Posted on 09/22/2008 9:06:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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The economic crisis brings a new question, unarticulated so far but there, and I know because when I mention it to people they go off like rockets. It is: Do you worry that neither of them is up to it? Up to the job in general? Is either Mr. McCain or Mr. Obama actually up to getting us through this and other challenges? I haven't heard a single person say, "Yes, my guy is the answer." A lot of shrugging is going on out there. This is a read not only on the men but on the moment.
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A fearless prediction: My beautiful election enters its dark phase.
Lots of signs of the new darkness.
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....Here is the tough, sad, rather deadly assumption I see rising among our media people, our thinkers, observers and chatterers, the highly sophisticated who've seen'em come and seen'em go: It is, again: What if neither of them is the right man? What if neither of them is equal to the moment? What if neither party is equal to the moment?
This is not in itself important—who cares what they think, really? But there will be a small impact in terms of tone. If you are a longtime Obama supporter and are beginning now to admit to deep doubts, you can't just announce you've been wrong for the past year. You'd look like a fool. You cannot speak credibly, or in a way you yourself believe, in rosy support. But what you can do is turn, with new rage, on the guy you've at least long opposed. So you ignore Mr. Obama and attack Mr. McCain with new ferocity. Or, if you have doubts about Mr. McCain, you ignore him and turn your heat on Mr. Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Viewed in this way, I am ever so grateful to Dubya (who IS up to the job, much as I disagree with him on: [1] immigration; [2] on bailing out huge honking corporations who wandered into the tar pits; and [3] spending our money like a drunken sailor high on Keynesian Quayludes) for boxing both candidates in the way he has. No sense letting them run around loose. They might hurt someone.
This may very well be, especially if the right man is a woman.
Jee...Thanks for that you image of hope and sunshine!
"In Elko, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.
'I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,' he [Obama] said."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/17/politics/p185733D40.DTL&type=politics
ah, Peggy - a free-association of unanswered and unanswerable questions, week on week. It’s getting tedious.
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Nice try Peggy-o but your mike was still open and your mind is still close.
It would have stayed a very clean election had it been another candidate running against McCain. Zero never intended it to stay clean if it got close. He had his Camp Obamas trained and he had Saul Alinsky and William Ayers as his teachers. He helped build ACORN into what it is now - a Marxist orginization that uses “Get out the vote” as a cover to inflicting as much chaos into our Democratic Republic and moving it step by step to Marxism.
I find it strange indeed that Obama admits in Dreams of my Father that when he went to Occidental College he made sure he surrounded himself with other like minded Marxist students that were NOT white. He has never come out and stated that he doesn’t believe in his communist mentors such as Ayers and Alinsky. He has never admitted that he dabbled in that philosophy but found it lacking. No he worked for radical left community organizers and then went into politics. To change things from within.
with its relentless efforts to smear, libel and totally politically destroy any and all Republicans--in particular, Gov. Palin!
Anytime. The good news is, life will go on, regardless of who’s in the White House. Businesses will fail or succeed based on the market and how well they are managed. Everything is really in G-d’s hands, and HE’S up the the job!
I bet he’s got an elbow sharpener right on the kitchen table. Doesn’t everyone?
I used to like this boring, slef-important writer.
I used to like this boring, self-important writer.
She seems to be writing more and more from her imagination these days.
If she keeps it up , she’ll be running around a padded room.
They both suck. Worst two candidates since 1976. They’re pretty much on par with Jimmah Carter.
I’m so sorry but it’s time that Peggy repaired to the rest home. She’s over.
Peggy is a breathy, vapid twit.
Obama wants to use the war and the current economy as an excuse to impose a Marxist regime on this country. As a young man, who knows how long he wants to Rule over us.
John McCain just wants to be president for one term, fix a laundry list of things that are broken by gathering both democrats and republicans together and coming up with bipartisan fixes. Then he wants to fade away.
This whole election is best solved as a football metaphor. McCain gives us the chance to punt for four years and come up with two better candidates then. When you vote, vote against Obama and his Marxist ambitions. Hold your nose and vote for McCain. He is the safe choice. He will only be here for four years and he has a history of working with both sides of the aisle. He’ll get some things done, dispose of Obama and then fade away. A nice tidy solution to the lousy choice we have before us.
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
- Pope, Essay on Man
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