......JAmes Madison