http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/losers/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:40:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074802/posts DENVER - Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city's Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get... Asia Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074802/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073877/posts DENVER - Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city's Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get... Asia Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073877/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:42:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070192/posts The Observer finds that Teresa Heinz Kerry appears to believe that the results in Ohio in 2004 are illegitimate: This convention, Ms. Heinz Kerry said, is “full of meaning and full of opportunity, and if you, as I, believe, and I know a lot of you do, we did not lose the last election, nor did Al Gore lose his last election. We won it.” While many Democrats remain angry about conflicts over voter registration and the provision of voting machines, in particular, fewer believe that those provided the margin of victory, or that Kerry was robbed of victory the... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070192/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:50:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070105/posts The Observer finds that Teresa Heinz Kerry appears to believe that the results in Ohio in 2004 are illegitimate: This convention, Ms. Heinz Kerry said, is “full of meaning and full of opportunity, and if you, as I, believe, and I know a lot of you do, we did not lose the last election, nor did Al Gore lose his last election. We won it.” While many Democrats remain angry about conflicts over voter registration and the provision of voting machines, in particular, fewer believe that those provided the margin of victory, or that Kerry was robbed of victory the... politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070105/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068654/posts It's time to throw my hat in the ring as regards predicting the election results. So here it is: Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated. Not due to racism, not due to the forces of reaction, not even due to Karl Rove sending out mind rays over the national cable system. He will lose for one reason above all, one that has been overlooked in any analysis that I've yet seen. Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake. I'm using the term in its generally accepted sense. A flake is not only a screwup, but... http://www.americanthinker.com (not email) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068654/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068517/posts The appointment of Joe Biden as vice presidential candidate was not the beginning of Obama’s demise. It is just another in a long series of blunders and misbegotten decisions that highlight his fundamental lack of judgment. If he manages to win in November his deficits in wisdom will spell disaster for our nation. Luckily, Obama hitching his future to such a mercurial figure reveals that he may be his apprentice’s soul mate — at least in regards to the art of self-sabotage. His choice makes this race John McCain’s to lose. Therefore, on behalf of all non-leftist citizens everywhere, I... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068517/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067894/posts It’s a shame, because I was looking forward to all the positive effects of an Obama victory, but barring a major gaffe by John McCain, Barack Obama will lose in November. When McCain was trailing big and Obama was sailing along, I never felt Obama should be favored. He simply is too flawed of a candidate. Now that things have tightened in the polls and we are seeing what happens when people start to take a closer look at Obama, I believe the race is over. I have not gotten a presidential election outcome wrong in my lifetime, and do... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067894/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:00:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067707/posts The latest update includes two days of interviewing following Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, and neither day showed an improved performance for Obama. Thus, Obama does not appear to have gotten the same type of immediate "vice presidential bounce" as have presidential candidates in recent years. That could reflect a somewhat muted national response to the Biden selection, or competition for the nation's attention with the Olympics. www.gallup.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067707/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:32:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067429/posts It's hard to dislike political consultant Bob Shrum. Because of the Shrum Curse, he is exactly 0 for 8 in getting the presidential candidates he worked for elected starting with George McGovern in 1972 and most recently John Kerry in 2004. And because all of the candidates he worked for have been Democrats, that is why he is so well liked by Republicans because of his reputation as the Eddie Mush of presidential campaigns. In case you are unfamiliar with Eddie Mush, he was the character in the movie "A Bronx Tale" who was a total jinx. He had a perfect track... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067429/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062615/posts LifeNews.com Note: Austin Ruse is president of the New York and Washington DC-based Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. These views are his alone and do not reflect the position of C-FAM. Ruse is also a member of the McCain Catholic Steering Committee and one of the first pro-life advocates to endorse McCain.If John McCain picks a pro-abortion running mate, he's likely to lose. If he picks a pro-abortion Catholic as his running mate, he will definitely lose. Right now McCain is skating on the thinnest of ice. At best, the election is tied. In many polls, he is 4-5... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062615/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060339/posts The number of homeless families seeking help from Hennepin County is up dramatically over last year, alarming human services officials and forcing the county to use a downtown hotel as an overflow family shelter. In the first six months of the year, 27 percent more homeless families came to the county for help than in the same period last year. People who work with the homeless say the increase is driven by people losing their jobs, foreclosures on apartment buildings that displace renters and the effects of welfare reform that has recipients reaching the end of their 60-month lifetime limit... