The Highly Accomplished Barack Obama
Written by Sean on February 20th, 2008
Right now it looks like John McCain will lose in November. Fortunately, there’s an actual campaign before then and the American people will have a greater opportunity to examine the candidates’ records and accomplishments. If this Obama supporter is any indication, that will be a short study when it comes to Obama. We all know that the GOP has its problems, but if we can’t beat this guy, it’s worse than I realized.
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What you saw in that video is typical. Ask anyone who supports Obama what he has done and they all get that deer in the headlights look.
Anyone can go out there and give speeches about hope and change. That doesn’t mean anything. Obama is an example of how easily people are taken in by words and rhetoric even when there is no substance behind it.
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John McCain will be President, like it or not. There is no way Obama will win. As I’ve said before, he is “Brand X” and some people will say they want him. Once his liberal record is exposed, he’s toast. It is up to McCain to define him as the liberal he is - sooner rather than later.
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The only thing that worries me is the money advantage Obama is going to have over McCain and record crowds he is drawing to his event.
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I think ideology is meaningless now. How else do you explain McCain and Obama? There appeal comes from the fact they claim not to be ideological even though both are more ideological than anyone wants to admit.
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Ryan: You are correct, but can you blame the country? I cannot. The political system is so defunct and corrupt, I am unable to find it within myself to be angry at these people for wanting “change”. Hell, I want “change”. We only have our leaders to blame for this, as well as the special interest groups that mislead, lie and disgust the average american to the point that anything that comes down the road that seems less disgusting to them is attractive.
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Yeah, but McCain was able to win the nomination while CLAIMING to be a conservative. Not everyone pays attention to these things as much as we do. The “average Joe” Republican voter thinks McCain is a conservative. He isn’t, but at least he has NEVER voted for a tax increase and opposed Bush 41’s tax hikes in 1990.
As for Obama, he is (supposedly) a good speaker. His fans can’t be explained by me any better than the whacko support for Ross Perot 16 years ago. Perot said he was gonna “fix” everything, but never said how. Obama is going to bring “change”. He is going to make health care free, college free, etc., and noone is going to have to pay for it except “rich” people.
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Almost half the party does NOT think John McCain is a conservative….even the exit poll in Wisconsin at this stage of the game showed that 42% of voters in that primary (which is an open primary that independents vote in) said that McCain was not conservative enough….and only 39% of that group voted for him….so where is this notion that most conservatives think John McCain is a conservative coming from?
He is nothing of the sort…he will lose this election in a landslide…and as much as 40% to 50% of conservatives will either sit this one out or vote third party (self included).
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McCain might have played the conservative card to the activists, but most people view him as some sort of political rebel. Seeing people are fed up with the status quo, they could care less whether the person has this stance or not. It is pure rage out there. I think pointing out that Obama is an empty suit will not be a clear path to beating him either. The masses are so upset at petty politics they could care less.
Honestly I doubt a conservative can be elected since the conservative brand has been trashed by the Bush administration with the support of the conservative press who only stood up to him on immigration, an issue where the majority of voters support something else.
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“A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’er -do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I’ll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they’ll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.”
From the REAGAN DIARIES: this entry is dated May 17, 1986.
As for Senator Obama, Graduated top of his class at Harvard Law School, First Black President of the Harvard Law Journal, Accomplished Novelist, Elected to Illinois State Senate in his early 30’s and US Senate in his late 30’s and now at the age of 40yrs. old is the presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee. And very likely the next President of the USA.
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Sigh… Tallytowngal- I know that being from Tallahassee -and probably being a Seminoles fan- is a lot to overcome, but you need to try harder. That “excerpt” from the Reagan Diaries is a joke that’s been making it’s way around the internet. It’s not real. Five seconds of actual investigation would have revealed it to be a joke. Hell- common sense ought to reveal it as a joke.
But then again, I shouldn’t expect too many libs to have either common sense or the ability to investigate the claims they make. It’s just too damn hard for you, isn’t it?
