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The Audacity of Selling Hope (Krauthammer predicts Obama win)
JWReview ^ | February 15, 2008 | Krauthammer

Posted on 02/15/2008 8:51:30 PM PST by BJungNan

brillant article by Krauthammer. There is no better, brighter political commentator.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer021508.php3

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; krauthammer; obama
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To: BJungNan
I agree with Charles Krauthammer. In all likelihood, Barack Obama will be our first black President. He's just very likeable and that will be enough. His content-free campaign IS a source of appeal to people. I'm not thinking of Pierre Trudeau but instead Ehud Olmert with a strong dose of charisma.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

61 posted on 02/16/2008 7:17:19 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: DoughtyOne

...”In 1972, voters went to the polls to vote for a guy they knew very little about. That brought us the malaise years, the incredibly destructive Carter administration.”...

Richard Nixon won in 1972, destroying George McGovern. Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976, much to our eventual detriment. He presided over the first actions in the islamic war against the USA, on November 4, 1979.


62 posted on 02/16/2008 7:26:54 AM PST by astounded (The Democrat Party is a Clear and Present Danger to the USA)
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To: ozzymandus

AKA “Halfrican-American”...


63 posted on 02/16/2008 7:28:24 AM PST by astounded (The Democrat Party is a Clear and Present Danger to the USA)
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To: airborne
Yes, I knew that the Mayan calendar predicts doom in the near future. I'm reminded of John Maynard Keynes' comment, "In the long run, we're all dead." It worked for him--he's dead.

The Democrats can blame the lunar eclipse on Bush, just like they blamed Hurricane Katrina on him, and promise to protect Americans from future eclipses. Of course that will entail billions in new spending programs.

64 posted on 02/16/2008 7:48:35 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Well, Karl Rove’s weather machine must have control over the lunar cycles, so it makes perfect sense to blame Bush!


65 posted on 02/16/2008 8:31:41 AM PST by airborne (I'm leaving the Republican Party! They do not represent me or my values!)
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To: Old Badger; Travis McGee

some folks use that bait here to stifle criticism of Neoconservatism.

I don’t care a wit.

Neoconservatism as presented by many including the otherwise honorable gentleman who wrote this article is precisely why Conservatism today is so fractured and almost unrecognizable.

I like Krauthammer’s war views but his cultural views are lacking. I have read him since he was a liberal contributor at the New Republic with Fred Barnes, Mort, PJ and others.

Nearly all these leading Neoconservative pundits are reformed 60s and 70s liberals (some even from earlier liberal incarnations) and whether quite a few are Jewish or not does not and will never inoculate them from criticism and nor should it.


66 posted on 02/16/2008 8:44:39 AM PST by wardaddy (Political Correctness is to Western Culture what the Aids virus is to the cake community)
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To: Dave W

It’s his pontificating that is painful to endure, not his halting speech pattern.


67 posted on 02/16/2008 8:49:51 AM PST by Steve_Stifler
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To: Salamander

That’s a good one!

Someone needs to collect all those on a FR home page or thread.


68 posted on 02/16/2008 9:28:21 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: BJungNan

Once he really gets Obamafyin he will be unstoppable.


69 posted on 02/16/2008 9:30:25 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: SW6906

I don’t really care all that much. As for Darth Maul, the name was changed for a reason. Derth is the precise word I chose to use.


70 posted on 02/16/2008 9:46:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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To: Brett66

Good one, true...


71 posted on 02/16/2008 9:47:17 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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To: libbylu

Ooops, you’re right. Thanks.


72 posted on 02/16/2008 9:48:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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To: BJungNan

Obama offers genuine change...a change to a liberal FACISTS government...Leftist dictators around the world do NOT fear this guy...and for good reason..


73 posted on 02/16/2008 9:50:26 AM PST by Moby Grape
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To: Salamander

Please tell me it’s a photoshop.


74 posted on 02/16/2008 9:53:55 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: Salamander

Oh, dangit... Just realized that the stage is the hood of the peterbuilt...


75 posted on 02/16/2008 9:55:04 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: bert

Now wait just a minute. Someone is buying ‘O’.


76 posted on 02/16/2008 9:57:30 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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To: astounded

Can’t believe I put ‘72 in there. Who could forget McGovern in ‘72?


77 posted on 02/16/2008 9:58:53 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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To: DoughtyOne

You are correct but they are buying him just like they buy Oil of Olay and Viagra

Not because they read up on the subject but because the TV tells them what they want to hear.


78 posted on 02/16/2008 10:02:02 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: DoughtyOne

In 1972 Nixon won his second term. By 1976 he was gone and Ford was the GOP nominee against the unknown from GA Jimmy Carter. You have Carter winning in ‘72. But your point about unknowns getting elected is undiminished by that...


79 posted on 02/16/2008 10:07:01 AM PST by txrangerette (Anyone, ANYONE but McCain/Huckabee!!)
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To: bert

I was just kidding Bert. You’re right. This guy is the perfect sound byte candidate, nothing of substance to confuse the folks.


80 posted on 02/16/2008 10:10:31 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We've got Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber left. Name them in order. I dare ya.)
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