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060339/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:22:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034189/posts You might find this week's booking photos of interest. MORE PHOTOS HERE the smoking gun dot com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034189/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024215/posts The price of regular at a Shell gas station in Petworth gleamed defiantly in the midday sun: $3.91 a gallon. But unlike the customers rolling up to the station's pumps this week, resigned to the fact that their wallets were about to take a beating, Rocky Twyman and company had a plan to bring that number tumbling down. They would ask God to do it. "Our pockets are empty, but we're going to hold on to God!" Twyman, a community organizer from Rockville, said as he and seven other people formed a semicircle, held hands and sang, pleading for divine... WaPo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024215/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:17:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023017/posts A year after Jimmy Carter lost his re-election race to Ronald Reagan, Hamilton Jordan, his former White House chief of staff, sat down for a lengthy interview with scholars at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Last week, after hearing the news of Jordan's death, friends at the center sent me a transcript of that 27-year-old interview. As they predicted, it was of intense interest for current politics, and particularly on the challenge facing Barack Obama. The main theme of Jordan's interview was this intriguing observation: "Only because of the fragmentation that had taken place"... RCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023017/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 16:20:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019874/posts Anybody listening to Hannity right now? Minority Leader Boehner is on right now. He is pathetic and shows why the GOP is going to be in the minority for a very long time. Hannity show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019874/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 20:47:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2015500/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2015500/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 22:29:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011828/posts Tomorrow evening we will know the outcome of the Democratic primaries in two important states that could decide the political fates of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In Indiana, a primarily white state, we will know whether white voters, who are close to 75 percent of the population of the U.S., accept Senator Obama's explanation of why, after first stating, "I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother," he now rejects Wright after Wright's appearance before the NAACP and the... World Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011828/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 06:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006715/posts How do they do it? How do the Democrats manage to squander repeatedly and with such ease the chance of a lifetime? What inverse alchemy have they created that turns the gold bullion of electoral opportunity into the base metal of political oblivion? Eight years of George Bush, an unpopular war and a recession have handed the Democrats their best chance, not merely of winning their first presidential election in 12 years, but of achieving a rare, once-in-a- generation transformational shift in American politics. Four fifths of the American public think the country is on the wrong track. The President... Timesonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006715/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:51:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005818/posts John McCain knows a lot less about foreign policy than he'd have us believe.This, anyway, is the impression that's been growing in recent weeks, not least because of much-discussed New York Times story published recently that painted a growing divide in his campaign between "pragmatists" and "neoconservatives." The candidate reportedly lacks firm ideological convictions, so battle for "McCain's soul" may be in the offing. And it's true: Despite his decades of supposed national security experience, it's difficult to stick an "-ism" on the tail of McCain's approach to world affairs. He's been one of the president's most fervent backers on... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005818/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004273/posts When it comes to racial issues, the 2008 Democrat primary has been lowered to the most politically correct campaign in history. So low that it has smudged the lens in the way we look at both of the Democrats’ candidates. Political correctness or “PC” -- a clothesline tool typically used as a wedge issue against Republicans -- has backfired. To steal a phrase from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, PC is “coming home to roost” for Democrats. Purdue University political science professor Bert Rockman says we need to thicken our skins when it comes to race. “Why did anybody take umbrage... Towmhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004273/posts#comment Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:15:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003840/posts Democratic leaders are becoming increasingly worried about the long-term consequences of the drawn-out and contentious presidential nomination race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In the past few weeks a number of prominent Democratic elected officials, including Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, have called on Hillary Clinton to consider ending her campaign in the near future on the grounds that by staying in the race she is damaging the party's chances of winning the presidency in November. Pundits and journalists have also argued that the extended nomination battle between Clinton and Obama is allowing... Center For Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003840/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995902/posts ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win." Richardson, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, disagreed. At a rally in Oregon, standing next to Obama, Richardson insisted, "My great affection and admiration for... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995902/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 05:24:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992002/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 60 protesters opposed to the U.S. Federal Reserve's help in bailing out Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC - News) entered the lobby of the investment bank's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday, demanding assistance for struggling homeowners. Demonstrators organized by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America chanted "Help Main Street, not Wall Street" and entered the lobby without an invitation for around half an hour before being escorted out by police. "There are no provisions for homeowners in this deal. There are people out there struggling who need help," said Detria Austin, an organizer at NACA, an advocacy group... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992002/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986980/posts TORONTO In from the cold they come, gangly young men and graying grandfathers alike, filling a downtown church with the kind of polite anticipation more befitting an afternoon wedding than an antiwar rally. ...Across Canada, the remnants of a lost counterculture are rising up again as hundreds of aging draft dodgers reluctantly leave the quiet comforts of their anonymous lives to help an estimated 200 Iraq war deserters who fled north with no promise of asylum...."You're being stop-lossed!"Phil McDowell tried to absorb his wife's frantic news in June 2006 that the Army was rescinding his discharge. Iraq had left him... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986980/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:05:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1981568/posts It is perhaps the hottest topic in politics today. Sure, the dominant media will try to play up the shaky economy, in order to help bolster the chances of Democrats at the polls come November and the war in Iraq, though less of a political football of late, is certainly important, but illegal immigration, by far, is the most controversial subject in America today. Depending on which poll one may read, an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the flow of illegal immigrants into the nation via our border with Mexico must be stopped. In addition, many Americans detested the idea... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1981568/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:52:35 GMT