George W. Bush: Graduated from Yale with a higher GPA than John Kerry. Is the only President to have ever earned an MBA (from Harvard). Businessman and owner of the Texas Rangers baseball club. Two-term governor of the second-largest state in the country.
Now try hard Tallytowngal- Name ONE legislative accomplishment that Obama can claim credit to during his 3.5 years in D.C.
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Gceres: “He is nothing of the sort…he will lose this election in a landslide…and as much as 40% to 50% of conservatives will either sit this one out or vote third party (self included).”
= total delusion.
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We’ll see…When Obama takes Ohio, TN, AR, MO IA, NM, CO and NV….then we’ll talk about my delusions
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Gceres,
40-50% of conservatives won’t sit this election out or vote third party. He will have upwards of 70% and likely upwards of 80% of the typical conservative vote. What he loses will be significant, but it shouldn’t be overstated. What could be a bigger problem is that many of the activists are likely to just vote intead of do the grunt work that they would normally do, making phone calls, knocking on doors, etc. How exactly conservative disenchantment with McCain plays out is anybody’s guess, but let’s try not to keep it in perspective.
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To clarify….I’m referring to the 28% to 30% that identify as “very conservative” in the primary exit polls.
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I figure the election in November will be a landslide for President Barack Obama. Yes, get used to hearing that on a regular daily basis. House of Representatives, probably 20 seat in the Dem column, maybe more. Senate, 5 to 9 seats, probably closer to nine. Now we have discovered that Mcain, the paragon of virtue is no better than any of the other sleazy Republicans in Congress, aka Jack Abramoff etc. Who to blame for this gigantic wave of Democrats , the incompetent boob George W bush and Karl”the brain” Rove. Rove said he was buliding a GOP coalition for as far as the eyes could see. Lasted barely 8 years. Kinda sorry to see old George go….
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I dissent. I supported Thompson and then Romney, but now I will fully support John McCain. I’m looking at the positives: he has a 100% pro-life voting record, he has never voted to raise taxes, he will be much better than Bush on spending, and he is strong on the War in Iraq. Yes, he has big flaws: global warming & immigration. But there is no way on this earth that Obama is going to win in a “landslide” or the Republicans lose that many seats. You may be upset he is the nominee, but hyperbole is not going to make this race any different than what it is. Obama is so far left he will get rejected by the American people once his record is exposed. It is up to McCain and company to define him as the liberal he is while the American people are still forming an opinion of him.
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Gceres…
So you’re saying that 80% of the 28-30% of the Republicans who are very conservative will stay home… considering that registered Republicans are about 40% of the country…. my God… that means that 150% of the American public won’t vote! McCain doesn’t have a chance! Wait… percentages aren’t additive. That’s actually a really small number of Americans who won’t vote, assuming that 1/3 of the Republican party is actually “very conservative” (I don’t accept this) and 80% of those would prefer Barack Obama, who they really disagree with, to John McCain, who they slightly disagree with (I REALLY don’t accept this).
Only the most hardcore conservatives have a problem with McCain. Mainstream Republicans, as well as tons of Independents and Democrats (such as myself) like him a lot. He will gain back among those groups way more voters than he’ll lose from the few right-wing ideologues who will sit out.
You guys said it best in this very string of posts…. Barack has done nothing. McCain can crush him in a debate just by hammering that point home. I can’t wait.
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I consider myself a right-wing idealogue, but I’m supporting McCain. Not necessarily thrilled, but it is the only choice.
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Press 7 for Celtic…. I have been very hard pressed to find any reference to any real employment for the current Pres. I know he had an oil exploration Co. that went belly up after a very short time and he borrowed money from Daddy to by the Texas Rangers.
David Broder wrote for the Washington Monthly:
“As Minutaglio demonstrates more fully than anyone else I have read, literally everything in Bush’s resume up to his election as governor in 1994 was to a substantial degree handed to him. Schools, summer jobs, college, military service, marriage, and a succession of short-term, increasingly lucrative employment opportunities all were facilitated by members and friends of the Bush clan.”
(First Son George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_31/ai_58170295
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buy not by… Sorry. But, I am sure that the spelling nazi’s would have jumped on it.