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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: txrangerette

Yes, you’re right. Can’t believe I nudged out McGovern in ‘72.


81 posted on 02/16/2008 10:11:05 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

Someone did this You Tube video with the Rush parody Obama ad as the soundtrack. It’s hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szS1pPd2Rp4


82 posted on 02/16/2008 10:14:01 AM PST by mom3boys
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To: DoughtyOne

I know, but I felt the urge and just couldn’t help it


83 posted on 02/16/2008 10:16:16 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

I wonder how many people in America can name McGovern’s two running mates? The first one had to withdraw his name after a mental problem surfaced in his past. His replacement was a Kennedy brother-in-law who once ran the Peace Corps. See how I’m revealing my age here??


84 posted on 02/16/2008 10:22:31 AM PST by txrangerette (Anyone, ANYONE but McCain/Huckabee!!)
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To: txrangerette

I’m tempted to say McCarthy on the first one, but that doesn’t seem quite right. The second was Shriver. (sp?)


85 posted on 02/16/2008 10:32:50 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

McCarthy ran for President in 1968, losing to Hubert Humphrey, who went on to lose to Nixon.

McGovern’s original running mate was Sen. Thomas Eagleton of MO.

Yes, Sergeant Shriver, husband of Eunice Kennedy, was his replacement.

What a forgettable bunch.

McGovern was infamous for his plan to give everyone in America a thousand dollars from the Gubmint. And it wasn’t because of a recession...it was merely an income redistribution scheme of monumental stupidity.

Then, when Eagleton’s past treatment for depression with electric shocks was revealed, McGovern first stood by him and declared that he was backing his VP pick “one thousand percent”. Within days Eagleton withdrew, and they tried to spin it that it was HIS idea not McGovern’s.


86 posted on 02/16/2008 10:42:56 AM PST by txrangerette (Anyone, ANYONE but McCain/Huckabee!!)
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To: txrangerette

Without looking it up, I never would have recalled Eagleton. Shriver is Schwarzenegger’s father-in-law. Thanks for the quiz.


87 posted on 02/16/2008 10:46:13 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

My pleasure.

It’s fun to recall this stuff mostly because that bunch went down in flames. It would have been unthinkable in this country if they had won.

However, with Nixon we got Watergate and policies that were too “moderate”...

So all was not well in the long run...


88 posted on 02/16/2008 10:55:51 AM PST by txrangerette (Anyone, ANYONE but McCain/Huckabee!!)
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To: mom3boys

Wow, those are some ears on that guy. Never noticed until the video.


89 posted on 02/16/2008 1:47:45 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan
Oh Jeez, this Hitler is reincarnitated. Remember the Hitler "youth" supporters? History is repeating itself. Listen to Michelle - what a demigod!

I trully believe there is an evil (Soros) trying to destroy our country,

90 posted on 02/16/2008 5:45:03 PM PST by Alissa
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To: Steve_Stifler

I totally don’t agree with you!


91 posted on 02/16/2008 5:47:08 PM PST by Alissa
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To: txrangerette

Thanks for the response. I agree.


92 posted on 02/16/2008 11:33:26 PM 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; pandoraou812
Once in a lifetime someone comes along that can mesmerize people with his personality and empty rhetoric filled with inspirational nationalism.

btrl

93 posted on 02/17/2008 12:04:50 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Steve_Stifler

Krauthammer is vastly overrated. Watching his performances on the Fox All-Stars is painful.


ditto


94 posted on 02/17/2008 12:08:10 AM PST by chasio649
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To: DoughtyOne

That’s OK, your point is understood.


95 posted on 02/17/2008 6:32:21 AM PST by astounded (The Democrat Party is a Clear and Present Danger to the USA)
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To: Steve_Stifler

His pontification is brilliant thinking. He says things is a way others do not. Perhaps you should look at the substance instead of the style.


96 posted on 02/18/2008 4:27:56 PM PST by Dave W
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To: freekitty

“People can’t seriously think they should turn the country over to someone so inexperienced?”

Obama has as much political experience as Lincoln did. And like Lincoln, Obama sees the same hope for a change for a new unity where ALL men are treated equally, where hope and change is available to all where unity and hope goes into the future of change on golden wings of butterfies..... (At least that is what is probably on his website).


97 posted on 02/18/2008 4:38:22 PM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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To: Dave W

What you perceive of as “brilliant thinking” I see as unoriginal Beltway thinking. To each their own.


98 posted on 02/18/2008 5:34:55 PM PST by Steve_Stifler
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To: geopyg

Giggle.

He doesn’t even treat himself equally. Atleast, the white half of him.


99 posted on 02/19/2008 4:49:46 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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